A few years back it look like they were trying to recruit Canada but nothing ever came of it. I would love to hear CKS explain the recruitment strategy in general for bigs.
Head Coach Pat Foster brought in a lot of international players, had good regular season records and never won a NCAA Tournament game. I would be very selective if we go that route. Hard to sustain a culture if you have too many “rent-a-players”. Also they need to play CKS’ style of defense. That will narrow the field considerably.
It seems like in some of these type of games last night, or deep in the tournament, we could really use a finesse sharp shooter type of player to complement the grind it out offensive style.
I wouldn’t fill a whole team with them but one or two to be a change of pace option.
From this point forward, I’m considering what we need to do to win a National Championship not just put up impressive regular seasons. We’ve reached that point where it is Championship or bust!
Iowa State mirrored us in many ways with very tough defense…but they had that change of pace sharp shooter finesse player type and they found a way to win the game.
Europeans and international players focus more on passing the ball with catch and shoot type of offense.
They know they can’t match the speed and agility of USA developed players so they game plan lots of passing due to the fact that the fastest defender can’t outrun every pass.
As much as I hate the Spurs as a Rockets’ fan, coach Pop caters his offense to international players like Parker, Ginobili, Diaw, Mills from that 2014 championship team.
Only Kawhi and Tim Duncan are the main players that developed in the USA.
While international, specifically European, players are very skilled they typically lack the minimum amount of willingness to scrap and mud in their blood that is a prerequisite to be on a CKS team. And the ones that do are probably already pros in some form. lol
not that we should abandon our MO but would it hurt having one change of pace type of player to help us break through this wall to a NC?
I specifically pointed out that type of player on Iowa State’s squad last night that hit the big game clinching shot.
It was a finesse type of shot…not a grind it to the rim type of shot.
Having a finesse option on our squad would be a great addition.
It will be interesting to watch Milan going forward, they compared him to Bird and Dirk, and from that shot he qualifies. That was bigtime. It will take a season of that to successfully compare to Bird or Dirk.
