Thursday, June 25, 2015

The why of the hire of a Nevada assistant

Chris Murray has posted an article on one of Nevada Coach Eric Musselman's new assistants and it contains a straightforward raison d'ĂȘtre for the hire:

"...[Jay] Morris was hired by Nevada after five seasons as an assistant at Cal State Northridge in large part because of his connections in Los Angeles, which is one of the most fertile recruiting grounds in the nation and has been a pipeline in stocking the Wolf Pack's roster over the last couple of decades.

"He knows the L.A. area really well," Musselman said. "We knew that was an area we needed to target and wanted to target. Jay is a guy who doesn't have enemies. He has a personality that is non-confrontational, and I think that's important. He has a great reputation with high school and AAU guys..."

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