FountainOfUte
08-02-2013, 05:36 PM
Looking at the recruiting targets for the Runnin' Utes (http://www.runninu.com/Basketball_targets.html), I don't see a lot of 6'10" and up size. What is the plan at center? I imagine quality, big centers are hard to come by for just about ANY team, but we've always seemed to get them in the past, and I can't imagine it's harder to draw them to us in the PAC than it was the MWC/WAC.
Not going back too far, we've had:
Michael Doleac, 6'11"
Chris Burgess, 6'10"
Andrew Bogut, 7'0"
Luke Nevill, 7'2"
David Foster, 7'3"
Jason Washburn, 6'10"
Of course there are others who made less impact on the stat sheet, but still did a good job clogging the lane like Chris Jackson (6'11"), Nate Altoff (6'11"), and others. For now, we have Bachynski (7'0") and Kovacevic (6'11") for two more years and Jeremy Olsen (6'10") for three. After that...? I guess Neal Monson (6'10") is walking on?
Again, looking forward, we're hoping we can pull Makol Mawien (6'9") who might be a smallish center and may grow another inch or two?? I see a Jamuni McNease (6'11") as a 2014 target, but I'm guessing he's either not high on our list or not likely to come anyway if we can get Kuzma and a PG.
Anyone have any insight on what we're going to do at center? Does LK have a system that doesn't really depend on some big in the paint? That's hard to imagine in the PAC-12. Are we going to lean on guys like Chapman (6'8") and Mawien to clog the middle three years from now? I seem to remember that Tim Frost played as our 5 and he was only 6'9".
Not going back too far, we've had:
Michael Doleac, 6'11"
Chris Burgess, 6'10"
Andrew Bogut, 7'0"
Luke Nevill, 7'2"
David Foster, 7'3"
Jason Washburn, 6'10"
Of course there are others who made less impact on the stat sheet, but still did a good job clogging the lane like Chris Jackson (6'11"), Nate Altoff (6'11"), and others. For now, we have Bachynski (7'0") and Kovacevic (6'11") for two more years and Jeremy Olsen (6'10") for three. After that...? I guess Neal Monson (6'10") is walking on?
Again, looking forward, we're hoping we can pull Makol Mawien (6'9") who might be a smallish center and may grow another inch or two?? I see a Jamuni McNease (6'11") as a 2014 target, but I'm guessing he's either not high on our list or not likely to come anyway if we can get Kuzma and a PG.
Anyone have any insight on what we're going to do at center? Does LK have a system that doesn't really depend on some big in the paint? That's hard to imagine in the PAC-12. Are we going to lean on guys like Chapman (6'8") and Mawien to clog the middle three years from now? I seem to remember that Tim Frost played as our 5 and he was only 6'9".