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<blockquote data-quote="Jreed322" data-source="post: 1175984" data-attributes="member: 585043"><p>With the way the freshman/Thorne/hill and nunn have played we would have had a darn good shot at the tourney had everyone been healthy. It's ludicrous to suggest we would have been a bad team even without injuries knowing what we know now about how guys have played to start the year.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>LESS competitive? This is all just hyperbole at this point. Filler players? Like who? Everyone gets on Groce's case about shooting too high for recruits and not going after guys "more in our wheelhouse" or whatever. Now it's "we aren't competing for the high level guys!"</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You're throwing out a bunch of guys leaving and acting like we don't have a year and a half of development from guys who have shown immense promise or who are highly though of on Lucas' case to further hone their skills in order to replace those players leaving. Yes, hill and nunn were top 100s. So were JCL and black. Finke has also played extremely well so far for a RS freshman so he looks like he will develop into a capable replacement.</p><p></p><p>Of course no one can sit here and say they guarantee we have replacements because no one has a crystal ball. My point is that we've seen guys play above what was expected of them to this point and we still have another 20 months for guys like Jordan, DJW, Nichols, Lucas, etc to improve as well not to mention any other '16 and '17 recruits we get.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jreed322, post: 1175984, member: 585043"] With the way the freshman/Thorne/hill and nunn have played we would have had a darn good shot at the tourney had everyone been healthy. It's ludicrous to suggest we would have been a bad team even without injuries knowing what we know now about how guys have played to start the year. LESS competitive? This is all just hyperbole at this point. Filler players? Like who? Everyone gets on Groce's case about shooting too high for recruits and not going after guys "more in our wheelhouse" or whatever. Now it's "we aren't competing for the high level guys!" You're throwing out a bunch of guys leaving and acting like we don't have a year and a half of development from guys who have shown immense promise or who are highly though of on Lucas' case to further hone their skills in order to replace those players leaving. Yes, hill and nunn were top 100s. So were JCL and black. Finke has also played extremely well so far for a RS freshman so he looks like he will develop into a capable replacement. Of course no one can sit here and say they guarantee we have replacements because no one has a crystal ball. My point is that we've seen guys play above what was expected of them to this point and we still have another 20 months for guys like Jordan, DJW, Nichols, Lucas, etc to improve as well not to mention any other '16 and '17 recruits we get. [/QUOTE]
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