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Wild roster rebuild. Will be interesting to see which of our lead guys this year will be able to make the leap to the pros to open up the last couple roster spots.
 
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McLovin said:
No, next year has 15 excluding those guys.
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Correct, which would mean 2 guys have to leave. My post is referring to Get A Job's post saying we need 4 guys with eligibility remaining to leave, which includes Newton and Alleyne
 
jibsey said:
Hawkins and Sanogo but Jackson? Unless his shooting form changed over the summer (and it never does). He will leave UCONN to play G league or overseas?
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If he hits at a decent clip this year again (and on higher volume) his form won’t matter. Worked out ok for Shawn Marion. Also teams won’t be able to pass up on his athleticism and defensive abilities.
 
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jibsey said:
Hawkins and Sanogo but Jackson? Unless his shooting form changed over the summer (and it never does). He will leave UCONN to play G league or overseas?
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I've seen all three on various mocks, although only Hawkins appears anywhere in 1st round.
 
Yeah, we're two over the limit for next year, but between grad transfers, regular transfers, and the chance of someone leaving early for the NBA or Europe, these things work themselves out.
 
If we get into a situation where enough people decide to come back that we are over the limit, what are our options? “Nudge” Springs or the international folks to transfer?

Can’t imagine the staff didn’t think through all these scenarios before sending out the offers, but I genuinely don’t know the options at that point
 
At the coaching clinic I went to, which Hurley was at, he said Hawkins and Jackson have the ability to play themselves into the first round draft next year. I think Jackson will def go, but we’ll see about Hawkins.
 
REB1094 said:
If we get into a situation where enough people decide to come back that we are over the limit, what are our options? “Nudge” Springs or the international folks to transfer?

Can’t imagine the staff didn’t think through all these scenarios before sending out the offers, but I genuinely don’t know the options at that point
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Yeah politely help some guys find a new team that would be at the bottom of the roster, which would be very unlike Hurley to do that. Which should ease the worry we end up in that situation, he's talking to these guys every day and will have a much better read on their plans than us here blindly speculating
 
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jibsey said:
Hawkins and Sanogo but Jackson? Unless his shooting form changed over the summer (and it never does). He will leave UCONN to play G league or overseas?
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Ben Simmons and Markelle Fultz can't shoot either. And my overseas career comment was about the two Europeans that we brought in. I'm sure the staff will reassess with them at the end of this year about what is best for their future. If they have a good year and Hurley thinks they can eventually break into the rotation then they'll stick around. If not, then it wouldn't shock me to see them go back home and just play professionally. They're basically glorified walk-ons for us this year...good bodies to have in practice but there is zero chance either of them see the court in meaningful minutes
 
storrsroars said:
I'm less concerned about too many schollies. That'll work itself out. I'm just hoping that when it shakes out we have the right guys for an (second) NC run.
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FIFY
 
I Bleed Blue said:
Wild roster rebuild. Will be interesting to see which of our lead guys this year will be able to make the leap to the pros to open up the last couple roster spots.
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That's not the only possibility. Without speculating on names, on any roster there are also players not in the coaches plans who may be told that to cause them to look elsewhere to open up the spots.
 
husky429 said:
I don't think comparing Jackson to Fultz or Simmons is fair. I see your point, but they were both a hell of a lot better players and two years younger when they were drafted.

Jackson will get picked up by a team in the mid or late first round. Someone is going to be willing to take the bet that with a couple years with a full time shooting coach he'll have NBA starter potential. Too athletic and skilled at 6'7 to not take that risk.
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I think his offense would need to be significantly improved this year to go in the first round. If teams were that high on his upside they would've taken that risk by now.
 
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I feel like untapped freak athleticism is usually a 1st/2nd year thing that NBA scouts will take a risk on. AJax is going into his junior year and now he’s the leader on the team, so he’ll be judged and scouted accordingly. Unless he’s a high 30s - 40+% 3P shooter on higher volume, I don’t think he sniffs the first round. His selling point is 6’6 hyper athletic 3&D floor general. It ticks a lot of boxes

If he averages 10/8/8 on high efficiency, he’s got a shot to be drafted. But he’s getting older for college standards. Whether it’s fair or not, scouts will expect a more refined game as the years go on
 
REB1094 said:
I feel like untapped freak athleticism is usually a 1st/2nd year thing that NBA scouts will take a risk on. AJax is going into his junior year and now he’s the leader on the team, so he’ll be judged and scouted accordingly. Unless he’s a high 30s - 40+% 3P shooter on higher volume, I don’t think he sniffs the first round. His selling point is 6’6 hyper athletic 3&D floor general. It ticks a lot of boxes

If he averages 10/8/8 on high efficiency, he’s got a shot to be drafted. But he’s getting older for college standards. Whether it’s fair or not, scouts will expect a more refined game as the years go on
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Exactly.

I’d be surprised if he doesn’t exceed expectations. Kid is a gym rat, consummate team player who bleeds UConn. He deferred to the senior starters last season. That won’t be the situation this year.

I expect him to be the co scoring leader with Sonogo at 14 - 16 ppg.
 
fleudslipcon said:
Exactly.

I’d be surprised if he doesn’t exceed expectations. Kid is a gym rat, consummate team player who bleeds UConn. He deferred to the senior starters last season. That won’t be the situation this year.

I expect him to be the co scoring leader with Sonogo at 14 - 16 ppg.
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Re-reading my post, I don’t think 10/8/8 is realistic. 8 assists a game would have been #1 in D1 last year. Bump that down to 5-6, and then bump up scoring to 12-14. So call it like 13/8/5. That’s a hell of a year and could get him drafted.

That said, I think he’s still the floor general. Off-season shooting videos aside, I think he will be the 4th scoring option and will get most of his points in fast breaks. I don’t really see him taking guys off the dribble and looking to score
 
REB1094 said:
Re-reading my post, I don’t think 10/8/8 is realistic. 8 assists a game would have been #1 in D1 last year. Bump that down to 5-6, and then bump up scoring to 12-14. So call it like 13/8/5. That’s a hell of a year and could get him drafted.

That said, I think he’s still the floor general. Off-season shooting videos aside, I think he will be the 4th scoring option and will get most of his points in fast breaks. I don’t really see him taking guys off the dribble and looking to score
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More realistic numbers.

My belief is he will get the green light to score this year. And he will shock those other than me. But it’s an unsupported opinion so I don’t need to debate it.
 
REB1094 said:
Re-reading my post, I don’t think 10/8/8 is realistic. 8 assists a game would have been #1 in D1 last year. Bump that down to 5-6, and then bump up scoring to 12-14. So call it like 13/8/5. That’s a hell of a year and could get him drafted.

That said, I think he’s still the floor general. Off-season shooting videos aside, I think he will be the 4th scoring option and will get most of his points in fast breaks. I don’t really see him taking guys off the dribble and looking to score
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Jackson went 7/7/3 last year and is showing up in mock drafts. If he gets to 13/8/5 with an improved shot, I think he’ll be a first rounder.

Oh, and if he goes 13/8/5, then we’ll be awesome.
 
The problem with Jackson is that he's got a very weird skill set - its hard to project into an NBA Lineup with any high level of confidence. NBA likes specialists who have certain projectable parts of their game that you can plug into "known" roles.

Jackson's game exists outside of those pre-defined roles, and so his success will be highly reliant on either upskilling to conform into one of those roles - say he hits 40% of threes this year at a solid volume - OR if he produces at such a high level in multiple different areas that a team is intrigued by the idea of embracing a boom or bust strategy, lottery or in the 2nd round with a flyer on the unicorn-type player. I don't see him being taken at the end of the 1st round, where those are mostly good teams looking to find specialists to shore up specific weaknesses to compete.

To me he's either a late-lottery type for a middling team looking to roll the dice on a unique uber athlete... or a 2nd round flyer by a "good" team who can take a high upside gamble and already has their roster in a good place where Andre wouldn't be relied upon right away, but instead tucked away on the bench upskilling his game.
 
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