2024 Recruiting: Jordan Derkack (Merrimack Transfer)

[Huskyforlife]

What happened w Gavin Griffiths at Buttgers? Poor #s but I know they were awful offensively. Rumblings he’s going into portal. Would we want him (assume so) or is bloom off rose?

If he’s willing to compete for his role, sure. He had his chance to come here and get real development as a freshman ala Solo before projecting into a bigger role next year. He can go elsewhere if he wants any promises.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

If he’s willing to compete for his role, sure. He had his chance to come here and get real development as a freshman ala Solo before projecting into a bigger role next year. He can go elsewhere if he wants any promises.

Feels like a bad match for both parties. I wouldn’t want him for anything other than competing for a Joey C role. Just hasn’t shown enough. And I doubt he wants to go somewhere to sit on the bench.

 

[rip7774]

Yeah makes sense. would have to come as bench guy and likely not want to do that.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

 

[Fan1978]

33%

And that includes a lot of late shot clock attempts

 

[speckle]

Still got a shot, I hope. If not us, hopefully Holloway.

 

[Scrutineer]

About Solo Ball: I notice that Raftery has brought up Solo a few times when he's covered our games. Compliments his shooting and thinks he'll contribute a lot in the future. I don't know if that comes from watching a practice or warm-ups or hearing it from Hurley, but I think I've heard it on three separate broadcasts.

Hope you're right and hope Raftery is a better judge of talent than Billy Packer who famously said, during the 1999 Final Four,
something along the lines of, "wait till you see who UConn has for next year"..............Ater Majok.

 

[caw]

Hope you're right and hope Raftery is a better judge of talent than Billy Packer who famously said, during the 1999 Final Four,
something along the lines of, "wait till you see who UConn has for next year"..............Ater Majok.

Ajou Ajou Deng not Majok.

He wasn’t great but wasn’t horrible in limited minutes. His brother turned out to be a star though.

 

[KembaRunner]

Hope you're right and hope Raftery is a better judge of talent than Billy Packer who famously said, during the 1999 Final Four,
something along the lines of, "wait till you see who UConn has for next year"..............Ater Majok.

It was Ajou Ajou Deng

 

[KembaRunner]

I watched Ajou play pick up in the FH with regular students around that time and told my dad “no way this guy is gonna be good” because he was getting scored on by general population.

We joked about it for a year before we finally saw him play in a uconn uni and then were like “omg, he really isn’t good!”

 

[NickDanger]

The way these points go completely over yall heads is crazy

If you’re going to use “y’all” you should learn to use it properly. Here it needs ‘s: “y’all’s heads.”

 

[husky429]

If you’re going to use “y’all” you should learn to use it properly. Here it needs ‘s: “y’all’s heads.”

My wife's entire family is from the rural south. You're more likely to see "y'all" from a New England English major than an Appalachian. It may be technically correct, but it's against the spirit of the word.

 

[KingAG]

If you’re going to use “y’all” you should learn to use it properly. Here it needs ‘s: “y’all’s heads.”

Who is this guy? Lmao

 

[caw]

My wife's entire family is from the rural south. You're more likely to see "y'all" from a New England English major than an Appalachian. It may be technically correct, but it's against the spirit of the word.

Used a good amount in parts of VA and the Carolina's from my experience.

 

[HuskyFich]

If you’re going to use “y’all” you should learn to use it properly. Here it needs ‘s: “y’all’s heads.”

There’s more apostrophes & quotations in this post than UConn has National Championships.

 

[husky429]

Used a good amount in parts of VA and the Carolina's from my experience.

Checks out. Family is from right near where Georgia, NC and TN meet.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

 

[Inyatkin]

UConn-Rutgers Elite Eight in Newark, can't wait

 

[BlueMAB]

Used a good amount in parts of VA and the Carolina's from my experience.

Carolina's what?

 

[UCFan1513]

Anyone know if there was ever any real interest here? Would be interesting to know if Hurley is looking for a big guard to replace Newton

 

[Mr. French]

Good snag for Rutty. No idea is they’ll use him right but he’s a solid player

 

[NJHusky]

UConn-Rutgers Elite Eight in Newark, can't wait

Let’s see Ru get out of the first weekend….not sure how far 2 frosh will take them

 

[Fishy]

My wife's entire family is from the rural south. You're more likely to see "y'all" from a New England English major than an Appalachian. It may be technically correct, but it's against the spirit of the word.

Yeah, that’s not true lol. The number of times you’ll see it in New England is roughly zero. The number of times you will see it from a southerner is roughly all the time.

UConn-Rutgers Elite Eight in Newark, can't wait

You’ll see another solar eclipse before you see RU in the Elite Eight.

 

[Fan1978]

Anyone know if there was ever any real interest here? Would be interesting to know if Hurley is looking for a big guard to replace Newton

Not good enough with young team and limited slots

 

[husky99]

Lock it up.. one less thread to read

 

[pj]

It's good for Rutgers to get him some experience in high DI ball so that when he transfers to us the following year, he'll be ready to play big minutes.

 

[Huskyforlife]

This kid and Essandoko felt more like this level of transfer than UConn. He'll be a decent backup for their top 5 duo.

 

[FlexOnEm]

Great pickup for them. He’ll be a good complimentary piece to Bailey and Harper, particularly on the defensive end.