cameron06
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I'm not sure I want him if he's enrolling early. A few reasons for my thinking:
1) Like I mentioned above, we need him more next year.
2) But let's say it's this year or nothing. Is it worth it, no matter how talented he is? He's not at a position of need. We add him to the team and someone's going to be unhappy. Likely Bolden. That's a chemistry issue waiting to happen.
3) He'll also cut into any minutes Javin and Vrank could potentially play. Vrank will likely stick it out because he's ranked really low and probably has limited expectations. But if we lose Javin, I'm not sure the tradeoff is worth it. Javin can offer us three years of solid play. I'm not sure how much better Bagley will make us this year.
4) His whole recruitment feels very sketchy to me. I want to avoid any ineligibility issues.
5) I'm not sure we need yet another OAD on the team. With OADs come agendas separate from team basketball. We've already got Carter and Duval as surefire pros, but then we've got Trent with one foot out the door and who knows what Bolden's thinking. At a certain tipping point, it's difficult to have everyone bought in.
I've always been of the belief that a team full of OADs doesn't necessarily make your team better than experienced 3-4 year players. But since we likely won't have many of those in the near future once Allen leaves I guess let's just see what happens.
On top of that I enjoy watching players careers not seasons. I'll take that 2010 title ten times out of ten over that 2015 team.
Give me players that enjoy college and not just the big stage for NBA try outs.