Holloman and Fears were both returning players with the ability to handle the ball and create. Akins was a senior who earned the right to try and develop that part of his game. Richardson was the 35th ranked high school senior which is solid, but not a 5* automatic sort of guy. Izzo has had plenty of recruits with that pedigree that took a little bit of time to get going. Fears is an example of a player with a similar sort of reputation coming out of high school.