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Mark Zanetto talking about uconn in the running for a top European center

uconn_jack said:
True, and I could buy that, but that would also have to mean that he told Hines he might not start and still may be recruited over. I'm less likely to believe that Hines would have agreed to that.
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I don't think Hurley guarantees starting positions and a set # of minutes to incoming players. It's something players always talk about after they sign up to play for him. He recruits players who want to go against the best competition, get better, earn everything, and win championships.

If a scenario like this ever did happen Hines is getting 20 minutes per game no matter what. I don't think those 4 or 5 extra minutes would make a difference to a UConn player who wants to have the best team and win it all.
 
superjohn said:
You don't know what Hurley told them. You don't know if Giltay is looked at as a development piece who will be brought along slowly and not expected to play a major role his first season because of his age and lack of development. You don't know if Hurley thinks we have the firepower to win it all as is or if he thinks the team needs more. You don't know the expectations of Hurley or the players.

Self underachieving since he won in '22 is a Bill Self problem.
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That Self 22 NC was a weak champion. Beat a low seeded Hubie lead UNC team that featured RJ Davis, Caleb Wilson, Leaky Black and Armando Bacot. KU star was Jalen Wilson, had KJ and DeJuan Harris on it. The two UConn teams would have blasted that KU team. Very similar KU team in 23 got beat by Arkansas, who UConn thumped.

Self has two titles, but both were gifts - first was a buzzer beater to get to OT, second was that one. I tend to think he's a bit overrated as a coach, titles are titles.
 
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Blades said:
besides the 7ft mystery man he also mentioned this 6-9/250lb big recently. (Koroma 2.0 ?) But who knows if he was just pulling it off 24/7's portal list ?

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I would imagine he's getting much better offers than a Koroma role here. I think he'll likely even have better offers than the backup 4 spot here
 
superjohn said:
No. He says he's talking about someone who would be a major gamechanger, who could start, who is really tall, who would only play in a certain part of the country for maketing/NIL who St. John's is also looking at. Nova and St. John's are both trying to get Luigi Suigo, that has to be who he's talking about. The Northeast is where the Italians are, he's really tall, and he's a gamechanger type of talent.
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Can schools pay players from other countries? Can foreign players get nil money?
 
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3rdbass said:


Not a PF but it looks like we are looking bringing him in?
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It would be an interesting pickup. He's a guard/SF that played the 4 freshman year for Manhattan College-averaged 11 & 8. In fact, he put up 13 & 8 against Clingan, Karaban and Samson. A scrappy guard who can get in the mix may be the solution against front court disadvantages. Our guards are tough and strong as it is.

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OceanDoggie said:
It would be an interesting pickup. He's a guard/SF that played the 4 freshman year for Manhattan College-averaged 11 & 8. In fact, he put up 13 & 8 against Clingan, Karaban and Samson. A scrappy guard who can get in the mix may be the solution against front court disadvantages. Our guards are tough and strong as it is.

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No kidding, this is that kid - good find. I remember thinking he was a player and a potential transfer get, I believe Hurley knows the Jaspers coach so didn't think he'd poach.
 
RuffRuff said:
No kidding, this is that kid - good find. I remember thinking he was a player and a potential transfer get, I believe Hurley knows the Jaspers coach so didn't think he'd poach.
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Kid no longer plays in beautiful North Riverdale. He’s a Utah transfer.
 
OceanDoggie said:
It would be an interesting pickup. He's a guard/SF that played the 4 freshman year for Manhattan College-averaged 11 & 8. In fact, he put up 13 & 8 against Clingan, Karaban and Samson. A scrappy guard who can get in the mix may be the solution against front court disadvantages. Our guards are tough and strong as it is.

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This post is worth liking for the nostalgia it brings alone. One of the Newton Triple Doubles
 
FfldCntyFan said:
About four years ago, when the writing was on the wall with where NIL was leading the sport, a handful of Duke grads who worked as investment managers, fund managers, etc, got together and decided the best way to assist the school was to start a fund for the sole purpose of financing Duke's talent acquisitions for the men's basketball program (One Vision Futures).
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I like that idea. Some kind of restricted operating fund that includes gifts which are solely for the benefit of men's bb program. Start one for the women as well. I think a lot of people would like that idea. While things have become more materialistic nothing unites this state
like these teams. College Basketball Capital of the World.
 
Spaceman213J said:
I think Hurley & staff could be fine in this situation. We saw that Hurley was willing to give a 'twin towers' look at times. Giuso thing is that he's mobile at his size and has an outside shot.
I'm not saying Hurley is going to play Hines and Giuso on the floor for 20 minutes a game together, but minutes could be spread enough. You figure that Demary and County anchor the point. Mullins is the SG with the new kid from Wofford getting some minutes there. Would be surprised if we even see Ross for minutes at SG, especially if Braylon is in foul trouble or need a few defensive stops. You have Khamenia, Ross, Landrew who will all get time at SF and PF along with Nils in a 3 guard lineup with Mullins and the PG.

Also, I think Hurley can sell kids on Clingan, Johnson and Sanogo improving a lot by facing each other every day in practice.
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Good point. The record speaks for itself. Our staff knows how to sell what they have built which is a culture of relentless self development in a unified one for all team environment. Love having the former team guys hanging out with the current team in the summer and showing up all over on game days. Dan Hurley & Co could be just beginning taking this to another level.
 
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3rdbass said:
Are we really taking anything that Nut Zanetto says with any real credence and have a whole thread about it? I wish people never posted anything that egotistical jerk said on here.
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What’s the issue with Zanetto by the way? Just the big 12 thing? How certain he was? Just asking and not being argumentative. Just been wanting to ask
 
RuffRuff said:
That Self 22 NC was a weak champion. Beat a low seeded Hubie lead UNC team that featured RJ Davis, Caleb Wilson, Leaky Black and Armando Bacot. KU star was Jalen Wilson, had KJ and DeJuan Harris on it. The two UConn teams would have blasted that KU team. Very similar KU team in 23 got beat by Arkansas, who UConn thumped.

Self has two titles, but both were gifts - first was a buzzer beater to get to OT, second was that one. I tend to think he's a bit overrated as a coach, titles are titles.
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Throwing shade at a NC is silly. Throwing shade at two is very, very silly. You can only beat the teams you play. Every natty is an amazing accomplishment.
 
Palatine said:
Throwing shade at a NC is silly. Throwing shade at two is very, very silly. You can only beat the teams you play. Every natty is an amazing accomplishment.
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Sure - I'm not taking aways from Self's resume - he's a HOF coach. He's benefitted by being at a brand that could attract top recruits and playing in a weak B12 for a long time and he pulled a couple off. Four F4's.

He's been a hot mess since the portal became a real factor.
 
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auror said:
Think he may have been contacted by us, but either after Machowski agreed or the staff decided they wanted a bigger 4 we pivoted. Not an option for us currently.
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That doesn't really make sense about Machowski as their positions don't overlap 1/2 vs. 3/4. I do agree he doesn't really fit our current lineup as we need a bigger 4 but this is the only nugget out there for recruiting we had since Nils committed.
 
Palatine said:
Throwing shade at a NC is silly. Throwing shade at two is very, very silly. You can only beat the teams you play. Every natty is an amazing accomplishment.
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Every time someone says a title was easy or the bracket was wide open you have to think, OK, so how come no one else won it? People (including on here) say that about our 23 title. If it was such a breeze why'd all those other teams lose?
 
In 2014 a coworker (who was from somewhere near Albany & a Syracuse fan) told me that title really shouldn't count as much as others because the team wasn't really a championship team and everything fell our way or we wouldn't have won.

My response was "What are supposed to do, give it back?".

Either you won it all or you didn't. If you won it all it counts as much as any prior or future title.
 
Arod18 said:
What’s the issue with Zanetto by the way? Just the big 12 thing? How certain he was? Just asking and not being argumentative. Just been wanting to ask
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The Big 12 thing was a big part of it for a lot of people, but in general Zanetto is aware that he is in the eyeball business, especially as a startup (when he started the UConn locked on and now his new network). He's ambitious. He knows in the internet age it's often better to be first and be loudest or most controversial than necessarily be right or 100% trustworthy. He can go back and praise himself in an episode after getting something right that people doubted him (dumb people in the comments), but he was right! And his fans will nod and say yeah that's right! Ignoring the 2 or 3 things he said in the same episode that turned out were wrong.

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He has people he talks to, but they're generally not close enough to actually get good/timely intel on UConn recruiting/transfers/roster (because UConn is super tight on that stuff). Sometimes he gets something from UConn people, and sometimes he gets stuff from outside of the UConn family that relates to UConn. It's very hit or miss. It's not enough to sustain an "insider" news source, and his basketball analysis isn't rigorous or interesting enough to sustain a basketball show. So he ends up as an entertainment and news aggregation show masquerading as the others. It would be fine if he were more transparent about this, but his presentation is often structured with news breaking language and tone.

Some people don't like the way he teases things and hypes things up (this mystery big an example of that). Some people hate that his twitter is full of typos and weird formatting. Some people just don't like his personality and his lack of editing on his show. I appreciate his hustle, but sometimes the hustle gets him over his skis.
 
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