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Message: [QUOTE="Scrutineer, post: 2475763, member: 8240"] UConn became a national name without any big name recruits other than Chris Smith. But they were the right kind of recruits and put in the work it took to make the team a great team. Jake Voskuhl never scored 20 points in a game in high school, college or the NBA but he won a National Championship and played somewhere around ten years in the NBA. Not everybody needs to be a star to have a great team. Take a look at the YouTube video of Kemba talking about how he realized he needed to improve and how much he learned the summer he spent as one of the opponents on the practice team the US National team played against. He put in the work and pulled together a bunch of freshmen and sophomores to win it all in 2011. Maybe Gilbert was going to be the next Kemba and maybe we'll never see what he could have been but let's hope for his sake he gets to come back whole and show the leadership the team so badly needs..........even if it's not till next year. Many have said Enoch was not a complete player and Jackson's father drove him to transfer. Not sure about Durham's issues, but maybe, just maybe, Kevin Ollie was signing the wrong kind of players and UConn was chasing the wrong kind of recruits. Hopefully he's figured that out and is focusing on good basketball players who want to work and win. Even with Calhoun as coach Andre Drummond had a less than distinguished year at UConn. [/QUOTE]