Darius Adams Decommits from UConn

[Rewster]

Hard to pay a guy to sit on the bench for a year to develop especially when they can walk any time. Didn’t look like he was physically ready to contribute next year. I am good with it

 

[uconn_jack]

Kinda felt a tremor in the force that one of the Youngins might do this.

Yeah especially after I saw the Duke decommit.

 

[Fatroony5]

Further proof that over recruiting frosh, especially fringe instant contributors like Darius, makes no sense. Lesson learned from Nowell and Abraham.

Go big (top 15) or go get kids willing to sit a year without being a cancer.

Do we make a play at Acaden?

I guess this means we can take his Jersey Boy video down.

He was the least exciting recruit of this pool so not sweating this one. Other than the time the staff put into it.

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.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Furphy is (I guess now, was) ahead of Adams. No one wants to accept that though lol

 

[Scoe]

A soft culture we have in today's society, luckily we dont cater to that culture here, come at me all you want for my take I won't flinch one bit.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Any info or speculation on why? Why would the Malachi Smith (backup PG) signing affect Adams, a shooting guard?

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.

 

[scotty0330]

Not really heartbroken about this one

My thoughts exactly.

 

[aceboon]

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.

 

[JB75]

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.

 

[willie99]

Interesting

I don’t bash kids, so I'm not going to speculate

Wish him well

 

[Palatine]

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.

 

[superjohn]

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.

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.

 

[3rdbass]

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.

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.

 

[DemonDeac22]

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.

 

[CL82]

Not really heartbroken about this one

Why?

 

[Fishy]

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.

 

[RuffRuff]

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.

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.

 

[FlexOnEm]

Well this sucks. But it’s also a testament to how good our roster is when we can take the news of losing a McDonald’s All-American in stride. Best of luck to Darius.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Not really heartbroken about this one

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.

 

[3rdbass]

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.

Yeah, One Smith committed he knew he wasn't playing. No surprise here.

 

[UconnU]

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.

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.

 

[REB1094]

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

 

[JMick]

Why?

I'm just an idiot on a message board but I really didn't think he'd help us next year and I didn't think he ever looked all that great

 

[uconn_jack]

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.

Yeah, we ain't getting that many unless they're just practice players

 

[TBHreal]

Don’t blame the kid. He wants to play right away and we brought in more talented and experienced guys.

Some desperate P5 team will give him a nice chunk of change and playing time. This is the best move for both parties at this point.