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Message: [QUOTE="Scrutineer, post: 2523226, member: 8240"] Ollie is getting a lot of heat regarding his alleged shortcomings developing players. How loud would the criticism be if Ollie had been able to recuit/keep Ashton Langford and Wenyen Gabriel these past two years only to have them performing as noted below? Gabriel is averaging 23.5 minutes per game, while racking up only 6.5 points and 5.6 rebounds per game, and with those stats Ollie would be getting torn up here. These are Gabriel's sophomore stats, so, I guess Calipari hasn't developed him. How about the job Ed Cooley is doing developing Ashton-Langford? His stats are 17.9 minutes, 5.5 points per game, shooting 37.9% on twos, 10.5% on threes, 37.2% on free throws, 2.4 assists with 2 turnovers per game. So maybe he isn't as good as the rating bureaus said or Ed Cooley can't develop players. Let's hope the team is growing as fast as they've seemed to the last several games before writing Ollie off. [/QUOTE]