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Karaban still weighing decision whether to return or go pro

superjohn said:
Memphis was runner up and a second away from winning it all. Pitino is a much better coach than Cal and he brought St. John's their first Big East regular season title in over 25 years, their first Big East tournament title in 25 years in just his second season and he'll have them preseason top 3. I would say he's already gotten them somewhere.
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With a HUGE assist from Repole.
 
Fishy said:
First, we have to acknowledge that this is now purely a business. These guys are on seven figure contracts and we have to sign a million dollar player to replace Alex if he leaves because the competition is out there pitching these kids right now.

As for Samson Johnson…meh. Feels like they’re building another Memphis where they run people in and out and get nowhere in the end.
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In case you haven't noticed, StJ, SJU, Johnnies, Red Storm, and probably others will do what you were trying for, but until a change as to something that was created for the convenience of writing the name of a player who has completed his career gets changed, you just got SJed.
 
bendm said:
The issue is who fills those roster spots smart guy. The portal is closed and there’s only 2 guys left that would be good Alex replacements and everyone is after them.
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The point is - we could get a player and worst case we have too many players. Now if someone is a coward who won't come unless Alex leaves then maybe he isn't the guy anyway. I want someone that wants to be here. I don't want someone that is just coming here solely for PT / Money (although I acknowledge those are real factors).
 
UCfor3 said:
With a HUGE assist from Repole.
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Yep, Vitamin Waterboy is huge but it's not just him. Pitino has people in the area excited about St. John's basketball.

Meanwhile, the founder and CEO of CrowdStrike is a Seton Hall guy and Holloway is bringing in MAAC players.
 
NJHusky said:
You do know that know each roster spot has a price tag? Are y going to pony up a few mill to be sure we can get who we want?
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A few mill? BTW I don't know how we have the money to pay all of the people we are paying already. But they seem to have figured it out.

Honestly AK has earned the right to make his decision however he wants to. And if Hurley has a problem with it - Hurley can tell AK what to do. He has earned that right also. I guess I trust them to do what they think is right - and will trust the process. As much as I want more titles, I am not going to obsess about it. If AK leaves and we don't get another guy? Then we roll with who we got and I'm ok with that. I like the returning players - I like the portal additions we got - and I like the recruits coming in. Lots of talent and a great coach.
 
He has until the 26th to declare and if he does declare he has until June 15th to withdraw from the draft. Technically he can declare this week and say he still hasn't decided and keep everyone hanging until June 15th. This place would melt
 
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bendm said:
You can’t be drafted unless you enter your name in the draft otherwise the jazz or whoever would select Flagg with the first pick even if he was returning for his sophomore year lol
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And that doesn’t address anything I said. Love that Flagg analogy, awesome baby

LOL
 
J187Money said:
A few mill? BTW I don't know how we have the money to pay all of the people we are paying already. But they seem to have figured it out.

Honestly AK has earned the right to make his decision however he wants to. And if Hurley has a problem with it - Hurley can tell AK what to do. He has earned that right also. I guess I trust them to do what they think is right - and will trust the process. As much as I want more titles, I am not going to obsess about it. If AK leaves and we don't get another guy? Then we roll with who we got and I'm ok with that. I like the returning players - I like the portal additions we got - and I like the recruits coming in. Lots of talent and a great coach.
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The number I heard Michigan State may be offering Adams (sleepers media isn’t 100 percent certain they believe it) is $1.5 million. Any good experienced big is probably going to run $2 mil or more. There just aren’t many.
 
"Players who are not automatically eligible but wish to be drafted must enter their names no later than 60 days before the draft"
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
In case you haven't noticed, StJ, SJU, Johnnies, Red Storm, and probably others will do what you were trying for, but until a change as to something that was created for the convenience of writing the name of a player who has completed his career gets changed, you just got SJed.
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Yeah, autocorrect got me.

(Edit…no, it didn’t. This site corrects S J to Samson Johnson.

That’s….kinda silly.)
 
J187Money said:
The point is - we could get a player and worst case we have too many players. Now if someone is a coward who won't come unless Alex leaves then maybe he isn't the guy anyway. I want someone that wants to be here. I don't want someone that is just coming here solely for PT / Money (although I acknowledge those are real factors).
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That isn't the way it works under this NIL age. It is alll about promoting yourself while making the most money you can with getting a chance to make an NBA roster. Guys aren't coming here to sit behind other player when it is their last year in college. They want to start especially one like Baba who has a point to prove he can play consistently at a higher level.
 
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3rdbass said:
That isn't the way it works under this NIL age. It is alll about promoting yourself while making the most money you can with getting a chance to make an NBA roster. Guys aren't coming here to sit behind other player when it is their last year in college. They want to start especially one like Baba who has a point to prove he can play consistently at a higher level.
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Bingo. And, if you’re a underclass a who rides the bench, you might lower your valuation by up to about $1 million for the next season….

Somebody else said, and I agree - that a lot of good top 50ish players might end up at low to mid majors for a year or maybe 2 tops - so they position themselves for the bigger college money as juniors and seniors.
 
willie99 said:
And that doesn’t address anything I said. Love that Flagg analogy, awesome baby

LOL
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How did I not address your post? You said players are automatically eligible for the nba draft. In response I said that’s not true they have to actually declare for the draft and then gave an example illustrating how crazy your alternative realty would be
 
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Scottzer said:
The number I heard Michigan State may be offering Adams (sleepers media isn’t 100 percent certain they believe it) is $1.5 million. Any good experienced big is probably going to run $2 mil or more. There just aren’t many.
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Luckily we should have Adams and Alex’s NIL to offer miller or Williams. Should be enough for a starting PF and 3rd string PG and our 12th man depth big
 
bendm said:
Luckily we should have Adams and Alex’s NIL to offer miller or Williams. Should be enough for a starting PF and 3rd string PG and our 12th man depth big
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You make me wish I'd paid closer attention when @temery did a show & tell on how he worked up a way to track the most active posters within any particular thread.
 
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HuskyWarrior611 said:
They dropped the ball in getting rid of Randle to keep him on then.

Big time mismanagement of the surplus of assets they had. AND they got their superstar to sign for a discount.

Looking into this more its actually not surprising they went and got KAT who is another CAA client if you're into the agencies being the decision makers for certain orgs thing.
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IIRC, Randall was injured at the deadline last year. I'm not sure if the NBA has a rule similar to baseball (in season) & football (full year) where an injured player can't be traded but it would have been very difficult to trade him then. Additionally, it wasn't until shortly before the playoffs that Hartenstein showed more than stray flashes. Yes, I would have greatly preferred it if they could have matched OKC's offer and in all candor I believe it is ridiculous that a team can't match an offer on a player they had on their roster through season's end

My biggest gripe about game two was that Thibs didn't play KAT and Mitch together at all. There should be three to four minutes each quarter where one through five should be Brunson, Bridges, Anunoby, Townes and Robinson. There are maybe six top tier perimeter defenders in the NBA and the Knicks have two (Anunoby & Bridges). Playing OG as a four limits his capabilities and the issue gets magnified when our four (OG) is guarding t he opponents one (Cade) as then there are likely two mismatches across the defense.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
You make me wish I'd paid closer attention when @temery did a show & tell on how he worked up a way to track the most active posters within any particular thread.
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Slow work week. but if we could quote multiple posters in a single reply like before I wouldn’t have as many
 
J187Money said:
We aren't out of roster spots so I'm not sure that's a real problem.
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Of course it is. If you’re a kid looking to get 25-30 minutes a game at UConn and you’re capable of that talent wise but you’re not sure if Karaban is staying or not do you think that won’t matter??? He’s almost at the point where he better stay or he killed the program he was so proud to be a part of.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
You make me wish I'd paid closer attention when @temery did a show & tell on how he worked up a way to track the most active posters within any particular thread.
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There are only 2 posters, maybe 3, who that could possibly be in each thread so we don't even need that function. :)
 
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If anyone was curious for this thread

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bendm said:
My god I would hope if/when he declares that staff would actively try to fill his spot. Waiting for him to declare before signing a replacement transfer is one thing, but we cant afford to wait for him to test and decide whether he wants to withdraw his name from the draft. That might not be until June 15th. The portal closes Friday I think, there won’t be anyone left to sign by May let alone mid June.
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Alex already said that he will not do that. He will decide NLT 4/26
 
navery12 said:
You can
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Not if the posts you wanna quote are on different pages of a thread. Eg if I click reply on a post on page 8 and then go to page 9 and click reply on another post, the first quoted post disappears for me
 
We know the portal is closed, but I'm curious... can a player who got into the portal and committed return to the portal? Or did their commitment take them out, and now they'd be unable to do so because it's closed.
 
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