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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 2100478, member: 40"]
After giving it some thought / discussing it with a few people, here's what I think is happening:
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[*]Staff has three open scholarships to utilize, as things stand today, based upon graduation attrition
[*]Staff would like to bring in two prep guards, and prioritizes Duarte / Ayala
[*]If one of those two doesn't select SU [or if Ayala doesn't reclassify], Washington will likely be next in line
[*]Ayala might be making a decision in the next 4-6 weeks, now that his season is over.  That's the timeframe that he's given the staff, and likely what has been communicated to HW in terms of when he can expect to get an offer or notification that the team is going in a different direction
[*]The staff is also actively pursuing that 6-9 small forward from Slovakia, Marek Dolezaj, and the interest is apparently reciprocal.  Think of him as a poor man's Andrei Kirilenko, in terms of comparable game
[*]So, given their druthers, the staff would fill out the class by bringing in two guards and a SF, all from the HS / prep level
[*]The staff also expects 2 scholarships to potentially free up this offseason, via early entry and / or transfer
[*]Lydon is obviously the most obvious guy to jump to the NBA
[*]Any scholarships that free up would be used to actively pursue 5th year transfer options, to upgrade at PG / SF
[*]If all goes as expected, the staff will be adding 4-5 additional players [depending on how things shake out], to bring us to 11 next season
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