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Message: [QUOTE="DogMania, post: 4769697, member: 21"] Cooper is not the typical highly ranked recruit who often has their focus on turning heads and filling the stat sheet to make it to the next level as high a draft pick as possible. Not saying that all highly ranked recruits think that way, but many often behave that way in March. I've seen many a highly ranked player, guards in particular who have the ball in their hands the majority of the time, who end up shooting their team out of the tournament when they should be doing all the little things to help their team survive and advance. It doesn't happen often, but I think Cooper can be one of those National Player of the Year, or at least one in the conversation, to lead a team to the national championship. He is the type of player who is going to elevate the talent around him and encourage a culture of working hard and winning. In that regard he is probably more important to Dook then he is to UConn, since that is already a major trait of UConn's culture. If he ends up choosing UConn, I think that will be one of the major deciding factors. Coach Hurley is all about working hard, working as a team and winning. Elevating the skills and capability of each player is big part of that but is done within the team construct. [/QUOTE]