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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5168952, member: 12088"] This is probably accurate as a prioritizing of interests for adolescents. There may even be a big gap between #2 and #3. And Geno has spoken about this many times, that it’s not hard to find kids who can score. But that’s not the only thing he looks for. He has said he looks for kids who are willing to be coached especially on team defense, and these kids are a lot less common. The willingness to play team defense, and to understand that defense is a main determinant of playing time at UConn (as it is at SC, too), tends to winnow out the field of recruits quite a bit. These are the kids who will put team first, the ones who will appreciate the need to learn new things. The irony is that even #1 ultimately depends on this much more than kids realize before they arrive. [/QUOTE]