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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
Definitely not a lost cause. The big question is how much desire does he have to get better? Plenty of big guys have been effective at the college level despite lacking foot speed. Look at Gasol with Memphis in the NBA (although Gasol is much more athletic than Dastrup).
The question mark for me is why he was so highly regarded in the first place. Didn't he originally commit to Ohio State?
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Because he's big with some useful skills, so not bad to have on a team. He'd be better right now if he were straight out of HS. He did originally commit to Ohio State and also visited and had offers from Virginia and Florida. At one time he had an offer to Kansas as well but they pulled it when they believed him when he said he was going on a mission no matter what.
Also, when he announced at first that he was going to Ohio State, a lot of posters on CB said some of the things you just did about it not being that big of a deal because he didn't seem like an especially quick, run the floor type of big man like Mika.