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Fatroony5 said:
Fixed it. High Point is a gorgeous campus & nice school to go to when you’re on a full ride and making a little money.
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For the last two seasons, High Point has been one of the premier mid-majors and will continue that trend next season as they are already the beasts of the Big South.

Beautiful arena, good fan base, lots of cash flow and basketball is getting a lot of love from the admin. I'm sure Singare got a nice bag.

That being said, the fit is a bit dubious and he'll have to compete for PT. Here's their PF/C depth:
  • Owen Aquino 6’8 230 SR transfer from Liberty:
    • 9p, 5r, 2a, 1b, 25 mpg, 20 3PAs
    • True five
  • Simon Hildebrandt 6’9 230 SR returnee
    • 5.5p, 3.0r, 34 3P%, 13 mpg
    • More of a big stretch four than a five
  • Joshua Ibukunoluwa 6’10 220 SO returnee
    • 3p, 3r, 0.5b, 10 mpg, true big
Competing for playing time isn't so bad when you're at a program like High Point. That team was one of my favorite mid-majors last year and they have arguably an even better roster this season. He'll be treated well there. Wishing him best of luck!

For fun, here's High Point's transfer haul so far. This team isn't just transfers as they return five players from their rotation last season too.

25 transfers:
  • Vincent Brady II 6’3 195 SR Missouri State, 13.5p, 4r, 2.5a, 1.2s, 38 3P%, 5 FTA
  • Jaydon Young 6’4 205 JR from Virginia Tech, 8p, 1.4a, 30 3P%, 82 FT%, 22 mpg
  • Rob Martin 5’10 170 SR from SEMO, 14p, 4.5a, 40 3P%, 83 FT%
  • Scotty Washington 6’4 190 SR from Cal State Northridge, 15p, 3r, 35 3P%, 4 FTA, 86 FT%
  • Owen Aquino 6’8 230 SR from Liberty, 9p, 5r, 2a, 1b, , 25 mpg
  • Cam’Ron Fletcher 6’7 230 SR from Xavier, sixth year of college ball, four years of 11 games or less,
  • Youssouf Singare 6’10 230 JR from UConn, former #123
 
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Waquoit said:
But what 3rd-string center did he "masterly weave minutes" for? I honestly can't think of one.
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Knight, Hayward, King and Willingham. Take your pick for which of the last three you consider 3rd string.
 
Would love to see him do well. Seemed like a good kid and unlike the others we lost, had accepted his role with grace and no complaints (at least publicly).

If you’re good enough to play, you’d have played
 
CL82 said:
Um... I'm glad you're in the happy swing of your manic cycle?
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is a condition in which you have a period of abnormally elevated, extreme changes in your mood or emotions, energy level or activity level. This highly energized level of physical and mental activity and behavior must be a change from your usual self and be noticeable by others. lol I had to look it up. Sounds pretty crazy. lol
 
Hey Adrien! said:
For the last two seasons, High Point has been one of the premier mid-majors and will continue that trend next season as they are already the beasts of the Big South.

Beautiful arena, good fan base, lots of cash flow and basketball is getting a lot of love from the admin. I'm sure Singare got a nice bag.

That being said, the fit is a bit dubious and he'll have to compete for PT. Here's their PF/C depth:
  • Owen Aquino 6’8 230 SR transfer from Liberty:
    • 9p, 5r, 2a, 1b, 25 mpg, 20 3PAs
    • True five
  • Simon Hildebrandt 6’9 230 SR returnee
    • 5.5p, 3.0r, 34 3P%, 13 mpg
    • More of a big stretch four than a five
  • Joshua Ibukunoluwa 6’10 220 SO returnee
    • 3p, 3r, 0.5b, 10 mpg, true big
Competing for playing time isn't so bad when you're at a program like High Point. That team was one of my favorite mid-majors last year and they have arguably an even better roster this season. He'll be treated well there. Wishing him best of luck!

For fun, here's High Point's transfer haul so far. This team isn't just transfers as they return five players from their rotation last season too.

25 transfers:
  • Vincent Brady II 6’3 195 SR Missouri State, 13.5p, 4r, 2.5a, 1.2s, 38 3P%, 5 FTA
  • Jaydon Young 6’4 205 JR from Virginia Tech, 8p, 1.4a, 30 3P%, 82 FT%, 22 mpg
  • Rob Martin 5’10 170 SR from SEMO, 14p, 4.5a, 40 3P%, 83 FT%
  • Scotty Washington 6’4 190 SR from Cal State Northridge, 15p, 3r, 35 3P%, 4 FTA, 86 FT%
  • Owen Aquino 6’8 230 SR from Liberty, 9p, 5r, 2a, 1b, , 25 mpg
  • Cam’Ron Fletcher 6’7 230 SR from Xavier, sixth year of college ball, four years of 11 games or less,
  • Youssouf Singare 6’10 230 JR from UConn, former #123
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His competition shouldn't intimidate him and if he learned as much in his time here as some believe this could be a great team for him.
 
Speaks French fluently- that'll help him...maybe with a teammate...but not too much elsewhere in North Carolina
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
Flynn Clayman is a well-regarded recurring minor character in a half dozen streaming series spread across 4 different major platforms. Previously, he was sequentially featured in several categories of genre fiction that included print & graphic novels.

He begins his career as a fully-appointed NCAA D1 men's basketball coach in the 2025-2 season. He is a protege of High Point University president Nido Qubein, and yes, he is nice. Very nice.

No word yet as to how his High Point appointment will impact his acting career.
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Clayman's best known role.
Summon Wake Up GIF by Aardman Animations
 
Played against High Point at Disney Wide World of Sports Arena years ago when they were DII and they had a team manager that looked like she could have been a Hawaiian Tropics girl (for you youngins, that means incredibly attractive). Beat them by 10ish and went to Pleasure Island after where I drank way too much and puked all over the side of our ride home’s car. Good times.

Anyway best of luck.
 
Scrutineer said:
His competition shouldn't intimidate him and if he learned as much in his time here as some believe this could be a great team for him.
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He may be the best big on the team - especially on defense at High Point
 
uconngb said:
Would love to see him do well. Seemed like a good kid and unlike the others we lost, had accepted his role with grace and no complaints (at least publicly).

If you’re good enough to play, you’d have played
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He's athletic and long. Worth UConn seeing if he might develop. But lack of experience can be very hard to overcome at UConn's level. Wish him all the best in the next stage of his career.
 
Chief00 said:
He would figure out a way to do things today without losing what made him successful.
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I agree. I also think he would have been fine in the pros because he would have modified his approach when dealing with pros. I'm saying that making exaggerated time out gestures while calling your player a "" is not the way to do things now.
 
Waquoit said:
I agree. I also think he would have been fine in the pros because he would have modified his approach when dealing with pros. I'm saying that making exaggerated time out gestures while calling your player a "" is not the way to do things now.
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Jim was very intelligent and made adjustments without detouring from his core values. That is perhaps Dan Hurley’s biggest development opportunity - How to adjust his scheme to his personnel. Ideally, you recruit to meet the needs of your scheme. But, in real life there are misevaluations, recruiting/transfer losses and team chemistry. So what do you do when the inevitable happens? (Personnel not perfect fit for your scheme)
 
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Chief00 said:
How to adjust his scheme to his personnel. Ideally, you recruit to meet the needs of your scheme. But, in real life there are misevaluations, recruiting/transfer losses and team chemistry. So what do you do when the inevitable happens? (Personnel not perfect fit for your scheme)
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I'd ask Dan what to do. He seems to be navigating uncharted waters as well as anyone right now. And please don't pretend Jim didn't have his miscalculations along the way. His radical "retooling" of the roster all at once helped put UConn on APR probation.
 
Waquoit said:
I'd ask Dan what to do. He seems to be navigating uncharted waters as well as anyone right now. And please don't pretend Jim didn't have his miscalculations along the way. His radical "retooling" of the roster all at once helped put UConn on APR probation.
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Please don’t get me going about UConn having real classes for players without favoritism on grading and UNC having fake classes their players got A’s in without attending a class or taking tests, etc. Yet, UConn gets punished and UNC walks free and some apparently blame Calhoun for it not the NCAA.
 
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Waquoit said:
I'd ask Dan what to do. He seems to be navigating uncharted waters as well as anyone right now. And please don't pretend Jim didn't have his miscalculations along the way. His radical "retooling" of the roster all at once helped put UConn on APR probation.
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Two different approaches to a myriad of challenges unique to the specific times. JC definitely had a steeper hill to climb vs what Dan Hurley walked into at UConn.
Because of the portal creating free agency, miscalculations, IMHO are easier to overcome now but can also bite you in the arse faster and harder.
 
Chief00 said:
Please don’t get me going about UConn having real classes for players without favoritism on grading and UNC having fake classes their players got A’s in without attending a class or taking tests, etc. Yet, UConn gets punished and UNC walks free and some apparently blame Calhoun for it not the NCAA.
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It wasn't the only reason, there was a perfect storm of events that led to it. But he wasn't blameless.
 
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