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I'm not suicidal over this.

We need a point guard - I thought he looked pretty good in his highlight video. ("Yeah, but who doesn't?!", says you. Point conceded.)

But here....

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Jahshire Hardnett has my vote as best available lead guard. Lefty moves the ball and changes gears up with the best of them.
 
3uconn said:
@JoshuaParrott: 2015 3-star G Jahshire Hardnett tweeted UConn has offered. 13 PPG as SR @ ACD (FL)+22 PPG as JR @ Gulfport (MS). Cal & MEM recently offered.

@jeffborzello: 2015 PG Jahshire Hardnett on his new UCONN offer: "Great feeling. I'm still shocked...The style of play fits exactly what I'm looking for."
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Ah, Jahshire, I think we're all in shock....
 
Kitaman said:
Guys if he can dribble better than TSam, Purvis, or Cassell then there is a spot for him. He doesn't have to start but spell Adams, put Adams at the two at times and effectively bring the ball up against full court pressure. We don't need a star for this, just a positional player who is qualified to handle the ball. Not sure if the staff is that confident in the 3 players above in handling this task.

If he can do that on a Div 1 level for 4 years then give him a schollie. He can be told that he is a security blanket coming in. If he performs better than that then we win out. Remember he shouldn't scare 2016, 2017 recruits.

The staff can keep looking (i.e. recruiting) even if this kid comes and certainly before he accepts.
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Yeah, but if he is no better than them, we are making the problem worse. We don't need more guards we'd rather not see play.
 
UCweCONN said:
Harkening back to the Garrison era of UCONN recruiting.
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You understand that we only brought in Garrison in August because our two point guards were arrested and potentially at risk of expulsion, right? Rob Garrison is a meaningless example of anything and I don't understand why his name keeps popping up. Unless we have two guys arrested at the same position in the summer again, his cautionary tale isn't relevant.

If you want the last player we totally reached on based on recruiting rankings because we had a very specific need for a role player and just took the best available scrap we could find - he's now our starting center. And we don't win a title without him. (Well, Lubin was probably that sort of recruit as well. Too early to tell but it doesn't seem like he's going to be a diamond in the rough, but maybe he pulls a Toraino Walker one day and becomes a key cog thereafter).
 
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After watching his highlight video, is it me or does the ball seem a little too loose in his hands at all times (while dribbling and even passing like he doesn't have control of the ball) esp. for a pg.
 
I don't give two turds what Jonathan Givoney or Corey Evans says, this kid is not a UConn level recruit. Recognize the problem- we have a conference problem, we have a recruiting problem, we have a Hartford Civic Center problem. One problem should be easy as heck to fix, the two others are more daunting. I feel like as a fanbase and as a state we always think small, it has always hamstrung us and it's a small miracle that we accomplished what we did with Jim and Geno. Honest to god it took two visionaries and some support but let's remember the blood sweat and tears it took to build this beast, and let's get back to that. We shouldn't settle for anything, that ain't UConn.
 
My "video" eyes tell me Carter is much more UConn than is Hardnett. But who knows, it's tough to think we are in this position to actually care.
 
For those who are crying over this, Carter picked up two UConn votes in the crystal ball yesterday. We could be trying to force his hand offering someone like Hardnett (who I don't think looks all that bad). Niether have scheduled a visit anyway, which is what I'm really waiting for.
 
Hardnett is easy to google. He has been rated from 2star to 4star. He is being scouted by many school including GT.
So, this is not some out of left field player. In fact, he looks like the type player that a lot of this board has been screaming about,
a four year rotation guy who will add depth and could be very good by his senior year, something that TSam, Facey and Calhoun have yet to do on a regular basis. Put this kid with Adams and Brown and we are looking very solid.
 
BUHusky10 said:
Ive been to Syracuse to visit a friend before and there is A LOT more night life in Cuse than in Storrs. Anyway yea my point may be dumb and unfounded, but its just something Ive always had in the back of my head.
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But 18 year old kids aren't looking for a good "nightlife" specifically if they aren't planning on being in college all 4 years. I think a nice looking campus thats easy to navigate, good people, comfortable and nice interiors of dorms and apartments are probably pretty important to them. If a 17/18 year old kid is touring colleges recruiting him and his major thought is "there better be a myriad of bars and clubs on this campus for me to frequent in 3+ years" then I don't care that they don't come to UConn. Kids worried primarily about the clubs near campus aren't putting in the time to become athletic beasts and treasured Huskies
 
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It is possible that some kids consider UCONN too rural, but the greatest Huskies are all in Storrs as often as possible and that says a lot about how they feel about it. I think UCONN offers an amazing, traditional college experience.
 
Our lack of recent success has nothing to do with UConn's campus. DD committed without ever stepping foot on it. This is more to do with some sort of disconnect between the staff and the AAU circuit. KO, fresh off a title, fresh off massive endorsements from the best players on the planet, fresh off a new practice facility...etc, etc, etc. should be absolutely killing it. He is not.
 
djct1999 said:
Our lack of recent success has nothing to do with UConn's campus. DD committed without ever stepping foot on it. This is more to do with some sort of disconnect between the staff and the AAU circuit. KO, fresh off a title, fresh off massive endorsements from the best players on the planet, fresh off a new practice facility...etc, etc, etc. should be absolutely killing it. He is not.
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Completely agree, the question is how to fix it. rightly or wrongly, the AAU circuit doesn't have the best of reputations. Given the negative press generated by our APR and other issues, I can't see UConn hiring anyone with strong AAU connections.
 
djct1999 said:
Our lack of recent success has nothing to do with UConn's campus. DD committed without ever stepping foot on it. This is more to do with some sort of disconnect between the staff and the AAU circuit. KO, fresh off a title, fresh off massive endorsements from the best players on the planet, fresh off a new practice facility...etc, etc, etc. should be absolutely killing it. He is not.
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I think the biggest factor by far is our a conference affiliation, something that can't be easily fixed. Fix that, and many of our plan A and B recruits will be battling it out for who gets the ship. Not that KO can't overcome this hurdle, but he's going to lose more battles than he wins, which seems to be the case lately.
 
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pnow15 said:
Hardnett is easy to google. He has been rated from 2star to 4star. He is being scouted by many school including GT.
So, this is not some out of left field player. In fact, he looks like the type player that a lot of this board has been screaming about,
a four year rotation guy who will add depth and could be very good by his senior year, something that TSam, Facey and Calhoun have yet to do on a regular basis. Put this kid with Adams and Brown and we are looking very solid.
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Where does one find ratings listed down to the 2 star level?
 
It's amazing how hopeful we all were coming off a national championship, excited about the list of some really good plan A recruits like Stone and Jones for example, and now we're battling for whatever is left.

Granted we landed Adams and Enoch, but both are local NE recruits, who should turn out to be very talented ones.

I haven't been following recruiting anywhere close like I used to, but I hope we can land some late bloomers or recruits who have reclassified that are everywhere as good as some of the recruits who had committed months ago.

One who comes to mind who worked out quite well in similar fashion was Shabazz Napier.

Like many of you, I'm disappointed that we're not getting many of our plan A, B and C recruits, but quite often you can find a recruit who turns out to be an excellent college basketball player that flew under the radar. We all get excited about how many stars, what the recruiting site say and how small a number is next to the name of the recruit, but our Huskies have won 4 championships with teams made up of a combination of a few highly heralded recruits, and a bunch of planned C, D and E ones. Look at last year's team. Who was highly ranked on that team? DeAndre Daniels, he was ranked high, but didn't play up to his ranking till his final season. Who had ever heard of Niels Giffey? The rest of the team was made up of moderately ranked recruits and some not so much.

The state of this year's team is the result of losing too many key players from last year, and not getting the recruiting results we needed the past couple years. Granted, I'm a little disappointed and a bit concerned about our recruiting lately, but it's not something to panic about just yet.
 
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I agree- the most worrying thing for me is not having a down year- but the fact we are having trouble reloading- or at least it seems we are having trouble. You never know what will happen ala Bazz late in the game.
We do not need 4 Mc D AAs on the floor like Lville- but we do need a couple of solid NBA type players to compliment the rest of our guys. Next year we will have one (Dan Hurley) unless JA turns out to be the real deal. Chemistry is a problem- and chemistry can make up for a lack of talent (see last year).
Done rambling- just hoping to see a surprise recruit or two before next season begins.
 
Scot-e said:
I agree- the most worrying thing for me is not having a down year- but the fact we are having trouble reloading- or at least it seems we are having trouble. You never know what will happen ala Bazz late in the game.
We do not need 4 Mc D AAs on the floor like Lville- but we do need a couple of solid NBA type players to compliment the rest of our guys. Next year we will have one (Dan Hurley) unless JA turns out to be the real deal. Chemistry is a problem- and chemistry can make up for a lack of talent (see last year).
Done rambling- just hoping to see a surprise recruit or two before next season begins.
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yeah right now we have the 20th ranked recruiting class per espn... with adams size and scoring ability if we can get a very good ball handler/lead guard to allow adams, purvis, omar play in their positions that would be very good... if we can get that and some size to come in with enoch i think we will be set
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
Zach Levine was ranked 50th. He was at UCLA for, what, eight months?
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Id say at the age of 19, Zach Lavine is already one of the Top 10 most athletic players in the entire NBA. He is certainly not the standard to the rule, moreso the exception. But I see what your saying, in his case he was extremely raw and was drafted essentially because he was 6' 5" and had inhuman athletic ability, he is a total project, albeit one that is worth taking a chance on as he can easily become the next Westbrook.
 
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From Twitter

2015 Jashire Hardnett told @becb_sbnthat he will have visits set up with Uconn and Kansas state before the end of the week @B_WRecruiting
 
one thing we currently do not have is a true facilitator on this squad... He makes sense actually... Could definitely help in the halfcourt offensive set with the ball handling and penetrating ability.
 
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