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If there was some guarantee that St John's doing well would lead to us getting enough additional money that it would move the needle I would alter my view.

At the moment, while I have no animosity towards any school (Duke is an exception), I won't lose any sleep over something like Arkansas' recent win over St John's and I will draw a little pleasure from Pitino not accomplishing what he should have at any point in time.

You are free to cheer in whatever direction you care to but for your own good, please reassess the impact that one tournament win by one BE school will have on UConn's bottom line. It is negligible.

He knows all this, he’s just too dug in now.
 
If there was some guarantee that St John's doing well would lead to us getting enough additional money that it would move the needle I would alter my view.

At the moment, while I have no animosity towards any school (Duke is an exception), I won't lose any sleep over something like Arkansas' recent win over St John's and I will draw a little pleasure from Pitino not accomplishing what he should have at any point in time.

You are free to cheer in whatever direction you care to but for your own good, please reassess the impact that one tournament win by one BE school will have on UConn's bottom line. It is negligible.
If you donated $180k to the basketball program today I assure you they wouldn't say this is nothing because look at how much the SEC basketball teams get. They wouldn't pretend your $180K donation is $12.5K. It all matters.
 
Well he kept on falling for shot fakes even at the end of the season on defense. There is a reason why we saw more of Stewart playing defensive stopper than Ross at the end of the year. I hope Ross improves and and can contribute but we didn't really see it this year from him.
No he didn’t you’re literally making this up. His defense was fine.

Stewart got minutes because he contributed offensively.
 
We know how roles and opportunity work. Seems we all know better than you, actually.

Hurley waxed poetic about how Ross was so good in practice. He was given the opportunity in games. As we ALL saw with our eyes, he wasn’t good enough. I seriously don’t know what you are watching half the time.
Yes because you can tell all this in 3 minutes of playing time.
 
This is all quite dumb. Root for who you want. No one REALLY cares who wins if UConn doesn’t, besides not wanting Duke of course.
I care if Big East teams win and I think a lot of our fans care if Big East teams win.

Of course @UCfor3 rooting for UConn or rooting for or against St. John's has no impact on either of them winning or losing the games. The money we give to the program does have an impact on UConn basketball, as does the money they get from tournament units, as does TV money and any other place they het money from. We should all want Big East teams getting invites to the tournament and winning games in the tournament because that money is important to UConn basketball. The Big East doing well in basketball also has additional impact besides the money.
 
Is this an April 1 joke? Has to be, right?

Many factors leading me to believe it is, Namely the 7th year of eligibility. Dickenson has accumulated stats for five seasons and has played 161 games. Go to the NBA already.

 
Yes because you can tell all this in 3 minutes of playing time.
No, I can tell because I watched 90% of the games this season, games where his playing time varied. You are wrong in this instance. I get that you believe in the kid, but he hasn’t given us much of anything yet.

I would love nothing than for him to come good and contribute to a winning team his next two years. Your viewpoint is what if, mine and like almost all of the others here is “Well, as we’ve seen thus far, not much to go off of”.
 
Your tone is consistent and your initial post was the tone I was responding to - I'm not whining in any way, just responding.

It's not weird at all for a UConn basketball fan to root against St. John's and Rick Pitino in 2025, but you know that.
St. Johns is always the Big East team I hated the most, aside from Syracuse. Even though Louie C was likable. Now that they have the coach I hate the most and are behaving like virtual mobsters, yeah, I'd root for Duke against St. Johns at this point. I wish them nothing but the worst.

A team of mercenaries is never going to be likeable. It's why nobody liked Hunter Dickenson, even Kansas fans. What idiots they are too, they'd still have Zuby instead. Not all transfers are mercenaries, Cam was here because he loved it here. Reed had to escape his system in Michigan. T Newt was stepping up a level and getting a shot. Aiden...a bit mercenary maybe considering his role on a good St. Mary's team.
 
I care if Big East teams win and I think a lot of our fans care if Big East teams win.

Of course @UCfor3 rooting for UConn or rooting for or against St. John's has no impact on either of them winning or losing the games. The money we give to the program does have an impact on UConn basketball, as does the money they get from tournament units, as does TV money and any other place they het money from. We should all want Big East teams getting invites to the tournament and winning games in the tournament because that money is important to UConn basketball. The Big East doing well in basketball also has additional impact besides the money.
I know you do, you love Pitino and you’ve stated you were rooting for them. No one is telling you not to. You’re the one questioning others why they wouldn’t root for St John’s.
 
I thought this was an Apr Fools joke, how is he getting a 6th year(!) of college ball to keep going back and forth between the same schools?

 
No, I can tell because I watched 90% of the games this season, games where his playing time varied. You are wrong in this instance. I get that you believe in the kid, but he hasn’t given us much of anything yet.

I would love nothing than for him to come good and contribute to a winning team his next two years. Your viewpoint is what if, mine and like almost all of the others here is “Well, as we’ve seen thus far, not much to go off of”.
As a guy who routinely has outsized expectations for guys who didn't play much (see: Johnson, Samson) I just don't for Ross. Not on this team anyway. Happy if he stays as useful bench experience, but the way we play is very much anti-playground basketball and Ross is built for playground ball. He gambles for steals, makes really risky passes, always trying to do the flashy thing. I can see him doing better at Arkansas or someplace with a free-wheeling style of play.

I do think Solo can turn himself into a combo guard and needs to so we have positional flexibility. But that's based on our system not asking ball handlers to dribble too much against pressure. Teams took us out of our offense because too often we couldn't get past pressure without Diarra dribbling. Dan will fix that.
 
I thought this was an Apr Fools joke, how is he getting a 6th year(!) of college ball to keep going back and forth between the same schools?


He shut down after 10 games this season (I'm assuming to pull this). It looks like he's getting a medical redshirt.
 
As a guy who routinely has outsized expectations for guys who didn't play much (see: Johnson, Samson) I just don't for Ross. Not on this team anyway. Happy if he stays as useful bench experience, but the way we play is very much anti-playground basketball and Ross is built for playground ball. He gambles for steals, makes really risky passes, always trying to do the flashy thing. I can see him doing better at Arkansas or someplace with a free-wheeling style of play.

I do think Solo can turn himself into a combo guard and needs to so we have positional flexibility. But that's based on our system not asking ball handlers to dribble too much against pressure. Teams took us out of our offense because too often we couldn't get past pressure without Diarra dribbling. Dan will fix that.
Sure a combo guard in the fact he can initiate the offense. But, we saw this year how much he struggles against pressure. He isn’t Hawkins level of mediocre ballhandling, but he himself would probably say he doesn’t have great confidence in his handle. Defenders routinely bothered him hy pressuring him. He still needs a confident handler sharing the court with him, A La Diarra. He also doesn’t look for the pass enough on drives, but that can be worked on for sure.
 
I think it is borderline insane to think Jayden Ross is a rotation piece next year. Nothing he has shown on offense or defense leads to believe that is coming. I have no idea what to call thinking he can be a starter on a team with championship expectations next year
 
I know you do, you love Pitino and you’ve stated you were rooting for them. No one is telling you not to. You’re the one questioning others why they wouldn’t root for St John’s.
Yep, I just rooted for them for different reasons than you did. I rooted for them because it's good for UConn and the league. You rooted for them because of your friends and bracket, not because it's beneficial to UConn and league.

I'll always root for things that are beneficial to UConn and the Big East.
 
Yep, I just rooted for them for different reasons than you did. I rooted for them because it's good for UConn and the league. You rooted for them because of your friends and bracket, not because it's beneficial to UConn and league.

I'll always root for things that are beneficial to UConn and the Big East.
We must all bow down to you, SuperJohn. Your decree is gospel.

Christ, get over yourself.
 
No, I can tell because I watched 90% of the games this season, games where his playing time varied. You are wrong in this instance. I get that you believe in the kid, but he hasn’t given us much of anything yet.

I would love nothing than for him to come good and contribute to a winning team his next two years. Your viewpoint is what if, mine and like almost all of the others here is “Well, as we’ve seen thus far, not much to go off of”.
You’re also the same guy that questioned why Steph would be so adamant about playing PG and said he’d be happy to be a Jrue Holiday player. Now you see once he has the opportunity and role how special he can be.

It’s not my fault you can’t evaluate a basketball players tools and project it from there without having to see production first.
 
Killing some time...here's one who might be an interesting PG backup bench-piece (if he'd be willing)

Babacar Diallo, 6'6" 195 Grad UMKC, Fairly good metrics on Hoop Explorer. Played decently against higher-level comp.

DialloStats.jpg


 
You’re also the same guy that questioned why Steph would be so adamant about playing PG and said he’d be happy to be a Jrue Holiday player. Now you see once he has the opportunity and role how special he can be.

It’s not my fault you can’t evaluate a basketball players tools and project it from there without having to see production first.
His first year I said not to just hand him the keys. It had worked, he has developed other facets of his game and learned under CP3. Jrue Holiday is great also, so not a gotcha there.

Again, when pretty much everyone can see that Ross simply doesn’t have it in him as of now to be a high major contributor, and you are seemingly the only one who disagrees, maybe it is you who can’t evaluate a player?
 
Nah, it’s weird policing others’ fandom because they won’t outwardly root for a direct rival. You can root for the Johnnies, no one cares either way.
I'm not policing anything, I have no power here. We both rooted for St. John's for different reasons and you got in your feelings and resorted to insults. This is what you always do when we discuss hoops.
 

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