You continue to contradict yourself and dig a deeper hole. You can’t say “we’ll be far more talented than we were this year” but also say the guy leaving is a high lottery pick. Yet you identify no one to replace the departing go to offensive talent. It makes no sense.
So I see you're just going to gloss over/still pretend I called Bouknight a headache. I don't want you to have another nervous breakdown and threaten lawsuits so I'll ease up...
Bottom-line you said we have more talent than last season, which contradicts your view that Bouknight will go high lottery. What high lottery guy is coming in or developing with high confidence? No wonder you lose bets so often you can’t make good.
I am sorry but your friend made some accusations about me that were untrue, so I had to respond.
I do think Gaffney will surprise you on the upside.
He was lumped into your headache bucket. However, the main point I made was you saying we would be more talented team next year without Bouknight, when you also pegged him as a high lottery pick. A crazy contradiction.
Somehow what you keep repeating makes sense in your head, you're a crazy person.
You continue to misinterpret what I said and you clearly have no idea what contradiction means.
This is just sad, there's no rational thought with this guy. As I'm typing this he screenshots my post thinking this proves what he's trying to say. Dude's brain is broken.
UConn adds 4 players who are very talented in Akok, Hawkins, Diggins, and Johnson. They return two ultra talented players in Jackson and Sanogo who will make a leap. Players who hadn't played together will have a season together and an offseason together and everyone Hurley wanted to return are returning and I think another talented player who will fill a need will come in. Bouknight is a great talent, he's also just one player.
Try to follow along with us Chief. Imagine you have 5 pennies. A bad man comes and takes 2 pennies from you. But then 3 friends come and give you 1 more penny each. How many pennies do you have now? Is it more than you started with?
Pretty weak argument. We don’t “collectively” take a shot to score and win a game. You need that talented star player. He said we would be “far more talented” and you are hanging your hat on the incremental development of mostly role players to get us there. We don’t have “several” new players as you cited nor “4” as @superjohn mentioned, thus far we have 3 barring a reclass or a transfer such as Corey Floyd, who currently is 2022. Of the three, I think Hawkins is the best but he’s not as athletic as Bouknight. Sanogo played well this season and will continue that trajectory. Jackson needs to demonstrate he can shoot, although Chief likes other aspects of his game.
We aren’t talking quantity we are talking “far more talented” per @superjohn. I would love that and maybe we will make some good pickups but as things stand today - - it’s just not true.
I thought basketball was a team game and not all about which singular player was the best, apparently I'm wrong
What are you trying to say? Why so curt?
Who is Curt?
Simply that the thread is about Whaley returning and somehow it managed to get derailed like every other thread. Gets annoying thinking there are updates and only additions to the thread are back and forth comments from people that should probably just ignore each other. Just trying to get thread back to welcoming a player back home.
It is when you need a guy to make a big play at the end. They all can’t have their hands on the ball taking the shot.
