In most cases that is true. I really don't understand how a kid can be a a Top 60 or Top 120 recruit and have absolutely no jumpshot and cannot shoot free throws.
Unless Rodgers and Harris get totally broke down from scratch and work their ass off for the next 7 months, they will still be limited to being defense and energy bench guys.
I guess if we have 3 high level scorers you can have them out there a lot, but we don't have that happening.
Many HS players are ranked without a proven game (jumpshot). Most are playing wing/slashing athletes and are rated accordingly. Look at how many "non-specific-skill" players are in football, yet they are ranked high as athletes. The same can be said for basketball. Colleges and fans alike get caught up in rankings way to much on recruits...this years NCAA Final Four and now the portal is proving this point.
Who wanted say: Miami (Omier) previous school Arkansas St., FAU (Davis) signed out of HS, first and only to drop this line in NCAA game 25-10-5-5, point is this is only 2 of the 4 still alive and yet are key players that were not even thought of out of HS. Portal has players from the likes of Brown, and many other smaller schools getting heavily recruited to the Blue Bloods and others now, they never even thought of looking at those guys out of HS.
Colleges must do a better job of identifying players early in HS and also in the portal, if they don't many coaches will be on the hot seat annually. This year NCAA Tourney is an outlier for years to come. The years of the Blue Bloods dominating may very well be over. They will still win, but the margin has closed considerably for it to be a given moving forward. A good thing for College Basketball imo.
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