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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1228434, member: 40"]
No offense, anomander, but that's a false attribution.  There is no one way to recruit or build a team.  UK does it one way.  UNC does it another.  Ditto Duke, Kansas, Michigan State, and every other good team.  This may come as a shock, but sometimes even those elite programs don't target the same guys [gasp!].  JB has an approach to how he recruits--whereby he surrounds elite players with solid role players who are four year guys.  That system has worked extremely well, especially of late.  The exception being this year, when he lost two players he didn't expect.

The problem isn't recruiting, or how long it takes these players to develop.  We've been a #1 seed and ranked #1 multiple years in the last five seasons, and went to a final four in another.  Recruiting has never been better, despite what some would like to pretend.  We just don't have the right blend of experience / talent this year.  It is a one year blip, not an indictment of recruiting.

Again, if BJ Johnson and Roberson are averaging 14+ ppg as seniors on a good team, and Obokoh is a reserve big who plays, it is going to make the claim that this class is a bust seem foolishly reactionary.
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