BREAKING: Kentucky Wildcats trying to land INCREDIBLE overseas point guard Quinn Ellis

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Kentucky needs elite point guard play next season, and they're already looking at an overseas

stud who could change the Wildcats back court.

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We're going to be talking about my NCAA tournament bracket.

We're going to also be discussing Kentucky versus Santa Clara.

But first, we're going to talk about Kentucky being interested in an overseas guard that

could completely change Kentucky's back court.

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So Kentucky according to multiple sources is interested in an overseas guard.

You can find a lot of information over at KSR.

I believe Jack Pilgrim was the man that put together the article discussing Quinn Ellis,

a British point guard currently playing in the Euroleague for Italy, six foot five, 200

pounds at 22 years old.

This player could completely change how Kentucky operates in their back court next season

because this is not a developmental piece.

This is not somebody you're bringing in for depth.

This could be your lead guard and what a lead guard he could be.

He's been playing professional basketball since 2019.

This would basically be a veteran entering college basketball and he's got some production

and a pretty lengthy resume already in the Italian league.

He's been averaging 7.8 points, 4.3 rebounds for assists and 1.2 steals per game.

He's been doing a little bit of everything in the Euroleague and whenever you actually

go and watch him play, I think that there's more that jumps off the page than his stats.

We'll get to that to that in a second.

But also you look at his numbers in the Euroleague 8.1 points per game, 4.1 assists, 2.7 rebounds.

He's produced against some elite level competition.

He's also racked up some awards.

He was the LBA's best young player.

He also was the Italian Cup MVP, the Italian Super Cup MVP.

This is a pretty legitimate resume for a 22 year old.

He's a proven winner already.

And when you want to go look at his statistics, the big thing that people have been complaining

about online, at least Kentucky fans have been, is why would we pick up a kid that's shooting

only 30.5% from three and that's what he is as a career shooter, just 30.5% from deep.

I'm not necessarily concerned with that, but let's address those concerns.

In three of the six different stretches of games that basketball reference has on

Quinellas, he is shot 34% from deeper better.

In fact, with Olympia Milano, a stretch with them this season, he shot nearly 40% from

three.

And his volume has always ranged between one to two and a half, three points shots per

game.

He's not a three point.

He's not someone that's going to threaten you from volume.

And that's not really part of his game, but if you do want to make the argument of,

oh, he's a bad shooter, I would not say that he's a bad shooter.

I would say that he's a streaky shooter, because again, you've got three stretches of games

here, 29, 28, 16 games where he goes 39.6, 35.8, 34.1, and then in his other three stretches

of games, 22, 21 and 16 contests, he shoots 29 and a half, 25% and just 13% from beyond

the arc.

Yeah, there's a bit of fluctuation there.

So I would argue that he's a streaky shooter instead of a bad shooter.

And you know, you could say, well, it averages up to 34.5 and that's not what you need from

your lead guard.

Again, that's not really my concern here, because of the value that Quinellas provides as

a playmaker, I would strongly encourage you, go watch Quinellas highlights on YouTube.

If you haven't already, if you've just seen that he's a British kid playing in Italy at

22 and he can't shoot, go and watch this kid handle the basketball and pass the basketball

left handed.

I like the shot, by the way, in terms of form, I really do like what he hasn't mechanically,

but he is crisp with the ball in his hands, really smooth playmaker, great creator for both

himself and for others.

The passes are on point and they are quick, something that I said on Twitter that I would

like to reiterate here.

If Kentucky were to bring in somebody like Ellis, they'd have to bring in some kids that

can actually catch the ball because that are quick to the catch down low or have strong

hands.

And I'm specifically talking about players in the post because Ellis delivers the ball

on time and very quickly.

That's what you get with somebody who is such a good passer and has such a great feel

for the game.

He's going to get the ball to you quickly and he's going to put a little bit of zip on

it.

I would be concerned with some of the guys that Kentucky currently has on their roster.

If they would be able to consistently handle the playmaking ability of somebody like Ellis

and that's not to say Kentucky has a horrible roster.

Yes, it's underwhelmed, but there are some bright spots, but I think that Ellis would

have to have the right personnel around him in order to have the highest functioning

offense because again, I think that he is a true lead point guard that could give you

some serious production at that spot and it's not all about the shooting.

It's about the playmaking that Kentucky desperately needs.

Do they need more than this?

Yes, absolutely.

They would absolutely they would.

But this would be a really solid starting point guard to have next season in my opinion.

Now I know there are going to be a lot of people that just disagree in the comments and say,

well, he's a poor shooter.

We've already seen how that's gone.

We don't need an efficiency at that spot.

I like his shot form.

I like the fact that we could see him be streak hot and cold every other night.

And the playmaking is what kind of gets Kentucky through.

I think that we would really like Quin Ellis.

If we can get some personnel around him that can consistently shoot and also create off

the dribble as well, it's just going to have to be a deep dive in the transfer portal

this off season for for scores, I should say.

And again, Quin Ellis, not necessarily a score, but really, really good.

And when you do crank up his volume like he had in the great with great Britain and the

World Cup qualifiers, he has some serious upside, again, with Britain, 17 and a half

points, seven assists per game.

I would argue that that star upside and there have already been some people online saying

he's not a star, even though it's very clear, this is one of the best overseas players

in the country in the world right now, I should say 17 and seven is nothing to scoff at.

If you're a point guard shooting 30% from deep, okay, he's taking two shots of game from

there.

Who cares?

Well, let's get, let's get him on the team to get the ball to other players more effectively.

Then what we've had this year, that would be awesome, especially at six, five, yeah,

I'll take that.

I'll take the quickness.

I'll take the fluidity.

I'll take the playmaking.

I'll take the shot creation.

I love everything about Quin Ellis.

I would take him and a heartbeat.

And according to your devotion or report from your devotion, the school is involved here.

Kentucky, Duke, Louisville, Florida, Houston, and BYU.

The key thing to note here, a quote from your devotion.

Initially only Louisville was discussed, but now the possibilities of a move to Kentucky,

Florida, Houston, Brigham Young, and even Duke must be considered also something else

to note here, even the article noted that Duke might be the favorite to secure the services

of the English guard.

That's the biggest competition right now.

Again, nothing is set in stone.

We don't know how this is all going to shake out.

And also something else to note here, your devotion said that bidding figures to be around

three million four Ellis, if not more top tier NIL money for a legitimate player.

You could kind of compare this if you want to to maybe an elite transfer portal quarterback

possibly or another star portal player.

This is not a depth piece.

That's not the number that you would tag to this kid.

If he was a depth piece, this is a centerpiece investment for a team that yes, will probably

provide scoring punch elsewhere.

At least I really hope they would.

If they're going to bring in a playmaker like this, Kentucky in the mix here, though,

the cats are not going to spend three million dollars in a backup point guard.

If he commits, he starts that would likely signal a departure from Jalen low.

This is a replace your point guard kind of move for Kentucky.

And honestly, if they're willing to spend big, this would be a guy to definitely take

a look at.

So that's my thought on Quinn Ellis.

Let me know what you think in the comments below.

I do really like what he could be for the cats, especially if he's able to get a couple

of years here in Lexington.

Let me know what you think in the comments below.

All right.

Let's move on to my some more thoughts, I should say about Kentucky versus Santa Clara,

because we'll do an even deeper dive into Kentucky versus the Broncos tomorrow.

But I just want to talk a little bit more about how good this team is.

And I've got some respect for their players and their coach.

But the more that I've watched them, the less scared of them I've become.

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We've got over a hundred of you in here.

I'm pretty sure in the past, you've gotten a lot more in and I can just imagine big blue

a little bit tired heading into the tournament.

Maybe not as enthusiastic and that's not an indictment or that's not indicative just because

of it.

Well, I should say it's it's not just because of the fact that well, we haven't gotten

a ton of people in the bracket pool is not what I'm saying here.

I just think that that's just the vibe and to be honest with you guys, I don't necessarily

blame you.

But there are a lot of people that are still fired up that are still really excited about

the matchup against the Santa Clara baronco's on Friday cats going to be throwing down

in St. Louis.

And this one's interesting because the more that I look at Santa Clara, who I still

think is a very good team.

There's a reason why this game is only a three and a half point or excuse me, the bet

there's the reason why that Fando only has Kentucky is a three and a half point favorite

here is because Santa Clara is good.

Santa Clara is a good team.

But the more I watch the less fearful I am because it's going to basically take one

thing for the Broncos to win this game and be like they are decidedly the victor in

this contest.

It's going to take them just hitting tough shots before I kind of break that down real

quick.

Work Pope has actually faced Herb Sindeck three or four different times while both teams

were in the WCC, the BYU and Santa Clara.

Pope went a cool one and three against Herb Sindeck one or two of those games back in the

same season, both of which were very close, one of which I think was one at the buzzer

effectively.

So Sindeck, good coach, former Kentucky assistant going to try and win this one, obviously,

you can try hard, maybe a little harder than usual because of what's at stake.

And I'll just go ahead and tell you this team's tough, like this team, you know how I like

to dive into analytics and I like to tell you, oh, well, here's the stats on this that

and the other and we'll do that.

You know, the stats nerd in me for a lot of players just wants to go, well, that guy might

not be efficient.

So he's not like a really good system fit or what have you, especially when looking at

portal guys, but at the same time, you could also look at somebody that's average efficiency

or below average and just go that boy tough.

Like I don't care that his game is incredible.

He goes hard.

The way that he handles the step back shots, the ability to create isolation, stuff like

that's tough.

And yeah, there's not necessarily one individual player on this team that I would say, oh,

that boy tough, but like across the board, I just think they've got hoopers, man.

There's a reason why they went 26 and 8 this year and had some really close battles with

Gonzaga.

I think that this is a good, deep, well put together roster with some freshmen that I'm

actually a little interested in two of which I think you're going to be huge players

in this game.

We'll start with the point guard who comes off the bench, but it's been playing more minutes

than the starter starting senior Brinton Napper is the starting senior there at six foot

175, not the best shooter, not even the best facilitator.

To be honest with you, I'm not quite sure why he starts at point guard over their backup

freshman.

Sasha, I believe this is how you pronounce his first name and the way you pronounce this

last name, gov a Lou gov.

So Sasha gov a Lou gov, I believe is how you pronounce his last name.

Very interesting player much better overall in terms of efficiency and playmaking.

I think that he would be the guy you see the most of in this contest that boy tough.

That guy is tough.

Elijah Mahi at small Ford is a freight train at six seven 220.

He's technically their most utilized player actually just according to Ken Palm, but him

and Hammond Christian Hammond, their leading score kind of like quietly go like to me

just based on what I've watched you, you don't like think about their volume scoring,

but like they they score a lot Hammond scores almost 16 to game Mahi scores 14 to night.

And they just kind of do a little bit of the dirty work Mahi does Hammond, I think is

a much better three point shooter also loves to get into that mid range high paint area

and knockdown floaters.

He's got a really, really solid arsenal of spots that he can get to.

And so Kentucky's going to have to be physical.

They're going to have to be physical with Mahi and Hammond.

And then you've got the backup big off the bench and other freshmen Allen Graves to be honest

with you.

I have been told by Andy Patton hosted locked on Zach's podcast that yeah, Santa Claire is

really good.

Allen Graves is argue you'll be their best player and he's going to be in the NBA one day.

And I sit there and I go, hmm, I don't doubt that Allen Graves is going to be playing

ball in the NBA at some point.

And yes, he's shooting over 40% from three.

And yes, he's sixth in the nation and steel percentage.

And yes, he also does a phenomenal job on both the offensive and defensive glasses.

Like he's also a good free throw shooter at six nine to 25.

But I watch him physically play.

And who knows he could drop 25 in this game that could be the reason Kentucky loses

because they don't close out on three that Graves takes sure.

That could be the thing that does them in.

I'm not saying it's impossible.

I'm just saying that Malachai Marino and Brandon Garrison should be able to hold their

own, especially if they bring the intensity.

If they wake up Garrison does and the Malachai they wake up and they bring some extra fire

and some extra energy here.

I think somebody like like Garrison with his athleticism could give Graves problems

defensively.

That's all I'll say is I think that Graves is a special player, especially as a freshman.

Really good ad for Santa Clara this off season.

However, in this specific matchup, I think he may struggle a little bit.

That's just my prediction.

If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, but that's okay.

Also outside of Graves, I mean Santa Clara just has a number of shooters.

They space well, they play with pace.

This is this my final note on them.

They're a good jump shooting team who doesn't have a ton of physicality, but they have enough.

As we mentioned on yesterday's show, top 25 offense, according to Kim Pong, top 25 and

turnover rate, top 20 in offense rebound percentage.

They shoot the ball well and there are some people online that have been saying like, oh,

the analysts are telling you that Santa Clara is, you know, dangerous from deep, but they're

only shooting 34.9%.

Yeah.

And you know what?

Cool little fact for you.

You remember last year's national champion, Florida, shooting only 35.6%, I say only.

I mean, that's like 82nd nationally, but still like it's not like a whoa hold on now type

of number.

I think you would have said in the tournament, yeah, they've got Elijah Mark and they've

got Walter Walter Clayton Jr. who are both popping off.

Yeah, they're lethal because they got the personnel.

Maybe the efficiency doesn't show you it, but they got the personnel.

You can look up.

Santa Clara can have 10 threes in this game because they were able to rebound consistently,

even though they may shoot like 33 points, something.

And I'll just tell you again, they've got three guys, three guys who shoot over 40% and

then Gavalu, or Lugov shoots 36.

So I mean, the Jake ends minger, Gavalu, Gav, I believe this is how you pronounce his name.

And Graves, I mean, they have really good spacing.

They've got some really good spacing.

And what's kind of bogging them down percentage wise is honestly, Napper, having shot over 103s,

shooting 28% and theory, Darlin, they back up power forward at six foot eight to 10 shooting

33.6%.

I mean, that's bringing them down a little bit, but I mean, they're main core guys, they

shoot well.

This is a good team.

This is a really good team.

This is the team that I could see if Kentucky doesn't beat them, the team that I could definitely

see beating Iowa State.

I mean, they are just well put together sound, just a sound team.

Yes, they aren't the best defensive team.

And yes, away could probably brute force his way to 25 in this game and be huge.

But like, I want to give credit where credit is due, this is a solid team.

They are less scary to me because I was told that graves was incredible.

And the stats reflect it in the plays.

I think are impressive.

I just think that in this particular personnel matchup, Mahi, graves, Hammond, I think

Kentucky can put a body on a body and just use some of that physicality to grind out

a win here.

So I'm more confident in Kentucky, heading into this match up, but I do also really like

this team.

I like the Santa Clara team.

Let me know what you think in the comments below.

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Rapping up today's episode of the show.

It's bracket time.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have setting in front of me my 2000 and 26 bracket.

I've picked a couple of upsets.

I have picked one upset team trendy upset team to make the sweet 16 outside of that.

I have effectively gone chalk everywhere.

Actually that's not true.

I have two different different teams making the sweet 16 that would be upsets.

People start in the East region because this one is pretty straightforward.

I've got Duke over Sienna Ohio State over TCU.

By the way, if you have your bracket at home, follow along, maybe see how we compare here.

Duke over CNO Ohio State over TCU.

I did struggle with that game.

St. John's over Northern Iowa.

I am interested to see how St. John's plays because everyone's just sort of blindly picking

them.

It feels like if we're going to pick like an upset upset and it's not trendy, St. John's

you and I might be something to look at Kansas over Cal Baptist Louisville losing to

South Florida.

That's right.

Michele Brown, Jr.

Out for the game against us.

But guess who had guess who had the bulls winning anyway.

That's right.

Showboy Michigan stayed over North Dakota state another game where you're going to talk

about an upset pick.

There's one UCLA UCF, I'm taking UCLA, I took Yukon over Fort Furman in the South region

round of 32.

I took Florida.

I took Iowa over Clemson and I struggled with this one.

I took Vanderbilt over McNeese, even though McNeese in my mind is arguably the best 12

seed, hate it for them.

But I am taking the Vanderbilt Commodore's number one of the nation and high score, by the

way, is McNeese variance control, dominate the possession game, get out and transition.

We'll see if Vandy can hold on, but I've got an upset here for you immediately following

that.

I'm taking Troy over Nebraska and a lot of you may say Lance, you suck for that because

Nebraska's never won an NCAA tournament game.

Unfortunately, I don't think they win here and it sucks, yes, the storyline sucks.

But I, but I like this Troy team, Gritty, Scott Cross, great coach, I'm going to see

what the Trojans do.

I'm rocking with them.

I am taking North Carolina over VCU and this is one I labored over, labored over.

I'm taking Illinois over Penn.

I don't think TJ power is going to be able to go here.

So I'm going to take the fighting line.

I'm going to take Texas A&M or say over St. Mary's when this got announced and I was sitting

in a green room in Dallas with a group of folks, I started laughing.

I could not believe that they did this to Bucky ball.

After all of this talk about tempo and shooting threes and maybe them being a trendy team

to make make the second weekend, they gave them the slowest, most methodical, most like

ground and pound type team.

I mean, this is like the equivalent of the triple option in college football.

This is disgusting.

This matchup, I'm taking A&M to find a way to win this, you know, like ultimate clash

of styles here.

And then I'm taking Houston over Idaho, smooth a little quicker now.

I'm taking Arizona over Long Island in the West region, Villanova over Utah state.

Even though that's a game I could see going either way.

That's the cleanest 5050 game I've seen on this list so far.

I wanted to take high points so bad over Wisconsin.

I wanted to so, so, so bad.

But I already had the 12, excuse me, I've already got another 12 here moving on in a little

bit.

And I don't know if I could take more than two 12s to make a run.

So I'm going to take Wisconsin over high point.

I don't feel good about it.

Arkansas over Hawaii.

I don't feel good about that matchup just because of the way Hawaii's defense operates.

It's a really, really good video out there from Jordan Spurber about that defense.

If you're going to watch that break down to the bows, BYU is going to beat Texas in

my opinion.

AJ DeBansta is going to find a way to get at least one here.

Gonzaga over Kennesau state Miami and Jay Lucas over Missouri, Purdue over Queens.

That's not Queens, New York.

That is Queens, North Carolina in Charlotte, Michigan over Howard in my opinion, shocker in

the Midwest region, Georgia over St. Louis, even though everyone wants to seemingly pick

St. Louis, I think Georgia is going to make a lot of people upset.

And then my big upset, Texas tech versus Akron, Akron's one of the best teams in the country

and heist score, Texas tech, not so good.

Talk about variance control, possession game, Akron's got a great book end at the one

of the five.

A players that can shoot the three are talented.

I think that that could give the Red Raiders problems.

So I'm going to take the zips to move on.

And I'm not only going to take the zips to move on.

But Bama while they may beat Hofstra, I don't think they're going to beat the zips.

I have Akron advancing to the sweet 16 just to let you know now I have Tennessee beating

SMU or Miami Ohio at the time of this recording that games not happen yet.

I have Kentucky over Santa Clara.

I have Iowa state over Tennessee state.

Let's move to our round of 32.

I have Duke.

No, no, no, yeah, I have Duke over Ohio state.

St. John's over Kansas, USF, I think they do lose to miss miss Michigan state, even though

I wanted to pick them so bad.

So bad.

I'm taking Yukon over UCLA and then in the South, I'm taking Florida over Iowa, Vandy over

Troy, Illinois over North Carolina, Houston over A&M and a nail bider in the West.

I am taking Arizona over Villanova.

I am taking Arkansas over Wisconsin.

I am taking Gonzaga over BYU.

I am taking Purdue over Miami, even though I wanted to pick Miami really, really badly

there in the Midwest.

I am taking Michigan over Georgia.

My first bracket I did, I had the Bulldogs advancing.

I will put some more faith in Michigan.

I will also take again, like I mentioned Akron over Bama.

I will take Virginia over Tennessee.

I don't feel great about it and screw it.

I'm going to take the cats to make the sweet 16 again.

Give me Kentucky over Iowa state, not a good reason, but I'm biased in the in the sweet

16.

I've got Duke over St. John's Yukon over Michigan state in a blowout.

I have Florida over Vandy revenge there, Houston over Illinois and a nail bider.

I have Arizona over Arkansas in a game that people want to be close, but will not be.

I have Gonzaga over Purdue.

I have Michigan over Akron and then I have Kentucky losing to Virginia who moves on to the

elite eight in the elite eight.

I have Duke over Yukon.

I have Florida over Houston.

I have Arizona over Gonzaga and I have Michigan over Virginia in the final four.

I have Duke over Houston.

I have Arizona over Michigan and an Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Duke will win the national championship and I almost just threw up in my mouth a little

bit saying that the only reason.

Let me be clear to any of you who are sitting there and discussed as you should be.

I feel like I need to take I just got out of the shower.

I'm going to go take another one after this.

The only reason that I'm picking Duke is because over the last like 25, 26 years, there

has not been a national champion on the western side of the United States of America.

And while I think Arizona is the best team in the country, if we're going off of history,

I want my points because I want to win my bracket, I'm going to take Duke and I hate it.

So there's my bracket.

There's my thoughts on Quinn, Quinn Ellis and there's my thoughts on Kentucky versus Santa

Clara.

However, a deep dive coming tomorrow, my more thoughts about personnel in this game.

I haven't even talked about the Colin Chandler factor of all this because frankly, I think

the hot shooting could go both ways.

We'll dive into that more tomorrow.

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