Kustarica to UCLA

kyjeff1

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Gotta have elite coaching or elite players, cant with without either
Hubert Davis and Mick Cronin have both been on the doorstep of a title and look what UConn did in 2014 with a terrible coach.
Pope's system is not the issue, you have to have good players that get hot and when I say "good", history has proven that most of the time, those players end up being college journeymen.
It’s the players that make or break you and timing has something to do with it too. Our 1998, 2011 and 2014 teams proved that.
 
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CameronCat22

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So now you've got parents/handlers telling coaches how much playing time their kid is going to get? I'd say "no thanks" to that. This is another reason college basketball almost dead.
No, what we have is people on this board repeating a rumor as if it’s an established fact.
The entire “minute restriction” narrative comes from BigBlueDylan saying he spoke with an unnamed Gonzaga source and that source saying “what I’ve heard” is Kusturica’s camp is asking for a minutes guarantee.

That’s not evidence. It’s anonymous, secondhand information from a program that’s reportedly out of the recruitment.
Yet somehow that turns into, “His camp is demanding minute restrictions,” as if it has been confirmed.

It’s the same pattern we see over and over again: an unverified claim gets posted, enough people repeat it, and suddenly it’s treated as fact without anyone asking for actual evidence.
 
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KOF98

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I have to admit, I'm looking forward to this kid crashing out under Mad Ginger Napoleon just as much as I'd enjoy watching him put on the blue and white.
 

Son_Of_Saul

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such a rupp rafters comment. dude dominates all week, but some uk fans would pass because of a bad game or 2 from three.
I keep hearing we don't need top 20 picks around the program anymore. We're much better with fringe 2nd rounders and come-from-behind wins.

"We'll be fine."

Who needs a potential first-team all-american anyway?
 
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Wildcat_in_DC

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I keep hearing we don't need top 20 picks around the program anymore. We're much better with fringe 2nd rounders and come-from-behind wins.

"We'll be fine."

Who needs a potential first-team all-american anyway?
i think we are all mostly satisfied with how the roster was built. it looked like it was going to be way worse. but we are going to start the year ranked 15-20 by most folks and 4th or 5th in the SEC. thats not good enough.

we will see how it all pans out, but pope's job is still on the line. this kid would have given the 2nd unit a significant upgrade.