he likened Wynyard to another Kiwi: Thunder big man Steven Adams.
However, the college super-coach admitted that he had seen enough in the young centre to remind him of New Zealand’s finest-ever basketball export, Oklahoma City Thunder’s Steven Adams.
“He reminds me exactly [of Adams],” Calipari says. “Tai has the size. Adams – and the way he plays – shows you ‘look, you can do this’ but you have to really work. It’s a process.”
Before the postgame show callers get worked into a frenzy, Calipari stressed that Tai — like all UK players — is on his own path, which means he may be at Kentucky for four years; however, after a slow start in Lexington, Calipari sounded confident that Tai is “developing at a good rate now.