OTish: So people on twitter are freaking out about Shabazz actually being 20

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  1. BengalDuck

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    the fact that he's 20 shouldn't be scaring people off.

    it's the fact that he's not that good.
     
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    You're right--the fact that he was named first team all-Pac12 and a freshman all-american shouldn't fool people into thinking that he can actually play basketball. :crazy:
     
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    Well dumbass....... it's not a big deal NOW! But when you were 19 playing against HS kids it was.
     
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    UCLA fired their coach
     
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    You know, ages will vary all throughout a particular high school class. Being 19 years old in high school is actually not that uncommon, and players reclassify all the time or go to prep schools for an additional year. It's not uncommon for players to be 24/25 and still playing collegiately. The top player in this year's class, Andrew Wiggins, used to be in the class of 2015.

    I think that's completely unrelated though. Howland really overstayed his welcome. For a program with as much history as UCLA has had, and with as much talent as he's had, that program has been a complete nonfactor. This year alone, he had maybe the best recruiting class in the country to go with three upperclassmen transfers from North Carolina, and the best he could do was a first round exit as a six seed. Even Calipari's got to be shaking his head at that one.
     
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