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Rahsool Diggins transferring (merged threads)

Liked this kids swagger - bummed it didn't work out, think he would've turned out to be a decent guard for us. Wish him the best wherever he ends up
 
4xChamps said:
Yea let's call a spade a spade, Hurley's loyalty to playing Gaff likely costed us a future with Diggins. If Diggins gets 10mpg I doubt he's leaving. Maybe it was the right call for this season but probably hurts long term.
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Not sure why people are down voting this. Hurley was too loyal and too stubborn to bench Gaffney. Diggins deserved a real chance. This sucks.
 
ThabeetDown said:
LOL while no one wants Sool leaving, did you see how bad he was when he stepped on the court? That's not on Hurley. Sool looked timid and was a turnover machine in limited minutes. Stop this nonsense.
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He was put on the floor with the B team in garbage time. That's not being put in a position to succeed.

Gaffney played just as poorly, if not worse, and continued to see the floor. No reason Sool could not have earned minutes over Gaff... but he was never put in a position early on to be able to get comfortable.

So of course he didn't look good when Hurley threw him to the wolves in garbage time with the B team later in the year.

Mismanaged by Hurley because of his blind loyalty to Gaffney. Plain and simple.
 
aburks41 said:
Yup. That's the frustrating part. Loyalty to a guy who didn't deserve any minutes at all cost us a guy who could potentially be a big contributor going forward
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4xChamps said:
Yea let's call a spade a spade, Hurley's loyalty to playing Gaff likely costed us a future with Diggins. If Diggins gets 10mpg I doubt he's leaving. Maybe it was the right call for this season but probably hurts long term.
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You're not looking at this the right way.

Hurley started reducing Gaff's minutes because he wasn't playing well and STILL didn't increase Diggins' minutes. Diggins' minutes were what they were because of how he was practicing and performing, clearly. Because there was no relationship between Gaff's minutes and Diggins'. And now that Cole is gone and there are a ton of minutes available, Diggins isn't sticking around. Maybe the relationship is fractured, but Hurley isn't a fool. Hurley is a PG himself. He's not fracturing a relationship with his PG of the future to play a guy that he himself was benching quickly.
UChusky916 said:
Gaffney played just as poorly, if not worse, and continued to see the floor. No reason Sool could not have earned minutes over Gaff... but he was never put in a position early on to be able to do that.
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Barely. Gaffney was down to 4-8 minutes a game by the end of the year. If Diggins could do anything he would have been playing. There's no doubt of that.
 
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SportsFan88 said:
How can people come up with Hurley being the issue? Did y’all watch when diggins actually got in the game? He wasn’t gonna be a starting big east pg this season coming up either
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I think Hurley could have gotten him more playing time early to get him used to playing at the college level. Maybe it would have given him more confidence to develop and contribute off the bench last year.

Injuries in the preseason no doubt set him back.

With that said, I completely agree. It's not Hurley's fault, per se.

At best it's a "what if" scenario. Maybe more early run would have given him the confidence he needed to see the court later in the year. But in the limited run he got in cupcake games, he wasn't very impressive (as to be expected with some frosh).

Hopefully a fresh start will work out better for him!
 
auror said:
You're not looking at this the right way.

Hurley started reducing Gaff's minutes because he wasn't playing well and STILL didn't increase Diggins' minutes. Diggins' minutes were what they were because of how he was practicing and performing, clearly. Because there was no relationship between Gaff's minutes and Diggins'. And now that Cole is gone and there are a ton of minutes available, Diggins isn't sticking around. Maybe the relationship is fractured, but Hurley isn't a fool. Hurley is a PG himself. He's not fracturing a relationship with his PG of the future to play a game that he himself was benching quickly.

Barely. Gaffney was down to 4-8 minutes a game by the end of the year. If Diggins could do anything he would have been playing. There's no doubt of that.
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Part of the problem was that Hurley didn't even give Diggins a chance to develop in those November/December games.

But also if Diggins ends up at Villanova this would be a big black eye on the staff. That was his 2nd choice school.
 
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UChusky916 said:
Another lesson for Hurley. He's learned from some of his coaching mistakes to-date, but hasn't learned from others. Let's see if he learns from this one. I have no doubt Diggins will be a contributor at a P5 school elsewhere.
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Statements like this are laugh out loud funny. People genuinely believe they're more plugged in than the coaching staff.
 
kobebeanbryant said:
no good way to spin this.

either this was a mutual decision and the staff realized he wasn’t cut out for this level, which would be a big recruiting miss.

or this was not mutual and diggins decided to trasnfer due to the lack of opportunity given to him this year, which would be a big failure of the coaching staff to get him developmental minutes this year (there were obvious opportunities to do so).
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Selfishly I hope it's the former but can't really blame the staff for the latter...look at when he was in vs Gtown in DC. 2 turnovers in 1 minute. I was high on him going into next year but all the blame of this not working out shouldn't 100% be on Hurley/staff...
 
For those of you blaming Hurley for this, RJ Cole played 33.5 mpg and didn't miss a single game. If Diggins got the remaining 6.5 mpg at PG, I doubt that would make a difference on his decision.

No matter the reason, I wish Rahsool the best of luck at his next school and personally, I'm hoping for him to return back to UConn after testing the waters.
 
This is upsetting. I see some of you blaming this on Hurley not playing him enough and attributing that to Hurley's loyality to Gaffney. I thought the same thing for awhile - but I came to believe that Rahsool might just not be good enough to play for a top-tier Big East team.

Either way, though, this is still on Hurley. It was a big swing and a miss by him --- it was incredibly important to bring in a talented point guard to back-up/play alongside Cole - and then eventually replace Cole next year. This had implications this season and will likely have implications for the next couple of seasons as well. We literally have no point guard for next season right now -- neither Gaffney nor Floyd are true point guards.

I will wait to see what Hurley pulls off here. But it'll be his fifth season as the coach - and I would expect that we'd be in a better position than trying to find a point guard (and likely a back-up) through the portal.
 
This is happening and has been happening all over CBB. We’ve just been exempt until now. Nothing to see here. We can find better talent imo.

Also, there is no way Diggins transfers with a starting job looking him in the face next season. This screams “mutual” to me. Hurley may have just decided to hurt some feelings. I hope more dominoes fall and we actually get UConn level guard talent in here.
 
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I'm not going to kill Hurley too much, but it's concerning to me that he's recruited two PGs in his time here and whiffed on both. Really hope he hits a home run in the portal because he's going to need to.
 
DaveHuskiesFan said:
Diggins was just as bad in practice as he was when he stepped on the court.

This was a miss by the staff. Not cut out for this level. Maybe he contributes as a junior. Very similar situation to a Makai Ashton Langford or Jalen Carey.
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That"s the reality really bad miss
 
People need to realize we are in a new age. 1700 kids entered the portal last year (I think that's the stat). Instant transferring has changed everything. If Diggins thinks he can get more PT elsewhere, he owes it to himself to look. Hurley has done nothing to show he won't play deserving freshman, back to his URI days even. The reality is Diggins didn't earn minutes last year. Maybe Hurley made it clear that without a huge leap in confidence/ability, he wasn't going to be able to earn minutes this year either. Regardless, this isn't on Hurley. Just like we will reap the benefits of the transfers, we and every other team will be hit by them.
Also, do we really live in this fantasy land where people thought we were going to go after a high end PG transfer AND keep Sool and Floyd? You can't have both of those because there simply isn't enough minutes to go around. So either we were going into next year with Sool and Floyd and banking on significant improvements or we were losing one and gaining a transfer. 99% of you sign up for that transfer every day of the week
 
I’m sure Hurley was transparent with Diggins that UConn is going hunting for a PG in the portal and that a senior Gaffney would also be in front of him on the depth chart.

It’s a real bummer, but not surprising. I wish Diggins got more PT during the out of conference slate.
 
Bad recruiting miss at an important position, but it happens. Hope the staff learns from it and figures out what they misidentified when they went after him.*


*No, I don't think Diggins was secretly an uber-talented kid who Hurley was unfairly denying playing time. The most likely scenario is he just stunk. Occam's Razor, people.
 
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auror said:
Gaffney was down to 4-8 minutes a game by the end of the year. If Diggins could do anything he would have been playing. There's no doubt of that.
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Hurley reducing Gaffney's minutes and not having Sool ready to play is essentially proving my point.

Hurley made the error of sticking with Gaffney early in the year. We know what kind of player Gaffney is, and it was evident early in the year... his ceiling is maxed.

What kind of player will Diggins be or what kind of player could he have been by the end of the year? We'll never know, because Hurley never allowed the opportunity for him to develop early on. He didn't get any run in semi-meaningful minutes.

Hurley reducing Gaffney's minutes and not playing Diggins is proof that he effed up the whole situation.
 
Rico444 said:
I'm not going to kill Hurley too much, but it's concerning to me that he's recruited two PGs in his time here and whiffed on both. Really hope he hits a home run in the portal because he's going to need to.
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Hasn’t hit on a pg prospect since Fatts
 
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