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Tough-minded Tyler Ulis turning his lack of size into a strength

Tyler Ulis said it’s taken him years of playing at a disadvantaged height to make up for his lack of size.

Tyler Ulis

Tyler Ulis

Unless you’re a UFC fighter, Shaquille O’Neal or just someone asking for a bad day, picking a fight with DeMarcus Cousins seems like a terrible idea for anyone.

At 6-foot-11, 270 pounds, there are few players in the NBA more menacing than the former Kentucky Wildcat. His size, let alone how he uses it, can be downright frightening.

“DeMarcus Cousins is a big kid,” Marcus Lee said it best. “I wouldn’t do nothing stupid like that.”

Nobody told Tyler Ulis that last summer when was playing in a pick-up game during a recruiting visit on campus.

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Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter’s Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.

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