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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 1736495, member: 966"]
I 'liked' and agree with most of this, but there are multiple reasons why. Any one or more can be applicable to any individual recruit:
• we play a 'non-pro' defense. Effective or not, it's not the best prep for the NBA. Even if it's not an actual issue, it's a perceptual issue. 
• JB is retiring, and no one knows how Hopkins will perform as HC. A top 20 kid can afford to be selective, and he'll take the known over the unknown. 
• Media always plays up the 'it's cold up there' thing, making it sound perpetually miserable, climate-wise. 
• Media constantly harping on the fact that we play the 'slowest pace in the league.' Defensively, the zone makes teams eat clock to get shots. Not a real issue offensively for us, but the talking heads don't make that distinction. 
• We 'only play 7 guys.' A kid wants to know he's starting or definitely will get off the bench. Shouldn't be an issue for a top 20 kid, but if you come in better than an upperclassman, the incumbent is still prolly going to start. There has to be a clear opening at your position. Timing?

Those 4 schools really are sucking up most of the top 20. Those they don't get seem to go where there are 'special connections,' and unless we are playing that game or luck into a geographic happenstance, we just aren't in the mix. Hoping Hopkins considers an outsider for the staff, just for 'recruiting reach.'
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