Zoom Diallo

He's joining me right here on Coast to Coast Hoops, and how about if we go with another nice controversial team out there in the SEC? That'd be Kentucky, because everyone always has something to say about Kentucky, and...

I think that Zoom Diallo, going to be a relatively good facilitator.

I have to love the fact that Malachi Moreno is back.

Milan Mamcelevic, he's going to be a great three-point shooter, but it feels like this is a team that's just sort of destined for the middle of this conference.

I would also like to see a little bit more oomph, a little bit more three-point shooting outside of Mamcelevic from this team as well.

So I think it's a very interesting team especially with the old mark mitchell situation him now being at missouri if he plays for missouri

yeah and i think that's what's interesting about kentucky is you know other than milan as she talked about i mean he's the best shooter in the country and that's going to carry a lot of weight i think in a mark pope offensive system but if you look at the four other positions in that starting lineup for kentucky i think you really need you know high level like breakout type guys and i know you could argue well as zoom diallo but I have already broke out Malachi Moreno towards the end of last year a little bit.

You know, Alex Wilkins, obviously, a guy who can score and such.

The guard play was fun to watch.

Zoom Diallo was fun to watch.

And I was very impressed by that.

So I was happy about that.

Excited to watch him in a Kentucky jersey.

I thought Zoom Diallo was terrific in that exhibition game against Little Rock.

He might not have been his scoring Washington Powerball dominant self, but he showed how variation can be included in his game and how it can help those around him.

I think he was terrific in terms of dishing out the basketball, doing a little bit of everything defensively, five assists, five rebounds.

They're athletic.

I just want to see this backcourt of Alex Wilkins and Zoom Diallo.

I mean, Little Rock pressed almost the entire game against Kentucky.

I don't think you got to see what this backcourt's really going to look like.

You just got the best shooter in the portal.

You got, uh, I, I think a great additions of guards in Alex Wilkin and Zoom Diallo.

Now, while the depth may be a little questionable, you return a guy like Malachi Moreno, I think there's a lot of pieces to be excited about.

One that I've mentioned on this show before is Braden Hawthorne.

And then a- the...

An- another reporter asked a follow-up, it was the same, same one a couple minutes later for similar, who are, who are the best shooters on the team, and then he included Zoom Diallo, but it was only because Zoom was walking behind the camera, and it was one of those, "Oh, and, and that guy that's definitely within earshot of me is, is also an elite shooter." And it's like, all right.

Come on.

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Uh, but before we get to that, um, I do wanna talk a little bit about, uh, media day and I don't know how much y'all kept up with it.

Um, so the three that went down there were Milan Momcilovic, Malachi Moreno, and Zoom Diallo.

Um, pretty interesting comment from Zoom.

Uh, he said he is a, quote, "lambatarian."