Aaron Craft Commits to BasketVols

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I think C.J. Watson was also ranked about #75 overall in his class. He improved greatly under Pearl, but he wasn't exactly under the radar coming in.
 
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TheScottyHopson said:
Damn right, I am right. This has no effect with our "other highly ranked recruits" so stop dwelling on that.

Ramar was a 5-star SG but had to play point (and wanted to play point) because UT needed him and he was going to have to learn to play the point for the NBA. So I don't really consider him a "bust", especially since people like Jerry Meyer said he was a marginal PG coming in (Pearl turned him into All-SEC freshman). We were forced to take him as a PG because we missed out on a couple of other PGs.

Duke Crews was on the rise at the end of his freshman year and the irregular heartbeat that held him out his sophomore year definitely stunted his development.

JP Prince is another 5-star who was SEC 6th MOTY so he seems to be able to handle 5-stars pretty well if they are healthy.

Also every other non-5-star recruits has been better than their stars under Pearl... Tyler Smith, Brian Williams, Josh Tabb, Jajuan Smith, Chris Lofton, Dane Bradshaw, Andre Patterson, and Ryan Childress.

I don't see how anyone can bash Pearl. He has only showed that he can evaluate talent pretty well and is able to get the most out of his talent (unlike some coach I know...). He has dominated the conference since he joined and I hate watching ignorant football fans post on basketball. Just stay out of it and enjoy watching UT bb win.
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Ok, let's say that Ramar was a SG, he would be a worst SG than PG. He can't shoot dog. Which means he was a bust at both positions.

Crews clearly just overpowered people in high school and couldn't do that in the SEC. Had no fluidity to his game at all. He could rebound and that's about it. A five star isn't just supposed to be able to just rebound.

Tyler Smith was real good before Pearl got a hold of him. Third team Big Ten as a freshman.

Tabb has performed like his ranking, 3 stars. Childress is garbage plain and simple. Should of stayed at UW-M.
 
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TheScottyHopson said:
He was a 3-star and definitely played a lot better than that.
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I see that Rivals had him as a 3*. Scout had him as a 4*. Class of '02 was before I seriously followed basketball recruiting. I just remembered him being around #75 or so somewhere. It must have been Scout. Whatever he was, yeah, he played better than advertised.
 
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k-sny-vol said:
SO are you guys pleased with this pickup ??
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I think that most of us haven't seen him play and are reserving judgment. We're just debating the merits of taking a 3* so soon when we were only competing with mid-majors for him, thus leading to the discussion of Pearl's ability to spot talent.
 
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volball625 said:
Ok, let's say that Ramar was a SG, he would be a worst SG than PG. He can't shoot dog. Which means he was a bust at both positions.

Crews clearly just overpowered people in high school and couldn't do that in the SEC. Had no fluidity to his game at all. He could rebound and that's about it. A five star isn't just supposed to be able to just rebound.

Tyler Smith was real good before Pearl got a hold of him. Third team Big Ten as a freshman.

Tabb has performed like his ranking, 3 stars. Childress is garbage plain and simple. Should of stayed at UW-M.
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Uhhh - no. Outside shooting isn't his game to begin with. But there's no doubt he would he been more effective than he was last year if he was able to focus on being a SG. The guy was always thinking too much.. just drive and get easy layups.. he was really good at that.. and we're going to see a lot more of that this year.. (unlike the past three years) so get used to it out of Hopson and Tatum.
 
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volball625 said:
Ok, let's say that Ramar was a SG, he would be a worst SG than PG. He can't shoot dog. Which means he was a bust at both positions.

Crews clearly just overpowered people in high school and couldn't do that in the SEC. Had no fluidity to his game at all. He could rebound and that's about it. A five star isn't just supposed to be able to just rebound.

Tyler Smith was real good before Pearl got a hold of him. Third team Big Ten as a freshman.

Tabb has performed like his ranking, 3 stars. Childress is garbage plain and simple. Should of stayed at UW-M.
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Ramar would have been a much better shooting guard. There are a lot of shooting guards who can't shoot. Larry Hughes averaged like 20 ppg in the NBA and he can't shoot at all. He has Larry Hughes quickness too.

Crews was overrated and didn't fit into our system and I don't really put that on Pearl. He was a must take that early in Pearl's tenure. You can't turn away that highly rated a recruit.

Tabb was actually a 2-star and Childress was a badass at the end of his sophomore year but got lost in the shuffle at the beginning of last year because he was sick the first month.

Seriously stick to football

Also I think Craft is a great pick-up. We have 5-scholarships open so we have room to take another guard. Selby will more than likely play 2-guard when he comes in and if there is a minor miracle and we pick up Jackson and Selby, Craft will redshirt. Craft is a very good player and I expect him to be a 4-star before it is all said and done. I think Pearl is looking for pure PGs who play defense, which is West and Craft.
 
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utVOLman said:
yeah, the problem with Ramar was that he always missed the layup...or got fouled and missed the free throws.
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He was making some amazing layups late in his freshman year.. then starting missing those again and didn't finish his sophomore year. Either way - no doubt he would have been more effective if asked to just be a guard.
 
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utVOLman said:
yeah, the problem with Ramar was that he always missed the layup...or got fouled and missed the free throws.
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That was his MO last year, it hurt to watch him drive sometimes. The thing that was really strange is his freshman year, at least in the NCAA tourney, he was a stud finisher.
 
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TreeGreen said:
That was his MO last year, it hurt to watch him drive sometimes. The thing that was really strange is his freshman year, at least in the NCAA tourney, he was a stud finisher.
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I agree with both of you. He lost a lot of confidence and didn't know when to be aggressive last year. I still think he had NBA potential if he stayed all four years. I think he needed it to be his team rather than Jajuan's, Chris', Tyler's, and then him unless we wanted to post and it was Chism's instead. I think it messed with his head. He was a great example of a sophomore slump.
 
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Bassmanbruno said:
Uhhh - no. Outside shooting isn't his game to begin with. But there's no doubt he would he been more effective than he was last year if he was able to focus on being a SG. The guy was always thinking too much.. just drive and get easy layups.. he was really good at that.. and we're going to see a lot more of that this year.. (unlike the past three years) so get used to it out of Hopson and Tatum.
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he wasn't good at that either.
 
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VOLNBAMA said:
he wasn't good at that either.
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You don't watch the last half of his frehsman season did you... he was able to do it last year too.. just didn't finish as mentioned 999,684 other times in this thread.

He'd make some layups that'd make you spit out your beverage around tourney time frosh year.
 
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Bassmanbruno said:
You don't watch the last half of his frehsman season did you... he was able to do it last year too.. just didn't finish as mentioned 999,684 other times in this thread.

He'd make some layups that'd make you spit out your beverage around tourney time frosh year.
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He was pretty much unstoppable the last half of his freshman year. Close to beating out Jajuan for 2nd best playe
 
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i have a feeling if this kid was black no one would have a problem with taking him. But this kid is very athletic as proven by his football performance.
 
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Findlay Liberty Benton's Aaron Craft - Bucknuts Forum A whole thread on the OSU forums about Craft.

Aaron Craft, 6’2, PG, Findlay Liberty-Benton, 2010- Craft was the purest point guard that the event had to offer, giving everything that a coach could ask for outside of scoring the ball. He was easily the best perimeter defender in attendance, putting the clamps on whomever he was pegged against. As seen throughout on the AAU circuit, he did an excellent job of distributing the ball and getting everyone involved. Unfortunately for Craft his teammates did not have the same mindset, as once he passed the ball, he rarely touched it again. Already holding offers from mid-major programs, Craft is a player who will never be a superstar but is everything that one could look for out of a role player at the point guard position.
 
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Bassmanbruno said:
You don't watch the last half of his frehsman season did you... he was able to do it last year too.. just didn't finish as mentioned 999,684 other times in this thread.

He'd make some layups that'd make you spit out your beverage around tourney time frosh year.
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yes i did watch the last half of his freshman year. But other than that he was terrible at finihing.
 
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VOLNBAMA said:
yes i did watch the last half of his freshman year. But other than that he was terrible at finihing.
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Tell that to the Butler team he sent home with two finishes in overtime in Birmingham.
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Hat has been on Ramar's jock since birth. There isn't a D-1 basketball player that could go 0-12 free throws on purpose.
 
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Midfielder10 said:
Hat has been on Ramar's jock since birth. There isn't a D-1 basketball player that could go 0-12 free throws on purpose.
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You've been clueless since birth. Go search for some hispanic NBA gangs or another magic cellphone. This board will be far smarter for it.
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