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2026 Recruiting: Cole Cloer visiting this weekend

Still in the small ball 4 camp for me. Just makes so much sense cause Alex and Jaylin could easily play the 3 in other systems, but we use them at the 4.

I’d guess we want sophomore Cloer in that 210 range, he’s 190 going into his senior year of high school.
 
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if he can stay in front of opposing wings then He should be a 2/3. He’d be a matchup problem because of his height but He loses that advantage at the 4…Get me a shot blocking 6’8-6’9 guy that can shoot to play stretch 4 instead.
 
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bendm said:
if he can stay in front of opposing wings then He should be a 2/3. He’d be a matchup problem because of his height but He loses that advantage at the 4…Get me a shot blocking 6’8-6’9 guy that can shoot to play stretch 4 instead.
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Good luck with that
 
bendm said:
Was Deandre Daniels a unicorn?
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Honestly? To some extent. Bama had a kid sorta like that who entered the portal this off season, I wanted us to go after him, but he also wasn’t super productive for them either.
 
bendm said:
Was Deandre Daniels a unicorn?
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Think Deandre was the first of his kind in cbb.

Before him there weren’t a lot of small ball stretch 4s that I can remember. I don’t think anyone was doing someone like Giffey as a small ball 5 either.

All this pre warriors run.
 
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He’s listed as a guard and in his own Twitter bio he calls himself a guard. With some more size I’m sure he’ll flex down to SF but I doubt he’s going to play much/any PF.

I want him. I remember earlier quotes from him talking about Hurley/UConn’s energy and competitiveness which proved to me that he’s a 100% culture match and will buy in to the program
 
bendm said:
Was Deandre Daniels a unicorn?
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No, DeAndre Daniels had his best season and we won a championship with him at the 4. You're countering your own point here
 
navery12 said:
No, DeAndre Daniels had his best season and we won a championship with him at the 4. You're countering your own point here
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lol. Was Charlie Villanueva a unicorn too? Just from last season there was Flagg, Grant Nelson, Alex Condon….All stretch PFs that can block shots.
 
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lol. Was Charlie Villanueva a unicorn too? Just from last season there was Flagg, Grant Nelson, Alex Condon….All stretch PFs that can block shots.
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Flagg is the only one of those players that could play the 4 in our current offense. Many people call him a unicorn
 
bendm said:
lol. Was Charlie Villanueva a unicorn too? Just from last season there was Flagg, Grant Nelson, Alex Condon….All stretch PFs that can block shots.
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I have no idea what you're even arguing right now. All I said was DeAndre Daniels had his best year playing the 4 in response to you saying Cloer should play the 3
 
6&counting said:
Flagg is the only one of those players that could play the 4 in our current offense. Many people call him a unicorn
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Please. Hurley and Murray redesigned the offense mid-season around the offensively inept Andre Jackson and won a chip as a result. I think they could figure out how to utilize guys like Condon and Nelson.
 
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navery12 said:
I have no idea what you're even arguing right now. All I said was DeAndre Daniels had his best year playing the 4 in response to you saying Cloer should play the 3
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Then I guess Idk what your point was either or how it was a response to my post. I’d prefer a taller stretch 4 that can block shots as opposed to a 6’6 stretch 4 that can’t. Personal preference I guess.
 
bendm said:
Please. Hurley and Murray redesigned the offense mid-season around the offensively inept Andre Jackson and won a chip as a result. I think they could figure out how to utilize guys like Condon and Nelson.
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Tell Hurley that
 
bendm said:
Then I guess Idk what your point was either or how it was a response to my post. I’d prefer a taller stretch 4 that can block shots as opposed to a 6’6 stretch 4 that can’t. Personal preference I guess.
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You brought up that Cole Cloer should play the 2/3 and not the 4, and then brought up DeAndre Daniels, a guy who is the same size as Cloer and played the 4. That's all I was responding to
 
navery12 said:
You brought up that Cole Cloer should play the 2/3 and not the 4, and then brought up DeAndre Daniels, a guy who is the same size as Cloer and played the 4. That's all I was responding to
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But they aren’t the same size… Cloer is 6’6 and Daniels is 6’9

Edit- or is he 6’8? I thought I read a post saying he was 6’6. If not my b.
 
bendm said:
But they aren’t the same size… Cloer is 6’6 and Daniels is 6’9

Edit- or is he 6’8? I thought I read a post saying he was 6’6. If not my b.
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Daniels was listed at 6'8 180 in HS, Cloer is 6'7 190
 
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bendm said:
But they aren’t the same size… Cloer is 6’6 and Daniels is 6’9

Edit- or is he 6’8? I thought I read a post saying he was 6’6. If not my b.
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Cloer is also a lot more fluid than Daniels who’s game was stiff.

Yes size wise Cloer is the same size as a lot of stretch 4s we had. But he’s so much more fluid than everyone he’s being compared to. It would be a disservice to him to put him at the 4 and not take advantage of the competitive advantage he’d have as a 3.
 
HW611 said:
Cloer is also a lot more fluid than Daniels who’s game was stiff.

Yes size wise Cloer is the same size as a lot of stretch 4s we had. But he’s so much more fluid than everyone he’s being compared to. It would be a disservice to him to put him at the 4 and not take advantage of the competitive advantage he’d have as a 3.
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On the flip side, imagine those 4's trying to stay in front of him. I think that's a pretty big mismatch in his favor too
 
navery12 said:
On the flip side, imagine those 4's trying to stay in front of him. I think that's a pretty big mismatch in his favor too
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No. A guy like Karaban would not have an issue defending on the perimeter. Nor would most 4s in college basketball today that are pretty mobile.

His advantage would be his size for his position.
 
HW611 said:
No. A guy like Karaban would not have an issue defending on the perimeter. Nor would most 4s in college basketball today that are pretty mobile.

His advantage would be his size for his position.
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I know this is not surprising, but I could not disagree with you more on this. I think you are 100% dead wrong on this. College 4's may be pretty mobile, but most including Karaban are still too slow to defend a guy with guard skills and the size of a 4 like Cloer
 
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