Kentucky Center Decommitts

[jibsey]

Jayden Quaintance 6’10 5 star.

 

[TheHorde]

To follow Calislimy to Arkansas?

 

[UCTitleTown]

I think any 5* recruits at least deserves a call from "the bluest of the blue bloods"..... UConn.

FYI, I literally spit out my water when I heard the Squid utter those words in his goodbye video. Hilarious and dillusional. I think that lack of reality might explain his lack of success.

 

[OceanDoggie]

I think any 5* recruits at least deserves a call from "the bluest of the blue bloods"..... UConn.

FYI, I literally spit out my water when I heard the Squid utter those words in his goodbye video. Hilarious and dillusional. I think that lack of reality might explain his lack of success.

No, He's right. That's exactly why they land the best recruits year after year. They are a lot like Uconn; Kentucky like Connecticut has no professional Sports of note. They've won titles with 3 coaches in the last 30 years. Their fans and Alumni love and support their program. The problem was that the Squid was not the "bluest of blue" Coaches, while Hurly has ascended into one.

 

[auror]

I just have no interest in 5* centers. They're the 1st round fantasy RBs of recruits. If it works out, they're unstoppable. But way too often they miss and then bolt to league based on potential and measurables and you're left with nothing.

 

[FearThePups]

Maybe the kid realizes it’s going to be a s*show there next season.

 

[Palatine]

Cal said he focused on offense last year because his players couldn't play defense.

Contrast with Castle saying he couldn't play defense when he got to UConn because his high school coach didn't ask him to play defense. Yet somehow, in his freshman year with DH he becomes one of the best defense players in the country.

HHHmmmmmmm. Maybe the problem was Cal didn't (or couldn't) teach his players to play defense.

 

[AdamaNation]

Cal isn’t a developer he’s an agent. The whole I’ll get you 5* guys to the league shows you how ridiculous the recruits themselves are. He literally just kept them from getting drafted out if high school for a decade. What top 10 high schoolers weren’t getting drafted anyway? It was snake oil.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I just have no interest in 5* centers. They're the 1st round fantasy RBs of recruits. If it works out, they're unstoppable. But way too often they miss and then bolt to league based on potential and measurables and you're left with nothing.

I thought I would have to troll you into a post like this, but you did it all by yourself.

 

[jibsey]

If Hurley developed Castle who was a 5 star it makes sense he could do it with another. Key is their willingness to do what he tells them as Castle did.

 

[auror]

I thought I would have to troll you into a post like this, but you did it all by yourself.

ha! Give me 4* centers we can develop for 2-3 years is my ideal (or a senior transfer).

 

[TheChamps990411]

ha! Give me 4* centers we can develop for 2-3 years is my ideal (or a senior transfer).

I think an ideal C for next year is Bobbie Avila a kid in the portal who has listed Uconn as one of his prefered schools already.

 

[UConnSwag11]

I think an ideal C for next year is Bobbie Avila a kid in the portal who has listed Uconn as one of his prefered schools already.

Probably following his coach and I think he’d get eaten alive in the big east

 

[UConnSwag11]

ha! Give me 4* centers we can develop for 2-3 years is my ideal (or a senior transfer).

So put off winning to develop players…? Wut

 

[navery12]

I think an ideal C for next year is Bobbie Avila a kid in the portal who has listed Uconn as one of his prefered schools already.

Where'd you see he listed UConn as a preferred school?

 

[TheChamps990411]

Where'd you see he listed UConn as a preferred school?

Sleepers media reported St. Louis, Illinois, Indiana, Duke and Uconn have been mentioned. Take that with a grain of salt.

 

[Jaker]

I would rather see Ballo in a Uconn jersey,his play reminds me of Sanogo.

 

[navery12]

So put off winning to develop players…? Wut

That's your takeaway? We just won back to back championships with a 2 year 4 star C so that's clearly not the case

 

[August_West]

I just have no interest in 5* centers. They're the 1st round fantasy RBs of recruits. If it works out, they're unstoppable. But way too often they miss and then bolt to league based on potential and measurables and you're left with nothing.

^^This guy gets it

 

[August_West]

So put off winning to develop players…? Wut

Duke and Kentucky win with that strategy?

 

[UconnFanDC]

I just have no interest in 5* centers. They're the 1st round fantasy RBs of recruits. If it works out, they're unstoppable. But way too often they miss and then bolt to league based on potential and measurables and you're left with nothing.

Castle is most likely a one and done. So if the recruit does play to the style and benefits the team and not just himself, I'd say get him.

 

[UConnStats]

I just have no interest in 5* centers. They're the 1st round fantasy RBs of recruits. If it works out, they're unstoppable. But way too often they miss and then bolt to league based on potential and measurables and you're left with nothing.

For what it’s worth Quaintance reclassified and is so young that he will not be eligible to enter the draft until after his sophomore year. With that being said, I think a reclassified freshman and Johnson would present a lot of downside at the 5 compared to a stud from the portal.

 

[Hamms30]

I would enjoy watching Steph Blurry rain 3's on Kalbrenner all game.

 

[Leebo]

Sleepers media reported St. Louis, Illinois, Indiana, Duke and Uconn have been mentioned. Take that with a grain of salt.

Did they say UConn was mentioned? I thought they were just tossing out ideas. I was only half paying attention while watching my son though.

 

[auror]

So put off winning to develop players…? Wut

That's what the bench is for. It's gotta be a rotation. Donovan is a 2nd year player. Samson is a 3rd year player. Sanogo was a 3rd year player.

You don't win with most of the 5* freshmen bigs.

Here are the 247 composite 5* freshmen bigs (at least 6'10" or at least 230 lbs) for the last 3 years, their PPG, and their team's tourny seed/finish (* if they left the team after the season):
2023
Aaron Bradshaw - 4.9ppg, 3 seed/R64*
Omaha Bilew - 2.4 ppg, 2 seed/S16*
Xavier Booker - 3.7 ppg, 9 seed/R32
Kwame Evans - 7.3 ppg, 11 seed/R32
Sean Stewart - 2.6 ppg, 4 seed/E8
2022
Dereck Lively - 5.2 ppg, 5 seed/R32*
Kyle Filipowski - 15.1 ppg, 5 seed/R32
Kel'el Ware - 6.6 ppg, no tourny*
Adem Bona - 7.7 ppg, 2 seed/S16
Yohan Traore - 2.1 ppg, 9 seed/R32*
Vincent Iwuchukwu - 5.4 ppg, 10 seed/R64
2021
Chet Holmgren - 14.1 ppg, 1 seed/S16*
Paolo Banchero - 17.2 ppg, 2 seed/F4*
Jalen Duren - 12 ppg, 9 seed/R32*
Jabari Smith - 16.9 ppg, 2 seed/R32*
Moussa Diabate - 9 ppg, 9 seed/S16*
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield - 3.9 ppg, 3 seed/R32*
Efton Reid - 6.3 ppg, 6 seed, R64*
Nathan Bittle - 1.7 ppg, no tourny

So 19 guys, 2 made the Elite 8 and one of those guys was a bench guy who got less than 10 minutes per game.

That's why I made the first round RB analogy. If you get a Chet/Paolo/Jabari/Filipowski, then it works out (to an extent), especially Filipowski since he came back for year 2. But there are 8 guys (and up to 10 depending on Evans and Booker) on this list that averaged less than 10 ppg and then left the team after the season. So they were mostly bad and then didn't even develop to be good later. Mostly disasters. Of the other 3 guys that came back after scoring less than 10, only Bona really made strides and lived up to his potential.

It's a more than 50% landmine rate with like a 25% hit rate.