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Message: [QUOTE="Flacusian, post: 2878886, member: 264"] It seems like an exercise in futility to revisit the departure of former players. There doesn't need to be some pervasive flaw in the recruiting process/ talent evaluation. Sometimes is just doesn't work out. It really is as simple as that. Phat Orange referenced the tape which chronicled KJ's recruitment and provided us with a glimpse of who he was, where he was, and what he was doing to prepare for play on the next level. I recall coming away with a very favorable opinion of Kaleb on account of how the tape reflected KJ's goal oriented life which centered around basketball, and that he believed that by hard work and uncompromised commitment he would become the next " great Syracuse point guard. He seemed to project a very positive outlook and I can only speak for myself, but by all indications he was being groomed to succeed at this level. To his detriment... Ennis bolted for the NBA and the one year of adjustment to Div 1 basketball while learning from Ennis was not available to him. By most accounts, if I recall correctly, most people here were of the opinion that he had the huge responsibility of having the keys handed over to him to play point guard before really being ready and thus had been overwhelmed. That was unfortunate for both Kaleb Joseph and the Syracuse Basketball Program., He simply could not come in and play at the level we needed him to play at from the get go. TT's departure was cloaked in mystery and frankly it seemed everyone had some theory on what had happened and why it happened. Perhaps we will never fully know. It matters not at this point and it's just conjecture as to whether he would have developed differently ( for better or worse) had he stayed on at Syracuse. Personally, I had pretty much forgotten about him until I saw this post. Not the same for Kaleb Joseph. I really thought he was carved out and destined to be the next great point guard at Syracuse. From all I read and the few times I watched him be interviewed he seemed very excited by the prospect of paying at Syracuse and it seemed he was doing everything he could to insure that he would be successful when he began his Syracuse / College basketball career. As it turned out... he was neither ready or able to do so. I believe he was just overwhelmed by the pressure of running the point for Syracuse and ACC play. I don't think it was any fault of KJ's. Again... because of the circumstances of having step right in from day one and run the show... he was in over his head and he's perhaps more a victim of circumstance and was the type of kid who needed some time to ease into taking on the task rather than baptism by fire. Sometimes things just don't work out. [/QUOTE]

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