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Our biggest recruiting miss- Bonzie Colson

Totally agree

But that Colson story - with the downs - sounds like Freeman and others. Sometimes you get lucky.
 
superjohn said:
Kid is just destroying Duke like he does every other team. He's the perfect college power forward and we were his dream school, can't believe we blew that one.
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One thing I am concerned with is, this coaching staff's ability to improve post players and I am coach Ollie's biggest supporter.

Point being, I highly doubt it if Bonzie came to Uconn he would be as good as he is today so I don't lose any sleep over it.
 
Ollie's recruiting philosophy regarding big men is not good. He is recruiting either athletic bean poles with no IQs or guys who have no toughness and swagger or both.

Too many nice guys and not enough bullies being recruited in the front court. That's our problem with teams like Cinci and SMU we get outbullied, outtoughed, outmuscled. We didn't even bother adjusting especially against UCONN killer Gary Clark. No one took the challenge to shut him down or force away from the block.

Ollie has to do a better job recruiting and also throwing different looks including double teams against guys like Gary Clark as we will see him again next year as well as Semi Ojeleye.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
I'm calling bullscalito on this.
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Actually true. From SJ

I'm actually kind of glad we didn't get AMA, the more I saw of his recruitment the less I wanted him a Husky. Bonzie Colson may not be much of a pro prospect but I have a feeling he will be a damn good college player and Devin Robinson is a much better prospect than AMA. These things tend to work out for us in the end.

Wouldn't worry too much about Colson's game translating to College, the kid has been awesome on the summer circuit against other top forwards. AMA is far from a finished product, he's taller and more athletic than Colson but Colson is definitely more skilled from 12 feet and in than AMA is at this point.

Edit. This is the thread on Colson being offered. LINK

Everyone was excited about the offer and tape besides tenspro who said "he doesn't mind the offer."
 
At best, he was hyped briefly on these pages as Adrien redux. I was therefore disappointed when he chose Notre Dame. I haven't seen him play, but his numbers are similar and better than Jeff's.
 
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walker11 said:
Actually true. From SJ

I'm actually kind of glad we didn't get AMA, the more I saw of his recruitment the less I wanted him a Husky. Bonzie Colson may not be much of a pro prospect but I have a feeling he will be a damn good college player and Devin Robinson is a much better prospect than AMA. These things tend to work out for us in the end.

Wouldn't worry too much about Colson's game translating to College, the kid has been awesome on the summer circuit against other top forwards. AMA is far from a finished product, he's taller and more athletic than Colson but Colson is definitely more skilled from 12 feet and in than AMA is at this point.

Edit. This is the thread on Colson being offered. LINK

Everyone was excited about the offer and tape besides tenspro who said "he doesn't mind the offer."
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A lot of people wanted this to happen huh? Where's the staff when the BY has it right?
 
mauconnfan said:
A lot of people wanted this to happen huh? Where's the staff when the BY has it right?
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There was near unanimous support for signing Colson (@Tenspro2002 was the only one who was even sort of against it), but at the same time there's an old user poll thread that showed about a 3-to-1 preference for Kasongo instead b/c he was bigger and more athletic, even though he was/is so raw.

So... it's kinda funny how certain people are killing KO for "only" recruiting project bigs, isn't it?
 
The lesson learned, hopefully, is recruit demonstrated superior basketball skills/production over superior size and/or athletic ability.

Results Trump potential. Too many times recruiters devalue a skilled player because they don't fit the prototype

Uconn , above all others, should understand not to do this when evaluating big men. They don't do it with guards, and they've been uber successful in that arena.
 
MuchoDogYears said:
The lesson learned, hopefully, is recruit demonstrated superior basketball skills/production over superior size and/or athletic ability.

Results Trump potential. Too many times recruiters devalue a skilled player because they don't fit the prototype

Uconn , above all others, should understand not to do this when evaluating big men. They don't do it with guards, and they've been uber successful in that arena.
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This is exactly which I'm excited about Polley and Carlton. I'm all for a mix. I would have loved to land Ikey even though he may be Brimah like offensively.
 
Matrim55 said:
There was near unanimous support for signing Colson (@Tenspro2002 was the only one who was even sort of against it), but at the same time there's an old user poll thread that showed about a 3-to-1 preference for Kasongo instead b/c he was bigger and more athletic, even though he was/is so raw.

So... it's kinda funny how certain people are killing KO for "only" recruiting project bigs, isn't it?
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Well then it's a good thing nobody's paying me big bucks to evaluate HS talent. I was wrong, and our staff was wrong.
 
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Hopefully out of all of these scenario's which occurred the one that should never happen again is all the eggs in one basket. Between Bruce Brown and David Beatty the staff blew it with all in on Diallo. Hey I wanted the kid but I also said when the offer of a nice player is there don't wait. Not at all patting myself on the back, just wishing they were more proactive when Brown and Beatty were throwing themselves at them.
 
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