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bendm said:
Hmmm but If Mullins is a first round draft pick lock then we’re gonna need a replacement starting wing no matter what. Right? Pretty confident that county or Furphy or Ross or Landrew won’t be starting.
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Are you saying you anticipate that the staff wants to bring in all 4 of those wing-types next year specifically to ride pine?
I don't want to misinterpret what you're saying, but at this point, a lot of this year's roster would have to go pro or transfer out for the staff to go portalling for a wing in the spring. And by doing that, it would be almost exactly the Adams scenario again.
Plus Ross is honestly almost starting now. I would bet heavy he starts more games this year than last year. Not sure I foresee Landrew being a day one starter either, but if it's those 4 guys for one spot, I don't mind it at all
 
HooperScooper said:
I was thinking the same the other day. We should be so lucky! Caron was much further along in his development though.
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Caron was an older freshman who had a prep year before coming to UConn. Even though he was one of the best incoming freshman, he was not eligible for the McD's AA game due to having that extra Prep year.

The comparison might be a good one since he was physically mature even for a kid his age. He had one of the best power games I can remember. He was hard to stop once he drove into the paint.

On an unrelated note, he was really struggling with his 3 Pt shot during the first half of his sophomore season. I kept on mentioning that his shot was far too flat resulting in a lot of shots rattling the rim and out, and that all he needed to do was add a little arc to his shot. Don't know if the staff read the Yard back then, but suddenly Caron added some arc to his shot and he began to dominate the rest of that season. He went from a likely 2-and-done, to a three or more year trajectory, back to a first round draft pick. I remembering wishing he'd return for one more year, but knew that wasn't going to happen. He had a monster final game in the NCAA tournament against U of MD scoring 32 Pts, but there just wasn't enough offense talent around him that year to pull out the victory and move on.
 
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DogMania said:
Caron was an older freshman who had a prep year before coming to UConn. Even though he was one of the best incoming freshman, he was not eligible for the McD's AA game due to having that extra Prep year.

The comparison might be a good one since he was physically mature even for a kid his age. He had one of the best power games I can remember. He was hard to stop once he drove into the paint.

On an unrelated note, he was really struggling with his 3 Pt shot during the first half of his sophomore season. I kept on mentioning that his shot was far too flat resulting in a lot of shots rattling the rim and out, and that all he needed to do was add a little arc to his shot. Don't know if the staff read the Yard back then, but suddenly Caron added some arc to his shot and he began to dominate the rest of that season. He went from a likely 2-and-done, to a three or more year trajectory, back to a first round draft pick. I remembering wishing he'd return for one more year, but knew that wasn't going to happen. He had a monster final game in the NCAA tournament, but there just wasn't enough offense talent around him that year to pull out the victory and move on.
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As I recall Maryland weren't even all that deep, but they had a starting five that rivaled a lot of champions (also, no shame in losing to the team that wins it all).
 
bendm said:
I agree so not sure why you’re responding to me. But I’m interested in people’s thoughts re. how staff would replace Mullins and/or Ball and/or Silas with Mingo and/or transfers given the concern of another “Adams situation” as it relates to County and/or Landrew. It’s a sticky wicket
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I guess it depends on the player expectations. One player was a McDonald's All American, the other is a top 40 type. I see County as more of a Furphy type. And Furphy came under the same circumstances that Adams de-committed under.

If County sees himself where you have him -- the backup PG in the rotation -- then we will have another "Adams situation" if the staff brings in another PG. But the assurances made to Adams 12-months ago were under different circumstances at a time when the UConn staff thought Mahaney was a PG and the team didn't require a true PG on the roster.
 
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DogMania said:
Caron was an older freshman who had a prep year before coming to UConn. Even though he was one of the best incoming freshman, he was not eligible for the McD's AA game due to having that extra Prep year.

The comparison might be a good one since he was physically mature even for a kid his age. He had one of the best power games I can remember. He was hard to stop once he drove into the paint.

On an unrelated note, he was really struggling with his 3 Pt shot during the first half of his sophomore season. I kept on mentioning that his shot was far too flat resulting in a lot of shots rattling the rim and out, and that all he needed to do was add a little arc to his shot. Don't know if the staff read the Yard back then, but suddenly Caron added some arc to his shot and he began to dominate the rest of that season. He went from a likely 2-and-done, to a three or more year trajectory, back to a first round draft pick. I remembering wishing he'd return for one more year, but knew that wasn't going to happen. He had a monster final game in the NCAA tournament against U of MD scoring 32 Pts, but there just wasn't enough offense talent around him that year to pull out the victory and move on.
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DogMania said:
Caron was an older freshman who had a prep year before coming to UConn. Even though he was one of the best incoming freshman, he was not eligible for the McD's AA game due to having that extra Prep year.

The comparison might be a good one since he was physically mature even for a kid his age. He had one of the best power games I can remember. He was hard to stop once he drove into the paint.

On an unrelated note, he was really struggling with his 3 Pt shot during the first half of his sophomore season. I kept on mentioning that his shot was far too flat resulting in a lot of shots rattling the rim and out, and that all he needed to do was add a little arc to his shot. Don't know if the staff read the Yard back then, but suddenly Caron added some arc to his shot and he began to dominate the rest of that season. He went from a likely 2-and-done, to a three or more year trajectory, back to a first round draft pick. I remembering wishing he'd return for one more year, but knew that wasn't going to happen. He had a monster final game in the NCAA tournament against U of MD scoring 32 Pts, but there just wasn't enough offense talent around him that year to pull out the victory and move on.
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Caron scored 26 in the second half of that game.
 
EnochRoot said:
As I recall Maryland weren't even all that deep, but they had a starting five that rivaled a lot of champions (also, no shame in losing to the team that wins it all).
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UConn has a history of playing tough but losing to the eventual NC Champs. That MD team. The Ray Allen team losing to the one team that I felt played their style, but better than they did, UCLA team. I believe it was Tius Edney who went end-to-end in something like 4.x seconds where he completed an unthinkable layup to advance and face our Huskies. If they had lost, I think that could have been NC #1 for us. We lost to UF last year. Lost to Dook at least once during one of their NC runs. Of course we returned the favor twice, our first NC and the Emeka/Ben NC as well. I'm sure others can chime in with a bunch of other times we lost to the eventual champions, much the result of some very tough and suspect seedlings.
 
DogMania said:
Based on everything I've read about him, he's been on a meteoric trajectory since focusing solely on hoops after being a 2 sport (BB & FB) elite athlete. This type of recruit often turns out better than some who were ranked in the top 20 but seemed to hang around that initial ranking even though their game hasn't seemed to improve much.

Regardless of Colben's ranking, it's evident that the staff has zeroed in on him, seeing something special and great program fit. His shot and all around game continues to improve. And his rep as a call-upon lockdown defender has me sold on him.
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I'm not sure I would call it a meteoric trajectory. He went from about 90 a year ago in the composite to 24 or so after his great hs season. He's been a well known ball player for a while.
 
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husky429 said:
I'm not sure I would call it a meteoric trajectory. He went from about 90 a year ago in the composite to 24 or so after his great hs season. He's been a well known ball player for a while.
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So going from around 90 to as high as 16 on Rivals top 100 isn't a meteoric trajectory?!?!

I've been following recruiting for decades, used to visit one of the elite summer camps and would even interview UConn recruits back-in-the-day. So seeing Landrew move into the top 20 from where he started is quite impressive. How many other 2026 recruits have moved up like he has?

What he's accomplished this year is impressive.
 
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DogMania said:
So going from around 90 to as high as 16 on Rivals top 100 isn't a meteoric trajectory?!?!

I've been following recruiting for decades, used to visit one of the elite summer camps and would even interview UConn recruits back-in-the-day. So seeing Landrew move into the top 20 from where he started is quite impressive. How many other 2026 recruits have moved up like he has?

What he's accomplished this year is impressive.
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I don't really consider low to high 4* meteoric. It's semantics--think what you want. Every year has players that go from unranked to blowing up EYBL. Bryson Howard comes to mind.
 
NCHuskie919 said:
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DogMania said:
So going from around 90 to as high as 16 on Rivals top 100 isn't a meteoric trajectory?!?!

I've been following recruiting for decades, used to visit one of the elite summer camps and would even interview UConn recruits back-in-the-day. So seeing Landrew move into the top 20 from where he started is quite impressive. How many other 2026 recruits have moved up like he has?

What he's accomplished this year is impressive.
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I agree, I'd call that pretty meteoric, but I guess that's semantics. Going from barely top 100 to top 20 is pretty impressive, especially as he's got a chance to still go higher.
 
Mr. French said:
I agree, I'd call that pretty meteoric, but I guess that's semantics. Going from barely top 100 to top 20 is pretty impressive, especially as he's got a chance to still go higher.
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Its only meteoric if he a duke, Kentucky or Kansas commit
 
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aburks41 said:
He got outed a while ago but its more fun to pretend not to know who he is. You can easily google him and find out
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He's also been outed about 3 different times, as completely different people. So it's hard to say which one is true, though I'm sure one of them is
 
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