Absolutely. They really needed all the help they could get after the underperformance this year and a few contributors leaving/likely leaving. I’m sure Bobby Hurley was preaching the fact that they would get a ton of PT right away to these guys. Either way, a few good pick ups so far.
we had 3 transfers on the team this year how many more did you want? he's added a transfer each year he's been here so far in adams, cole, and martin.
He's been trying. We've reached out to most of the names we wanted to reach out to.
Martin, Cole and...?
yes true. i think/hope there will usually be options among transfers he initially recruited. if he had gotten kadary or jabari* on the second go around all would be right with the world.
You're correct, Adams was not a transfer. De-committed from URI and committed to UConn once Hurley was hired.
It is a thing, I know because there's a bunch of people's posts I can't see because they have me on ignore for some reason
And then immediately said we'd take 1-2 transfers this year, it's way too early to worry about him not improving the roster
It’s not way too early. Sure we’ll get “a transfer”. But at this point I have no faith it’ll be an impact one. And that’s exactly what we need. An impact transfer
He said that he doesn't see us as a school who relies on transfers/builds their roster focused on transfers. Doesn't mean we shouldn't expect 1-2 a year based on the current climate. The vast majority of our roster will still be guys we recruit out of high school, but I think we'll more than likely bring in at least 1 transfer each spring to fill a hole.
We'll just have to agree to disagree on way too early. There's like 900 kids still in the portal and more coming every day, and if so many are falling off the board as you say that means less competition for the guys who are entering
Not sure what you're expecting but my guess is we're probably only bringing in 1 transfer, it isn't the easiest thing convincing kids to join a roster that's already pretty stacked.
I think we’re stacked with players who have redundant skill sets. I think we needed a high level lead guard and a high level shooter. Swinging and missing on Kadary and not even wanting Fatts will prove to be a mistake IMO. Again I expect us to be good next season. I just think with a couple of impact additions we could be final 4 good
I hear you but Hurley didn't see the fit with Fatts, I wish we got Kadary but still happy he picked the Hall. Our frontcourt is stacked and we don't need anything there, we could be in some trouble at guard if we don't see player improvement but I expect significant jumps from Jackson and Gaffney. Hawkins is a stud and will be hard to keep off the court. Diggins is a natural point guard leader, not sure how ready he'll be right away but he'll make us better. Another guard who can score off the bounce and is good from deep would be a major help along with Polley coming back.
Agree with you on all of that. Gaffney and Jackson taking some huge leaps in terms of putting the ball in the basket would be huge
If we get another major impact guard I'd be thrilled. I thought you and others were now suggesting we'll be fine without that, and I don't think that's the case--especially when we know that Hurley swung and missed with two transfer guards who would have been major impact guys. If he thinks we need at least one or two of those, I think it's silly for people to pretend that we don't now that it looks like we might have to accept having neither a transfer nor a #ReturnOfDaggerTreyTy.
You don’t even know who we are targeting to say that if we don’t get him the season won’t be what we want. You can’t judge an off-season until it’s all the way played out. We don’t know what hurley is really planning or how much he has felt like we missed on some of these players. We may have already targeted someone who hasn’t even announced a transfer yet.
