Jason King of Bleacherreport.com has a great article about Kentucky center Willie Cauley-Stein. Kentucky fans will enjoy reading this one.
Here is an excerpt:
“Even as we were driving to the airport,” Shields said, “it was clear he didn’t want to get on that plane. He was thinking, ‘This is Kentucky. Am I good enough? Can I really hang with these guys?'”
Cauley-Stein has asked himself those questions a lot during the past three years.
He committed to the Wildcats a few weeks after his visit, but as Rivals’ 40th-ranked senior in the country, he was often regarded as an afterthought, “the other guy” in a Kentucky recruiting haul that included three top-15 players, including No. 1 overall prospect Nerlens Noel.
NBA scouts who have pegged him as a lottery pick dote on Cauley-Stein’s rare blend of athleticism and speed and drop their jaws when he outruns guards in conditioning drills at the end of practice, but Cauley-Stein doesn’t consider it a big deal.
He’s started 42 contests over two-plus years for a program that reached last season’s national title game and is expected to do so again this season, yet he seems to view his career thus far as lackluster.
“I just feel like I haven’t really done much,” Cauley-Stein tells Bleacher Report. “I don’t think I’m as good as people say.”
He pauses.
“If I am,” he said, “I haven’t shown it.”
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