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Message: [QUOTE="caw, post: 5336883, member: 563"] Development? 2024 - Nowell - top 35ish player in high school who transferred down to VCU after one year 2023 - Castle - top ten player who was drafted in the top 5 of the NBA draft. 2022 - none 2021 - Diggins - top 60ish player in high school who transferred down to UMass after one year, played well at UMass but never tried to transfer back to a high-major. UMass was his level 2020 - none 2019 - Gaffney - top 100ish player in high school who transferred down and didn't exactly develop a ton after, though he was a decent bench player 2018 - Adams - top 250ish player in high school who graduated and transferred down and played well at a lower level and I would argue played well compared to his ranking at UConn He's had a chance to really develop two high school PGs in Gaffney and Adams. Both of them were lower ranked high school players who probably played to their rankings. Castle, Nowell and Diggins only played a year at UConn. My personal opinion is that Diggins was overrated in a flawed COVID recruiting year. Castle was Castle and probably good enough to be drafted out of high school. Nowell is the question mark but he was also purportedly injured last year. It's just not a large list. I think the bigger thing is Hurley has missed on his first choice recruit at PG almost every year (Castle aside). [/QUOTE]