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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1736563, member: 837"] I would also point out that it's tough to make many conclusions on this stuff b/c a lot of times the results aren't black and white. In just the past two seasons, for example, you had Rakeem Christmas who spent three years doing little to nothing to truly help us win games -- solid defensively I guess, but even so he only averaged 23.6 mpg. Then, all of a sudden, he blows up and has an absolutely phenomenal year last season. So was Rak a stud or was he a disappointment or was he both? Would you rather a player have one huge year and two or three underwhelming years, or consistently good production without being an absolute beast (CJ Fair)? I don't know the answer. Then this season you had Tyler Roberson -- so he had two nondescript seasons, played a lot of minutes this season and had some good moments but hadn't cracked double-figures in scoring since the first game of Feb. (and only once in the previous 12 games total), had only cracked double-figures in rebounds twice in that time (having grabbed 4 or fewer in six of nine games) and generally looked like a shell of the player that had put up three consecutive double-doubles in January culminating in the 14 pts., 20 rebs. game at Duke. But, in the tourney he goes out and is the single biggest reason we even get a shot at playing UVA by utterly dominating the first three games. So now it's not hard to see him potentially putting up a line of 12 or 13 ppg and 9 or 10 rpg next year. So if he does take that step forward, how do we view him as a recruit? Bottom line -- I think you would love to land a top 10 guy from time to time and I think that's a legit question. I also think I'd like to see a roster with generally fewer glaring holes (center and PG this year, for example). But ultimately I also think it is a phenomenally big ask of a coaching staff to somehow predict the future on these kids in terms of how long they'll stay and whether or not they'll accept a bench role or transfer. It's just really tough to get the right balance. [/QUOTE]

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