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Darius Adams Decommits from UConn

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EricLA said:
Any info or speculation on why? Why would the Malachi Smith (backup PG) signing affect Adams, a shooting guard?
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At best, Adams would have been penciled in as the fourth best guard on the team behind Ball, Demary and Smith. Mullins' size and long-range shooting is tantalizing and he can step in w/ minutes minutes at 2/3, but 1/2 was set between those three guards I previously mentioned.

I've watched a bit of both Mullins and Adams, and I'll be honest, I was never too impressed with Adams, especially when he was on nat'l TV against elite HS talent.

No hard feelings on the kid, but 'tis is the nature of modern day CBB recruiting.
 
After Malachi committed someone was going to get squeezed out of playing time and he looked like the most likely candidate so I'm not too concerned with this one. Better to do it now than spend a whole year on the bench and then enter the portal.
 
Can’t win either way - if you try to recruit backups or possible competition for a top 30 freshman he feels slighted and bounces. If you don’t recruit back ups you don’t cover yourself your screwed if fresh star doesn’t pan out —can’t win either way. Cant wait till this nonsense gets revamped.
 
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aceboon said:
After Malachi committed someone was going to get squeezed out of playing time and he looked like the most likely candidate so I'm not too concerned with this one. Better to do it now than spend a whole year on the bench and then enter the portal.
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Yep, he was told it was going to be a serious uphill battle to see the court. Basically a decision was made between Adams and the staff that this was best for him.
 
Palatine said:
He obviously left because he didn't like his place in line. That is validation we have some serious talent next year especially with the big three juniors.

Still think a big is the priority. And now, a development PG would help our depth.
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Yeah we need 3 more players depending if Karaban is coming back. 2 if Karban comes back. One guard and 1 big and a forward(Karaban) would be good.
 
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This reminds of the kid who takes his ball and goes home when he doesn’t like the team he’s been put on or how his team is doing. Not everyone can be a star, kid. Good luck to you.
 
Honestly, I don’t care.

He wasn’t playing next year and it’s either lose him now or lose him to the portal later.

We’ve already gotten out of one ‘stage parent’ situation, so good that we’re out of another one now.
 
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Fatroony5 said:
All good. Hurleys going to do what he needs to in order to keep UConn at an elite level. Him de committing has little impact on the outlook for the season. I still like recruiting high level high school guys, even if they won’t play much. The hope is they take the Ball/Stewart route and you retain/develop the talent over a few years. But obviously that doesn’t always happen. Still worth tying tho; they’ll replace him and be fine.
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Was amicable - a kid like Adams should go anywhere that gets him a top end weight room and PT. He’ll be in the portal after year 1 in all likelihood.

Recruiting HS is fine, but going with too big a class makes little sense. Picking up kids that think they’re good enough to start but aren’t is what’s to avoid.

I had a hard time understanding why he was recruited in the first place if he year 1 PT was a deal breaker.

 
JMick said:
Not really heartbroken about this one
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Agreed. I’m sure he saw the writing on wall. Stewart, Ross, Reed, Ball, Mullins, Riebe, Furphy, along with Karaban maybe returning, and now with Malachi signing on. He was not at all impressive in some games I watched him in.
 
RuffRuff said:
Was amicable - a kid like Adams should go anywhere that gets him a top end weight room and PT. He’ll be in the portal after year 1 in all likelihood.

Recruiting HS is fine, but going with too big a class makes little sense. Picking up kids that think they’re good enough to start but aren’t is what’s to avoid.

I had a hard time understanding why he was recruited in the first place if he year 1 PT was a deal breaker.

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Yeah, One Smith committed he knew he wasn't playing. No surprise here.
 
superjohn said:
Yep, he was told it was going to be a serious uphill battle to see the court. Basically a decision was made between Adams and the staff that this was best for him.
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This portal situation has messed w recruitment. Teams really don’t know their 25-26 roster situations until now and teams don’t know how incoming recruits will react to roster moves.

Maybe he said for X ridiculous amount of money I will decommit from UConn. There are teams completely desperate for any serviceable player. e.g., Indiana, and these types of things are now common practice. I was speaking w Tom at a luncheon he said there was a high schooler who wanted 500k just to speak to them.
 
He'd have gotten bench minutes in year 2, and could have started getting the keys in year 3. I guess he didn't like that timeline

Best of luck I guess but...see ya later. I'm all in on Silas/Malachi/Solo/Braylon backcourt
 
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The blessing is that it makes playing time more readily apparent for higher immediate ceiling recruits this summer. With the portal, the emphasis should be on this year (2025-2026) with some eye toward next year (2026-2027). After that is something to worry about down the line. As currently constructed, Furphy might be the only player I anticipate being on the 2027-2028 roster (and that is largely because Furphy is an unknown).
 
Once Malachi Smith committed it was gonna be tough for Adams to get burn this season
 
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UconnU said:
This portal situation has messed w recruitment. Teams really don’t know their 25-26 roster situations until now and teams don’t know how incoming recruits will react to roster moves.

Maybe he said for X ridiculous amount of money I will decommit from UConn. There are teams completely desperate for any serviceable player. e.g., Indiana, and these types of things are now common practice. I was speaking w Tom at a luncheon he said there was a high schooler who wanted 500k just to speak to them.
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Would be funny if Indiana got our sloppy seconds.
 
3rdbass said:
Yeah we need 4 more players depending if Karaban is coming back. 3 if Karban comes back. One guard and 2 bigs and a forward would be good.
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So we’re gonna have a 13 man rotation?
 
Seems it's almost impossible to put together a roster these days. Players want money and immediate playing time. And a coach wants to win now. It's very difficult to satisfy everyone.

I'll be curious to hear his reasons for decommitting. It shouldn't be because of Demary and Smith because he was expected to be behind Mahaney and Nowell when he committed. And Demary has 1 less year of eligibility at UConn than Nowell would have had.

Oh well, probably not a loss for next year since I'm not sure he was ready to contribute immediately. And there's plenty of time to replace him with someone else for 2026-2027.
 
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