Neither is a reach. If you were arbitrarily defining what "success" is in your eyes you could have easily stated that in your original post.
Yes. Josh Carlton started for a Houston team that spent most of the year in the top 5. That is absolutely amounting to something. But we had Sanogo who beat him out and he had no intention of playing 12 minutes a game as a back up.
I think so. He average about 5 pts/game on 20 minutes. Dropping down a level to get more playing time and against good level competition, but below high major competition is the way for him to go. Best of luck to him as long as he isn't playing against UConn.
He needs to stop transferring
Honestly, when a kid transfers out, I literally think "Good. If he doesn't want to be here, he's not UConn material". Like Ahmad Nowell. If that kid didn't want to earn his minutes here, good riddance.
Unless he goes to a school that tells him he’ll be the guy, it’ll be harder.
He was one of the best defenders on the team. That was his job and role.
Out of all of those, only Carlton and Alleyne probably get real minutes in the rotation (and IMO Carlton was just not a good fit for Hurley’s system) . CFJ got much better but it took him a while of being very bad at PC in minutes that he wouldn’t have gotten here.
Money, playing time/role in the offense, and coaching style. UConn isn’t going to be for everyone but this staff has shown they’re great at finding the right guys.
You know Stewart has been the backup 4 for us all season and is only 1 inch smaller than Karaban? I'm not sure he would be starting but we do have at least a backup 4 there. We need both a starting 4 and starting/backup 5 equally.
I don’t think we should expect to have Stew as a backup 4 as a senior if we think he believes in his basketball career at all.
I didn't expect him to be happy as backup 3 or 4 this year but he was. I think Stew loves playing for UConn. He must of known with Karaban starting and Mullins coming in as a 3 he would be backup at best this year to both of those positions.
When he decided to come back, Karaban didn’t make his decision yet.
He knew there was a chance Karaban would come back. Not totally obvious decision that he was leaning to leaving after Karaban had a very meh junior year and loved UConn and Hurley.
There’s a diff between a guy that wants to be coached up to improve his skills and chance at an NBA career and a guy that is trying to maximize his NIL because he knows deep down he isn’t going to play in the league
Transferring often I believe is difficult. You need to stay at least 2 years to get some sense of where you are as a player with a team. But $$$$ talks.
Mullins is gone with the way he is playing. He is an NBA lottery pick. I'm not sure why people are still holding out hope. Also, Ross is SF and not a SG.
Because it’s a board rule…and a wing is a wing
