I like Ball, Mahaney, Diarra, Stewart, Reed, Samson a lot more than I like Proctor, Foster, Gillis, Maliq Brown, Sion James.
That’s fine with that group. But Duke has 4 other 5 stars that you didn’t mention. Solely talent, as is evaluated in recruits, they probably have more.
Because you’re conflating talent with potential. Talent is a present tense thing. At this current moment UConn has more realized talent than Duke. How many guys come into college with “talent” aka potential and never realize it? Potential is not a talent.
That was my point, those other 5 stars are freshmen. I thought I made that clear in my post.
It’s pointless to keep going around in circles. I made a statement that these teams probably have more on-paper talent than we do, we have plenty other things working for us, it isn’t a dig. We can agree to disagree.
If they are NBA talent they are certainly College Bball talent. Anywho, my paragraph above states my position.
Rutgers and Duke will be two very interesting experiments to watch in hoops this year as the success or lack of will likely further propel which way top coaches lean in how they recruit, frosh or portal. Both will be must watch TV.
Harper is super creative and Ace is a highlight waiting to happen, will be great to watch how they mesh with a bunch of guys who need their level raised.
We're killing it in recruiting and the portal. We just had the best starting backcourt I can remember seeing in college with Tristen and Cam and they were transfers. When you expand that backcourt further you had a top 10 recruit in Castle and another transfer in Hass. Hurley is simply doing the portal and high school recruiting better than anyone in the country.
But guys like Tristen, Cam and Alex wouldn’t be seen as talented because you know…their high school rankings
He also has a closet full of Adidas sneakers he never paid for. If you love him so much put up a statue in your front yard.
There were plenty of people who thought Duke and Kentucky were more talented than UConn was last season. People get blinded by rankings and don't even see what's unfolding in front of their faces.
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Hyped because of Duke and athleticism, don’t think many people considered him generational.
Tough day at work?
I think the missing ingredient is experience. An experienced, 3-4 year not quite NBA talent player will steal a sure-fire 1st round pick freshman's lunch money and out play him most of the time.
I like it. I like watching us climb to #1 even if its a very short climb. Rankings are mostly for fun and smack talk for us fans and help seeding. That being said awards arent given for starting at #1 theyre for who ends at #1.
