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Message: [QUOTE="Matrim55, post: 2005053, member: 3376"] First, I disagree with this: Facey has clearly developed into a functional chess piece, even if it only finally happened 10 games into his senior year. God I wish we'd redshirted him as a freshman. Second, from 2013 through 2015 we landed four big men out of high school. One (Lubin) wasn't good enough for this level, while the other three (Facey, Brimah, Enoch) came to the game late and lacked the baseline fundamentals -- how to set & reverse a screen, where to look first when passing out of a double, how to freaking box out -- that kids who've played the game their entire lives have baked into them by thousands of hours on the court. The good news is that in the last two classes we've added three big men (Durham, Diarra & Carlton) who've all played the game for a decade before coming to Storrs. They're limited in different ways, but it's a safe assumption that their developmental paths will be different than what we've seen from our current group of bigs. I am more willing to blame Ollie for prioritizing Abdul-Malik Abu and Leron freaking Black over Bonzie Colson in recruiting than I am to blame him for our current crop of bigs being limited. YMMV. [/QUOTE]