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upstater said:
Bigs like Reibe, who may become a reliable shooter, have to know that this is an NBA offense built specifically for players like him.

There are a few others out there, but this one is for him.

Is he going to Michigan? Florida? Duke?
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If he doesn’t get a chance to star in the offense with enough time to showcase it to the NBA what does it matter?

As a 5* McD AA, he fully expects to start somewhere and star for a team next year. Anyone with the idea out of wanting to bring in a starting caliber player should also understand it will come at the cost of losing Reibe.

There’s no point in talking about it unless you’re okay with losing Reibe.
 
HW611 said:
If he doesn’t get a chance to star in the offense with enough time to showcase it to the NBA what does it matter?

As a 5* McD AA, he fully expects to start somewhere and star for a team next year. Anyone with the idea out of wanting to bring in a starting caliber player should also understand it will come at the cost of losing Reibe.

There’s no point in talking about it unless you’re okay with losing Reibe.
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I just disagree with this 100%.

Reibe is a pick and pop European with maybe good outside range.

In many offenses, he would not get to showcase what he could do in the NBA no matter how many minutes he played.

If he really can't see what UConn has done for all our previous bigs under Hurley, from Sanogo to Clingan to Samson to Reed, then he is being lead down a blind alley. All of these players including Clingan platooned. Most of them needed at least a year or two to grow into their roles, if not 3.

There are a few offenses I think he would thrive in, but those schools (mentioned above) have even more competition at the spot. No other top school with a similar NBA offense will commit the playing time, coaching and resoruces to you that UConn will. So you can go to, say, Maryland and play an unappealing style where you won't thrive and develop, or stay here and split your minutes.

He's going to need to split his minutes wherever he goes anyway because he is so foul prone.
 
upstater said:
I just disagree with this 100%.

Reibe is a pick and pop European with maybe good outside range.

In many offenses, he would not get to showcase what he could do in the NBA no matter how many minutes he played.

If he really can't see what UConn has done for all our previous bigs under Hurley, from Sanogo to Clingan to Samson to Reed, then he is being lead down a blind alley. All of these players including Clingan platooned. Most of them needed at least a year or two to grow into their roles, if not 3.

There are a few offenses I think he would thrive in, but those schools (mentioned above) have even more competition at the spot. No other top school with a similar NBA offense will commit the playing time, coaching and resoruces to you that UConn will. So you can go to, say, Maryland and play an unappealing style where you won't thrive and develop, or stay here and split your minutes.

He's going to need to split his minutes wherever he goes anyway because he is so foul prone.
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Outside of Samson. All of those guys came off the bench their first year and started the next. That’s the expectation for Reibe. Especially since he wants to be an NBA guy.
 
We definitely need a competent 5 who can split time with Reibe. Ideally a guy who can play above the rim.

Need to land a 4 with the best available combination of shooting and rebounding. Athleticism would be great.

I'm expecting Mullins leaves... I think we need a scorer. Ideally a guy who can create for himself. I think Wilkins could be worth paying for.

A back up PG with 2+ years of eligibility (nice to have not need to have)

Hope we return everybody we can.
 
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DCKembaFan said:
My #1 choice by a mile would be Murauskas. He's a dominant PF and will be in the National Player of the Year discussion next season once he's inevitably on a top 10 team
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There are actually a bunch of high end guys from St. Mary's in the portal. If they're really available, they're worth looking at. On the other hand, if they all follow Bennett to Tempe, that team could become competitive very quickly
 
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HW611 said:
He started his second year here.
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This doesn't strike you as proof of what I'm saying? He came here and waited his turn even as a senior. You would think a highly recruited kid like that would have demands to come in as a junior, given the time line. Tarris was also a very highly recruited kid, a 4 star in the 20s.
 
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I saw in a news feed that Devin Royal 6’6” 210 leading rebounder (5.7) and about 14 points per game on Ohio State could be considering UConn he has 1 year left. He’s a 31 % 3 point shooter. This would not replace Alex right?
 
upstater said:
This doesn't strike you as proof of what I'm saying? He came here and waited his turn even as a senior. You would think a highly recruited kid like that would have demands to come in as a junior, given the time line. Tarris was also a very highly recruited kid, a 4 star in the 20s.
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He wait his turn one year, like every other great player did in our system. Then started the next year.

Thats the trajectory Reibe is on.
 
Geez, all this Reibe negativity has me wondering if we were all watching the same team this season.

This kid might be the most offensively developed freshman big we have had under Hurley, and people are acting like he’s a scrub.

Needs to add strength to bang down low on defense. That’s about it, outside of his normal growth progressions.
 
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I think there's a high likelihood both Ball and Mullins come back, but I also think there's no way they start together. However at the same time neither one is going to want to come off the bench. There's no way we're going to upgrade from Sr. Karaban and Sr. Reed at the 4/5, so if we start Demary, Ball, and Mullins next year I think that team will be objectively worse than this one.

I'll forecast a starting lineup of Demary, Mullins/Ball, Landrew, transfer PF, and Reibe. Bench pieces will be County, Furphy, and Ross. That means at a minimum we need a combo guard who can shoot and a rim protecting Center.

I want Demary back at any cost, but if he does move on please back the Brinks truck up for Tyler Tanner.
 
HW611 said:
He wait his turn one year, like every other great player did in our system. Then started the next year.

Thats the trajectory Reibe is on.
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TrueBlue22 said:
Geez, all this Reibe negativity has me wondering if we were all watching the same team this season.

This kid might be the most offensively developed freshman big we have had under Hurley, and people are acting like he’s a scrub.

Needs to add strength to bang down low on defense. That’s about it, outside of his normal growth progressions.
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Agree on both of these. No inside info, but I can confidently say that as of today we are going into next season under the assumption Reibe will be our starting Center. Remember, players get better every year under this staff. I know for a while a few years back we got used to players not developing. He has a year under his belt along with a full offseason ahead to work on his body and game.
 
TrueBlue22 said:
Geez, all this Reibe negativity has me wondering if we were all watching the same team this season.

This kid might be the most offensively developed freshman big we have had under Hurley, and people are acting like he’s a scrub.

Needs to add strength to bang down low on defense. That’s about it, outside of his normal growth progressions.
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I don’t think it’s negativity, it’s what is in our head from recent play. He was very good to start the year spelling and stepping in for Tarris. He was on a GREAT trajectory.

The last 15 or so games, he was just pretty much unplayable. He couldn’t guard without fouling at all, he got lost on switches/shows/hedges almost every time, he missed a ton of bunnies and he couldn’t really rebound.

He has the ability in there. He lost it for a month and a half. You don’t think if he COULD HAVE taken some weight off Tarris’ shoulders Hurley wouldn’t have let him?

I’m not off the train at all, he did come in more skilled than a lot of guys. But, skill without tools doesn’t get you super far. He needs to live in the weight room, work on agility and lateral movement, and get bashed around by pads to work on his rebounding.
 
mauconnfan said:
Love both of these guys but sorry, they are wonderful bench pieces which are required to get to the promised land yet again. I think we saw why as well, so need creators on offense who can get points when needed. Impact 3-4 guys, especially if Braylon is out.
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Not sure that they are both "wonderful"
 
Hurlees4hed said:
Does anyone have insight on our NIL budget?
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No one will know an exact amount but I am a little concerned at how quickly these budgets are growing. How soon will it be until the SEC and Big 10 schools have $20M rosters on the regular? Kentucky was already there, Michigan will probably get there very soon after this title. Let’s say we were at $10M this past year (no clue how accurate that is, but probably a reasonable guess), how much more can we tap into? Maybe we’ll have a slight advantage by being able to allocate more dollars of rev share to basketball, but the cost of these kids is getting crazy. These big names are demanding $4M+. Will kids take a discount to play for Hurley? I bet they would, but probably not a 50% discount.
 
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aburks41 said:
No one will know an exact amount but I am a little concerned at how quickly these budgets are growing. How soon will it be until the SEC and Big 10 schools have $20M rosters on the regular? Kentucky was already there, Michigan will probably get there very soon after this title. Let’s say we were at $10M this past year (no clue how accurate that is, but probably a reasonable guess), how much more can we tap into? Maybe we’ll have a slight advantage by being able to allocate more dollars of rev share to basketball, but the cost of these kids is getting crazy. These big names are demanding $4M+. Will kids take a discount to play for Hurley? I bet they would, but probably not a 50% discount.
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Thanks for the response. This largely gets at why I asked.

You absolutely can get a discount on some guys when you've got the track record we do of developing guys and putting them into the NBA. But, there's probably some minimum threshold you have to hit financially to be competitive.

Really, it'll be an interesting case study in radically free market economics. Eventually there's got to be a natural ceiling on money available for college athletes, right? This seems unsustainable when guys who didn't even earn conference recognition are apparently demanding 3M+.

Big Ten schools like Indiana, Michigan, MSU, OSU, Illinois, Purdue are all likely to be 15M+ next year from what I gather. That said... there's a lot of reasons for these numbers to be inflated both by schools and players/agents. So everything has to be taken with a grain of salt. But... it is an arms race... I'm sure our AD is doing what needs to be done. Just wild to see what college sports is becoming.
 
HW611 said:
He wait his turn one year, like every other great player did in our system. Then started the next year.

Thats the trajectory Reibe is on.
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You can't compare a sophomore to a senior. These are 2 totally different things.
 
Hurlees4hed said:
Does anyone have insight on our NIL budget?
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I know it was already answered, but not enough to buy a New Reed; a bigger, stronger AK; a prolific scoring wing; and a backup PG (as well as a backup center after Reibe leaves due to the New Reed likely taking all his minutes).

But it is fun to play UConn GM.
 
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