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He is good enough to declare after this year but I don’t think he will for 3 main reasons:

1) we join the Big East next year and instinct tells me he will want to be a part of that process with his young pals Gaffney and Jackson

2) his strength, he is still only 175lbs soaking wet. He gains a little more muscle strength and gets ready for an electrifying big east season his draft stock will rise higher than if he declared this year

3) national exposure: next year we may be a Top 10 team and I’m not just saying that bc I’m a UConn fan.We will have a plethora of NBA talent on the team next year and we will have deep big east and ncaa tourney runs. His national exposure will be much better his sophomore season
 
y'all forgot the part where James and Jalen came here 'to get UConn back, and try to win a championship.' that part. unless we win it all this year, in which case others would try to hit the draft, too. who could blame them? not me.
 
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ClifSpliffy said:
y'all forgot the part where James and Jalen came here 'to get UConn back, and try to win a championship.' that part. unless we win it all this year, in which case others would try to hit the draft, too. who could blame them? not me.
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That was before the guy was averaging more points than minutes.
 
Shine33 said:
He is good enough to declare after this year but I don’t think he will for 3 main reasons:

1) we join the Big East next year and instinct tells me he will want to be a part of that process with his young pals Gaffney and Jackson

2) his strength, he is still only 175lbs soaking wet. He gains a little more muscle strength and gets ready for an electrifying big east season his draft stock will rise higher than if he declared this year

3) national exposure: next year we may be a Top 10 team and I’m not just saying that bc I’m a UConn fan.We will have a plethora of NBA talent on the team next year and we will have deep big east and ncaa tourney runs. His national exposure will be much better his sophomore season
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If he is good enough to be picked in the Top 20, he should go to the NBA, and Hurley should throw him off the team if he doesn't want to go. There is no reason to risk injury or even a mediocre season by coming back if he is a guaranteed Top 20 pick.

So all of you that think Bouk is a lock for the first round because he scored 15 on Maine, enjoy him this year because he is gone at the end of the season.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
If he is good enough to be picked in the Top 20, he should go to the NBA, and Hurley should throw him off the team if he doesn't want to go. There is no reason to risk injury or even a mediocre season by coming back if he is a guaranteed Top 20 pick.

So all of you that think Bouk is a lock for the first round because he scored 15 on Maine, enjoy him this year because he is gone at the end of the season.
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You always love a good strawman. You make up that Bouknight is a first round pick because he scored 15 against Maine and then keep hammering at the thing you made up.
 
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superjohn said:
You always love a good strawman. You make up that Bouknight is a first round pick because he scored 15 against Maine and then keep hammering at the thing you made up.
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superjohn said:
It's obviously going to be talked about, he's a surefire future NBA player. I agree with enjoying watching him and not worrying about him leaving right away.
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So you are predicting he is going to be a second round pick, but then make the League? That is a very specific prediction.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
So you are predicting he is going to be a second round pick, but then make the League? That is a very specific prediction.
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That's another strawman.

Let me spell this out for you: people think Bouknight is going to make the NBA because he has elite offensive skills and good enough size for his position.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
So you are predicting he is going to be a second round pick, but then make the League? That is a very specific prediction.
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Please stop with the strawman, it's tiring and makes you look desperate. You actually make some decent posts when you aren't doing your strawman routine.

Only thing I've said is that he's a surefire future NBA player and people on this board will talk about him and the NBA because of it. You chose to say he's a first round pick because he scored 15 against Maine.

I think we'll get him for a sophomore season and that's it.
 
superjohn said:
Lousy post and if you don't think he can play for Duke you should probably just stop watching basketball.
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I think he's just saying that Duke and Kentucky players often get the benefit of the doubt whereas freshman from other schools have to perform better to get to one and done
 
Still trying to process the fact That Hurley landed 2 nba players in his first full recruiting cycle. They’ll both probably be gone before I do

Hopefully his third signing this spring isnt a grad transfer. Cause if it is and bouk and akok leave after their sophomore years then we’ll have 6 empty scholarships to fill in 2021
 
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Huskyforlife said:
Love him, more of a role player, but he's going to be a great upperclassman for us.
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I think he could be a Jerome Dyson type player, especially after seeing that dunk. He's not even two years in and getting good minutes on a guard dominated team. If he continues to improve he may be one of the hardest players to keep on the bench. Gaffney and Bouk being freshman have a great luxury in developing and learning without pressure.

Plus Hurley. Moore and Taliek were guards, so I do expect to see growth and perpetual domination with our backcourt for years to come. So exciting!
 
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Burnsbros23 said:
what makes you say this about Jackson? Have you seen him play recently? New highlights?
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He just played the other night, went 4-8 from three and did his usual stuff dominating in transition.
 
Bouk reminds me in limited games of course of a young Kawaii Leonard. Offense didn’t flow through him but he was able to maximize his touches and turn them into production. Beat Indiana for Christmas please!
 
Martin said:
Bouk reminds me in limited games of course of a young Kawaii Leonard. Offense didn’t flow through him but he was able to maximize his touches and turn them into production. Beat Indiana for Christmas please!
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Speaking of Indiana. We could really use them to win this game tonight against Florida State.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
If he is good enough to be picked in the Top 20, he should go to the NBA, and Hurley should throw him off the team if he doesn't want to go. There is no reason to risk injury or even a mediocre season by coming back if he is a guaranteed Top 20 pick.

So all of you that think Bouk is a lock for the first round because he scored 15 on Maine, enjoy him this year because he is gone at the end of the season.
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He’s got a ton of potential. However he will get drafted much higher if he puts 15 pounds of muscle on and keeps working on his game.
 
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businesslawyer said:
If you still think that it's automatically idiotic for a young black man to run from policemen, you need to be smarter.
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Uh, it is usually a very bad idea, and often a precursor to bad things happening.

(Note: the poster you referred to didn't say it was idiotic, he just said it happened.)
 
CL82 said:
Uh, it is usually a very bad idea, and often a precursor to bad things happening.

(Note: the poster you referred to didn't say it was idiotic, he just said it happened.)
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I don't disagree it's usually a bad idea, but if you try to put yourselves in someone else's shoes it shouldn't be hard to understand that otherwise rational young men would try to get away from the situation. My point was not that the poster was an idiot. My point was it's not fair to make a judgment about his judgment for a situation where, while he may have acted illegally, none of us who grew up white truly know if they would have acted the same way in his circumstances.
 
businesslawyer said:
I don't disagree it's usually a bad idea, but if you try to put yourselves in someone else's shoes it shouldn't be hard to understand that otherwise rational young men would try to get away from the situation. My point was not that the poster was an idiot. My point was it's not fair to make a judgment about his judgment for a situation where, while he may have acted illegally, none of us who grew up white truly know if they would have acted the same way in his circumstances.
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Largely agree, but I'd suggest the better answer is simply he was young and made a mistake rather than having a bunch of middle aged white guys speculate on whether his motivations were more complicated than that.

Occam's razor, right?
 
Something that Bouk is going to have to deal with moving forward is teams pro-actively seeking him out to box him out, even away from the basket. 9 field goals off put backs in 4 games, insane for a freshman guard. I can see opposing coaches right now going over game tape with their team before playing us screaming “WE HAVE TO BOX HIM OUT!” The positive is that while they try to find him this should open up opportunities for other kids to hit the offensive glass. They just need to do it.
 
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RJ Cole, James Bouknight, Andre Jackson, Akok Akok, Josh Carlton. My goodness. We’re going to the sweet 16 in 2021.
 
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