Re: '17 PA PG - Daron Russell (Offer)
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 6:17 pm
ramster wrote:If Russell picks URI in 15 minutes I'll be elated. Won't matter to me if he ends up being our only 2017 recruit he is that good. Any more recruits will be icing in the cake.
Good dribbler
Sees the court very, very well
Never gets rattled
Excellent shooter
Excellent passer
High b-ball IQ
Gets others involved
Confident
Shined in Nike AAU last summer clearly establishing himself among the elite players
Fingers crossed. I really think he becomes a Rhody Ram. Stays on one East Coast and joins a fast improving URI Rams organization. Would be a great choice
Wow, a little hostile. I said what I thought. I already said I'm glad I was wrong....geesh.3wisemen wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tRhC_QTpfYBillyboy78 wrote:Not to be negative, but I think it's going to be GCU.
Apparently it played a pretty big role in getting Russell to commit here, seeing how he used a picture of us ranked in his picstich.RhowdyRam02 wrote:I'm tired of the preseason hype on paper, what has it ever gotten us?!?
Rhody15 wrote:Apparently it played a pretty big role in getting Russell to commit here, seeing how he used a picture of us ranked in his picstich.RhowdyRam02 wrote:I'm tired of the preseason hype on paper, what has it ever gotten us?!?
With all due respect, and remember I said with all due respect, i don't care about that opinion when recruits are citing that hype as part of the reason they choose to come here. The hype is leading to better recruits, more TV exposure, slots in better tournaments all things that put us in a better position to succeed. I mean, it's sweet to think that teams don't need hype and they can just succeed out of relatively nowhere and the results on the court speak for themselves. It's sweet, but it's not how college basketball works in this day and age.rambone 78 wrote:RR2, what it means is that there aren't any excuses left.
Produce. Win. Dance. No more talk. Results.
A URI team, as far as I know, has NEVER been picked preseason top 25.
We've ended up there, but that's after overachieving in the NCAA tourney.
If the talent is as good as hyped, and the coaching follows suit, then it happens.
Show me. Do it. THEN I'm all in baby. CONVINCE ME!!!!!!
Not until.
RhowdyRam02 wrote:With all due respect, and remember I said with all due respect, i don't care about that opinion when recruits are citing that hype as part of the reason they choose to come here. The hype is leading to better recruits, more TV exposure, slots in better tournaments all things that put us in a better position to succeed. I mean, it's sweet to think that teams don't need hype and they can just succeed out of relatively nowhere and the results on the court speak for themselves. It's sweet, but it's not how college basketball works in this day and age.rambone 78 wrote:RR2, what it means is that there aren't any excuses left.
Produce. Win. Dance. No more talk. Results.
A URI team, as far as I know, has NEVER been picked preseason top 25.
We've ended up there, but that's after overachieving in the NCAA tourney.
If the talent is as good as hyped, and the coaching follows suit, then it happens.
Show me. Do it. THEN I'm all in baby. CONVINCE ME!!!!!!
Not until.
By the way, I'm pretty sure URI was nationally ranked in the preseason back in 99.
I appreciate an alternative perspective verses everyone else saying how good he is when 90% of us have never seen him play. That being said, I think the coaching staff has proven they can identify talent, and there are likely a few players ranked above him they don't like as much. So I pay more attention to him seemingly being their top target and getting him vs. stacking him up and against 34 other players ranked by someone living in their mothers basement. So for that reason I am excited...of course I get excited every summer/fall.860_rhody wrote:I'm not that impressed. He's the #35 PG in his own class. Shouldn't a program that hopes to be in the top 25 expect to attract players who are at least in the top 25 in their own position in their class? I just don't get why everybody is so excited.
If you have the 35th best player in the country (for his class, not to mention other classes), at every position, how can you expect to be in the top 25? (which is around the level we should want to get to).
I know that he could very well be better than the 35th best PG in the country, and some players end up being way better than their HS ranking (like Hassan), but if we don't know how good he'll be, why all the excitement?
I know rankings don't mean anything in the end, but if that's all we have to go off of, why all the hype?
Either way, I'm rooting for the kid and hope he becomes a good player.
We are succeeding out of relatively nowhere. Two years ago when we were picked to finish 6th in the A10 many people on this board didn't think we were getting enough respect. We then finished in third and the play on the court led to the current hype. It's not like there's hype because URI is known as a great basketball school.RhowdyRam02 wrote:
With all due respect, and remember I said with all due respect, i don't care about that opinion when recruits are citing that hype as part of the reason they choose to come here. The hype is leading to better recruits, more TV exposure, slots in better tournaments all things that put us in a better position to succeed. I mean, it's sweet to think that teams don't need hype and they can just succeed out of relatively nowhere and the results on the court speak for themselves. It's sweet, but it's not how college basketball works in this day and age.
By the way, I'm pretty sure URI was nationally ranked in the preseason back in 99.
RIFan wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6qtqp3-UAI
860,860_rhody wrote:I'm not that impressed. He's the #35 PG in his own class. Shouldn't a program that hopes to be in the top 25 expect to attract players who are at least in the top 25 in their own position in their class? I just don't get why everybody is so excited.
If you have the 35th best player in the country (for his class, not to mention other classes), at every position, how can you expect to be in the top 25? (which is around the level we should want to get to).
I know that he could very well be better than the 35th best PG in the country, and some players end up being way better than their HS ranking (like Hassan), but if we don't know how good he'll be, why all the excitement?
I know rankings don't mean anything in the end, but if that's all we have to go off of, why all the hype?
Either way, I'm rooting for the kid and hope he becomes a good player.