He will leave a complicated legacy here. Save for three days in Orlando, this team hasn't done a lot of winning the last two years, by our standards. Some of the time, you didn't get the feeling that the team would have been much worse off without him.
But we also forget how hard college basketball is, even for the top ranked kids like Hamilton. Historically, guys aren't that good in college basketball as freshman and sophomores. This is statistically verified (somebody in this thread compared him to Denzel Valentine, go look at what Valentine did his first two years in college). In that respect, he surpassed - convincingly - the modest expectations of 95% of the UConn players that came before him. Difference is, he was caught in that no man's land, without the talent to join the 5% of UConn players who balled as sophomores but also without the love of the college basketball experience to stay around another year or two and become great.
The portrayal of Hamilton on this board would be diametrically different had he decided to return for his junior season; his play in the postseason would have represented the evolution from good to great, and many would have projected major individual accolades for him in the near future. Unfortunately, that did not happen, and as a result we're left to assess what should have been the infantry stages of greatness as his apex...and the only word you can really use is underwhelming. Perhaps flanked by a different roster, Hamilton would have emerged as the supreme talent that developed just in time to serve as the final piece of a final four team. That didn't happen, though, and so we'll remember him as much as the engineer of an offense that struggled to stay above water as we will an ultra-talented rebounder and facilitator who propped up some other pieces that maybe weren't up to the level we wanted them to be at.