Class of 2017 SG/SF Jordan Tucker (NY / GA) Leaving Duke to Butler

[dasher]

So we aren't recruiting Wilson?

yeah, we are

 

[Cusefan0307]

yeah, we are

For 2018 correct?

 

[Zepharus]

SUPER good friend JB has right there. Business is business I guess..

 

[iommi]

I will just say this does have to be a strange feeling for JB, being in Atlanta. Just odd.

 

[Ajflood12]

On the bright side...we don't have to argue if he is ready or not to go the NBA from Jan-April.

 

[chugg21]

Jordan Tucker is going to be a seriously talented transfer in 2 years. Some Big XII school is getting a good player.

Just keep seeing this but in the same breath that he'd be big time for us. Basically just translates to us being a notch or 2 below them.

 

[Grbac]

This one hurts. Really thought we had him through all the Duke crap.

Just another attention seeking sellout. Go enjoy your time playing for a team that never wanted you.

I am gonna be extra pumped to play Duke next season. I hope we shut him down!!

 

[MG44]

It's bad enough that I'm at the Syracuse Regional Market right now and some 20 year old bag walks by me wearing a Duke jacket.

you'd be 100% in the right if you kicked his ass right now

 

[dasher]

you'd be 100% in the right if you kicked his ass right now

That is a former duke player

 

[Cusefan0307]

you'd be 100% in the right if you kicked his ass right now

lol I left to go to the gym. The malaise around the bball program has me in a blah mood.

 

[HOFCeluck]

Yeah locking it up wouldn't be the worst idea.

 

[longislandcuse]

Just keep seeing this but in the same breath that he'd be big time for us. Basically just translates to us being a notch or 2 below them.

Recruiting wise, everyone is except for Kentucky and Kansas.

He's just a better fit here. Duke, like us, doesn't go deep into the bench and if you can't get off the bench your first year, the way they recruit, you're recruited over. While we kinda do the same, we also have a giant opening at the 3 which would be his.

 

[Toga]

SUPER good friend JB has right there. Business is business I guess..

All's fair and all. Do folks think JB would have done the same thing if the situation was reversed? IDK.

 

[Budley]

I get it's dog eat dog but K messed JB for a player he doesn't need.

I am not saying it's wrong but its true.

It is more JBs fault the roster is thin that Tucker was must have for us.

Payback for G.

 

[Yegorange]

you'd be 100% in the right if you kicked his ass right now

- Officer, but Tucker just committed to Duke and this douche is wearing THIS?!
- Oh, I see. Why is he still moving?

 

[Briancuse]

Payback for G.

How is it payback, K let him go here.

 

[Alsacs]

All's fair and all. Do folks think JB would have done the same thing if the situation was reversed? IDK.

JB did this to Tim Welsh over Andy Rautins.

So I guess it's universal. I would say Rautins doesn't help PC as much as Tucker would have helped us next year.

This player made us a borderline NCAA team. We are now not an NCAA team and probably just above .500 team.

Thorpe is a combo guard and the Euro is a project.

We have a GIANT hole at SF right now.

 

[Cuse House]

lol I left to go to the gym. The malaise around the bball program has me in a blah mood.

That's exactly what I do when I'm not happy about something.

 

[wallacecuse]

Screw Duke. Screw Kentucky.

As for Tucker, he's an opponent on a rival now and we're going to bust his as$.

My thoughts too. Never understand the "well wishers" when a kid drops us for another school. Just another opponent on the sked now. I wish him many painful Gillon-like losses to SU in the future.

 

[Alsacs]

Payback for G.

K didn't care one iota about G.

He actually had to sign off on G coming to Syracuse and his relationship with JB is why he did.

 

[RF2044]

JB did this to Tim Welsh over Andy Rautins.

So I guess it's universal. I would say Rautins doesn't help PC as much as Tucker would have helped us next year.

This player made us a borderline NCAA team. We are now not an NCAA team and probably just above .500 team.

Thorpe is a combo guard and the Euro is a project.

We have a GIANT hole at SF right now.

Euro is not a project. You are significantly overstating that.

 

[jdubs30]

JB did this to Tim Welsh over Andy Rautins.

So I guess it's universal. I would say Rautins doesn't help PC as much as Tucker would have helped us next year.

This player made us a borderline NCAA team. We are now not an NCAA team and probably just above .500 team.

Thorpe is a combo guard and the Euro is a project.

We have a GIANT hole at SF right now.

I think that is the frustrating part for me. I get Quade - he's going to start at UK day 1, so that's fine.

Tucker will rarely get off the bench at Duke this year and would have had 35+ mpg here. Also, recently we have done just as good of a job of putting players into the league as Duke has.

It is what it is, I think sometimes the "allure" of Duke wins over actual substance.

 

[cuseattle]

All's fair and all. Do folks think JB would have done the same thing if the situation was reversed? IDK.

Not many people more loyal than JB.

 

[Day2]

 

[longislandcuse]

Euro is not a project. You are significantly overstating that.

Does Euro start at the 3 if we get him? He seems a lot like Brissett and while both are talented, if neither can shoot 35%+ from three, we'll have zero spacing.