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he has been tweeting nothing but uconn stuff. this kid definitely wants to be here.
 
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right after i posted this thread i thought this would happen, but i love it. @3uconn do you have any input?
 
Sommercamp said:
And has more rebounds! Bazzinga!
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Too bad you couldn't have twisted that into a joke about our frontcourt - then you'd have had a joke that was funny in both directions.
 
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3uconn said:
My view on this whole situation has changed. He really wants UConn but the staff doesn't really want him.

Lol!
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I heard the same as 3. grades could be a monster issue.
 
3uconn said:
My view on this whole situation has changed. He really wants UConn but the staff doesn't really want him.

Lol!
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any idea why the staff doesn't want him? grades? His videos make him look like he could be a great addition with his athleticism, however the videos are obviously put together to make all of these kids look like superstars
 
HuskyNationJE said:
any idea why the staff doesn't want him? grades? His videos make him look like he could be a great addition with his athleticism, however the videos are obviously put together to make all of these kids look like superstars
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Exactly.

He has a lot of athleticism and would be great on the break, but how much of the game is played on the break? What is this kid going to do in the half court, when he's got to present some sort of danger off the ball if he's not directly part of the pick-and-roll? From what I've seen and read, not much.

And then defensively, can he guard the wing? He's a 4 in high school, but will be an undersized 4 in college. No easy match-ups there.

I remain content with our recruiting class, and would rather keep the scholarship open for a late flip, a 5th-year guy, JaQuan Lyle, or simply roll it over into the 2015 group.

(I reserve the right to reverse my position on all of this if we happen to sign him!)
 
Matrim55 said:
Exactly. He has a lot of athleticism and would be great on the break, but how much of the game is played on the break? What is this kid going to do in the half court, when he's got to present some sort of danger off the ball if he's not directly part of the pick-and-roll? From what I've seen and read, not much. And then defensively, can he guard the wing? He's a 4 in high school, but will be an undersized 4 in college. No easy match-ups there. I remain content with our recruiting class, and would rather keep the scholarship open for a late flip, a 5th-year guy, JaQuan Lyle, or simply roll it over into the 2015 group. (I reserve the right to reverse my position on all of this if we happen to sign him!)
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Yeah, this sounds just like Cleveland Melvin. That skinny kid had no skills and couldn't guard a chair. Then he went to DePaul and somehow they developed him into one of the best players in the Big East in a month. Good thing he went there and we got Harkless.
 
Hoophound said:
Yeah, this sounds just like Cleveland Melvin. That skinny kid had no skills and couldn't guard a chair. Then he went to DePaul and somehow they developed him into one of the best players in the Big East in a month. Good thing he went there and we got Harkless.
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Well, there is a difference if our coach does not actually offer him as compared to kids deciding to go somewhere else. I don't really recall the details about Melvin....was that supposed to have been a "mutual" decision or did he just decide to not come to UConn?
 
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Dogbreath2U said:
Well, there is a difference if our coach does not actually offer him as compared to kids deciding to go somewhere else. I don't really recall the details about Melvin....was that supposed to have been a "mutual" decision or did he just decide to not come to UConn?
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Melvin committed and then we kind of encouraged him to go elsewhere because we had Harkless and others coming in. Our mistake.

Swift is a freak athlete and all reports are that not only is he human highlight reel but he is also a great rebounder. I think he seems like a guy we could use.
 
Dogbreath2U said:
Well, there is a difference if our coach does not actually offer him as compared to kids deciding to go somewhere else. I don't really recall the details about Melvin....was that supposed to have been a "mutual" decision or did he just decide to not come to UConn?
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I believe there was a "mutual" agreement that UConn may not have been the best place for Mr Melvin all of a sudden!
 
Not to mention Harkless' coach knew that UConn was on the way to irrelevance. Good call on his part.
 
Dogbreath2U said:
Well, there is a difference if our coach does not actually offer him as compared to kids deciding to go somewhere else. I don't really recall the details about Melvin....was that supposed to have been a "mutual" decision or did he just decide to not come to UConn?
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As I recall, Staff wanted Melvin to spend a lot of time at the 4, but he wanted to play the 3. So he went to DePaul to play the 4 and build his character by learning how to lose. Instead of getting a NC ring in 2011, he's never been to the Tourney, DePaul is 4-4, and hopefully will be able to pull out their next big matchup against Florida Atlantic. Good choice Cleveland.
 
Dmike said:
As I recall, Staff wanted Melvin to spend a lot of time at the 4, but he wanted to play the 3. So he went to DePaul to play the 4 and build his character by learning how to lose. Instead of getting a NC ring in 2011, he's never been to the Tourney, DePaul is 4-4, and hopefully will be able to pull out their next big matchup against Florida Atlantic. Good choice Cleveland.
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In fairness to Cleveland, JC had him wrong.
Cleveland Melvin clearly falls into JC's "I up" category along with Gomes.
 
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Hoophound said:
In fairness to Cleveland, JC had him wrong.
Cleveland Melvin clearly falls into JC's "I ed up" category along with Gomes.
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Agree wholeheartedly. I think he took King over Gomes or was it Austin Croshere. Either way, both those guys were miscalculations, but I don't want to criticize JC, he made more good recruiting choices than bad over the years.
 
Hoophound said:
In fairness to Cleveland, JC had him wrong.
Cleveland Melvin clearly falls into JC's "I ed up" category along with Gomes.
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I don't see how that falls in the Gomes category, JC got on Melvin early while with Gomes he didn't like him at all. I remember there was alot of handringing on here when we got him because of the other schools recruiting him and a poster went and saw him play for ND Prep during the HS Prep Invitational in New Haven and said he was awful. If JC told him he wanted to use him at the PF spot while Melvin wanted to play SF(even though he ended up playing PF at DePaul) as reported, there's not much you can do there if the player sees things differently and wants to go elsewhere.
 
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Matrim55 said:
Exactly.

He has a lot of athleticism and would be great on the break, but how much of the game is played on the break? What is this kid going to do in the half court, when he's got to present some sort of danger off the ball if he's not directly part of the pick-and-roll? From what I've seen and read, not much.

And then defensively, can he guard the wing? He's a 4 in high school, but will be an undersized 4 in college. No easy match-ups there.

I remain content with our recruiting class, and would rather keep the scholarship open for a late flip, a 5th-year guy, JaQuan Lyle, or simply roll it over into the 2015 group.

(I reserve the right to reverse my position on all of this if we happen to sign him!)
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I do wish there was more footage of him doing stuff other than dunking the ball, as good as it looks. Would love to land Lyle but I see him heading to Kansas since he wanted to play with Cliff Alexander anyways. Wouldn't mind the extra scholarship for 2015 as long as we can land a few big time players. I still feel like sometimes athleticism alone is huge. Stix wasn't a great basketball player but he could jump through the roof which allowed him to grab rebounds, get above defenders for points and also block shots. If Swift could be a 2014 Stanley Robinson, I'd take that on the roster.
 
We won a national title after Gomes ended his senior year bowing out meekly in the first round to Pacific. We won a national title after curb-stomping Melvin and DePaul in the first of our 11 straight wins. Personally, I don't regret either of them getting away for a second. They didn't cost us anything other than losing a January game and the ensuing press conference.

Perhaps we could have won those titles by more, I guess. Maybe with Gomes we have a better 2003 tourney, or a better 2012 tourney with Melvin, but if we went back in time, there's no way of knowing the ripple effect (Giffey and Daniels perhaps both don't come with Melvin here - CV, HA and Boone don't come with Gomes here, etc.).
 
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