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[QUOTE="Jay-Bone, post: 4145016, member: 5014"]
Rarely do recruits out of the top 20 make huge splashes their freshman year.  And even more rare for it to happen at UConn where we don't turn freshman over every season and hence don't have plenty of playing time for them.  Hawkins has gotten a fair amount of time since being off injury and still can't hit his shot consistently and makes freshman mistakes.  He will come along this season, but this is normal trajectory.  I have not seen much out of Diggins or Samson yet and rarely do 50-100 recruits get a lot of time.  This idea that the freshmen should save us this season is ridiculous.  It only happens at teams like Kentucky and Duke where they get a group of lottery picks who have all the time in the world to develop.  Its no wonder those teams always get walloped early in the season then look like NBA teams by the end of the year.  Stop drinking this ridiculous kool-aid.  If we give Diggins and Samson all the time, we are playing for two years down the road.
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