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Thank God the local talent base ...
DHD
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... has improved so dramatically. Now we can watch Romar really work his magic because he won't be hamstrung by a dearth of local talent.
With guys like Murray and Thybulle in the fold this year and Davis and Nowell on the horizon, we can return to the style of play that will lead us back to ... crossing our fingers for a fucking NIT bid?
Nevermind.
Instead, we'll rely on a guy with a surgically repaired cyborg leg who struggled to crack the lineup at Auburn, a legit top ten recruit that couldn't possibly have come from a high school any further away from the local area, and a Kiwi who no one has ever seen play but reportedly dominates rec-league 3 on 3 tournaments (a budding Hoopfest superstar!) to get us to the promised land next year.
That sorta' contradicts the whole "Romar needs more local talent argument", right?
With guys like Murray and Thybulle in the fold this year and Davis and Nowell on the horizon, we can return to the style of play that will lead us back to ... crossing our fingers for a fucking NIT bid?
Nevermind.
Instead, we'll rely on a guy with a surgically repaired cyborg leg who struggled to crack the lineup at Auburn, a legit top ten recruit that couldn't possibly have come from a high school any further away from the local area, and a Kiwi who no one has ever seen play but reportedly dominates rec-league 3 on 3 tournaments (a budding Hoopfest superstar!) to get us to the promised land next year.
That sorta' contradicts the whole "Romar needs more local talent argument", right?
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A) It would be to expensive to fire him because of the contract (Thanks Woodward, and a tip of the hat to dawgnews who wanted to extend him at the end of last year to show recruits how committed the UW was to him. By doing that, it would have made it even harder to fire him. Well played on your part),
http://insider.espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/evaluation/_/id/203872/daejon-davis
He transferred from Lakeside to Garfield with all of the scandals going on in the Lakeside program ... shocking that Ballmer is involved there.
When I've seen him play (granted I haven't watched him this year) he really irked me with his selfish play ... particularly considering that he wasn't the best player IMO on the Lakeside team. He's the standard Seattle player right now that is a great slasher but has a broken jump shot and isn't what I would consider nuanced in the game. I also didn't like his body language much as he was definitely very immature (hard to totally bash a soph in HS for that as that can improve).
He's got talent but he's got as much of a chance to be a Wroten type player to me than he does to be a Murray.
Cunliffe on the other hand has improved a lot after transferring from Blanchet, where I was never that impressed with him. Kinda pissed Romar didn't lock down the white boy.
JonJon still needs time to mature, but the talent is there.
The key is getting Porter and Nowell. Lots of young local talent coming up.
Somehow I doubt his family moved to Rainier Valley though...