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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 2184762, member: 5436"] Ok... but 20/20 hindsight is perfect. You are usually a voice of reasoned, supported opinions and explanations on here Matrim... so I am somewhat surprised by your looking back and now saying Ollie blew it AND he should have realized the collateral damage it might have caused with other recruits. It is quite plausible that Hamidou led him and the entire staff to believe he was coming here up until right before he announced his decision. In fact, here is a quote directly from you on January 4th: [I]"Which just goes to show that none of the insiders know a damn thing until the kid himself makes the move. Two weeks ago he was a lock to play at UConn, and two days ago he was a lock to play at Kentucky, and now he's not going to play at all, right? Predicting what a teenager will do is brutally hard. Predicting what a teenager will do when there's fame and millions of dollars on the line? As a wise man once said, "take it with a grain of salt."[/I] Accurate words from you, per usual. The general opinion on this board, in fact, right up through the Auburn game just 11 days before his announcement was that he was committing to us. Hamidou attending that game was supposed to be the final step. He certainly did not say or do anything to lead any of us to think otherwise. But now you say Ollie should have known, when none of us really did? KO needs to do better, but asking him to be Kreskin is a bit much, don't you think? Kids at that age can be really good at being deceptive, when they want to be. There are legitimate recent events that Ollie does deserve heat for: taking MAL's commitment for granted by not going to any of his games this winter, for example, is definitely one of them. But for anyone, even you, to say he should have known he was not getting Hamidou sooner - which is what you are implying - is unfair as you even said yourself in January. Let me also say that I, like you, did not see Hamidou as a savior for us either. We needed and still need more shooters from the wing position, not guys who are drivers but can't hit a consistent jumper, even when open. And then had questions about his consistent effort during games, too? We had enough of that already this year. [/QUOTE]

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