Strickland33
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You think Harrell and Haas have similar games? Really? How about Smotrycz? Is Kadeem Jack at 6'9 230 more comparable to Thomas or Haas? How about the 6'7 240lb Niang?
How about Julian Royal- the guy who averaged 3 a game at GT before transferring?
Egwu and Hammons are the only two guys that you have named that would be a similar player to Haas. Both are averaging around 8 and 6 (as a Jr. and Soph, respectively). And that's the best you could come up with for impact players with those rankings.
Hammons is a projected first round pick.
The reality is that neither of us know what kind of game that Haas has. Your claim that "7-footers ranked in the #77 range of the RSCI aren't good so we shouldn't be upset if we lose one" just kind of rubs me the wrong way.
You recruit guys who are good, and good correlates quite well (remarkably well, but some of y'all are hard to please) with RSCI ranking. Are their games the same? No. But they're big dudes who turned out really well (in the scheme of basketball players - because, let's be real, we would have killed to have senior Tony Woods-type production on our first Buzz teams). Maybe Haas wouldn't be as productive as Harrell or Smotrycz (though I actually think that he would), but there is a TON of talent in #70-#85. That was my point. You should be happy with that range, despite the fact that the Ty Walker experiment ended badly.
I think that Haas would have been a good player for us, a solid starter by year three and an All-ACC-caliber center by his senior year. Kind of like Kyle Visser. I've posted about it in depth a few times and you're welcome to dig the posts up.