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No more hardship waivers. The only kids who can transfer and be immediately eligible are grad transfers or kids like Oriakhi whose team is ineligble for the postseason for the rest of his career.
 
CallMeBruce said:
If he closes Larrier, we'll be looking for some sort of explanation. Either they drastically improved one or more aspects of their recruiting, or there's something particularly appealing about our program to transfers. Or maybe we just got unlucky for a while and now we're lucky again.
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Sure seems that Rodney Purvis became happy with the change to UConn. KO perseverance; he was after this kid. If you're not happy where you are, have faith in KO.
 
Chief00 said:
Quite frankly very athletic but not a knock down shooter.
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I remember hearing things like this about Deandre his freshman year when he shot 34% from 3 and eventualyl had his minutes reduced. By his junior year he knocked down 3's at nearly 47%. Not to mention those filthy turn-around J's he was hitting in the tourney.

Some kids just get it later than others. I have no doubt Larrier can be an impact player at UConn, especially with KO as his coach.
 
Larrier will be a stud there no question in my mind. He had subpar numbers his freshman year. Remember he wasn't a top 20 freshman so I didnt expect him to put up numbers that a Stanley Johnson, Okafor, Winslow or the Kentucky kids put up. I think Ollies pro style offense is better suited for him. He will be two years older when he steps on the court and will produce.
 
UChusky916 said:
I remember hearing things like this about Deandre his freshman year when he shot 34% from 3 and eventualyl had his minutes reduced. By his junior year he knocked down 3's at nearly 47%. Not to mention those filthy turn-around J's he was hitting in the tourney.

Some kids just get it later than others. I have no doubt Larrier can be an impact player at UConn, especially with KO as his coach.
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Those were his regular FG% numbers. He was at 24% from 3 as a freshman, 31% as a sophomore, and 42% as a junior.
 
CallMeBruce said:
Those were his regular FG% numbers. He was at 24% from 3 as a freshman, 31% as a sophomore, and 42% as a junior.
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Lies, I have it on good authority players that old don't get better from three.
 
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CallMeBruce said:
Those were his regular FG% numbers. He was at 24% from 3 as a freshman, 31% as a sophomore, and 42% as a junior.
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Oops. But yeah, same point. He struggled early with some saying he was only athletic. People practically wrote off the fact he was a top 15 recruit nationally. He knocked down 3's at a high clip his junior year.
 
caw said:
Lies, I have it on good authority players that old don't get better from three.
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I thought of Chief when I saw a twitter convo between Gottlieb and some other hoops guy about how shooting is the easiest skill to improve (convo discussing Caroll on the Hawks)
 
Don't mean to sound like an a** as I would love to bring him aboard, but I personally think if we can bring in one SF for 2016 VJ King is the man to get. Obviously lacks the college experience Larrier has but he appears more polished imo.
 
walker11 said:
I thought of Chief when I saw a twitter convo between Gottlieb and some other hoops guy about how shooting is the easiest skill to improve (convo discussing Caroll on the Hawks)
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That is funny because Gottlieb was a horrible shooter. Sub 50% from FT I believe.
 
I Bleed Blue said:
Don't mean to sound like an a** as I would love to bring him aboard, but I personally think if we can bring in one SF for 2016 VJ King is the man to get. Obviously lacks the college experience Larrier has but he appears more polished imo.
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I love King's talent, but it's gonna be tough to get him to commit to UConn over Louisville. If a guy as talented as Larrier wants to commit here, you go for it.
 
bear said:
That is funny because Gottlieb was a horrible shooter. Sub 50% from FT I believe.
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Yea I could be mistaken. It may have been Zach Lowe or someone like that.
 
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I Bleed Blue said:
Don't mean to sound like an a** as I would love to bring him aboard, but I personally think if we can bring in one SF for 2016 VJ King is the man to get. Obviously lacks the college experience Larrier has but he appears more polished imo.
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If we can get Larrier now then we get him. In recruiting you can't sit around waiting and hoping. If we pass on Larrier and then King passes on us then what? Smart move is to grab Larrier now and if you can still get King then go for it if not then well we got Larrier and worry about another SF in the class of 2017.
 
I could be wrong (can't read the future) but Larrier and King could fit together similar to how Purvis and Hamilton fit together, or maybe more apt would be Daniels and a better Kromah.
 
caw said:
I could be wrong (can't read the future) but Larrier and King could fit together similar to how Purvis and Hamilton fit together, or maybe more apt would be Daniels and a better Kromah.
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Agree...especially since it's not a given Purvis will be on the team. If he puts together a very good year on a team that makes a big run...he's got a real chance at the first round. That would make plenty of room for King and Larrier on the perimeter.
 
I Bleed Blue said:
Don't mean to sound like an a** as I would love to bring him aboard, but I personally think if we can bring in one SF for 2016 VJ King is the man to get. Obviously lacks the college experience Larrier has but he appears more polished imo.
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That's all well and good. But King seems Louisville bound and you can bet the staff knows this.
 
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I Bleed Blue said:
Don't mean to sound like an a** as I would love to bring him aboard, but I personally think if we can bring in one SF for 2016 VJ King is the man to get. Obviously lacks the college experience Larrier has but he appears more polished imo.
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They are quite a bit different. King is skilled 2-3, and Larrier is more of the 3-4 type.

In other words, with a good point guard on the floor, you can see both of these guys playing at the same time, or even move Larrier to the 4 like Hamilton did whenever Enoch and Diarra are on the bench.
 
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HuskyBballFan said:
That's all well and good. But King seems Louisville bound and you can bet the staff knows this.
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I think it gets slightly better every day he doesn't commit but I still wouldn't be shocked if he commits without visiting UConn.

That said it will be interesting to see how he progresses if he does go there. Adel and Mitchell will be sophomores at the wings and King doesn't have the best rep for playing defense and UL just lost Aaron because Pitino demands a lot on defense (it's a pretty complex defense to play well) and he wasn't up to it.
 
Zionn said:
We should not hold our breath over King.
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Yep. King was never going to come to UConn - hence the Larrier push. The staff sees what's coming.
 
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walker11 said:
Yea I could be mistaken. It may have been Zach Lowe or someone like that.
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jeff goodman maybe on nba lockdown podcast? he got shat on by espn insider/ex front office guy amin elhassan recently when goodman claimed the lakers were making the playoffs if they got okafor + dragic. I do remember hearing somebody talking about improving shooting and how easy it was recently, and kind of disagreeing with it.
 
I thought that 3 posted that King was doing an official visit to Storrs sometime shortly?

With UConn making his short list of 5, and having a official visit scheduled, that makes him a viable recruiting target. Not a player to say "Next!" on just yet. Wait for the visit.
 
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