Borges: With lots of changes, is the UConn men’s basketball family still intact?

[huskymedic]

With lots of changes, is the UConn men’s basketball family still intact?

 

[Storrs South]

As for UConn’s future, all signs seem to indicate that Jalen Adams will stay for his senior year and not turn pro. Adams has been bothered by a minor wrist ailment the past couple of weeks and has had his workouts curtailed a bit. It doesn’t appear that he will test the NBA draft waters without an agent, as many players are allowed to do.

Surprised he isn't even going to test the waters

 

[AntG168]

As for UConn’s future, all signs seem to indicate that Jalen Adams will stay for his senior year and not turn pro. Adams has been bothered by a minor wrist ailment the past couple of weeks and has had his workouts curtailed a bit. It doesn’t appear that he will test the NBA draft waters without an agent, as many players are allowed to do.

Surprised he isn't even going to test the waters

Pleasantly surprised lol

 

[Wordbomar]

Feel like someone at the University should work on alumni relations. Coach Baylock does it for football. Would love to see more alumni involvement in basketball. This article makes me a little sad that some feel no connection to the University or the program at all anymore.

 

[Fishy]

Sounds like a lot of whining. We’re all really sorry that we weren’t willing to play dead while your old friend destroyed the basketball program.

You want to meet the AD or get tickets? Pick up the stupid phone.

No one is going to tell you no.

 

[AntG168]

Feel like someone at the University should work on alumni relations. Coach Baylock does it for football. Would love to see more alumni involvement in basketball. This article makes me a little sad that some feel no connection to the University or the program at all anymore.

The encouraging thing is I thing Hurley understands the importance of this. The UConn family is very much apart of the recruiting pitch. I also think Calhoun will be around a lot more

 

[Hoophound]

Jalen probably wants to lay low and make an impression next season. I’m sure the new staff is in his ear about lifting, shooting hundreds of jumpers per day and helping him study film.

I think it may be to his benefit to stay under the radar.

 

[rip7774]

The encouraging thing is I thing Hurley understands the importance of this. The UConn family is very much apart of the recruiting pitch. I also think Calhoun will be around a lot more

That should have been the sign for all of us holding onto hope w KO when he froze out JC. Man I’m so ready to not read about KO and just move forward but it’s so painful to think back on. JC will bring it back together and those coach Moore quotes about Hurley being humble and getting it make me encouraged that this will get repaired if it needs repaired.

 

[Fishy]

The encouraging thing is I thing Hurley understands the importance of this. The UConn family is very much apart of the recruiting pitch. I also think Calhoun will be around a lot more

Hurley is no dope - he’ll take care of it.

 

[Marat]

I can't imagine KO accepting the invite to this year's all star game.....

 

[Stainmaster]

I can't imagine KO accepting the invite to this year's all star game.....

My uninformed guess is he won't be back for a long, long time.

 

[JMick]

Sounds like a lot of whining. We’re all really sorry that we weren’t willing to play dead while your old friend destroyed the basketball program.

You want to meet the AD or get tickets? Pick up the stupid phone.

No one is going to tell you no.

agreed. there's no way anyone is going to ignore an email or phone call from one of those guys. if they wanted to be involved they could have stayed involved.

 

[Yardigan]

The encouraging thing is I thing Hurley understands the importance of this. The UConn family is very much apart of the recruiting pitch. I also think Calhoun will be around a lot more

Absolutely. DH is big on "family"...

 

[Towney007]

agreed. there's no way anyone is going to ignore an email or phone call from one of those guys. if they wanted to be involved they could have stayed involved.

That’s not the way alumni relations works at all.

That’s on Ollie and alumni relations not working together. The fact that you have alums with millions in the bank not getting calls or regular correspondence from the school or program is really, really, really embarrassing for the school. It just is.

Literally your job after recruiting, coaching and winning is almumni relations. At some schools, it’s literally #1. The fact it’s this bad is almost as bad as what’s on the court.

Again we’re coming back to it and I don’t like doing it - but Kevin Ollie was astonishingly bad at running a D1 program. Some of this stuff is unfathamable to me. It’s like college coach 101 stuff.

 

[intlzncster]

As for UConn’s future, all signs seem to indicate that Jalen Adams will stay for his senior year and not turn pro. Adams has been bothered by a minor wrist ailment the past couple of weeks and has had his workouts curtailed a bit. It doesn’t appear that he will test the NBA draft waters without an agent, as many players are allowed to do.

Surprised he isn't even going to test the waters

Same. He should be encouraged to do so imo. Not sure what the rationale is there.

 

[Ewekon]

Jalen probably wants to lay low and make an impression next season. I’m sure the new staff is in his ear about lifting, shooting hundreds of jumpers per day and helping him study film.

I think it may be to his benefit to stay under the radar.

How much contact is the actual coaching staff allowed to have with JA re: training, shooting etc.?

 

[Fishy]

Surprised he isn't even going to test the waters

There’s nothing to test. There’s no interest out there for him.

 

[huskymedic]

Sounds like a lot of whining. We’re all really sorry that we weren’t willing to play dead while your old friend destroyed the basketball program.

You want to meet the AD or get tickets? Pick up the stupid phone.

No one is going to tell you no.

They all lose Jim Calhoun’s number?

 

[Towney007]

There’s nothing to test. There’s no interest out there for him.

There’s nothing about him that should make him an NBA prospect right now. No reason to pay him on a hope he figures something out when UConn can do that all for you can you can low ball him out of school his senior year.

 

[Lefty2one]

What a bizarre quote from Burrell.

 

[ASweet3781]

What a bizarre quote from Burrell.

Which one? Pretty much all of them were cringeworthy.

 

[Edward Sargent]

With lots of changes, is the UConn men’s basketball family still intact?

Next Calhoun Classic I got KO skins and DC shirts at PG

 

[WrenchFan69]

It's sort of surprising that the UConn family is worried less about someone actively destroying everything they built than they are about how that guy was let go

 

[HooperScooper]

There’s nothing to test. There’s no interest out there for him.

I was reading this article from ESPN.com the other day.

NBA draft tracker: Who's in, and who's testing?

It was interesting that there is no mention of Jalen Adams because they don't think he's even in the top 100 of their potential draft picks. I figured he'd at least test the waters. But if there's absolutely no interest in him then he's not getting invited to any pre-draft camps and no teams are going to have him visit for workouts. If that's the case then there is no reason to test the waters since he won't get any feedback from teams. I'm guessing that's why he hasn't put his name in to enter the draft. He only has until Sunday so we'll know soon if he will.

He needs to come back and lead this team to a good season. That would help his reputation.

 

[nomar]

agreed. there's no way anyone is going to ignore an email or phone call from one of those guys. if they wanted to be involved they could have stayed involved.

Nobody ignores Oliver Macklin.

Nobody.