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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 4147423, member: 966"] They’re 17. They haven’t been there yet. They say the right things in interviews. Imagine that! Here‘s the other thing, about JAB’s judgment of late, and how other recruiters can easily work against us: Take, for example, JBA. Look at his high school tape. He is/was a rangy, athletic, bouncy perimeter player. Seems to have nice form on his jumper. So, what did we do? On the heels of making the splendid splinter Marek Dolemite into a center, that’s what we did with JBA. Because Marek worked out so well there, I guess. JBA, who was a bench reserve 3 on his high school team was going to come to a power conference and be converted to a center… by an alum who had only ever been a guard. Quincy G comes in and wants/expects to play some perimeter stuff. Probably, most realistically saw himself as an NBA 3. But with us, he’s a 4. Marek should have been a 3... Then, add that we play only a zone. So, why would you go to Syracuse as a high school recruit with options? You’re going to be cast out of your natural position, be coached by a player who only understands your position in theory, learn a defense that doesn’t make you nba-ready, and get zero minutes because the coach’s progeny and pet are going to play 40 regardless of performance/productivity/commitment. Add to that the fact that he had already committed to retire once, is now 77, and there will be constant banter about when is his next ‘last season.’ Why? All of that leads to us getting kids in the bottom half of the top 100, and beyond, and then expecting them to coalesce into something that gets us out of the middle of the ACC. I now hear Jerry Seinfeld and Kramer’s horrible Cockney accents: “Not bloody likely!” [/QUOTE]

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