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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1731002, member: 837"] So I agree entirely with the one-and-done portion of this post and RF, I feel like I generally see eye-to-eye with you on most topics. But in this instance, I feel like you're kind of stretching it by adding Rak and Triche to this list. I mean, Triche and Hart had similar freshmen years and both played on teams that won a ton of games each season. But that's where the similarities end. By Hart's sophomore year, on a team that wins 33 games, he's second in scoring (in just 25 mpg) and shots 46% from 3 and 51% from the floor and grabs 4.5 rebs. Those are pretty darn efficient numbers that Triche can't touch (particularly as a soph or junior). Then Hart came back this year and went for 15.5 and 7 (3-pt % down to 36% -- still north of BT any year after his frosh year) as the best player on a team that won the national title. I mean, that's pretty crazy to think he'd be back, potentially, as a senior. Rak was incredible as a senior and I am happy to admit that I said there was no way in hell that was happening. I ate a ton of crow ... happily. But he was really a marginal contributor for three years. The dude put up 17.5 and 9 rpg a game as a senior and still graduated with career numbers of 7.4 and 5. I mean, if we're being honest, we got three years of disappointment and one glorious senior season. So I'm not posting this to pick nits, I'm merely saying that I think there's an interesting point in this thread. Namely: how do we find kids like Josh Hart. Or, more logically, how do we try and land more classes full of Lydons, Richardsons, and Howards -- kids who can play as frosh [I]and[/I] have the potential to be here for at least two years? That seems to be a combo that has eluded us to a large extent outside of MCW (remember Waiters did some OK things as a frosh but had a really rocky season; Fab was terrible as a frosh, DC has had a tough time figuring things out, it took Xmas three years ... Guys like Fair and even moreso like Lydon are huge currency for programs these days. We need more of them. [/QUOTE]

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