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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2220087, member: 966"] I'm not buying this. No feathers ruffled, however: [B]"A fifth year gap-filler has had 4 years to acquire habits that JB&Co will have to unravel."[/B] How is what a player learns at another university more damaging than what he learned in high school? We have players coming into college ball with varying levels of experience. Some come in only having played a few years of organized ball. So, ostensibly, they'd be more prepared to be programmed by JB than a kid who has been a basketball player since early childhood, where so many bad habits would be ingrained? Secondly, if we have a defense that requires that a player come in with a blank, impressionable mind, and then still requires 1-2 years to "fully learn the nuances," then we will be perennially screwed unless we can field a team of all homegrown juniors and seniors. Which almost never happens, and which also means we're not getting top-shelf recruits who can immediately crack the starting lineup. I'm not seeing how we're going to have a lot of success in the future if we can't get top 20 high schoolers and we ignore transfers because they '[I]have too much experience in a different system[/I].' That thing where JB said the 5th year guys have a lot of bad habits — just another occasion where JB says stuff. I can't imagine another top coach using that as an excuse. By that logic, Kevin Durant should have been a liability for GS. With our own Andrew White and John Gillon, it wasn't prior experience that had them not being superior defenders. Gillon is just small for the role, and White isn't an upper-level athlete, [I]and[/I] came in at the 11th hour. I expect Thorpe to be better in the zone that a typical, raw-brained freshman. Despite his handicap. [/QUOTE]

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