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Jayden Ross Returning!!!

Dan Hurley does not get to the top of his profession by having blind faith for his players. He may be wrong, but he truly sees something special in Ross. I do not see it, but then again, I am not Dan Hurley. I do not know what he knows and I do not see what he sees. I have faith and trust in Dan's vision and his acumen. And I look forward to seeing this kid next year.
 
Iluvsuebird said:
Dan Hurley does not get to the top of his profession by having blind faith for his players. He may be wrong, but he truly sees something special in Ross. I do not see it, but then again, I am not Dan Hurley. I do not know what he knows and I do not see what he sees. I have faith and trust in Dan's vision and his acumen. And I look forward to seeing this kid next year.
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LOL - great post. I do too - this last cycle left me thinking he may have some blind spots, but I generally pick up what he's putting down. I think next season will give us a really strong sense if we should always pick it all up.
 
I see Ross’ role as a defensive stopper, a glove. You absolutely have to have that if you want a title. The offense we’ll get elsewhere but our defense was not champ level so yes it’s great he’s back and his task is shutting players down and rebounding.
 
Whatever happened with this?

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jibsey said:
I see Ross’ role as a defensive stopper, a glove. You absolutely have to have that if you want a title. The offense we’ll get elsewhere but our defense was not champ level so yes it’s great he’s back and his task is shutting players down and rebounding.
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He had the worse defensive metrics on the team last year. Him being this will require quite the leap and wishful thinking.
 
Oddly enough an enigma of UConn creates the best thread. Ross seems to have a high ceiling from Hurley Love. but floor is concerning, what we’ve seen last year. Up to me there’s a better portal player. But who am I to question Coach. Feel great things for next year.
 
RJScootin said:
Oddly enough an enigma of UConn creates the best thread. Ross seems to have a high ceiling from Hurley Love. but floor is concerning, what we’ve seen last year. Up to me there’s a better portal player. But who am I to question Coach. Feel great things for next year.
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Definitely some good old IHWT - In Hurley We Trust
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
Rare moment that I’m agreeing with Hurley on something that the board doesn’t.
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I'm a glutton for punishment by engaging here but the number of people who are overly critical of Ross is pretty low around here. You're basically their inverse in the sense that you've wildly inflated his contributions and made ridiculous excuses for his inability to break out.

I think most people are somewhere in the middle - he's got a lot of potential, he's got some interesting physical tools, it's great news that he's back, and we're hoping he puts it together next year.
 
I am glad he is returning.

Not sure who is filling the 4 and 3 slots with AK's decision unknown.

I have heard Hurley refer to Furphy as a shooting guard, although he has mainly played as a 3 in Australia.

And should AK leave, would it make sense for Stewart to be a 4 and Ross our 3 for...

1. Silas / Darius
2. Solo / Braylon
3. Jayden / Jacob
4. Jaylin
5. Tarris / Eric

Pending other transfers in of course and AK's decision we are at 9 of 15 and we should be arriving at +4 to 13.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
That somewhere in the middle people are hoping we bring in a portal player or start Mullins over him as well.

Yee of little faith
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No one is hoping based on the players - but the potential of the team. I want the best player to start and if that’s Ross, I don’t think it says much about the alternatives. Dude did you look at his metrics? He’s in the red.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
That somewhere in the middle people are hoping we bring in a portal player or start Mullins over him as well.

Yee of little faith
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It's not irrational to hold the opinion that Ross has not yet demonstrated that he should be starting. I'm not going to get in a protracted back and forth on this but just hoping a kid makes a leap and entrenches himself as a starter without any kind of plan B is a great way to set yourself up for disappointment. I honestly don't know how anyone who's been paying attention could disagree with that.
 
TheShot1990 said:
Happy he’s back. Any team would love a player of his size and athleticism coming off the bench next year. Who’s going to guard Kedary Richmond when Ball or Demary need a breather? Richmond is 6‘6“, 23 years old fast and tough. You’re gonna need someone like Ross on him for some minutes.
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Kadary has another year? News to me
 
superjohn said:
Ross got 4.4 minutes as a freshman and 11.4 this past season. I don't think he's returning to just be a practice player.
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Yeah, he kinda is. The guys we’re Bringing in are all better than he is. He is a nice experienced back up who is pretty limited but has that so he won’t panic we hope.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
No it’s not irrational.

Just for me personally, it’s annoying seeing our fans constantly be so quick to write off and recruit over these talented players.

The other way to look at it is having the expectation he’s ready to make that leap and put trust in him is a great way to give him the confidence he needs to make that leap and be the player he can be.

Him making that leap is better than any transfer we can bring in.
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I call this the Hilton Bias . The Boneyars anssumes that Every guy who plays a few minutes is going to have the same degree of improvement as Hilton did.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
I watch games, not numbers. Metrics mean absolutely zilch to me. Metrics had Mahaney being better than Solo this past year too.
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and tell me a game you watched besides a few minutes of the away Marquette game where Ross showed ANYTHING positive for a period of time that lasted longer than 10 seconds. You can't, because it doesn't exist. Sometimes the numbers actually don't lie.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
No it’s not irrational.

Just for me personally, it’s annoying seeing our fans constantly be so quick to write off and recruit over these talented players.

The other way to look at it is having the expectation he’s ready to make that leap and put trust in him is a great way to give him the confidence he needs to make that leap and be the player he can be.

Him making that leap is better than any transfer we can bring in.
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Than ANY transfer we can bring in?? No, that's not irrational at all

LOL
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
No it’s not irrational.

Just for me personally, it’s annoying seeing our fans constantly be so quick to write off and recruit over these talented players.

The other way to look at it is having the expectation he’s ready to make that leap and put trust in him is a great way to give him the confidence he needs to make that leap and be the player he can be.

Him making that leap is better than any transfer we can bring in.
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Here I go again getting into this but a couple things.

1. "Giving a guy confidence" by ensuring that there is no one to challenge him for playing time is an insane coaching risk that verges on malpractice.

2. There are objectively better players than Ross in the portal in terms of what they have actually accomplished in college to date. So if by "leap" you mean he shows up next year as one of the best players in the country at his position, fine, but at this point that's just wishcasting by you.

I think everyone hopes he blows up but it's not rational to just assume it's going to happen and it's doubly irrational to say it's not going to happen because we bring in someone else.
 
RuffRuff said:
He had the worse defensive metrics on the team last year. Him being this will require quite the leap and wishful thinking.
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Well he had no handle and wasn’t a great shooter so why are there 3 exclamation marks after his name in the thread title?
Defense will be his focus.
 
And then there's this. On the somewhat slim chance that Alex comes back, Ross will hardly see the floor. No, Ross doesn't play the 4; but that's 28 - 30 minutes not available.

Mullins barely mentioned in this thread. Ross is not taking his minutes whether he (Mullins) is 6th man or starts.

5) 40 mins no matter how much Reed plays.
4) 40 mins Alex + ???. Definitely not Ross.
3)Stewart, Mullins 30 mins
2) Ball 25, Mullins slides 5
1) Demary 30

Granted, this is kind of a mess. Alex is the key to Ross' minutes. As above has 170 of 200 minutes taken. If it understates Ball and overstates Mullins, it's a wash. Danny's getting a backup PG. He does not want Ross there. Adams and Furphy ????
 
Ewekon said:
And then there's this. On the somewhat slim chance that Alex comes back, Ross will hardly see the floor. No, Ross doesn't play the 4; but that's 28 - 30 minutes not available.

Mullins barely mentioned in this thread. Ross is not taking his minutes whether he (Mullins) is 6th man or starts.

5) 40 mins no matter how much Reed plays.
4) 40 mins Alex + ???. Definitely not Ross.
3)Stewart, Mullins 30 mins
2) Ball 25, Mullins slides 5
1) Demary 30

Granted, this is kind of a mess. Alex is the key to Ross' minutes. As above has 170 of 200 minutes taken. If it understates Ball and overstates Mullins, it's a wash. Danny's getting a backup PG. He does not want Ross there. Adams and Furphy ????
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It's kind of wild how little Mullins gets mentioned here and 611 seems to think it's laughable he would play over Ross.

Mullins is one of the best recruits we've ever had.
 
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