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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
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Most truly top level recruits do not want to play the kind of basketball that Anderson preaches. They don't want to play in a motion offense. They want to slackass on defense, get fed the ball every possession, isolate and drive, or shoot jumpers.
Think about Nolan Richardson's Arkansas teams. Who was the best player to ever come from there? Todd Day? Corliss Williamson? Oliver Miller's fatass? None of those guys were transcendental athletes by any stretch of the imagination.
Missouri will never out-recruit Self at KU. We'll never even have the level of talent that we had with Quin's first few classes, or Norm's better ones. But we will have teams that play much better as a team.
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Agreed...but I am (and I think this is what you are also saying) absolutely sold on watching this type of basketball. Mike Anderson has them playing as a team and thinking less about their own stats and more about team goals.
If we have several successful seasons like this with an eventual NC, I'll take all the "unwanted" recruits like these anytime.
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