Rick’s Targets

Alleyne, with national championship experience, probably won’t be talented or tall enough or incapable of serving as primary ball handler for us.
 
Sharing a jail cell w Larry Wright not on many bucket lists
Having met some posters, Larry Wright poster is top 5 pick.Good looking guy, former D1 athlete and still in good shape. Not so much others I met. In the pokey most of you would be in big trouble. I would think most would want to be my bitch.
Off top of head, Marillac looked like may have done a cycle or two. KOB was a big dude, that’s about it.
 
Everybody, most especially L Wright, ought to take a step back on their certainty about the talent level being signed on so far. Pitino has a long track record of getting every ounce of talent out of players.

Billy Donovan had an early conversation with him at Providence about transferring to Fairfield and when coach P investigated that for him, they didn’t even want him. So, coach challenges him to stay and work hard, leaving no doubt that you did everything you could to be your absolute best. We all know what happened. There are other instances like this too. So this certainty about the talent level not being good enough might be right, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

Look at the roster of college teams he coached every year. Nowhere near the ranked players coach K got. Russ Smith was a 3 star player.
 
Everybody, most especially L Wright, ought to take a step back on their certainty about the talent level being signed on so far. Pitino has a long track record of getting every ounce of talent out of players.

Billy Donovan had an early conversation with him at Providence about transferring to Fairfield and when coach P investigated that for him, they didn’t even want him. So, coach challenges him to stay and work hard, leaving no doubt that you did everything you could to be your absolute best. We all know what happened. There are other instances like this too. So this certainty about the talent level not being good enough might be right, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

Look at the roster of college teams he coached every year. Nowhere near the ranked players coach K got. Russ Smith was a 3 star player.
Hope to be shocked and when season starts and that is how I will root.
 
Played 17.9 minutes per game at UConn this year, 5.2 PPG and 87.1% FT%. If we land him we may be one of the best FT shooting teams in the country.
Didn’t miss a free throw in the tourney. Averaged just over 7 points in a little under 20 minutes per during the run.

He was 6/11 from 3 through the elite 8. But he was 0-8 from 3 in the final 4 & NC game.
 
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