Gradey Dick

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Jan 8, 2010
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Jayhawks fan—we have gotten incredibly lucky with Kansas grown talent with Agbaji, Braun, and Gradey. Even Dajuan Harris who has been a really solid PG the last few years. Harris and Braun played on the same AAU team and actually neither started. Gradey was a secondary/tertiary option at Sunrise Christian until his senior year

Quite frankly fans were upset that our recruiting dipped and attributed it to the NCAA cloud over our heads (that as a reasonable fan I won’t try to defend). But it is relatively ironic that 2020, 2022 and this year feel like 3 of our best teams in recent memory and it’s all during the “can’t recruit top talent because we are in trouble” years.

Self, like a lot of high end coaches, probably has some skeletons in his closet from a rules perspective… but the man can coach X’s and O’s.
Many coaches, none moreso than cal have let recruting services basically do their scouting for them. But scouting services don’t value basic fundamental basketball skills, instead it’s athleticism and other BS intangibles they value. One reason for the decline of the game in general as fundamentals is no longer considered essential. Always figured AAU ball would be vastly bad for the game and here we are.