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Fishy said:
lol…

You mean like having a point guard? You know, that old outdated method of recruiting point guards, developing them and then playing them? All those outdated things that we didn’t do this year, but that teams like Villanova do so very well - those outdated things?

The portal ain’t a plan - the portal is where you go when your plan fails.

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The plan at point guard failed, but the plan at SG, SF, PF, and C succeeded.

"the portal is where you go when your plan fails" -- which means the portal is the backup plan.

The backup plan at point guard will succeed. So what's the problem?

A strategy whose first option succeeds 4/5 times and whose backup is in place to cover the 1/5 times the first option fails, is a good strategy.
 
pj said:
The plan at point guard failed, but the plan at SG, SF, PF, and C succeeded.

"the portal is where you go when your plan fails" -- which means the portal is the backup plan.

The backup plan at point guard will succeed. So what's the problem?

A strategy whose first option succeeds 4/5 times and whose backup is in place to cover the 1/5 times the first option fails, is a good strategy.
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I mean let’s be honest so far they haven’t recruited a good PG who was successful in our program, that’s a bit scary. Without RJ transferring in it’s been a failure. Need to get good PGs out of HS as well.

Hope we get Newton and another, I’m fine with the portal. But being a historic PG school whiffing on the last 2 is a bit nerve racking.
 
mauconnfan said:
I mean let’s be honest so far they haven’t recruited a good PG who was successful in our program, that’s a bit scary. Without RJ transferring in it’s been a failure. Need to get good PGs out of HS as well.

Hope we get Newton and another, I’m fine with the portal. But being a historic PG school whiffing on the last 2 is a bit nerve racking.
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we have a top 20 player coming in next season to run point.
 
UofCT said:
We have only had two recruiting classes with uconn in the big east and the one PG we got stunk. It’s not a reoccurring issue. It’s one guy.
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It’s 2 that made a difference. But one was not his although he didn’t grab another because he thought Gaff was the answer. He wasn’t and really showed no signs he would be minus a game or 2 as a soph.

But agree, Castle can turn it all around and thereafter.
 
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djct1999 said:
100%. Again, this narrative is manifesting itself from delusional to downright crazy.
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Wrong, what is delusional to downright crazy is the fact that so many of you feel compelled to attempt to fix the narrative. Responding is an option, not a requirement.
 
mauconnfan said:
I mean let’s be honest so far they haven’t recruited a good PG who was successful in our program, that’s a bit scary. Without RJ transferring in it’s been a failure. Need to get good PGs out of HS as well.

Hope we get Newton and another, I’m fine with the portal. But being a historic PG school whiffing on the last 2 is a bit nerve racking.
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We recruited Cole via the portal. He was all big east 1st team. Led UConn to back to back NCAA tournaments.
 
mauconnfan said:
It’s 2 that made a difference. But one was not his although he didn’t grab another because he thought Gaff was the answer. He wasn’t and really showed no signs he would be minus a game or 2 as a soph.

But agree, Castle can turn it all around and thereafter.
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Gaff would have been a fine PG in the AAC. His best season was freshman year when we played there.
 
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UCSouth said:
Wrong, what is delusional to downright crazy is the fact that so many of you feel compelled to attempt to fix the narrative. Responding is an option, not a requirement.
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Not when it’s a false narrative. That’s what makes it so crazy and your response delusional.
 
husky99 said:
Hearing Ramey is next on the list or staff is putting alot of energy into
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I like it. High major veteran (will be 5th year) B12 has been a war the last 4 years. Played 30 min a night on a top 15 team. Gaffney role upgrade. Hopefully we get a good shooting year from him (he shot great junior year 41% and non-conf senior year 40%, but struggled in senior year conference play 31%).
 
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Matrim55 said:
Confirmed. :)

(Whoever that rando on twitter is who tweeted last week that Newton & Ramey were our targets knew his stuff. Probably worth a follow.)
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No disrespect intended. I was skeptical because it seemed too good to be true.

Carry on good sir.
 
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Mr. Wonderful said:
No disrespect intended. I was skeptical because it seemed too good to be true.

Carry on good sir.
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I was skeptical, too! I think it's smart to be skeptical about new "insiders" since most of them are BS and a lot of us old heads aren't getting as much as we used to (though I think @Zionn is, as always, the exception there).

But this guy had it really early, so props to him.
 
Matrim55 said:
I was skeptical, too! I think it's smart to be skeptical about new "insiders" since most of them are BS and a lot of us old heads aren't getting as much as we used to (though I think @Zionn is, as always, the exception there).

But this guy had it really early, so props to him.
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I can't find it now, who was that tweet from?
 
mauconnfan said:
I mean let’s be honest so far they haven’t recruited a good PG who was successful in our program, that’s a bit scary. Without RJ transferring in it’s been a failure. Need to get good PGs out of HS as well.

Hope we get Newton and another, I’m fine with the portal. But being a historic PG school whiffing on the last 2 is a bit nerve racking.
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"RJ transferring in" is like, our starting point guard for half of Hurley's tenure.

Yes, Hurley needs to get better at recruiting PGs out of high school. A sample size of 2 (Gaffney, Diggins) is pretty small though.

Also, we're a historic everything school. We've had lottery picks at the 1 (Kemba), 2 (Ray, Rip, Ben Gordon, Lamb, Bouknight), 3 (Caron, Rudy Gay), 4 (Donyell, Villanueva, Armstrong), and 5 (Okafor, Thabeet, Drummond).
 
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auror said:
I like it. High major veteran (will be 5th year) B12 has been a war the last 4 years. Played 30 min a night on a top 15 team. Gaffney role upgrade. Hopefully we get a good shooting year from him (he shot great junior year 41% and non-conf senior year 40%, but struggled in senior year conference play 31%).
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100% agree.

If we bring in Newton & Ramey that's a heck of a response to losing Diggins and Gaffney.

RJ Cole was awesome, but there's a fair-to-good chance that the combination of Newton/Ramey is a net gain compared to Cole/Gaffney/Diggins last year.

Now let's get those two on board!
 
husky99 said:
Hearing Ramey is next on the list or staff is putting alot of energy into
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Cart before the horse, but...
uconnprojection23.png

47 minutes split between Floyd, Karaban, Johnson, and Akok. I added some bullishness to the projected offensive inputs, because I think it has underrated Hawkins especially. Also think Newton will see some improved 3pt shooting and efficiency gains from lower workload. I set the bench pieces to 4* (and high end 4* for the bigs).

Comes back with a range of 17th-38th with balanced outlook of 27th. That's with (knock on wood) Newton and Ramey, without adding any meaningful 3rd piece. Can do your own here:
 
auror said:
Cart before the horse, but...
uconnprojection23.png

47 minutes split between Floyd, Karaban, Johnson, and Akok. I added some bullishness to the projected offensive inputs, because I think it has underrated Hawkins especially. Also think Newton will see some improved 3pt shooting and efficiency gains from lower workload. I set the bench pieces to 4* (and high end 4* for the bigs).

Comes back with a range of 17th-38th with balanced outlook of 27th. That's with (knock on wood) Newton and Ramey, without adding any meaningful 3rd piece. Can do your own here:
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Good stuff. I played around at Bart Torvik’s site, and Newton and Ramey bumped us from 50 to 35. I think the playing time is off, and it’s too early for projections, but I’ll take two players who would hypothetically push us past 15 teams. I feel comfortable expecting another top-25 team with those two.

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UofCT said:
We recruited Cole via the portal. He was all big east 1st team. Led UConn to back to back NCAA tournaments.
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If Cole didn’t play for his father and if Dan Hurley didn’t know RJ what are the chances he comes to UConn. I realize that he went to JCs camp but without the connection, you may wonder. Glad he did
 
gtcam said:
If Cole didn’t play for his father and if Dan Hurley didn’t know RJ what are the chances he comes to UConn. I realize that he went to JCs camp but without the connection, you may wonder. Glad he did
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Recruiting is about relationships & leveraging them. All fair play w/ Rj, & his relationship to the Hurley family shouldn’t diminish Dan Hurley landing him
 
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