It was. I remember it well. Some wing player I never heard of had committed. It turns out that he was unstoppable from the mid range at one of the summer camps. He kept banging shot after shot in off the glass.
It was sort of out of nowhere, as it happened right after Doherty was hired and Guthridge had not been recruiting him. He had just shot up in the rankings after his performance in the summer camps (do those still exist?).
That's not quite how I remember it. James White chose Florida. We panicked, as we didn't have any good backup options. There was Jawad Williams, who was either committed to Maryland or seen as a heavy, heavy Maryland lean. When we offered, he listened. Jackie committed in July. I thought Melvin Scott was next -- based on a lights-out shooting performance in a single week of camp (I was NOT fond of this pattern) -- and then Jawad came through around Labor Day, IIRC.
I think the major concern is if Evans can run the point position. Another is being able to create individual offense.
Current preseason has dook, U of L, and state as Q1 AFAIK - anybody else?
I’m pretty sure Doherty pretty much stopped recruiting him, and landing Manuel pretty much meant he wasn’t going to be a target anymore.
Interesting. Maybe Scott was a UNC lean for a while. What I remember is that Jawad went from Maryland lean to UNC commit in the flash of an eye. So we thought we were going to get Scott for a while, and then Jawad swooped in for the second spot. But it was a long time ago.
Yes, but May was the only big, and if you recall, he missed a lot of his freshman year with a foot injury. And May wanted to be more of a four, and we kind of wanted him to be a four. We were using David Noel as a four.
Are you reading this from IC or what is the source of this concern?
Time will tell. Summer reports have always been notoriously bad.
What exactly is lack of continuity?
Probably turnover of players from year-to-year.
