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I think UConn is in a sweet spot like a few other schools where they have enough NIL to get a few players they want and not enough where they're hamstrung by selfish players. That seems to be the dream mix for these top tier coaches.
 
Coach J said:
Jacob Furphy is a 6'6" PG, not sure if he is quick enough to play in the states right away, but the staff went after him for a reason. I think Mullins most likely starts unless both Liam and AK come back. Also I am excited about Darius Adams he shows some of the playmaking going to the hoop that Castle did, now if he can play that good lock down defense on the perimeter that Castle did then we are back in business.
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I am excited about Darius too but after watching him a few times I am more excited about him next year. I wish we got to see more out of this year’s recruits and hope we see something about this year
 
bendm said:
Final 4 quality rotation depending on the transfers?

Transfer PG1 30 / Adams 10
Ball 30 / Mullins 10
Stew 20 / Mullins 10 / Ross 10
Transfer PF 30 / Stew 10
Reed 25 / Reibe 15

Bench: Transfer PG2 / Furphy / Singare

30: Transfer PG1 / Ball / Stew / Transfer PF
25: Reed
20: Mullins
15: Reibe
10: Adams / Ross
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Stew isn’t coming back for 10 nor should he.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
Based on what we’ve seen with past freshman here, I seriously doubt Furphy will be in the rotation.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if Adams isn’t a big part of the rotation. Realistically, I only see Mullins and Reibe getting solid minutes next year and that’s if we don’t recruit over neither in the portal.
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Adams is more Big East ready than Mullins is. Furphy, who has a much more developed body than both of them, is arguably more Big East ready than either as well.
 
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RuffRuff said:
Amazing is the fact that there are 3 top ten HS kids that have not made their selection yet, Ament/Burries/Peat. If I'm a top program and I'm pulling together NIL, I am DEFINITELY waiting to see what I can get in the portal before I divvy it out to a potential 1 and done. Can these kids really be doing themselves any favor waiting this long to commit? What is the benefit of waiting until the portal opens up as a HS recruit?
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I'm almost to the point that I consider all players as 'one and done', since draft and portal are available to all every year.

Previously I tended to prefer portal players with multiple years of remaining eligibility (assuming similar profile of course). But starting to think that that final year players are better due to risk of a transfer not working out.
 
CTBasketball said:
Adams is more Big East ready than Mullins is. Furphy, who has a much more developed body than both of them, is arguably more Big East ready than either as well.
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Adams is actually my favorite prospect of the group. I just think Mullins game will translate the easiest without needing the ball in his hands. And I’m not sure what position Adams is playing yet.

I may eat a shoe if Furphy plays next year.
 
GampelGladiator said:
I'm almost to the point that I consider all players as 'one and done', since draft and portal are available to all every year.

Previously I tended to prefer portal players with multiple years of remaining eligibility (assuming similar profile of course). But starting to think that that final year players are better due to risk of a transfer not working out.
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I would say the safest type of recruit in terms of not OAD is a proven transfer landing at a top program, non NBA profile and multiple years left. We did do that with Reed/Mahaney which was the right idea.
 
Fairfield_1st said:
Every time I see someone say Stew got better defensively, I wonder what team they were watching. He needs to work on his D. It was just a couple games ago he got faked so badly in the lane that he reminded me of Kemba "breaking" McGhee's ankle. It seems like he has the athleticism, but maybe not the desire to play D.
Any player UConn looks to bring in has to be slightly above average defensively at the minimum. We saw yesterday how key defense is to what UConn does. For the point guard I would value defense and breaking down a defender on O over other metrics like 3 pt shooting. This team played much better, including in the 2nd half yesterday, when Hass was aggressive in getting by his man. We need someone to create space by drawing defenders.
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Matter of degrees. He was very bad early on. He became a usable player towards year's end. They call that progress in certain groups.
bendm said:
I watched the games so I know that AK is a better defender than Stew. And I can read scouting reports which tell me that Mullins is 2” shorter and at least 25 lbs lighter than Liam. I don’t care how good his motor is he will have trouble guarding big wings
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i agree, but unless I am confused (could be) your initial premise was guardian guards. My apologies if I read it wrong
 
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HuskyWarrior611 said:
Adams is actually my favorite prospect of the group. I just think Mullins game will translate the easiest without needing the ball in his hands. And I’m not sure what position Adams is playing yet.

I may eat a shoe if Furphy plays next year.
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You will, he is 6-6 220, will be 19 this summer and has an old man's style of game. Will be an impact player next year.
 
WhereYouAt said:
You will, he is 6-6 220, will be 19 this summer and has an old man's style of game. Will be an impact player next year.
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It’s nothing against Furphy, but after the struggles freshmen consistently have this year I don’t think it’s realistic to think the lowest ranked guy of this current group will be an impact player.
 
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To me, the path to success next year for Adams would be as a backup 2G who is asked to score and create off of that.

If we ask him to learn the offense as a PG and do more creating and thinking than scoring and don’t give him the rope to make mistakes at the same time, it’ll probably end with him being out the rotation.
 
Honestly with the way things are shaping up they probably need to grab not just one but two point guards, a stretch four and a backup big in the portal. Will be interesting to see how that shakes out
 
navery12 said:


No idea if there's going to be UConn interest here, but this is a guy I'd love to have as a 6th man/backup PG next year. Would be some nice insurance for what could be a very young bench group
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Their freshman big is also in the portal
 
navery12 said:


No idea if there's going to be UConn interest here, but this is a guy I'd love to have as a 6th man/backup PG next year. Would be some nice insurance for what could be a very young bench group
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This is a no brainer if he'd come off the bench, but he could start at a Providence or Cuse level program easily.
 
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superjohn said:
This board has been depressing take after depressing take when it comes to this stuff for the past dozen years. Year after year the same nonsense about us being left behind. We got a bit of a reprieve from it this past year in the spring summer because we destroyed everyone in a dozen straight tournament games but the posters are back at it again.

There's a portion of this board that won't he satisfied unless we win every single national championship and if there's anything up in the air they think the roof is going to cave in on them.
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You're confusing BB with the Whalers.
 
Huskyforlife said:
This is a no brainer if he'd come off the bench, but he could start at a Providence or Cuse level program easily.
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Yeah my gut is he'll be able to get the opportunity to start somewhere, so my hopes aren't high. But he's from the same town as me so I'll hold out hope
 
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