Jack Pilgrim

You are going to love Frank.

I'm talking about personality, joyful, cheerful.

You're going to love Frank.

First of all, I love Big Frank.

I'm so excited to meet Big Frank.

I've heard just unbelievable things about him.

I think they're...

treading lightly with you know his health and knowing all right big fella you've been around the game for a long time there's no reason to throw you into an unnecessary june practice like you're a seventh year guy who has averaged 18 games played per year in your six like let's let's just get you healthy we need to get you to the season so i think availability is going to be the biggest key but as a human and as a person like i just everybody i've talked to just drools about that guy he is like a

he may as a master's in like cyber security or something just just a brilliant dude awesome a fascinating character so i'm excited to meet him um i like them the milan intel i like that i was just uh hey we let him come in and do his own thing and we're gonna just let him be the best shooter in college basketball because that's why we brought him in and paid him to be that

I think that is one where he is just a piece of clay.

He was a late bloomer in high school.

He finishes a top 40 recruit, but real thin and needs some serious, serious strength and conditioning work before you see those flashes where you go, that guy has the…

tools to be a legitimate superstar at some point but is he going to be ready to do it this year you know the intel i've gotten on my end is that he's still a work in progress and it's you know a couple of first days of practice it's still you know he's still looking rusty still looking like the project guy that uh he kind of was this past season when he'd spent a lot of team on on you know time on the scout team you know he spent a lot of time he was the uh the caleb wilson scout whenever you know hey we're going up against this freak of nature lottery pick

Pretend to be him.

You go act like him, and we have to guard you.

So he's been kind of the unique specialty guy up to this point, but when is he going to be ready to take that leap to actual production?

I don't know how early it's going to be.

It's going to happen at some point, but still in wait-and-see mode with Braden Hawthorne.

And pre-injury, he was just starting to put it all together.

He struggled to start his Kentucky career and kind of worked his way in and out of the rotation.