When are we gonna start recruiting kids that can knock down some jump shots?
Did he get ranked that high by accident? He obviously has a skill of getting the ball in the basket. Whether its shooting, driving, dunking on and over people.
I'm not trying to make a slight against Jakarr or anyone else that we're recruiting or on the team currently. They are all talented in their own right but it'd be nice to have another shooter besides Harrison to go along with all the slashers that we have.
IMO, that's a fair point. A sharpshooting SG coming out of high school doesn't need to physically mature as much to be effective as, let's say, a slashing, 6'6 SF/G freshman who needs to add 20 lbs of muscle to be effective in a physical CBB conference such as the BE.
And as I mentioned before in another thread. It doesn't seem like for whatever reason, Lavin is going after 'shooters'
As much as I dislike Cal, I think Lav's recruiting strategy is pretty similar to Kentucky's in recent years. If you look at Wall, Gilchrist, Knight, Terrence Jones, Teague etc they're all phenomenal athletes, but were considered inconsistent shooters from deep. Especially coming out of high school.
A good shooting team can go cold, or can be rattled when playing on the road. But if you're faster, quicker, and can out jump the other team.. loss balls, fast breaks, rebounds, blocks, steals etc.. make the game much easier. It frustrates me when we're throwing up bricks, but I can't deny coach's plan has it's merits.
The big difference obviously is Lavin was starting over from scratch basically, and there's only so many John Walls and Anthony Davises out there. But in the future I really would expect us to look a lot like some of these Kentucky teams.