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Karaban still weighing decision whether to return or go pro

I waited until last night to watch this season's final 2 "Karaban & Kotler" episodes of the Connecticut Scoreboard podcast, and I'm thinking that we're going to learn something by midnight tomorrow.
 
ctchamps said:
Do you believe the staff has not evaluated portal replacements for Alex?

Do you believe the staff has not reached out to potential Alex replacements?

Do you believe it’s impossible there were no players that had the skills the staff wanted or, if they did have those skills, they did not meet the cultural preferences or monetary parameters?

Do you believe an indecisive player has frozen the demanding and strong personality of Hurley from setting perimeters on Alex’s decision making?

If so go ahead and scapegoat Alex for the failures around him.

I have the opposite answers to those questions.
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Do you believe an indecisive player has frozen the demanding and strong personality of Hurley from setting perimeters on Alex’s decision making?

Yes - his loyalty stands in the way of his decision making at times - right or wrong - thats not for us to decide
 
NJHusky said:
Because they don't know if Alex is coming back.. No one who expects to be a starter at the 4 is going to be happy if Alex decides he's coming back...so I doubt any top tier player would commit to coming unless they know Alex is leaving.

I'm all for taking your time...but he should have had all the info from his agent the day we were eliminated. He's had a month...nothing is changing on the "go pro" side. He is what he is and teams view him a certain way.
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We will see.......;)
 
djct1999 said:
This idea that Alex has put UConn in a bind is ludicrous. I am sure he is transparent w his intentions and the staff is well equipped. It’s not like any of this is coming out of left field and blind sighting them.
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Ludicrous that he put the program in a bind?

You're right, but only because for him to cause maximum damage to the program they had to show him loyalty and defer on replacing him. Their willingness to go along with this lengthy process speaks volumes about how much Dan Hurley loves him and what he's done for the program but he's not helping the program at this point.

He can be as transparent as Saran Wrap but that does the staff no good if he drags out the decision as much as he did last year. There's no excuse. He has to know he's not a first round pick and probably not high enough in the second round to get any meaningful guarantee so what factor could be delaying the decision?
 
Marat said:
Well that wouldn't be good.
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Therein lies the problem. Just because staff swears it’s ok that Alex took so long to decide so that they now have to scour the European continent for his replacement doesn’t mean they wouldnt have preferred to simply lure an elite player from another school into the transfer portal and been done with it.
 
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NJHusky said:
I don't understand these vacuous questions. I'll sum it up with 1 question.....Do you think any player that signed elsewhere since the portal opened could have been a possible Alex replacement but didn't come here because of the possibility of Alex coming back?
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No
 
DRBackup said:
I mean, isn't that inherent in "decision making" ? If he already knew the answer, why wouldn't he just announce it.
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I think the “he” is referring to Dan Hurley, not Alex (who would be making the announcement).
 
amishboy said:
I kinda agree with both positions: Alex is a UConn legend, who owes us nothing, and is owed as much time as he needs for this potentially life-changing decision, but…

I’m skeptical that we have a great backup plan, i.e., Miller might not be making his “taking my talents to UConn” announcement at 12:01 tomorrow. The backup plan might just be some trio of Stewart, Ross, Reibe, etc., at the 4.
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I could live with that backup plan.
 
amishboy said:
I kinda agree with both positions: Alex is a UConn legend, who owes us nothing, and is owed as much time as he needs for this potentially life-changing decision, but…

I’m skeptical that we have a great backup plan, i.e., Miller might not be making his “taking my talents to UConn” announcement at 12:01 tomorrow. The backup plan might just be some trio of Stewart, Ross, Reibe, etc., at the 4.
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Hoping for the ever popular “big jumps” out of 2/3 of those but I really dislike relying on it.
 
Scrutineer said:
Ludicrous that he put the program in a bind?

You're right, but only because for him to cause maximum damage to the program they had to show him loyalty and defer on replacing him. Their willingness to go along with this lengthy process speaks volumes about how much Dan Hurley loves him and what he's done for the program but he's not helping the program at this point.

He can be as transparent as Saran Wrap but that does the staff no good if he drags out the decision as much as he did last year. There's no excuse. He has to know he's not a first round pick and probably not high enough in the second round to get any meaningful guarantee so what factor could be delaying the decision?
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I doubt the deferral would have been unconditional. Alex loves Hurley and UConn. They must have discussed situations where a decision had to be made.

Unless you believe Alex is both indecisive and fragile.

I’m not certain that he’s even indecisive. He chose UConn instead of his parents preference of more prestigious academic institutions.

He left IMG Academy to get a head start with our program.
 
StllH8L8ner said:
Hoping for the ever popular “big jumps” out of 2/3 of those but I really dislike relying on it.
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I think Stewart will be the starter if Karaban doesn't come back and I feel good based on the end of year how he was playing. He just now needs to be more aggressive on offense as we are going to need him as a shooter. He can't sit at the 3 point line and do an occassional cut to the basket. He is going to have to be moving and looking for his shot in our offense. We will need him to be big contributor next year. Ross I don't really have much confidence in from what I saw and hope we are looking for more depth pieces in the portal if Alex doesn't come back to back up at PF or even SF. I think Mullins will start at SF based on the current lineup but having more reliable depth there would be helpful.
 
bendm said:
Therein lies the problem. Just because staff swears it’s ok that Alex took so long to decide so that they now have to scour the European continent for his replacement doesn’t mean they wouldnt have preferred to simply lure an elite player from another school into the transfer portal and been done with it.
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I think if Alex doesn't come back we are looking at J-Stew to start at the 4 and looking for backup players in the portal which I think we can do at this time. We probably aren't going to find a starter at this late in the game but you never know what might happen out there once Alex's decision is final.
 
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