Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Why developing players still matters

Wisconsin redshirt sophomore Ethan Happe was a 3-star coming out of high school. A nice prospect, but nothing special at the Big Ten. According to the Verbal Commits website, the only schools besides Wisconsin that offered him were Green Bay and Milwaukee. He did not even play his first year, because he was behind POY Frank Kaminsky, but his redshirt year was time well spent. What did he do this past season, his first at the D1 level? He only averaged 12.4 ppg and 7.9 rpg playing against some of the best big men in the country. This is not a 5-star, this is a 3-star. This is a kid who could not even make the active roster his true freshman season. This is a kid that now every coach in the country would give his eye  teeth to have on his roster.

Developing players does still matter. Raw talent is not everything.

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