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Message: [QUOTE="BigErnMcCracken, post: 4259745, member: 70"] Jalen is the kid with the biggest delta - to me - between his potential when he got to Storrs and the player he was when he left. He is among the handful of recruits I was most excited for and I can only imagine the player he'd be now if he played his entire UConn career under Calhoun or Hurley. I'm not sure he was the hardest worker who's ever come through the program and, in his defense, I don't think he was really held accountable for 3/4 of the time he was here. I hate to use the phrase "waste of talent" about college kids but his potential was certainly not maximized. I genuinely thought he was going to be the next UConn pantheon level star. In addition to his talent, he seemed like he had such a winner's mentality coming out of high school. [/QUOTE]