Of all the plug-and-play, instant-impact pieces on this Kentucky basketball roster, freshman guard Adou Thiero certainly wouldn’t come to mind first. He may not even come to mind second, third, fourth or fifth — and we could probably keep going.
Coming in ranked as a three-star in the 2022 On3 Consensus, Thiero has been seen as a long-term project piece, a player still developing physically — he’s on a pitch count in the Bahamas due to growing pains — and figuring out who and what exactly he is as a basketball player.