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Message: [QUOTE="sun, post: 4334672, member: 11664"] There's a big difference between blaming Amari's problems on a lack of motivation & effort and blaming them on a lack of skills & talent. Every player can have weaknesses with their skills because no player is perfect. A player does their best to fill the needs of the team that they play for, and conversely the team can also try to adapt to the skillset of the player in development. Maybe when a player is in development there needs to be enough flexibility for the team to adjust to benefit from whatever assets the player can offer. If a player doesn't perform well enough that doesn't mean that it's the player's fault and someone should be blamed. That doesn't make any more sense than blaming the UConn staff for recruiting the player in the first place. We know that UConn tries to recruit the best available players that want to play for UConn. If some can't perform as well as expected then maybe UConn should have recruited more players, different players or better players. UConn either wins or loses with the players they have, so it makes more sense to try to work with the players they have and help develop them then to blame it on the player's lack of effort or talent. Maybe the scouts don't have enough talent to properly assess players, or they trusted someone else to tell them who to make an offer to. That happens all of the time in the pros. Some prospects are better than others just like some scouts are better than others. [/QUOTE]

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