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2025 Recruiting: Amarri Monroe: UConn in final 6

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He can not test again. If he declares again he can not withdrawal. He needs to be absolutely sure.
 
Edward Sargent said:
What is Alex going to learn testing the waters again? I think he is making his decision without testing
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You're probably right but is there a downside to doing it? He can then talk to more NBA people and get a better understanding of where he will probably go in the draft. Can he get as much information without entering the draft? If he can then maybe it's not worth going through the process again.
 
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PNolanFan said:
If adams needs a few years to develop as a Mcdonalds All american than we were wrong to recruit him in the first place. I am not saying we should give him minutes just cause he is a 5 star recuit. I am saying it would be dumb to recruit a 5 star freshman who is not ready to play as a freshman
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If the only reason you recruited him was because he was a five star high school All American…
 
gtcam said:
If Monroe comes to Storrs he will want to start. UConn probably won’t pay him starter $ to sit on the bench during the opening tap. It’s a tweaner situation. Would love get a legit 6’10” kid with a handle and can hit jumpers
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Yeah, those types are just growing on trees… I mean have we ever had that guy? Charlie V?
 
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PNolanFan said:
If adams needs a few years to develop as a Mcdonalds All american than we were wrong to recruit him in the first place. I am not saying we should give him minutes just cause he is a 5 star recuit. I am saying it would be dumb to recruit a 5 star freshman who is not ready to play as a freshman
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I’ll do you one better- a guy shouldn’t be rated as 5* if he can’t contribute as a frosh.
 
jibsey said:
What I want is rebounding, defense and toughness. Hurley’s moving offense will take care of the rest.
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This times a million. Give me the closest thing to Marcus White you can find. Someone athletic, tough, and wants to grab every board out there. Whether AK comes back or not, we do not have a great rebounding team on paper. Stew averaged 2.4 boards/gm in 18 minutes. That's not particularly good for a 6-7 3/4. Q Hardnett gave us 3/gm in less time back in the day and Diarra gave us 3/gm off the bench in the same amount of time in 24 as a backup guard. We will need Stew to replace McNeeley's rebounding and hope that Silas can be a good defensive rebounder as a guard. Our championship teams had excellent rebounding guards to mask that our PF (AK) was below average in that area.
 
bendm said:
Don’t see the need now that we got Silas. Those should be Adams’ 10 mins as backup PG , because PT at SG is gonna be even harder to come by between Ball and Mullins
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I am a huge fan of Adams, and his taking those 10 minutes would be ideal, his frame is a concern though. I prefer Ball/Mullins as wings with Stewart
 
bendm said:
Don’t see the need now that we got Silas. Those should be Adams’ 10 mins as backup PG , because PT at SG is gonna be even harder to come by between Ball and Mullins
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In retrospect, we thought Hass, Aidan, and Ahmad would be more than enough to cover the PG/ballhandler/creator roles this year. We ended up playing Hass on freaking one leg because his backups were so ineffective. Our reliance on two guys who had never played Big East/UConn basketball was a bad assumption on the staff's part.

With Silas in the fold, I'm hoping/assuming we go and find a senior PG with experience who can handle, play D, and create. Not sure who that guy is, but I think Hurley knows he cannot depend on guys with little to no experience (Ball, Adams) to be his backup this year. If it turns out that Ball or Adams are fine as the backups. Great. But we were so limited this year with options and got to a point where the depth we thought we had was just the opposite.
 
boog204 said:
In retrospect, we thought Hass, Aidan, and Ahmad would be more than enough to cover the PG/ballhandler/creator roles this year. We ended up playing Hass on freaking one leg because his backups were so ineffective. Our reliance on two guys who had never played Big East/UConn basketball was a bad assumption on the staff's part.

With Silas in the fold, I'm hoping/assuming we go and find a senior PG with experience who can handle, play D, and create. Not sure who that guy is, but I think Hurley knows he cannot depend on guys with little to no experience (Ball, Adams) to be his backup this year. If it turns out that Ball or Adams are fine as the backups. Great. But we were so limited this year with options and got to a point where the depth we thought we had was just the opposite.
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It isn't just "back-up" and play maybe 10 minutes. Players can get injuries (like tendinitis) where you need close to starter-level quality and not "this freshman could maybe be capable sometime in the future" level play. Sure it is unlikely and hasn't happened since 2025, but agreed, they need a capable upper-classman point guard willing to play the backup role and they need an emergency center of some kind.
 
boog204 said:
This times a million. Give me the closest thing to Marcus White you can find. Someone athletic, tough, and wants to grab every board out there. Whether AK comes back or not, we do not have a great rebounding team on paper. Stew averaged 2.4 boards/gm in 18 minutes. That's not particularly good for a 6-7 3/4. Q Hardnett gave us 3/gm in less time back in the day and Diarra gave us 3/gm off the bench in the same amount of time in 24 as a backup guard. We will need Stew to replace McNeeley's rebounding and hope that Silas can be a good defensive rebounder as a guard. Our championship teams had excellent rebounding guards to mask that our PF (AK) was below average in that area.
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Love the Monquencio reference! He was a JUCO. Played steady ball, ~15 min/game.
 
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gtcam said:
If Monroe comes to Storrs he will want to start. UConn probably won’t pay him starter $ to sit on the bench during the opening tap. It’s a tweaner situation. Would love get a legit 6’10” kid with a handle and can hit jumpers
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Those kind of guys go pro
 
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Quinnipiac finished 15-5 last 2 years in MAAC and lost in the conference tournament both years. I can see somebody trying to get over that hump with the team if the offers out in the portal weren't what he wanted.
 
Small schools have NIL at the ready if they so desire.
 
444JR said:
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Good for him but I don't get it. Even if QU had won their tournament they would have been a 16 and gotten scraped by Florida. I would think they must be getting much better next year for him to return
 
Tyler2Rings said:
Good for him but I don't get it. Even if QU had won their tournament they would have been a 16 and gotten scraped by Florida. I would think they must be getting much better next year for him to return
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My guess is that a real contender wasn’t willing to give him a huge bag and starting spot. If so, huge props to him for staying at QU and trying to get them over the hump and into the tournament
 
Strange because he didn't include them as an option in his Top 6. No idea if he had said a return to QU was possible when he announced he was entering the portal.
 
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Can you test the waters multiple times?

I guess if you can I shouldn’t be surprised as there are no rules anymore.
 
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