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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1283592, member: 581"]
I get that - but JB doesn't' exactly seem terrified to publicly speak about what he sees as the truth about players. Who knows.  It's not like he was speaking to Rak on his radio show so wanted to bump up his confidence.

I think coming from my perspective, which is (and always was) that Rak was severely underutilized for years, and that this type of offensive output wasn't entirely out of his reach earlier, I'm obviously going to go with JB's latest quote (because that's what I always said - and he backed it up).  If you're perspective was always that he had no offensive game - well, you'll believe the "want it" argument I suppose.

Who knows why coaches say what they say - maybe the coach wanted to rationalize it at DD over breakfast.  I mean, I'm sure they're not dying to admit they blew it by running a CJ Fair ISO offense with Cooney spazzing out for 40 minutes running the baseline when Rak had some of this in him.

I would say "want it" is a bit akin to saying "coaches' son" - kind of meaningless. Just another rationalization.  
Also, it's not that unusual for HS centers to have low PPG outputs - even good ones.  Not sure why ppl like to harp upon that statistic so much.

What did Okafor average his senior year?  Embiid?  Do you think either them averaged over 13 PPG?  One of them?  Neither of them?
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