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husky429 said:
The strength and athleticism is the knock on him. I'd probably throw him in the 40-60 range since his NBA potential is lower. If we're going straight by college potential, I think he's a 30-40 player.

Lotta grains of salt here... I only watch our recruits and look at stats of everyone else.
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Not a Ball/Jackson athlete, but he seems like a solid athlete & has potential to improve in that area. We got another good one.
 
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HuskyWarrior611 said:
No, Calhoun did not bring in transfers every year. That was the beautiful thing with him. Watching players grow up and develop in the program.
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To be fair, the college basketball environment wasn’t even close then to what it is now. JC was such a great coach he would have adapted to what he needed to do. I am certain he would have utilized the transfer portal if he were coaching today.
 
superjohn said:
The thing I like about this class and what seems incredibly rare in a UConn recruiting class is that Stewart, Castle, and Ball all look like they will be ready in terms of physicality and their overall games to contribute meaningfully right away. They all also look like they have NBA potential if things go right.

Even with other top UConn classes there were question marks with some of the players. Too skinny (will he fill out.) Too raw (will he gain more skills.) Super skilled/athletic but maybe too small to play in NBA.
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Honestly, Stewart seems like the #2 “ready” guy after Castle. Anybody know why he’s so low in the rankings?

EDIT: made this post before I saw the long list of explanations why people think he’s so low in the rankings. Thanks y’all lol
 
Dayumn!!! This class is crazy! Just checked and its the #3 class for 2023 and may end up #2 if we pull in Singare. Wow Hurley is becoming a monster on the recruiting trail. He start pulling in one and dones in multiples and he becomes a legend. If he wins that is. We Uconn fans only brag when we win big. This isnt Kentucky.
 
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Vuce said:
To be fair, the college basketball environment wasn’t even close then to what it is now. JC was such a great coach he would have adapted to what he needed to do. I am certain he would have utilized the transfer portal if he were coaching today.
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You hear, ‘I can’t get five transfers and play the way I want to play,’” Calhoun said. “What I see is not a good ending. I don’t know what the good ending is. I know people say, ‘kids should to be able to transfer.’ Yeah ... I hate to throw everything at the NCAA because they have an impossible job, I understand that. But when they picked and chose who got a waiver and who didn’t, that kind of set this whole thing up.

“I would adapt, sure. But right now, it’s not in a great state. I worry about our future.”

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HuskyWarrior611 said:
No, Calhoun did not bring in transfers every year. That was the beautiful thing with him. Watching players grow up and develop in the program.
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You’re right, but he was always looking to recruit over his current players. Many former players have said they were always looking over their shoulder and knew JC would recruit over them given the opportunity. He wanted the best players he could get.

If a guy doesn’t want the possibility of a coach recruiting over him (transfer or high school), then he shouldn’t go to a top program. All of them are doing it constantly.
 
Vuce said:
To be fair, the college basketball environment wasn’t even close then to what it is now. JC was such a great coach he would have adapted to what he needed to do. I am certain he would have utilized the transfer portal if he were coaching today.
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Why would he need to when what he did worked?
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
No, Calhoun did not bring in transfers every year. That was the beautiful thing with him. Watching players grow up and develop in the program.
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That’s not the point. Calhoun recruited over everyone. Your point is you “invest” in someone by not recruiting other players at their position and that’s a losing proposition.
 
Greedo said:
You’re right, but he was always looking to recruit over his current players. Many former players have said they were always looking over their shoulder and knew JC would recruit over them given the opportunity. He wanted the best players he could get.

If a guy doesn’t want the possibility of a coach recruiting over him (transfer or high school), then he shouldn’t go to a top program. All of them are doing it constantly.
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I feel like bringing in a recruit is different than bringing in a junior or senior expecting to play because that’s why they came.
 
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Don’t want to derail the thread though, great class coming in like I said! Can’t wait to see what they do when they come to Storrs.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
That’s not the point. Calhoun recruited over everyone. Your point is you “invest” in someone by not recruiting other players at their position and that’s a losing proposition.
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You recruit over guys who aren’t playing well that you gave a chance to play (Curtis Kelly, Coombs McDaniel, etc.) not players who you say are playing well, hasn’t gotten a chance to play, but are looking to replace.

There’s a difference between bringing in fresh young talent and the transfer from today. We brought in freshman who had NBA potential, not stop plug transfers to stunt the development of guys who could have that.

Alright I’m really done now.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
To make the team better. It’s what every good team does. It’s what Calhoun did every year.
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Don't even both, this guy is one of the few people I have on ignore on this site. He thinks transfers are the spawn of Satan
 
navery12 said:
Don't even both, this guy is one of the few people I have on ignore on this site. He thinks transfers are the spawn of Satan
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I’ll change my mind when they get us tournament wins. I’d rather see more things like this thread to the point where we don’t need to rely on them because we have a healthy program. I don’t want to be Baylor. We’re UConn.
 
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HuskyWarrior611 said:
You recruit over guys who aren’t playing well that you gave a chance to play (Curtis Kelly, Coombs McDaniel, etc.) not players who you say are playing well, hasn’t gotten a chance to play, but are looking to replace.

There’s a difference between bringing in fresh young talent and the transfer from today. We brought in freshman who had NBA potential, not stop plug transfers to stunt the development of guys who could have that.

Alright I’m really done now.
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We brought in transfers because we needed them. We weren't going into the season with just Floyd, Jackson, and Hawkins at guard. That would be malpractice.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
No, Calhoun did not bring in transfers every year. That was the beautiful thing with him. Watching players grow up and develop in the program.
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The transfer portal is a billion times different now than it was when Calhoun was here, so you can’t really compare it. But what guys exactly did Dan Hurley bring in to replace Floyd? Newton was brought into play PG, replacing Cole/Gaffney. CFJ is not a PG. i guess maybeeee you could say Alleyne? But he was more brought in as a shooter/Polley replacement, and with us losing 5 guys that played on the perimeter, we needed more guard depth. Can’t count Diarra and Calcaterra bc they weren’t brought in until after CF left (so was Alleyne technically but we started recruiting him prior).
 
Interesting to read this quote from July now. It’s nice when a staff’s recruiting pitch works and makes a guy no longer interested in pursuing other options (and he had other options).

www.ctinsider.com

Meet UConn men’s basketball recruiting target Jaylin Stewart: ‘He can do a little of everything’

The 6-foot-7, class of 2023 forward led Seattle Rotary to a blowout win over Boo Williams at the Peach Jam in North Augusta, South Carolina.
www.ctinsider.com www.ctinsider.com

- Last week, Stewart received an offer from UConn. He and his parents were excited about the offer, according to Hennings, but Stewart said he hasn’t narrowed down his list of desired schools and appears in no rush to do so. “I’m open right now,” he said. “I’m still trying to get my name out there.”
 
NJHoops said:
Interesting to read this quote from July now. It’s nice when a staff’s recruiting pitch works and makes a guy no longer interested in pursuing other options (and he had other options).

www.ctinsider.com

Meet UConn men’s basketball recruiting target Jaylin Stewart: ‘He can do a little of everything’

The 6-foot-7, class of 2023 forward led Seattle Rotary to a blowout win over Boo Williams at the Peach Jam in North Augusta, South Carolina.
www.ctinsider.com www.ctinsider.com

- Last week, Stewart received an offer from UConn. He and his parents were excited about the offer, according to Hennings, but Stewart said he hasn’t narrowed down his list of desired schools and appears in no rush to do so. “I’m open right now,” he said. “I’m still trying to get my name out there.”
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This is fully speculation until somebody involved with the process speaks on it, but I feel like having the other recruits there helped A LOT
 
I like the way he backs players down inside the foul line and scores on a slight fade away. . Larry Bird did that a lot and many times gave it up for an easy assist. He has the size for it.
 
REB1094 said:
This is fully speculation until somebody involved with the process speaks on it, but I feel like having the other recruits there helped A LOT
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It absolutely did. But, he also hadn't scheduled any other official visits coming into the weekend, so he was already looking pretty favorably at UConn.

Official visits are kind of weird, imo, and I think this staff makes a really good effort to treat the player and his family like they are already a part of what they’re doing, that this is what it’s like to be part of the program.

So yeah, the staff is selling the kid on the program and what they can do for him and he can do for them. They are also showing him how they interact with their guys and giving him a lot of time with his peers/future teammates- that’s the stuff that’s real and can’t be perfectly preprogrammed. You hear a lot of these commits talk about how they felt comfortable and like they were being told the truth. That’s where that comes from, imo.
 
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