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Thank You Jalen Adams

Matrim55 said:
If he hadn't stuck around all four years we'd have about 10 wins in total since 2016.

I'll always wonder what kind of player he'd have been for us if he'd been around during the Calhoun years, or for more than one year under Hurley.

We'll see him in the League.
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Amen to that. He could've easily decided to bail and he stuck it out through the tough times and was proud to wear the UConn jersey. I am proud of him and wish him the best in his future endeavors.
 
Onions said:
Jalen was a talented but frustrating player to root for. He could go to his right and eurostep his way to some incredible baskets, was an excellent pull up midrange scorer, and was unselfish with the ball. Unfortunately he was the same player as a sophomore as he is today; careless with the ball, inconsistant from 3, and easily defended if pushed to his left. As well as being the 8th highest all time scorer at Uconn I don't think anyone in the last 20 years has lost as many games while playing major minutes for the Huskies. While that wasn't all his doing, I for one am happy to turn the page.
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I've met people who insist that UConn doesn't have the worst fans in all of college sports (outside the southeast and the sandy sates, which honestly are not part of modern civilization), but then you see a post like this on the day a four year player plays his last game, in a thread clearly titled so people can appreciate his effort, and what can you do but laugh.
 
EBonz30 said:
To blame the reason on the players around him & the coaching staff is poor analysis to me. The great players are great no matter what the environment is, that’s what makes them great & not just good or above average. Jalen never showed the leadership quality or the talent of those great players, if he did, we could actually be having a much different conversation about Jalen & the Huskies & a much different outlook on the current state of the program.
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You clearly still have not read my post clearly. Because I said he COULD've gone down as an all time great with the right situation around him. He had that type of ceiling coming out of high school. But he didn't end up becoming an all time great.
Replace Jalen with Ray, Kemba, Rip, Shabazz or Kemba and that would not have even saved this team. Not even close. All of those guys had much better teams around them. Like miles better. And yes, they were also better players than Jalen.
Jalen surely carries some of the load of responsibility for not reaching his full potential. But having poor players and no coaching around him for 2+ years is a large part of the blame. I'm not sure how you can say that is poor analysis, because that is exactly what happened. And he still became one of the top scorers in UConn history. We are much worse off these last 4 years without Jalen.
 
RayIsTheGOAT said:
You clearly still have not read my post clearly. Because I said he COULD've gone down as an all time great with the right situation around him. He had that type of ceiling coming out of high school. But he didn't end up becoming an all time great.
Replace Jalen with Ray, Kemba, Rip, Shabazz or Kemba and that would not have even saved this team. Not even close. All of those guys had much better teams around them. Like miles better. And yes, they were also better players than Jalen.
Jalen surely carries some of the load of responsibility for not reaching his full potential. But having poor players and no coaching around him for 2+ years is a large part of the blame. I'm not sure how you can say that is poor analysis, because that is exactly what happened. And he still became one of the top scorers in UConn history. We are much worse off these last 4 years without Jalen.
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Sounds good...
 
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Deepster said:
I don't agree with this.
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"Saved the team" is a broad term, I guess. Would they make the team better? Of course.
But does replacing Jalen with Kemba make Tarin Smith become as good as Shabazz? Or Vital become as good as Jeremy Lamb? Or Sid Wilson become Roscoe? Or Polley become Giffey? Or Carlton become as good as Oriakhi?
Does it even make us an NCAA tournament team? Idk, I'm guessing not.
 
EBonz30 said:
To blame the reason on the players around him & the coaching staff is poor analysis to me. The great players are great no matter what the environment is, that’s what makes them great & not just good or above average. Jalen never showed the leadership quality or the talent of those great players, if he did, we could actually be having a much different conversation about Jalen & the Huskies & a much different outlook on the current state of the program.
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So that's a no?
 
RayIsTheGOAT said:
You clearly still have not read my post clearly. Because I said he COULD've gone down as an all time great with the right situation around him. He had that type of ceiling coming out of high school. But he didn't end up becoming an all time great.
Replace Jalen with Ray, Kemba, Rip, Shabazz or Kemba and that would not have even saved this team. Not even close. All of those guys had much better teams around them. Like miles better. And yes, they were also better players than Jalen.
Jalen surely carries some of the load of responsibility for not reaching his full potential. But having poor players and no coaching around him for 2+ years is a large part of the blame. I'm not sure how you can say that is poor analysis, because that is exactly what happened. And he still became one of the top scorers in UConn history. We are much worse off these last 4 years without Jalen.
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Without Jalen Adams we woudnt have won 10 games this year not 10!!!!
 
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Thanks Jalen. I still remember Mike Patrick and Len Elmore calling the 4OT Cincinnati game his freshman year saying that you could tell he would be the next big star at UConn. I'm not going to make the distinction that he was or wasn't, but I'm damn happy he was a UConn husky. From that 62 footer, to going off against Oklahoma State, or the Temple game winner, he was a husky throughout.

Was sad to see him check out for the last time today. Could've left for greener pastures, but didn't. A lot of things could be said, but I'm just gonna leave it at this,

Thank you, Jalen Adams.
 
Jalen,a quality player and person. Hope he has a great pro career.
 
Thank you Jalen for sticking it out for 4 years and being here in year 1 of the Hurley regime, when we do turn it around you will be the one who got it started. Sad to see his career end this way, he will have a sucessful basketball career hopefully on winning teams, he deserves better.
 
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EBonz30 said:
To blame the reason on the players around him & the coaching staff is poor analysis to me. The great players are great no matter what the environment is, that’s what makes them great & not just good or above average. Jalen never showed the leadership quality or the talent of those great players, if he did, we could actually be having a much different conversation about Jalen & the Huskies & a much different outlook on the current state of the program.
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You mean like LeBron in LA? Nah man, if you have lackluster coaching, and less than lackluster teammates, it's hard to develop and shine. Especially at the college level.
 
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I have always been a huge Jalen supporter so it saddens me to see his last memory of UCONN be this game. Definitely in my top 5 UCONN players of all time. Jalen we will sorely miss you next year. Good fortune on your basketball future and hopefully NBA one too!
 
Give Jalen a break, he had no complimentary players, injuries and bad luck followed the team. He never quit. You can't teach someone to be a leader, it's in them. He cared and he supported his team, school and coaches. I think he learned a lot and can get somewhere in the future.
 
Dave Carlson said:
I've met people who insist that UConn doesn't have the worst fans in all of college sports (outside the southeast and the sandy sates, which honestly are not part of modern civilization), but then you see a post like this on the day a four year player plays his last game, in a thread clearly titled so people can appreciate his effort, and what can you do but laugh.
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Amen to all this!!! Jalen will play in the NBA. Two-way contract or 10-days until he’s signed for the rest of the year. With talent around him, he’s lethal. Kid is a winner! His supporting cast didn’t nearly have the talent. When he had a nowhere near talented as he is now Donovan Mitchell and the current Big East Defensive Player of the Year(but can’t shoot a kick) Justin Simon on his squad they lost one game out of 30 against D-1 level high school kids. Anyone remember that behind-the-back half-court alley oop he threw to Simon just for fun? He stayed locally to rep his region, for duped into thinking he would get a squad, and didn’t complain once about the lack of talent and never heard a hint of him transferring. Jalen is a true Husky!
 
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superjohn said:
I did.

Honestly it was about the same as when we had him. We played Houston pretty much down to the end and played everyone down to the wire except for the SMU debacle. The record wasn't good but it was pretty bad with him and we didn't suffer the kind of beat downs we did with him.
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When you say it was about the same, I assume that you mean other than the fact that we won some games when he played for us?
 
BigEastLuva said:
Amen to all this!!! Jalen will play in the NBA. Two-way contract or 10-days until he’s signed for the rest of the year. With talent around him, he’s lethal. Kid is a winner! His supporting cast didn’t nearly have the talent. When he had a nowhere near talented Donovan Mitchell and the current Big East Defensive Player of the Year(but can’t shoot a kick) Justin Simon on his squad they lost one game out of 30 against D-1 level high school kids. Anyone remember that behind-the-back half-court alley oop he threw to Simon just for fun? He stayed locally to rep his region, for duped into thinking he would get a squad, and didn’t complain once about the lack of talent and never heard a hint of him transferring. Jalen is a true Husky!
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Donovan Mitchell is nowhere near as talented as Jalen Adams!!! This board is wonderful for lolz.
 
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businesslawyer said:
When you say it was about the same, I assume that you mean other than the fact that we won some games when he played for us?
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We played more cr@ppy teams. Actually kept it just as close or closer against the good teams without him, and suffered our worst blowouts with him (outside of SMU.) He was probably only good for 1 more win in the stretch he was out.

Basically we looked similar with and without him. Against the better teams we usually got down fought hard but came up short at the end with an occasional blowout mixed in.
 
superjohn said:
We played more cr@ppy teams. Actually kept it just as close or closer against the good teams without him, and suffered our worst blowouts with him (outside of SMU.) He was probably only good for 1 more win in the stretch he was out.

Basically we looked similar with and without him. Against the better teams we usually got down fought hard but came up short at the end with an occasional blowout mixed in.
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You've got to give credit to some other guys getting better as well though. Specifically Carlton.
 
superjohn said:
Donovan Mitchell is nowhere near as talented as Jalen Adams!!! This board is wonderful for lolz.
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Nowhere near talented as he was in high school that is. Check the rankings smart guy. None of the recruiting networks had Donovan over Jalen.
 
Yo, how can anyone look at Jalen's tenure here and not see it for what it was: Yet another example of Kevin Ollie's utter incompetence. Jalen was a victim of time and circumstance: he committed to Ollie before his coaching weaknesses really became glaring, and then had to slowly deal with, and ultimately become conditioned to, a toxically non-competitive top-down culture.

How does a player become a "killer" when their coach is too soft to really want one on his team?
 
intlzncster said:
You've got to give credit to some other guys getting better as well though. Specifically Carlton.
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Sure but which games were we winning with him, maybe the last two at home (USF & Temple?) The only other home game was Cincy and we never beat Cincy.
 
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