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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 2286362, member: 837"]
OK, fine, we can discuss. JB has been 'mailing it in' on the recruiting trail. I get that this is a popular sentiment but I would argue that it may have been more of an effort to have Hopkins take the lead since he was going to be the head coach this year. The decision may have been a poor one, but it makes more sense to me than JB arbitrarily deciding not to recruit anymore. No one has offered any sort of explanation as to why JB would have just written off recruiting and then suddenly decided to recruit again.

And 'talent has been a huge advantage'? In what sense? All the lottery picks and NBA all-stars we've sent to the league since the mid-90s? I mean, we were loaded in the late-80s/early 90's but since then? Really? Even our recent run of 1st-rounders included a bunch of guys that were good but not great college players (grant, lydon, richardson, mccullough)

And 'we used to have a better offense'? We've had teams that ran more (I'd love to see more of that) and we had the 09-10 group that ran a ton of high-low with RJ and Onuaku, but what are the differences you're referring to in terms of our basic offensive approach?

My only point is that they feel like your opinions, which is fine, it's a message board. But they feel like thin, generalized statements as opposed to reasoned arguments. Apologies if that offends.
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