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JLW said:
This was me predicting he was coming to UConn. I was very happy he choose us.
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Yeah, I found it interesting that you started on the board at the same time that Liam first got interested in us and were enthusiastic about it but now you're pretty negative on the kid.

I don't agree much with @Deepster, but he's right here. This board is a place for us to talk about Connecticut basketball. Absolutely, feel free to take a position, but it goes with the territory that it may be criticized.

In my opinion, Liam had a very good season at UConn and owes no one apologies because he decided to pursue his dream of playing in the NBA. We didn't get a national championship last year, but we came within a bucket of defeating the team that ended up being national championships. Not a bad year by any stretch of the imagination, though a step down from 2023 and 2024.
 
I was absolutely all on board about Liam coming. My opinion remains the same. You're correct I've got to be ready for other people disagreeing with me. GO HUSKIES!
 
auror said:
Nobody really thought he was going in the lottery when he declared (there was an outside chance for the Spurs at 14).

He got a 14 million contract with close to 6 mil guaranteed. He'd have gotten 2-3 mill at UConn for 1 year. There's no guarantee next year he would have boosted his stock by returning (just see Karaban), and he achieved his dream of making the NBA.

This is a decent outcome for him, if not the absolute best possible. But hey, that's life.
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Plus, if he has half a brain, he'll focus on his game and not on spending his newfound money just because it's there.
If he does that he'll save at least half of what he makes in his first contract and never have to worry about working again.
I know there are a few people here who believe you need $90 or $180 million in order to have a nice life...........but I can state with certainty you don't need that much!
 
Scottobot said:
Charlotte definitely is a dumpster fire with horrible coaches, trainers, medical staff, management etc. Anyway you can mismanage an NBA franchise they do it. However for McNeeley this could potentially work in his favor. If he is disciplined and can develop on his own in that void of development that is Charlotte, he might get more playing time then he would elsewhere. It’s is almost guaranteed that atleast 1 of whoever Charlotte plans to start next year will have some issue and there will be an opening..
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Hasn't Jordan sold out?
If so, maybe there's a chance management will be improved and actually put together a team working to win rather than just feeding off the NBA trough.
 
JLW said:
And declares for the NBA days after a heartbreaking loss to #1 Florida. Left a sour taste with me.
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I didn't have an issue with it, he made his decision and Hurley needed to know right away.
 
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JLW said:
And declares for the NBA days after a heartbreaking loss to #1 Florida. Left a sour taste with me.
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He declared 8 days after losing to UF, which is almost exactly in line with other early entrants from UConn the past few years.

Castle declared 11 days after Purdue. Clingan 4 days after Purdue. Sanogo 9 days after SDSU. Hawkins 3 days after SDSU.

Yes, I get that he left after a loss and the team had a disappointing season overall, but the timing was very much in line with others.
 
caw said:
He declared 8 days after losing to UF, which is almost exactly in line with other early entrants from UConn the past few years.

Castle declared 11 days after Purdue. Clingan 4 days after Purdue. Sanogo 9 days after SDSU. Hawkins 3 days after SDSU.

Yes, I get that he left after a loss and the team had a disappointing season overall, but the timing was very much in line with others.
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Why are you trying to tell him how he should feel? Is he not allowed to have his own opinion?
 
Scrutineer said:
Hasn't Jordan sold out?
If so, maybe there's a chance management will be improved and actually put together a team working to win rather than just feeding off the NBA trough.
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I think he sold out a few years back.
Their biggest problem is they have been tanking forever. When they have a couple potential prospects like Ball, and then they have to play through horrible losing season after horrible losing season where you are intentionally sitting good players when you are playing another bad team you might be able to win, it causes players to check out, and become losers. Tanking only works for a year or too, and then you got to move on and try to win or everyone on the team becomes damaged good. That is where Charlotte is now. They have a team full of players who haven’t tried to win a game in the last 4 years and are completely demoralized.
 
JLW said:
And declares for the NBA days after a heartbreaking loss to #1 Florida. Left a sour taste with me.
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As if he wasn't UConn's best player that game. Whatever broski
 
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JLW said:
I'm not taking it hard, just telling the truth.
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"Very disappointed in Liam and will never look at him as a great Husky."<Your words
Thats not truth, its bitterness with the stench of entitlement. Liam doesnt owe you or anyone else anything. He needs to do whats best for him even if it hurts your feelings.
 
It’s obviously fair to say Liam didn’t live up to expectations, because he didn’t, but implying he’s selfish for when he declared is nonsense, it was a formality to announce it and he gave the loss plenty of breathing room.

He also obviously cared a lot about the team and played with passion and intensity. I think he left it all out on the court, for better and worse, and that’s all I really ask for.

I’ll save my disdain for the guys who play lazy or sloppy, that don’t put in the work off the court to be great, or misrepresent the university in other ways.
 
Picked at bottom of 1st Round, no "buzz" around him. It looks like it was the wrong decision. Should have stuck with UConn for his Sophomore year, be a leader on a talented team, and go in the Top 5 or 10 Lottery next year - worst case.

I just hope he gets some PT next year.
 
Liam is such a high quality player who was a big producer on Monteverde, the number 1 draft pick Cooper Flagg’s team. To me it’s crazy that he was that far down but I guess we’ll see. Will he have the opportunities that Flagg gets? No, so it’s going to be hard to do any comparisons regarding production and success. He will be at a disadvantage until he gets reasonable PT.
His injury held him back significantly I contend.
 
IndyLives said:
Picked at bottom of 1st Round, no "buzz" around him. It looks like it was the wrong decision. Should have stuck with UConn for his Sophomore year, be a leader on a talented team, and go in the Top 5 or 10 Lottery next year - worst case.

I just hope he gets some PT next year.
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No, “worst case” would be something like a career ending injury after which he never got drafted at all. Getting drafted in the first round of the NBA draft really cannot ever be rationally looked back upon as the result of a wrong decision…
 
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thekollieman said:
No, “worst case” would be something like a career ending injury after which he never got drafted at all. Getting drafted in the first round of the NBA draft really cannot ever be rationally looked back upon as the result of a wrong decision…
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Again. We keep circling this.

It’s not the wrong decision financially.

It’s questionable if another injury free year would have a) vaulted him into the top ten and b) gotten him more money and an easier adjustment to the NBA developmentally.
 
Deepster said:
Again. We keep circling this.

It’s not the wrong decision financially.

It’s questionable if another injury free year would have a) vaulted him into the top ten and b) gotten him more money and an easier adjustment to the NBA developmentally.
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I don’t deny the possibility that another year could have done that. But I contend it’s never the result of an overall wrong decision to have been drafted anywhere in the first round…

…Which of course is an obvious perspective - I only bothered to type it because the person I was responding to used the term “worst case” to describe Liam becoming a lottery pick after next year.
 
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