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Nowell in the transfer portal

jibsey said:
Yup, and Hurley is watching Pitino buy guys who can drive, get their own shot and defend like crazy on day 1. Hurley doesn’t want to be hamstrung again, I could see this one coming. We just have to be able to NIL now 2 point guards?
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It's come to this....
1. Impact freshman who leaves after 1 year for NBA.
2. Known entity from transfer portal.
3 . Strong freshman year with clear look at the top of the lineup as a sophomore.
4. Freshman with "potential" who spend a year on the benchnamd transfer.
5. Transfer portals who didn't work out and leave.

You can work the ratio of #1 and #2, but this is how rosters are composed going forward.
 
Drame said:
Disagree 1000%. Some defenses we play against are too well prepared for our offense especially with the grabbing, chipping and holding that's allowed. We need a couple guys that are strong with the ball and can drive it when necessary.
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The best response to grabby small defenders is to be big enough to just play through them like Cam, Castle and Newton did. Dribbling 16 seconds off the shot clock going around them isn’t an answer. Bigger guards are better getting to the rim too. I think Adams is going to be great at that.
 
Good luck Nowell, thank you for giving us a chance
 
I was quite excited when Nowell committed; I was envisioning a poor man's Jameer Nelson........a compact quick and powerful PG with excellent handles who could lead and eventually score.

Most players show glimpses of physical skills (even in limited PT), but Nowell never displayed any of that quickness or power.


Maybe he was never healthy nor felt he could go full speed due to unfamiliarity with our offense (which does not rely too much on dribble penetration)?

Our offensive style alone made Nowell not the greatest of fits.


Unfortunately, in today's portal/NIL era players just want PT (most likely to increase earning potential).


No ill will to Ahmad.

I wish him the best (unless he plays against us of course).
 
UCTitleTown said:
He was one of the top NIL players on the team, so we'll have more for portal now. I was so impressed by his highlights and complained he wasnt playing more, but after seeing him, he just didn't play like the player Dan Hurley signed. High dribble and not the strong penetrator I thought he was. Definitely best of luck to him. I hope the Huskies never play against any ex-players that portaled. We don't need any more guys having insane nights against us. Playing against Oriakhi when he transferred to Missouri was one of the strangest things I remember.
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How do you know how much he made in NIL? Is that public information? What's everybody making?
 
I don't see how we're in a materially worse position as a result of this or how keeping either one of those guys would be "ideal."

Abraham was a back half of the top 100 kid. It's not 15 years ago where Hilton Armstrong will bide his time for 3 years and then get picked in the lottery. If he doesn't want to stick around for a few years with a shot at being a role player that's the nature of college basketball right now. There's going to be competition at his spot every year. Nowell and Abraham might very well end up being good college basketball players but in an era where a lot of teams are going to trot out new starting 5s every year I don't see how this is much of an event.

I assume we're going to focus on 5 star or 5 star adjacent high school kids that look like they can contribute from day 1 going forward and then supplement the rest with the portal, until the rules inevitably change again.
 
Lemuel said:
How do you know how much he made in NIL? Is that public information? What's everybody making?
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This article was published at the beginning of the season, but its accuracy might be questionable.

bvmsports.com

Top 5 richest UConn Huskies basketball stars based on NIL

UConn Huskies basketball players are securing NIL deals that are crucial in keeping their men’s and women’s teams competitive.
bvmsports.com bvmsports.com
 
Fishy said:
Welp.

Turning last year’s recruiting class into zero sophomores isn’t ideal
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I don't know if that's the case anymore. It's not like he failed here. He stayed one year and decided to leave. And I think that's the new norm. If you come in and contribute? You enter the draft or play that into a bigger NIL somewhere else. If you don't contribute? You transfer somewhere you can play more to hopefully get a bigger NIL next year.
 
Doctor Hoop said:
I was less optimistic about Nowell’s potential ceiling than Abraham’s, after seeing his few minutes during the season. His handle was OK, but no deception for a point guard. I never saw him wrongfoot a defender and blow by, I never saw him force the D to scramble to respond to him. He seemed to dribble into traps a times. His open shots were often off target.

I could be wrong, but I saw him as at best a third guard his whole career here. I hope he finds success at his next stop. It will be interesting to see the schools that contact him and where he ends up. Being a Philly guy, maybe a LaSalle, Temple or St. Joes.
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High dribble is bad for a point guard.
 
I expected this one, nothing against Nowell but I think it's for the best all around. It has been said ad nauseum and I agree, we need a big defensive guard next year more than anything else. Being the biggest team on the floor was kind of our calling card the last 3 years.


Fishy said:
Welp.

Turning last year’s recruiting class into zero sophomores isn’t ideal
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One is going to the NBA, so not a total loss. Sadly, it does look like it's going to be tough to recruit freshmen going forward to top programs if they aren't able to contribute meaningful minutes. Seems like the route will be to start in lower programs and get some experience before getting picked up by schools like ours to fill the need we'll have every few years for a starting, experienced lead guard.
zmart said:
Doesn't anyone want to question the high number of total recruiting misses the staff has had over the past couple of years?
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Shall we recount the hits instead? It's a much more positive activity and would give you the opportunity to reminisce about some amazing players we've seen in just the last few years.
 
There is a huge opening for a grown man point guard at UConn. Quite frankly we need 2. No 6 foot PGs are going to get us where we want to go. Kahlid is not walking through that door.
 
The NBA would beg to differ. We have had how many guys drafted in the last 5 years?

Look at both transfers and HS recruits. For each miss we have 2 guys in the NBA.

Those last 2 banners weren’t that long ago were they?

The Wrench!!!!!

zmart said:
Doesn't anyone want to question the high number of total recruiting misses the staff has had over the past couple of years
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BigErnMcCracken said:
Nowell and Abraham might very well end up being good college basketball players but in an era where a lot of teams are going to trot out new starting 5s every year I don't see how this is much of an event.
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You can also just buy them back when they transfer again
 
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