If at the beginning, you do not succeed, return to the leader you have passed.
UCLA coach Mick Cronin landed Donovan Dent, the transfer of new-mexical accepting to join Bruins several years after Cronin chose not to recruit him from Corona Centennial High because the coach had already had a commitment from another leader.
This other leader, Dylan Andrews, is in the transfer portal after a last bumpy season at the UCLA, opening the door to the player he beat to become bruin.
Persons close to the UCLA program with knowledge of the unauthorized situation to speak publicly confirmed the decision of tooth.
Largely considered to be the best player of the transfer portal, tooth gives the UCLA a dynamic playmaker and could be an essential element of an team of championship. The UCLA will bring back the Skyy Clark and Trent Perry guards as well as the attackers Tyler Bilodeau and Eric Dailey Jr., who have all announced their intention to return next season. The Bruins also work to secure the return of the Aday Mara center.
The 6 -foot 2 inch bump could be the player who binds everything together, an effective marker that can also distribute the ball as well as any leader in the country. As a junior in the New Mexico, Dent collected an average of 20.4 points and 6.5 assists while making 40.9% of its three points on the way to become the player of the year of the Mountain West Conference.
The Bruins saw by themselves the types of playing plays could do in November when he collected 17 points and eight assists to help the lobaros to beat the UCLA. Dent also had nine reversals and on average 3.1 per game last season, a deficiency which he must correct under a trainer opposed to turnover.
Cronin said in November that he had encouraged the new Mexico coach Richard Pitino, to recruit a bump after Andws have already agreed to climb with the Bruins.
“Dylan was committed to us,” said Cronin, “and I said to Richard – not that he needed me to tell him that his staff were on it – that this guy will be huge; we already had Dylan Andrews to come in the same class. I saw Donny play a million times, whether AAU or with the centenary.”
Centennial tooth coach Josh Giles said that Dent would have been more widely recruited from the school if he had not started to flourish at a time when recruitment on campus was limited due to the 18 -year -old pandemic.
But it is a bruin now, the team winning what will probably be the largest piece of a transfer class which should also include a wing player and a great rescue man.
