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<blockquote data-quote="Obelix" data-source="post: 1409771" data-attributes="member: 7292"><p>There is an entire 2018 recruiting class that you are missing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There were both good recruits, but Groce's main problem was <strong>positional recruiting</strong>, the inability to mainly land a PG (second was landing a healthy C/low post player). Recruiting is not just about rankings, it is about positional recruiting was well and not leaving gaps. Coleman-Lands was never and will never be a PG, and contrary to the some fans claiming that he was the PG that Groce really wanted to begin with, we only got JCL after we struck out with our top 2 PG targets (Brunson, Evans) and actually after JCL ended up with less options after ND, UM, and MSU stopped recruiting him (for whatever reason).</p><p></p><p>Positional recruiting with no gaps is extremely important. Now, you may want to argue about it with the positionless basketball crowd that claims it does not matter, but certainly not me.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I am still trying to figure out what part of "<strong>recruiting-wise</strong>" in my statement you may have missed. Maybe I should bold it (... done!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Obelix, post: 1409771, member: 7292"] There is an entire 2018 recruiting class that you are missing. There were both good recruits, but Groce's main problem was [B]positional recruiting[/B], the inability to mainly land a PG (second was landing a healthy C/low post player). Recruiting is not just about rankings, it is about positional recruiting was well and not leaving gaps. Coleman-Lands was never and will never be a PG, and contrary to the some fans claiming that he was the PG that Groce really wanted to begin with, we only got JCL after we struck out with our top 2 PG targets (Brunson, Evans) and actually after JCL ended up with less options after ND, UM, and MSU stopped recruiting him (for whatever reason). Positional recruiting with no gaps is extremely important. Now, you may want to argue about it with the positionless basketball crowd that claims it does not matter, but certainly not me. I am still trying to figure out what part of "[B]recruiting-wise[/B]" in my statement you may have missed. Maybe I should bold it (... done!). [/QUOTE]
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