Silas Demary Visit

[superjohn]

The kid averaged 13/4/3 in the SEC.

Demary looks like a really good 2 way guard and he closed the season incredibly well averaging 19.3 ppg, 3.5 assists per, 2 turnovers per in his final 10 games against 9 tournament teams. I'm just trying not to focus on his 18 combined turnovers against St. John's and Marquette. Tristen averaged 5 assists and 3.5 turnovers his third season at ECU against a really bad schedule.

 

[HooperScooper]

St. john’s booster owns Vitamin Water.

Not anymore. That's why he has so much money.

He is best known for co-founding Glaceau (maker of Vitaminwater), which sold to Coca-Cola for $4.1 billion, and BODYARMOR SuperDrink, a sports drink manufacturer, which also sold to Coca-Cola for $5.6 billion.

 

[CTBasketball]

If you’re asking him to become a 1st team All-America you are already setting him up for failure.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

If you’re asking him to become a 1st team All-America you are already setting him up for failure.

No one is doing that.

 

[DogMania]

Watching the clips, he looks like a very powerful and explosive player. The staff was able to turn Castle into a lock down defender and lottery pick and Newton into a clutch floor general. Based on what I saw, I would not bet against the staff turning Demary, who looks great at attacking the basket, into a solid floor general and lock down defender.

Maybe he can get more NIL elsewhere, but the odds of this staff developmenting him into an NBA talent while giving him the best opportunity to win big before that happens is right here in Storrs.

 

[AllHusky]

Developmenting, awesome new word. I know exactly what you mean! We will be developmenting our butts off with the burger boys and the man down under.

 

[Hunt for 7]

We can't offer the $ SJU can, but we can point to a playstyle that is better for him and will get him to the league.

Any idea what the difference in $$$ is, just wondering much of an advantage Pitino has. I am good with play style argument but how far are we behind the guy who is going to be a pain in our arse until he retires….

 

[Gurleyman]

Watching the clips, he looks like a very powerful and explosive player. The staff was able to turn Castle into a lock down defender and lottery pick and Newton into a clutch floor general. Based on what I saw, I would not bet against the staff turning Demary, who looks great at attacking the basket, into a solid floor general and lock down defender.

Maybe he can get more NIL elsewhere, but the odds of this staff developmenting him into an NBA talent while giving him the best opportunity to win big before that happens is right here in Storrs.

Newton already had shown pretty good point guard capabilities/instincts but some of his skills needed to be harnessed (ie his turnovers needed to come down). Being a floor general is hard to teach. Most of the time you either have those instincts or you don’t. We learned that lesson this year.

I might be a bit apprehensive about Demary being a full time point guard, but I still think we take him if he wants to come with no hesitation - he frankly seems like he brings a lot of things to the table that we don’t have. He would be versatile enough to play the 1, 2 and 3 and guard the other team’s best player, and probably be a late shot clock guy when all else fails. I’d just want to find another bench piece in the portal - basically another Diarra, just to handle pressure and get us into offense on days we get bogged down. We could also hope Mahaney (if he stays) is better at being a floor general off the bench in year two. Or that Mullins is a better passer than his profile shows and he’s more like Spencer than Hawkins. But if we have a Demary-Ball pairing, we are looking at 4.5 assists a night out of our starting backcourt and that’s not nearly good enough. (Karaban also gave us 3 assists from the 4 spot, and we probably won’t have that either).

 

[auror]

He does not fit SJUs offense at all. He isn't a good off-the-dribble shooter and doesn't shoot long 2s well.

UConn plays to his strengths... catch amd shoot 3s. Assist #s will skyrocket.

Was that St. John's offense, or Kadary Richmond + RJ Luis' offense?

Edit - I went to the stats because I honestly remembered Rick's teams shooting a ton of threes before this season and he had Clayton and Jenkins at Iona, but the trend did change in the middle of his Louisville tenure. It seems like he started to prioritize offensive rebounding around the same timeframe.

 

[FearThePups]

He and his water are disgusting. So is the SJU coach. And his offense.

Our offensive sets, campus, facilities, Gampel, and 6 NC banners are beautiful.

It's not a hard decision.

St. John’s is toxic.

 

[Hunt for 7]

St. john’s booster owns Vitamin Water.

Yes but what does that mean. He can just write the player a check for $1m and thats it. I mean let’s due the math. Billionaire boosters = game over with no restrictions.

So if my team is UConn and I am worth say $25B. Writing a check for $10M a year or is .0004% of their over all wealth. I mean if it was me and I was the guy with $25B thats a check I am writing every year. That is a $4K check for someone who has a $10M net worth to give the number some perspective. I am not worth $10M but if I were and I knew donating .0004% of my net worth meant making sure UConn had the money to get the players they need how fast do I write the check.

So I give $10M to then Mens Basketball team probably more than they are getting with theirs hare of the $20.5M each school is getting. How can that be a sustainable process for fair competition or does that even matter. And I am talking even with in the same conferences if Arkansas is getting $20M from the Waltons how does that sit within a conference whose goal it should be to establish a structure that does not favor a specific university because of the wealth of their donors.

This is headed down the hot mess road and who is going to be the regulating body the NCAA yeah right.

 

[HooperScooper]

Any idea what the difference in $$$ is, just wondering much of an advantage Pitino has. I am good with play style argument but how far are we behind the guy who is going to be a pain in our arse until he retires….

He won't be retiring for a long time. Vampires have very long life expectancies.

 

[FearThePups]

Watching the clips, he looks like a very powerful and explosive player. The staff was able to turn Castle into a lock down defender and lottery pick and Newton into a clutch floor general. Based on what I saw, I would not bet against the staff turning Demary, who looks great at attacking the basket, into a solid floor general and lock down defender.

Maybe he can get more NIL elsewhere, but the odds of this staff developmenting him into an NBA talent while giving him the best opportunity to win big before that happens is right here in Storrs.

Gotta agree. Besides, he’ll be a junior not a graduating high school senior.

 

[3rdbass]

He does not fit SJUs offense at all. He isn't a good off-the-dribble shooter and doesn't shoot long 2s well.

UConn plays to his strengths... catch amd shoot 3s. Assist #s will skyrocket.

But he can penetrate and score at the hoop. We really needed that this year.

 

[auror]

But he can penetrate and score at the hoop. We really needed that this year.

Welllllll.... not really.

Comparing a 5th year to a sophomore and different offenses, but...

 

[Fishy]

Not everyone who is 6-5 can be Newton.

I am just looking at stats and analytics - I haven’t seen him play. But I just don’t see him as a full time point guard. Versatile piece who can play 1-3 and defend, yes. And I think he’d be worth it on that alone. We need a perimeter defensive stopper too, and someone who checks every box is going to be almost impossible - so two different perimeter guys who each check some of the boxes would be a good plan.

But if we think we can plug him in to our system and expect him to be Newton, I think we are doing the square peg and round hole thing all over again with a different type of player. We don’t have Diarra off the bench any more if it doesn’t work.

He’d be a piece of a solution, but not the entire solution.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

He has had 5 assists 7 times in 70 career games and 2 of them were North Florida.

Probably worth remembering that no one knows anything and the people comparing him unfavorably to Newton undoubtedly were the same people calling Newton a miss halfway thru his first season in Storrs.

 

[Dooooooomed]

He has had 5 assists 7 times in 70 career games and 2 of them were North Florida.

He'll have a much better opportunity to stuff his stat sheet in a UConn offense than he ever did at Georgia.

 

[Kowalski]

He and his water are disgusting. So is the SJU coach. And his offense.

Our offensive sets, campus, facilities, Gampel, and 6 NC banners are beautiful.

It's not a hard decision.

True, theses campus visits wouldn’t mean much if it’s just about how can get him the highest NIL. Maybe that’s all it St John’s can really offer. But Uconn’s entire program, staff & proven track record offer a lot more than that.

 

[Vancat]

 

[HuskyHawk]

Hope he likes the SJU campus as much as Nadav Henefeld did.

How could anyone not? What kid wants to be in Flushing?

Hoping we can land this big fish.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

How could anyone not? What kid wants to be in Flushing?

Hoping we can land this big fish.

St. John’s is in Jamaica but point stands, not exactly the nicest campus or facilities out there. Not sure that matters at all in this recruitment though.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

St. John’s is in Jamaica but point stands, not exactly the nicest campus or facilities out there. Not sure that matters at all in this recruitment though.

And if the non-money stuff isn't important to him, then it's an easy pass.

 

[gtcam]

He appears to be a powerful PG but those assist numbers are scary

 

[WhereistheDove?]

And if the non-money stuff isn't important to him, then it's an easy pass.

I would argue that the money is and should be much more important than the aesthetic appeal of the campus.