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2025 Recruiting: Cooper Flagg

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HuskyWarrior611 said:
Duke has the 2nd best collection of talent in the NBA after Kentucky. Probably not the best program to go after for player development.
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Yeah but how many of them would still be in the nba if they went to any other college
 
cohenzone said:
I loved that Corny went to UConn, but in hindsiight he probably would have served himself better at UNC. and Dean Smith.
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It was between UConn, UNC and UVa. If he chooses UVa, he becomes the power forward that Ralph Sampson never had. Instead he came to UConn and got us into the Big East.
 
Richmondhsky said:
Wes Matthews graduated in 1977. I did see a high school All-Star game at the Hartford Civic Center that year, not sure it was the schoolboy classic. Hope that helps.
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Corny and McKay graduated in the spring of 78. The SchoolBoy Classic was held for many years at the JCC in Bridgeport, until it was torn down a few years ago. Now they play it at local High Schools. It was the premier showcase for Connecticut and NY and New Jersey kids for years. Here’s an old article about it. Clingan played in it year before last IIRC.


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A Very Long Line Of Basketball Stars (Published 1996)

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Slick said:
I think he will make an official visit to uconn. However, Hurley prides himself on player development and not sure he is going to be interested in a player who is definitely one and done.
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I hope he’s not one and done. That being said one year is better than none at all, he needs two years in college, minimum. The kid is only 16 years old, doesn’t turn 17 until next December. The talk about him going directly to the G League is nuts.
 
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aburks41 said:
The best part about this recruitment if we get Flagg is that the Duke fanbase would have a major panic attack that their untouchable status for a recruit like Flagg is cracking. Might wake them up a bit that Scheyer is not Coach K, and kids are starting to realize that.

Also, ESPN being forced to cover UConn would be awesome schadenfreude. Flagg will get the Zion treatment - which if you all remember, they would put his stats on the side of games that Duke wasn’t even playing in - and I so badly want to watch the suits in Bristol squirm about having to promote the one school they’ve tried to destroy.

Of course this is all a pipe dream and there’s still a 99.9% chance he commits to Duke without even stepping foot in Storrs…but if we just get him here for a visit we will start to see the dookies sweat a bit
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I don’t think espn will treat him like Zion if he’s not playing for an espn property.
 
CONN78SEJ said:
I guess you don’t believe “coaching is everything”. Do you think Corny might have done a little better post UConn if he had played for Jim Calhoun? Thanks for the stupid attack.
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Huh. I said he would have been better off playing for. Dean Smith. Talk about a stupid attack. You talked about Duke failures as if that related to Corny Thompso picking UConn instead OF UNC. Have a nuce day.
Waquoit said:
It was between UConn, UNC and UVa. If he chooses UVa, he becomes the power forward that Ralph Sampson never had. Instead he came to UConn and got us into the Big East.
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as i said, from the perspective of Corny’s developnent as a player and pro potential, he probably would have been better off at UNC. The unknowable. That’s all i said. Has zero to do with his impact on UConn. And we were Big East doormats for a while.
 
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Slick said:
I wish I could say more but unfortunately I can't. The one thing I can say is if he tells Coach Hurley he is coming in for one year only its not happening.
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Slick said:
I wish I could say more but unfortunately I can't. The one thing I can say is if he tells Coach Hurley he is coming in for one year only its not happening.
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If he says “Coach Hurley I want to come play for you but it’s going to be just one year” you honestly think Danny says “Thanks but no thanks Cooper”? You’re only kidding right?
 
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Slick said:
I wish I could say more but unfortunately I can't. The one thing I can say is if he tells Coach Hurley he is coming in for one year only its not happening.
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IIRC Castle stated that he chose UConn because the message was that they felt with the right development he would be a one-and-done. Everyone else felt he was going to be a two- or three-year player.
 
REB1094 said:
If Cooper is more interested in refining his skills and being in a program with a strong culture, he will go to UConn. He loses out on some of the hype factor here, and may drop a couple picks in the draft because of it. Again, whether that's fair or not does not matter. It is what it is.
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I think there's a much better argument that this is not, in fact, what it is. He could go to the University of Maine and still be a one year player and the first overall pick. The idea that he would be sacrificing the "hype factor" by going to UConn and would thus fall "a couple picks" in the draft is nuts.
 
Slick said:
I think he will make an official visit to uconn. However, Hurley prides himself on player development and not sure he is going to be interested in a player who is definitely one and done.
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Flagg was a definite one and done when he was playing this past summer and Hurley and staff were three deep at his Peach Jam games. So they're obviously interested.
 
CONN78SEJ said:
I wish I had a dollar for every kid that kind of plateaued in his development after going to Dook, and was washed up in the NBA. The list is a long one.
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The day after somebody oddly brought up but wisely declined to bet his life on something like a 7 out of 10 coin toss, you appear to wishing for something in the $100-200 range.
 
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Waquoit said:
It was between UConn, UNC and UVa. If he chooses UVa, he becomes the power forward that Ralph Sampson never had. Instead he came to UConn and got us into the Big East.
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He did have 5 finalists with UVA among them, but his final two were Uconn and UNC.
 
ec33 said:
IIRC Castle stated that he chose UConn because the message was that they felt with the right development he would be a one-and-done. Everyone else felt he was going to be a two- or three-year player.
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Castle is in the top 10 in mock drafts and has been before he set foot on campus. Giving Hurley credit for making him a one and done would be like giving Calipari credit for turning his 5 star recruits into draft picks. Maybe things play out and he stays a second year, but I don't recall anybody touting him as needing 2-3 yrs.
 
jdk1047 said:
Yeah but how many of them would still be in the nba if they went to any other college
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Probably. But it might be the difference between being a Jayson Tatum and a Harrison Barnes or Xavier Henry.
 
This feels too much like Precious Achiuwa, where there’s tons of smoke and coincidences but no real hard reporting that the player is interested. Remaining hopeful but not counting on it.
 
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