Amen. The extent to which this kind of thinking re backup players, players sitting out, incoming 3 stars, etc. pervades the board is insane. to my recollection, we've had one truly stellar player emerge out of all of the less heralded recruits who came in and had amazing "practice reports", and that's Rayvonte Rice, who averaged like 17 ppg previously in a decent midmajor conference, transformed his body, and was apparently competing with a legit stud Brandon Paul in practice for best player on the team status during his sit out year.
Unless I'm hearing that Kipper is owning Malcolm Hill in practice on both ends, I'm not gonna get too excited. As someone else said, hopefully he'll play d and rebound and give us a few good minutes a game next year, and maybe over time develop into a really solid rotation guy.
In the absence of direct and convincing evidence that a low profile recruit is going to be awesome (read: actual game clips/stats of him owning legitimate competition; Coach K knocking on his door late to sign him; him shooting up rankings late, etc.), the expectation with 3* recruits needs to be that maybe we'll have someone decent. If that player turns out to be Trey Burke, fabulous. But that can never be the expectation.
