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Pretty good read if hasn't been posted yet....the obvious imo is that need another steady ball-handler with or without Cole. Ideally a ball handler that can shoot. Don't want to hurt anyone's feelings on the team, but can't go into next season without adding a couple of transfers or at least 1 if Cole rerturns. Too many unkowns with current group if expect to compete for BE title....better to have too many that not enough.

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What does UConn men’s basketball need from the transfer portal this offseason?

Dan Hurley and the Huskies are losing tons of experience and likely need to hit the transfer portal to reload.
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Is there a sense cole is making up his mind or weighing his pro options against coming back? If he’s weighing his options I feel like that could drag things out more than if he’s strictly deciding what he wants to do.
 
I see Llewellyn showing up frequently. Are we connected? How is he any different than Gaffney? Slight of frame, not super explosive. Give me someone with some game who played against legit competition and can get a bucket when everything else has gone south.
 
It's in Hurley's hands, but he must realize need another ball handler desperately...can't sleep on this and come up empty in portal.
 
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Cole not making a decision public is detrimental to the team. We have to hope Hurley is informed on what Cole is doing and acting accordingly.

Or we are screwed.
 
3rdbass said:
Ok so you are convinced that Hurley who has no track recored of leaning on Transfers is going to pick up 2 guards? I guess we will just have to see who is right then. Again it is just our opinions. You are stating stuff like you know exactly what Hurley will do. LOL!
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Yes I think Dan Hurley is going to replace the 2 open scholarships we have from transfers graduating with 2 new transfers. We're not even connected to a single 2022 recruit right now
 
3rdbass said:
Ok so you are convinced that Hurley who has no track recored of leaning on Transfers is going to pick up 2 guards? I guess we will just have to see who is right then. Again it is just our opinions. You are stating stuff like you know exactly what Hurley will do. LOL!
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2 of the best 3 players on this year’s team were transfers.
 
3rdbass said:
Ok so you are convinced that Hurley who has no track recored of leaning on Transfers is going to pick up 2 guards? I guess we will just have to see who is right then. Again it is just our opinions. You are stating stuff like you know exactly what Hurley will do. LOL!
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Yet, Hurley brought in 2 of the top 3 scorers on this past team (Cole and Martin). :)
 
3rdbass said:
Ok so you are convinced that Hurley who has no track recored of leaning on Transfers is going to pick up 2 guards? I guess we will just have to see who is right then. Again it is just our opinions. You are stating stuff like you know exactly what Hurley will do. L
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Of course, two of our three best players this past season were transfers. And I'm not sure how much it matters what someone's record has been; today's transfer portal/rules is a whole new game. Everyone is doing it.
 
navery12 said:
Yes I think Dan Hurley is going to replace the 2 open scholarships we have from transfers graduating with 2 new transfers. We're not even connected to a single 2022 recruit right now
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What does that mean? Two guys are already here, and the others waiting to graduate from hs.
 
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Even with Cole back, we need a transfer who can shoot, and ideally it would be a big combo guard who can also run some point for us.

I think that has to be the top priority that we need to start making calls about, regardless of Cole’s decision.
 
HuskyBballFan said:
2 of the best 3 players on this year’s team were transfers.
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This is such an obvious point that many seem to miss.

In terms of next year, everything depends on Cole. My friend remarked to me that he’s the difference between a top-10 team and a 10-seed, and that might not be far off. I am all about tracking potential players who hit the transfer portal, but it is hard to speculate about what we need or who might come here until we know what Cole is doing.
 
AntG168 said:
Without Cole absolutely. If Cole does come back than just one. If he doesn’t we have to seriously start wondering if he gets it. Or hope and pray diggins is freshman year Shabazz Napier
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I've been seriously wondering since last summer.
 
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navery12 said:
The fact that we have 2 open scholarships currently (pending Cole's decision) and are not recruiting any 2022 guys leads to the conclusion that those spots are going to be filled with transfers
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Yup. And some new decommited players out there who could be nice fits
 
AntG168 said:
Without Cole absolutely. If Cole does come back than just one. If he doesn’t we have to seriously start wondering if he gets it. Or hope and pray diggins is freshman year Shabazz Napier
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Shabazz was much much better then Diggins as a freshman
 
Slick said:
Shabazz was much much better then Diggins as a freshman
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Shabazz had much much more opportunity to play meaningful minutes than Diggins as a freshman.

I don't think we can any real evaluation of Diggins's potential because the minutes he played this year were inconsistent mop-up duty and garbage time with the second team. None of us saw him in practice so we can't evaluate based on that.

But the kid deserves a shot at consistent minutes with the first team players. I would've loved to see what he could do in a two-guard lineup with Cole and Jackson on the floor at the same time. Therefore, I'd grade his season as cannot evaluate. To me, his role was Hurley's biggest mistake this season. We needed a secondary ballhandler, it was clear JG was not the answer, and Diggins was never given a legitimate shot to earn that role.

Conversely, Gaffney got ample opportunity for minutes with the first team in meaningful parts of the game. By and large, he didn't come through. If anyone's minutes are going to get passed over next year, it's Gaffney.
 
Captbluefin said:
Cole not making a decision public is detrimental to the team. We have to hope Hurley is informed on what Cole is doing and acting accordingly.

Or we are screwed.
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Generally speaking - and this might sound crazy - I tend to think that people within the program are more plugged in than a bunch of armchair quarterbacks on a message board.
 
Slick said:
Shabazz was much much better then Diggins as a freshman
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Clearly. My point was we’d need to hope Soph Diggins is as good as freshman year bazz
 
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BigErnMcCracken said:
Generally speaking - and this might sound crazy - I tend to think that people within the program are more plugged in than a bunch of armchair quarterbacks on a message board.
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It does sound crazy.. Generally speaking do you find it gratifying to be a complete tool ? Does making comments like this one make you feel important? Did you feel cool typing it ?

Please share I’m sure everyone else wants to feel as cool as you did when you posted it.
 
navery12 said:
The fact that we have 2 open scholarships currently (pending Cole's decision) and are not recruiting any 2022 guys leads to the conclusion that those spots are going to be filled with transfers
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Ah, that makes more sense, but are there even any 2022 guards out there that are not spoken for? I figured that there wouldn’t be much help for us at this point.
 
Improviser said:
Without Cole, we will need 2 new established point guards from the portal or one can be a grad transfer. I am not sure if the term portal includes grad transfers or if it is a separate category.

If Diggins has the skills, let him play himself into meaningful minutes. These days, players realize high level BB is competitive and major programs fill holes rather than deal with uncertainty.
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What? I’m seriously confused by the takes here. I went back and looked at old UConn teams. Most had two PG on the roster. Some had 3. Maybe 4 if you count someone like Andrew Hurley.

Without Cole, this team needs 1 more. There is no room to bring in two guards and keep the guys we have. Floyd is going to play a lot. Hawkins is going to start and play even more. Diggins will play. Gaff, if here, will play.

Now, people can look at our SG and say they don’t have the ball handling skills of say, Ben Gordon, and that’s true. But the issue is at SG. Hawkins has to step up and be the ball handler we need. if he does and AJax is a 3 the team is very strong with ball handlers. Not sure how Karajan is, but expect he’d be a major upgrade on Polley. Expect Floyd to be Martin like, which is fine.
 
Rico444 said:
If you can't trust Diggins to be anything more than your 3rd PG as a Sophomore then I don't expect he'll ever play meaningful minutes here.
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You can’t trust him until you see him play well. For now, we need someone we know can do the job on the roster.
 
Hoophound said:
You can’t trust him until you see him play well. For now, we need someone we know can do the job on the roster.
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There's nothing wrong with going that route if you're Hurley, but if Diggins didn't play as a Freshman and then his coach goes and brings in two point guards to play over him then why would he stay?
 
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