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Cal believes Cats’ up-tempo style plays ‘perfectly’ into Wiltjer’s game

Kyle Wiltjer - photo by Walter Cornett | WildcatWorld.com

– photo by Walter Cornett | WildcatWorld.com

To hear describe this year's team – which he'll tell you over and over again is different than last year's – it will be fast and long.  Coach Cal has raved about Willie Cauley-Stein's uncharacteristic speed for a 7-footer. Archie Goodwin is consistently a blazer. Nerlens Noel, for his size, can get up and down the floor with the best of them.  Thoroughbreds, to borrow a cliché, would be a fitting comparison.  So where does that leave Kyle Wiltjer, who isn't exactly the most fleet of foot?  Coach Cal said the 6-foot-10, 239-pound big man fits “perfectly” into how the Cats could play this year.

 

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