KAEO Unique McLean (2016)

[natwam2547]

I saw that too. Great to see. Cue the "we have enough athletes, we need shooters" comments.

[69MG]

I'll bet he doesn't miss a lot of layups. That's already an improvement over the last couple of years.

[classof60]

Who says that Sportcenter has ruined the priorities of up and coming basketball players where the quality of the dunk draws more highlights than a good pass

Never saw Bob Cousy or Oscar Robertson dunk

[Jackson96]

I know Bob Cousy was obviously a great player, but he did shoot 38% from the floor for his career. Maybe he was too busy working on his fancy dribbling and passing and not enough on his shooting?

[MassDynasty321]

We had this Julius guy back in the day who was a pretty good dunker

[uz2b-len]

And this Jameel guy, too. I forget, which was the guy who was actually good?

[69MG]

And this Jameel guy, too. I forget, which was the guy who was actually good?

Len, in case there was a lingering doubt, here are Jameel's career numbers. I'll be very disappointed if Unique ends up with numbers like these:

28 games played over 2 years. 6.5 minutes per game. .319 FG%, 1.4 rebounds and 3.0 points per game. The most astonishing stat is out of the 94 shots he took in his career, 42 of them were 3's and he shot 21% from 3.

[rayers]

Apples and oranges. Pugh did not compete against talent even close to what McLean has faced. I realize no one really can predict what kind of player McLean will be, but don't get caught up in meaningless comparisons. Let the kid play before prejudging.

[LS71]

^^^^ Too bad that Julius guy couldn't legally dunk during games when he was here.

[rsox1221]

Now that you can dunk in warmups Unique is going to be putting on a show I'm sure

[xlgman]

^Oh cool - I hadn't heard about that rule change. It's about time.

[Rudy]

I am not thrilled about this at all. If he were a 2015 recruit, yes.

This has 'breakout star suddenly getting recruited by ACC schools and backing out of his verbal' written all over it.

A whole season of him getting power conference hype and watching UMass play half-empty arenas.

[tdmass]

^ He'll have to sign his LOI BEFORE the season starts(early November) so he'll be tied up for a year unless we give him a release later!

[uz2b-len]

No major program is gonna recruit a kid based on a highlight reel dunk

[rayers]

^ thank you Len for adding some understanding and perspective to the board! You are absolutely right on. Guys, what Len said.