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Reibe in the portal

traitor71 said:
In the championship game he looked like the only kid on the floor who didn't belong there. Very slow, very hesitant, and really looked like that for a while. Everyone develops differently, but lately he hasn't really looked like someone to count on as a "sure thing".
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Which is ironic, as his parents felt he should’ve played more in the second half of that game.

Which is hilarious.
 
Hoophound said:
Huge loss. He’s going to be good. Fortunately, we will probably get a better player in his place. We now need 2 true bigs and 1-2 PFs. Lots of openings.
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Better for us to have 2 quality bigs fighting for time.
 
Woof said:
What bothered me is that he played really well early on and then regressed. He will be a good player for someone. Shame.
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Yep he had good games against Arizona, Florida, Kansas, 1st Illinois game, and Providence OT game. He has good hands and finished well around the rim. Probably a good 3pt shooter if given the chance.
 
Nameless said:
I'm not sure if he didn't want to compete for minutes, if he was just frustrated with his role this year, both or something else entirely.

But if he is worried about being recruited over then fine, leave. We're going to bring in a talented big man, we always have since we brought in Clingan with Adama. None of the other guys were scared of the competition, if he is he doesn't have the mental makeup I want in one of our bigs. He seemed soft and intimidated at times this year, especially at points in the tourney. Not trying to bash him that's just my honest assessment from afar.

As many are fond of saying on here... NEXT.
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What's also strange about the minutes thing is that he often came close to fouling out in 10 minutes.

Minutes should be the least of his concerns at this stage in his development.
 
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Dauster's view - not about money, more about system fit.

Did they not know that when they recruited him?

Dauster is saying Mullins will go for 4mm. That would be a crazy number, especially if he's going in the 20s/2mm a year.
 
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traitor71 said:
In the championship game he looked like the only kid on the floor who didn't belong there. Very slow, very hesitant, and really looked like that for a while. Everyone develops differently, but lately he hasn't really looked like someone to count on as a "sure thing".
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He was completely overwhelmed during the NC game
 
Marat said:
He didn't want to compete for minutes (without Reed) so tells us everything .
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I don’t think it actually tells us anything. You don’t know this to be true, this is an assumption.

Another unproven assumption would be that he’s leaving because he became enamored of the possibility of a bigger payday from another school, seeing the numbers bigs are offered.

There are other unproven assumptions that we could list.
 
Travelman6 said:
Who is the family? Lol. People keep mentioning that. For me, I'm asking more in the sense that, unless they are NBA or WNBA stars or upper-level EuroLeague, do they really have the audacity? Hurley and staff probably know what they are doing, lol.
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The family didn’t know we had a stud senior center who Hurley said was the key to our success.
 
I’m shocked at this news. Something didn’t seem right going into the BE Tourny, but he has a lot of promise and I thought for sure he’d be much better next year. Well all I can say is best of luck.
 
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My guess is the Family/advisors around Eric saw NIL projections for Bigs next year. Their view of his value vs Dan's was not aligned. Eric has potential -but he is not Dirk Nowitski. Temporary bump in the road for UConn but we have a blank canvas to re-configure our 5 spot. Tons of talent looking for a home.

BTW. Classy departure message.
 
MrDownunder said:
His transfer may have little to do with Hurley or playing time. It may have everything with getting mugged every night in the Big East. Who wants a forty minute wrestling match when he can go to a nicer climate and play in a league where he can develop his skills unmolested. Reibe is a very good player and a tremendous loss. Maybe, he did not like the high hedge? Frankly, I wonder why anyone who has options would chose to be beaten up while playing hoops. Reibe's game is finesse not wrestling.
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Didn’t he know that coming in? It’s been pretty evident that’s what Danny expects from his posts.
 
Mr. French said:
Eh, I get what he’s saying.

He was somewhat useful this season but a McD AA Center usually isn’t giving you his best output frosh year. We recruited him to be our center going forward, not to give us 5-8 minutes of foul time.

We recruit and help develop and then they leave unless they’re super studs, so I get being frustrated and thinking only recruiting 5* impact starters makes sense.
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College basketball is no longer what it was. We bring in players for one year for a fixed amount of money, and then they become free agents to go wherever they want and their former school can offer them more or less. If a player worth $750k leaves, you’ve saved that money and now spent it on a replacement.

My point (beyond that he contributed to an outstanding season this year) is we paid him an amount for this year that we agreed upon and if he came back next year he’d get what the market thinks is the right price for him next year. If we don’t retain him we get someone else. That’s the new reality.
 
uconnfan68 said:
Didn’t he know that coming in? It’s been pretty evident that’s what Danny expects from his posts.
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Then Dan recruited the wrong profile. Hit rate at the HS level lately hasn't been great. MrDownunder has some valid points.

Another reason we want out of this league - honestly, there is nothing novel about having a level of refereeing that is disimilar to how they do it out of the conference. Another Val thing that she hasn't gotten up to speed on. Kids these days prefer a flowing style, not rugby. Will be another reason the league loses recruits - kids want to showcase their offense, not get held, shoved. It's not like it translates out of league, so what is the point, .
 
businesslawyer said:
College basketball is no longer what it was. We bring in players for one year for a fixed amount of money, and then they become free agents to go wherever they want and their former school can offer them more or less. If a player worth $750k leaves, you’ve saved that money and now spent it on a replacement.

My point (beyond that he contributed to an outstanding season this year) is we paid him an amount for this year that we agreed upon and if he came back next year he’d get what the market thinks is the right price for him next year. If we don’t retain him we get someone else. That’s the new reality.
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I don't disagree with any of that - but I also don't know how it negates what he or I said. Recruiting a 5 star C who the staff wanted to be a multi-year guy and have him not play much and then transfer after 1 year IS frustrating.

If we wanted a backup to give a few minutes, I guarantee we could have found a different non-freshman to serve that purpose, and probably do it better. A big part of being OK with Reibe's up and down season is the development path. Just being Reed's backup, we could have gotten more from a vet.

Now that he's transferring, and we're seeing these guys transfer each season, it starts to feel like a waste.
 
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We all just saw Michigan’s mercenaries win a title. The negative is that he knew Hurley’s system and now 2 new bigs have to learn it. This is what St. John’s is doing every year and we will be too. Next shoe to drop?
 
jibsey said:
We all just saw Michigan’s mercenaries win a title. The negative is that he knew Hurley’s system and now 2 new bigs have to learn it. This is what St. John’s is doing every year and we will be too. Next shoe to drop?
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Will be an interesting question on if you don't have a lot of continuity, do you have to augment your offensive strategy?
 
jibsey said:
We all just saw Michigan’s mercenaries win a title. The negative is that he knew Hurley’s system and now 2 new bigs have to learn it. This is what St. John’s is doing every year and we will be too. Next shoe to drop?
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I don't think there is a next shoe to drop and this really wasn't surprising.

We should have great continuity with the guards and small forwards but we have to replace our power forward and two centers with major impact players. Well, the backup center at least has to be good enough for 12 minutes per game.

College basketball is now really stupid and crazy expensive, glad it's not my money.
 
jibsey said:
We all just saw Michigan’s mercenaries win a title. The negative is that he knew Hurley’s system and now 2 new bigs have to learn it. This is what St. John’s is doing every year and we will be too. Next shoe to drop?
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How do we define mercenaries? Anyone who signs through the portal?
 
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RuffRuff said:
He had some really nice games early, then tapered off drastically towards the end of the year. Some of the fouling he was doing was borderline lazy, like he didn't care. The kid was averaging a foul a minute at times.
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This was very much the impression I got. Very often it seemed like he just wanted to foul quickly so he could go sit back down...it took effort to foul that much.

Sucks because when he was engaged he was solid and looked very much like he'd eventually be a heckuva player for us. O well, best of luck, let's go find another
 
DawgEnjoyer said:
There is no chance we get “two quality bigs” have you read what one is going for?
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One quality big and one 6'9" C/F who can shoot and rebound and defend (or 2 out of the 3) would help and might be attainable. Or, a Dejuan Blair type for one of them.
The midwest or Big 10 has a lot of those bruiser farmboy types if they want to come East. Michigan State had a couple of them. One would be fine to complement a center.
 
RuffRuff said:
Nowell, McNeeley, Abraham, Reibe.

We await Mullins and Furphy. Once the Fab 5 runs their course, Hurley is going to have nothing to carryover. It's going to be the incoming freshmen and whatever transfers he bring in this year. The whole look and feel we've had with these longer terms kids is officially gone.
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Define "officially."
 
BullDawg said:
How do we define mercenaries? Anyone who signs through the portal?
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Rosters are built differently. 5 of our 8 top players came in organically through our system. For our last title, it was also 5/8. For Michigan and St. John’s, I believe it’s been zero.

Hurley obviously places emphasis on building a culture and development. It’s probably going to have to change at least somewhat going forward unfortunately. I also don’t think we pay anywhere close for our roster as St. John’s does, I don’t care what the reporting supposedly says.
 
freescooter said:
When a guy’s “people” are saying in mid-season he should be playing more, of course he is going. This is the least surprising decision I can imagine.
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Its surprising that now that Reed is not there he chooses not to continue . When he committed he knew Reed would.be there . Now that the road is clear, he wants out.
 
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