2024 Recruiting: Nolan Traore

[JungleLobo]

If a potential top 5 one-and-done draft pick is your "see example" you're not making the point you think you are...

Yet folks effuse about that example having intangibles such as “great parents” and “culture buy-in”. That example is an exception. Most would not buy in to last season.

 

[speckle]

#groupthink

Your argument is littered with specious assumptions like "only 5* recruits think they are the man" and "only 3* guys want to play team team basketball". It's not worth picking it apart but I would say I'd happily pass on any players trying to go the one man army route.

 

[AntG168]

He did say 3*+ not 3* only

Give me a list of all of the 3*s we’re recruiting.

I’ll wait patiently.

 

[AntG168]

You want to see a “3*+ talent approach look at Purdue or Butler. You know teams who have actual 3* on them lmao.

Who are the 3*s on UConn’s roster?

This is idiotic.

We are recruiting at the highest level.

We were 1 of 2 schools to the the #1 player in the country and best HS prospect since Kevin Durant on campus.

Hurley is not recruiting 3 star talent.

 

[ddent68]

Hurley is not recruiting 3 star talent.

He prefers 0 star.

 

[CL82]

So, to summarize, he's ready to sign with us?

Mais oui.

 

[Samoo]

You want to see a “3*+ talent approach look at Purdue or Butler. You know teams who have actual 3* on them lmao.

Who are the 3*s on UConn’s roster?

This is idiotic.

We are recruiting at the highest level.

We were 1 of 2 schools to the the #1 player in the country and best HS prospect since Kevin Durant on campus.

Hurley is not recruiting 3 star talent.

Newton

 

[Samoo]

Mais oui.

Bien sur

 

[AntG168]

Newton

Newton was not a 3 star when UConn recruited him. He was one of the top transfers in the country

 

[CL82]

Bien sur

Evidemment.

 

[uconn_jack]

Yet folks effuse about that example having intangibles such as “great parents” and “culture buy-in”. That example is an exception. Most would not buy in to last season.

True, but 2 consecutive chips later, 2 draftees last year, and potentially 5 this year (2 of which top 10), some kids and parents might start looking at things differently.

 

[AllHusky]

Anybody been to Paris lately? Hoping for some Traore news or sightings.

 

[Drame]

Anybody been to Paris lately? Hoping for some Traore news or sightings.

Im going in June. I'll look out for him.

 

[husky429]

You want to see a “3*+ talent approach look at Purdue or Butler. You know teams who have actual 3* on them lmao.

Who are the 3*s on UConn’s roster?

This is idiotic.

We are recruiting at the highest level.

We were 1 of 2 schools to the the #1 player in the country and best HS prospect since Kevin Durant on campus.

Hurley is not recruiting 3 star talent.

I think the only one left is Singare.

 

[AntG168]

I think the only one left is Singare.

And looking back at his 247 ranking it has him as a 4*

He’s the first guy I thought of

 

[CL82]

Im going in June. I'll look out for him.

Get your car washed while you're there… You never know.

 

[I Bleed Blue]

Sorry for the bump, but figured I’d ask here. I know it’s a big if for Traore to go to College in the US for a year vs other overseas pro options, but would we be out regardless with Mahaney aboard?

 

[UConnSwag11]

Sorry for the bump, but figured I’d ask here. I know it’s a big if for Traore to go to College in the US for a year vs other overseas pro options, but would we be out regardless with Mahaney aboard?

You make it work

 

[dennismenace]

Does anyone here know why France has become such a hotbed of basketball talent?

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[dennismenace]

He can get a bag as long as he isn’t standing in U.S. soil when it happens

 

[dennismenace]

Well 4 0f the top .5 players in the nba are not us born players

The next generational player is from france

The top 2 picks in the 2024 draft are from France
Probably 40 percent of the nba first round are
Internationally born players

France has a group of players under 21 which are
Most likely better than those in the us

Greater Toronto has as many players in the NBA than any metropolitan area in the US of similar size

The NBA Africa academy is on the verge producing a generation, a very good players

So it’s safe to say that basketball is a world game and that the USA I will never dominate like it had previously

I think it’s an open question as to whether the AAU system has hurt the development of US basketba

Imho the European system, which focuses on skills and development versus playing 100 games a year is a superior system

I don’t think I see anything changing anytime soon
The nba it’s perfectly fine with international players being the stars as it fits with their long range plans to have teams from Europe as part of the league

Isn't it true that in Europe basketball (ultimately professional) is treated like a trade and if you have potential you can go to a school where you are educated as well as trained to make a career at basketball (or perhaps soccer) from a very young age?

 

[That Guy]

Isn't it true that in Europe basketball (ultimately professional) is treated like a trade and if you have potential you can go to a school where you are educated as well as trained to make a career at basketball (or perhaps soccer) from a very young age?

Yes, this is true. Not sure how fully developed or prevalent the basketball youth academies are in Europe, as it is still growing sport there, but they definitely exist. In soccer it is an extremely common thing. Most professional teams bring in players as young as 10 and train them in their youth teams. Back in the early 2010s FC Barcelona's entire starting 11 were players who came through their youth academy and they were the best team in the world at that time as well.

 

[CL82]

He can get a bag as long as he isn’t standing in U.S. soil when it happens

He can get paid in the US, he just can't work here.

 

[husky429]

Sorry for the bump, but figured I’d ask here. I know it’s a big if for Traore to go to College in the US for a year vs other overseas pro options, but would we be out regardless with Mahaney aboard?

I don't think we've been recruiting him at all anyways.

 

[Samoo]

He can get a bag as long as he isn’t standing in U.S. soil when it happens

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