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Who will be our starting point guard next season?

Who will be our starting point guard next season?

  • RJ Cole

    Votes: 67 20.4%

  • Jalen Gaffney

    Votes: 27 8.2%

  • Andre Jackson, Jr.

    Votes: 57 17.3%

  • Rashool Diggins

    Votes: 35 10.6%

  • Corey Floyd, Jr.

    Votes: 13 4.0%

  • Stephon Castle

    Votes: 7 2.1%

  • A transfer or recruit who is not on the current roster

    Votes: 123 37.4%
  • Total voters
    329
  • Poll closed .
Frank06830 said:
Teddy Allen, a junior, will be 24 in June
Caleb Daniels of Nova will be 26 soon.
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True! But they're the outliers, no? Teddy Allen is now at his 5th school. West Virginia, Wich St, Juco, Nebraska, and NM St. Crazy.
 
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boog204 said:
He'll be 23 next season... I'd be shocked if he's back. Time to make some $$ overseas.
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Teddy Allen is 24. Covid and Russian war has evaporated some overseas opportunities.
 
CardiacAndre7 said:
That’s fine. His passing is pretty good, sometimes tries to do too much but I don’t have an issue with that. But we’re going to actually NEED him to score next year. Playing 28 minutes and taking 3 shots as a guard is borderline unacceptable. Give him a little break, but his prep for next season has to start very soon.
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I agree. Next year's team is definitely looking light on scorers. But I'm not sure Andre's got the skill baseline to really make a jump in his scoring with 1 offseason. And if he's off ball, his spacing is still going to be a liability with Sanogo.

It might be best if he IS the point guard. Then he can facilitate without needing to be a scorer or spacer. Play Jackson like Florida St used Scottie Barnes last year.

Presumably Hawkins will be our primary scorer. I think he'll get his 3pt shot dialed in and be a real good shooter on volume.

Akok and Samson will battle for starting 4, presuming Akok is healthy. That allows us to keep up elite rim protection (important for defense) while spacing the floor better than we did this year. I expect Samson to be an impact player next year (if not perfect).

So if Jackson is the 1, then our hole is at 2/3. Floyd should be able to defend day 1. If Floyd can shoot, he might get a shot to play a lot of minutes in a freshman Vital role.
 
auror said:
I agree. Next year's team is definitely looking light on scorers. But I'm not sure Andre's got the skill baseline to really make a jump in his scoring with 1 offseason. And if he's off ball, his spacing is still going to be a liability with Sanogo.

It might be best if he IS the point guard. Then he can facilitate without needing to be a scorer or spacer. Play Jackson like Florida St used Scottie Barnes last year.

Presumably Hawkins will be our primary scorer. I think he'll get his 3pt shot dialed in and be a real good shooter on volume.

Akok and Samson will battle for starting 4, presuming Akok is healthy. That allows us to keep up elite rim protection (important for defense) while spacing the floor better than we did this year. I expect Samson to be an impact player next year (if not perfect).

So if Jackson is the 1, then our hole is at 2/3. Floyd should be able to defend day 1. If Floyd can shoot, he might get a shot to play a lot of minutes in a freshman Vital role.
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To be fair this will be his 3rd offseason. If the staff can’t get him to a point where he trusts his otherworldly athleticism in the paint, we are in for a long, long year. There is absolutely no reason for him to be as timid as he is in the lane, other than hitting his head on the rim.

He needs to be able to give us 10+ ppg and 8 or so shots.
 
t8per said:
Last off-season Hurley kept mentioning "building from recruiting" AKA "no transfers"

If that continues then it'll probably be pre-season battle between Gaffney/Sool/AJax.

My money is on Gaffney, with a starting five of Gaff/Hawkins/AJax/Akok/Sanogo.
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Oh no! We can’t have this. Who needs tix?
 
CardiacAndre7 said:
To be fair this will be his 3rd offseason. If the staff can’t get him to a point where he trusts his otherworldly athleticism in the paint, we are in for a long, long year. There is absolutely no reason for him to be as timid as he is in the lane, other than hitting his head on the rim.

He needs to be able to give us 10+ ppg and 8 or so shots.
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He was at 7 per this year. I think he'll definitely get to 10 or close, but he's not getting to 12 or 14 which is what we'd need from an off-ball leader upperclassmen getting big minutes.

That's why I think the best fit for the roster in general is with him at PG.
 
RJ has to come back and we then need to a transfer guard with the same skill set. Then you integrate the freshman guards in. If RJ doesn’t come back it’s going to be a development / rebuild season.
 
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storrsroars said:
I expect Gaff to go into portal. What's the point of him staying?

There are a handful of decent PGs in the portal: Sam Sessoms (PSU), Jaelin Llewellyn (Princeton), Antonio Daye (Fordham), Tyreke Key (Indiana State) all entered this week. Sessoms would be an interesting add who'd likely be the best to fit in immediately and has more size than RJ did. Llewellyn is also interesting but more of a CG. Both have better scoring efficiency than Cole and are better 3pt shooters.

One "positive" about the last few games is that whatever chance Adama had of being drafted in 2nd round has likely vanished.
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Hurley is going to hit the portal no matter what.

You can see inklings of it in comments throughout the year, he knows it was a gamble to avoid it and rely on continuity, and he knows it was a losing bet.

The question is whether he gets 1 guard or 2, and how high a ceiling they have.

Sanogo is a 4 year guy. A below-the-rim, back to the basket center with no outside game is not going anywhere. He will be a very good, maybe even dominant, college player, but that's it. And that's OK.
 
Scottie Barnes had 10/4/4 as a freshman while AJax had 7/7/3ast this year.

I think AJax at PG could average 10/7/5ast next season if Hurley gives him a long leash. That is probably our highest upside PG option (sans transfers).

Whether or not Hurley is comfortable with that has yet to be seen.
 
I might be the only one on here but I think we will be better next season.

As much as I love Whaley, Martin, and Polley they were extremely one dimensional on offense. None could get their own shots and it showed on teams tendencies to hound Sanogo. We will be better with players that are more multi-use.

Even if that means struggling early in the year I think the end of season result will be better.
 
CTBasketball said:
I might be the only one on here but I think we will be better next season.

As much as I love Whaley, Martin, and Polley they were extremely one dimensional on offense. None could get their own shots and it showed on teams tendencies to hound Sanogo. We will be better with players that are more multi-use.

Even if that means struggling early in the year I think the end of season result will be better.
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I'm with you. Lower floor, higher ceiling.

I think the defense takes a half-step back but the offense gets more room to grow. Also, a sophomore Hawkins building on his play before the concussion, gives us a dude who can really get buckets from everywhere.
 
tzznandrew said:
I'm with you. Lower floor, higher ceiling.

I think the defense takes a half-step back but the offense gets more room to grow. Also, a sophomore Hawkins building on his play before the concussion, gives us a dude who can really get buckets from everywhere.
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If we bring in 2 shot creators/ball handlers then even our floor would be higher imo
 
tzznandrew said:
I'm with you. Lower floor, higher ceiling.

I think the defense takes a half-step back but the offense gets more room to grow. Also, a sophomore Hawkins building on his play before the concussion, gives us a dude who can really get buckets from everywhere.
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AntG168 said:
If we bring in 2 shot creators/ball handlers then even our floor would be higher imo
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Sanogo needs to be the 2nd option. Need Hawkins to be the guy. And then get him complimentary shooters in the portal or move Gaffney to off ball.

And for the love of god can Akok find himself? Our offense needs a stretch 4, Akok looked good for 30 seconds on that jumper. Whaley can’t hit that consistently.
 
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CTBasketball said:
I might be the only one on here but I think we will be better next season.

As much as I love Whaley, Martin, and Polley they were extremely one dimensional on offense. None could get their own shots and it showed on teams tendencies to hound Sanogo. We will be better with players that are more multi-use.

Even if that means struggling early in the year I think the end of season result will be better.
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I wouldn't lump Martin in with the other 2.

Martin had a post-up game, offensive rebound game, hit a really high% of 3s both off wide open looks and also occasionally running off screens/designed action, and could occasionally attack off a dribble, especially when we had him come off that curl on the right wing. He was a pretty complete SF and an extremely valuable player.
 
karstenkibbe said:
You just reminded me that I’m less than a month away from that annual run to Stop & Shop for the Manischewitz 5lb matzah box.
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it's amazing how much manischewitz has upped their matzoh game in the past few years. amazing, almost shmura-like. almost. the israeli stuff had a good run there for a while, with crispness and flavor leading the pack, and taking the game away from our guys who descended into mushiness and blah, but mani has taken the crown back. cool. buy 'murican!
signed 'matzoh expert by day, cracker expert by night.' lol.


hmmm, dorito flavored matzoh...... hmmm....
 
CTBasketball said:
I might be the only one on here but I think we will be better next season.

As much as I love Whaley, Martin, and Polley they were extremely one dimensional on offense. None could get their own shots and it showed on teams tendencies to hound Sanogo. We will be better with players that are more multi-use.

Even if that means struggling early in the year I think the end of season result will be better.
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A lot of it is dependent on bringing in good options from the portal, and no reason to think that won't happen. But I agree, I think we have the chance to have a better team next year. Hawkins, Jackson, Sanogo are a good core to build the starting lineup around, and I like Diggins/Floyd/Karaban/Johnson as bench options.

Now the 2 pieces missing in that starting lineup are by far the 2 most important ones in a legitimate PG and a 4 who can stretch the floor and create space for Sanogo, so there's a really big variance on where the team ends up. But I trust Hurley to see the flaws and build a better roster
 
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Possible rotation by Big East play:

PG: AJax (15) / Diggins (15) / Gaffney (10)
SG: Floyd (15) / AJax (15) / Gaffney (10)
SF: Hawkins (25) / Karaban (10) / Floyd (5)
PF: Akok (25) / Samson (10) / Karaban (5)
C: Sanogo (30) / Samson (10)


A transfer guard and forward would definitely help, but playing the young guys wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. That way you see what they can do. Sink or swim.
 
ClifSpliffy said:
it's amazing how much manischewitz has upped their matzoh game in the past few years. amazing, almost shmura-like. almost. the israeli stuff had a good run there for a while, with crispness and flavor leading the pack, and taking the game away from our guys who descended into mushiness and blah, but mani has taken the crown back. cool. buy 'murican!
signed 'matzoh expert by day, cracker expert by night.' lol.


hmmm, dorito flavored matzoh...... hmmm....
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Facts! Don’t want to sabotage this thread, but you are spot on. Mani was left for dead around 15 years ago and have upped their game. BUT… if I was willing to stomach (no matzah pun intended) the cost of shmura matzah for all 8 days (I only buy enough for the seders), I’d be quite happy. Those smoky charred edges all around makes it the apizza version of matzah. I also strongly suggest making matzah pizza with shmura.
 
I wouldn’t read into the press conference last night on whether Cole returns; was right after a crushing loss and I’m sure was still fuming from Allen taunting him during the game.
 
Whats the eligibility for all our players for next year? Anyone have the chart handy?
 
There is an outside chance (but rather slim) that RJ decides to comeback. If not Sool IMO needs to be put into the fire. Otherwise look in the transfer portal. The dust will settle in the next few weeks as far as what RJ decides. Martin IMO is gone.
 
AJacks would be the best point guard talent. He should be the starting point guard. Surround him with Hawk, 2 shooters with size, and Sanogo and UCONN has a chance to be good.

Karaban and Samson Johnson are two guys who can be x-factors if they can play big minutes next year. They could really change the trajectory of UCONN's season.

I expect AJacks, Hawk, and Sanogo to be good next year. A lot will depend on what 2 guys play alongside them(preferably elite shooters).
 
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