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Good breakdown for next season and AK talk

NIL comes down to a few key attributes for a player: likeliness, playing time, success. Alex is a 2-time champ, an iconic UConn basketball player, and widely known. That is super attractive to sponsors who use NIL to have players rep their goods: JBL, Bose, etc. If they think AK can push more product for them, $3M is not so crazy.
 
hot take, but we need a lot more out of him this year if he’s really making $3M.

that’s a lot of money for a rich man’s system player / intangibles guy.

I think his ceiling is an all conference guy, but not a conference POY or All American.
 
Dove said:
. Just hearing a talking head say it came down to negotiations...and Alex "must be making close to 3"...

Makes me watch college hoops a little different.
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specifically who said he was making close to 3 million?
 
NJHusky said:
Top Dogs just posted about AK and team. Some interesting tidbits…including that AK had a 7 figure nba guarantee last season but still came back
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I wonder if he regrets not taking the guarantee last season..assuming his stock went down after this past season.
 
Its great for AK.

This NIL thing though needs to be regulated with a cap though, otherwise we will have certain teams differentiating themselves with $$ from others ... something like the Yankees, Dodgers, Sox in bball.
 
The one thing I don't agree with is saying that AK isn't or can't be the best player on the team. I agree that he is most effective when he's not the only or primary scoring threat, but scoring isn't the only marker of a good player. Ball should and most likely will be the leading scorer, but I still think AK is overall the better player.
 
AK playing in his appropriate position offensively will hopefully help him surge back to a player+ that he was. He’ll be most effective when he has two penetrators on the floor. It won’t be with Stew and Solo on the floor together.

I’d expect to see the 1-3 when he’s out there being assortments of:

Mullins
Solo
Silas

Stew
Malachi
Silas

The Solo, Stew, AK grouping revisits what we were last year. Slow footed off ball shooters, easy to guard.
 
How does one watch differently? LeBron makes a ridiculous 50M/yr and Messi even more than that, but the $ they are making doesn't really impact the basketball/soccer or my viewing of it.

Meanwhile knowing that college players were relatively poor did add a bit of guilt to the experience prior to NIL. Assuming AK is at best a 2nd round draft pick with no guaranteed money, he is exactly the type of player that most benefits from NIL. And college fans in turn benefit by continuity of a great player on the team for way more years than prior to NIL. Seems a win-win to me.
 
It is nice to have a coach on the floor. He had his best assist numbers last year and with what looks like a better shooting cast, that number should climb again. There is still space to his ceiling, I think he will be highly motivated this season.

AK has to avoid a long slump this year. He has trended down each year from the three point line. Slightly improved shooting from Alex will have a big effect in producing a really fun and effective offense.
 
Marat said:
Its great for AK.

This NIL thing though needs to be regulated with a cap though, otherwise we will have certain teams differentiating themselves with $$ from others ... something like the Yankees, Dodgers, Sox in bball.
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Yeah the sport would be non-functional if Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, wherever Cal coaches, and us get all the good recruits.
 
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