UCLA Basketball: Bruins Land Kentucky's Johnny Juzang
The small forward from Harvard-Westlake is coming home after a year at Kentucky.
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The UCLA men’s basketball team will add small forward Johnny Juzang after the Kentucky freshman announced his plans to transfer to Westwood today. He made the announcement on Twitter.
It will be a homecoming for Juzang who grew up in Los Angeles and played his high school ball at Harvard-Westlake where he was a four-star recruit.
But he didn’t seem to get much of a chance to play for the Wildcats and, when he did, it didn’t translate into much on the scoresheet. At Kentucky this season, Juzang played in 28 games and averaged 12.4 minutes per game. He also averaged just 2.9 points and 1.9 rebounds per game.
Juzang chose Mick Cronin’s program over the likes of Arizona, Notre Dame, Oregon, and others.
It’s not yet known whether Juzang will need to sit out the 2020-21 season or if he will qualify for a waiver be eligible to play immediately.
Welcome to Westwood, Johnny!
Go Bruins!!!
Fantastic! A big help to the team especially if Chris Smith goes pro.
A solid consolation if Smith stays in the draft and UCLA doesn't land Ziaire Williams or Joshua Morgan. Not enough volume to make any concrete conclusions but his shooting numbers improved once he hit conference play, even if his freshman year was overall a pretty big disappointment.
Getting shooters is never a bad thing, and if he gets a waiver to be eligible immediately he's an awesome fit with Daishen Nix and Jaime Jaquez, both of whom I pretty strongly expect not to be at UCLA past next year (moreso Nix).
Overall I don't expect him to be a superstar but I think he can be a really good number 2 guy for a high-level team and that's a valuable asset.