Do I really have to explain myself or are you intelligent enough to figure it out?
Shakur Juiston on njcaatv.com tonight
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Do I really have to explain myself or are you intelligent enough to figure it out?
We've had the pieces. The key is having the pieces consistently or often, because bad luck or a poor outing will get you more often than not.
Does everyone else have small panic attacks when that happens? I do.
Gottlieb comparing Juiston to a smaller Jordan Bell
I'm with 07 on this one. I'm not sure what was expected in his recruitment but I'm not surprised by the UNLV visit, we're still considered one of the leaders with KU and the Bragg thing was expected so I guess I'm not sure what has gone off script
Heard that when Coach Prohm was at the hospital right after his wife just had their little girl, that his wife whispered something to him.
"Shakur Juiston, Go get him!!
"Shakur Juiston, Go get him!!
I would have never expected him to visit UNLV. Why? Because they aren't of the caliber of many of the other schools that have offered him. As a Juco, you want to go somewhere you'll play right away and get a lot of minutes. If you're considered to be the top Juco in the country, you're going to get minutes wherever it is you go. So, visiting UNLV doesn't "make sense" in that they are terrible. But, reverting back to my earlier comments, recruiting doesn't follow a simple path.
That kind of tells you we haven't had the pieces.
Imo we've had the pieces to have an outside chance
Meh. UNLV ALWAYS has players. No idea how they do so poorly with them year after year.
I'm not surprised by it. UNLV was on his final list and he's mentioned having a good relationship with them before. I figured he'd take multiple visits so UNLV doesn't surprise me any more than Rhode Island, Oklahoma, etc.
Disagree completely. I've seen fantastic teams go out in the first round, time after time. Or the second round. Or third. It happens. The difference is getting there a lot with the tools to make something happen. That's what separates the elite programs from the rest.
I'm sorry things aren't going the way "you" thought they would go.
These aren't really mutually exclusive takes.
Tons of teams consistently "get there", few have the pieces to consistently be a real threat or have good odds. There is a lot of luck and variability, but the teams that go far have the pieces to overcome. It's not an accident that the teams find in the FF are often the more talented ones. The outcomes are binary but the odds are not.
The visit to UNLV makes PERFECT sense. If you're Juiston and you know that KU and ISU are the 2 schools you're picking from and someone from UNLV calls and says "hey would you like to come spend the weekend in Vegas instead of staying in Hutchinson?" what are you going to do? I don't know of many 20(?) yr old kids who would turn that down. It doesn't mean a thing that he's visiting there.
That's what everyone thought with Rashad Vaughn too... but he wound up at UNLV.
Unless Juiston has a "handler" who is getting a new job in Vegas, they are totally different situations.
Fingers crossed we get the visit before KU.
Imo we, and teams like us, are the reason Self is looking for a quick-twitch four to play behind his bigger posts. Does Juiston want to be Self's guy off the bench as needed to counter a mismatch, or come to ISU and be the mismatch?
