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Uncle Barrels and Periphery
I completely understand what both of you are trying to say and if we get Longer and he becomes a gun ruckman and forward I am very happy to eat humble pie. But if we are getting him in the hope we can develop into a forward (I am confident he will become a gun ruckman no matter where he lands) aren't we better off to recruit an actual forward? Playing KPF takes years to develop, as you already know, for kids who have played forward all their lives and I expect it would take even longer for Longer (ha!) to develop this new bow to his game.
If we get Longer this year and shows potential as a KPF would you still want us to recruit one of the potential gun KPF's in next years draft (which I have read is full of KPP's) ?
I completely understand what both of you are trying to say and if we get Longer and he becomes a gun ruckman and forward I am very happy to eat humble pie. But if we are getting him in the hope we can develop into a forward (I am confident he will become a gun ruckman no matter where he lands) aren't we better off to recruit an actual forward? Playing KPF takes years to develop, as you already know, for kids who have played forward all their lives and I expect it would take even longer for Longer (ha!) to develop this new bow to his game.
If we get Longer this year and shows potential as a KPF would you still want us to recruit one of the potential gun KPF's in next years draft (which I have read is full of KPP's) ?

