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[QUOTE="M2MPrinciples, post: 4708755, member: 928"]
Doesn't sound like it has anything to do with NIL. Consensus seems to be a few different things all having to do with fit and mental/emotional makeup:
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[*]Homesickness from moving from CA to KS (probably would've been the case at Cuse too).
[*]Had a difficult month of practice. The game was moving too fast for him, which makes sense when you recall that Adams is supposed to be a rising HS senior but is instead practicing with Hunter Dickinson, Dajuan Harris, KJ Adams and others.
[*]Bill Self is notoriously tough on guys until they earn his trust, which for some players can take years if it happens at all. He'll let guys play through mistakes if they learn from them, but if they don't they go in the doghouse not unlike how it was for Boeheim and is for other coaches. Self is an intense dude - Remember that he missed the conference and NCAA tournaments because of a heart/stress issue.
[*]The breaking point was that the other players didn't feel it was working and told the staff as much. That seems to point to an attitude thing in addition to performance on the court. Sort of an aside here, but the players are the only ones on campus at this time, so if you aren't jelling with them, it can be a very lonely experience and that only exacerbates things especially for a guy a long way from home.
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Of course, this is mostly the Kansas perspective, so I'm sure Marcus has his own ideas on why it didn't work out. But it seems like it was a bad fit both ways.
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