Games thread- MEN'S BBall on the road to face (RV) Arizona (Sat., 1/25/25; 1:00 PM MT; ESPN+) and then hosts ASU (Tuesday, 7:00 PM MT; ESPN+)

[torero]

I think with Hadley he made it known he was leaving with a ton of notice. Something about better taking care of a child, iirc.

Hadley also got a boatload of money at Louisville, way more than we could offer. Lambkin couldn’t wait to get out of Boulder. I posted details about this in Barzil in the summer. Although, I never heard anything in any direction about LOB. I think he and Tad just mutually agreed that he had fulfilled his career in Boulder, with nothing left to prove.

 

[BuffDog]

Hadley also got a boatload of money at Louisville, way more than we could offer. Lambkin couldn’t wait to get out of Boulder. I posted details about this in Barzil in the summer. Although, I never heard anything in any direction about LOB. I think he and Tad just mutually agreed that he had fulfilled his career in Boulder, with nothing left to prove.

Also believe they get 2 years of school paid for as grad transfers versus 1 year if they stayed.

 

[Da Lama]

A quick review of the seasons Hadley, LOB (injured 9 games) and Lampkin are having: stats are essentially the same as last year with very little variance. Early on I thought Elijah was an upgrade but nope he looks like a lost low confidence player. Did all 3 choose to leave or were asked? Baskin has been mostly acceptable, but Id prefer Hadley over Jak at this point.

I'd kill to have Hadley, LOB and Lampkin back this year or any combination thereof. If for no other reason than to give this team some attitude and grit. We are ridiculously soft both mentally and physically. Any of the three would be the leader of this team right now. Instead, we traded for:
Malone: Complete and total BUST. Soft as pudding, out of shape and not close to being skilled enough to play at this level. 6-10 265 who get consistently bodied down low and never gets to the FT line. A 4/2/1 guy over the last 10 games.
Jak: He is what he is: An 7/4/2 glue guy. Unfortunately, far too often this season we have turned to him to be "The Guy". Never was, never will be. Zero confidence since Big12 play began.
Baskin: A D2 scrapper who gives everything he's got every game despite some limitations, but has adjusted and improved as the season has gone on.

FWIW this is what I've been told went down with the 3. Lampkin was all about the $ and Tad don't play that, so there was little to no effort to negotiate on the part of the staff. LOB wanted to stay, but Tad wanted his minutes for guys like Dak and Diop. With Hadley, we just fumbled the ball in terms of presenting how he would feature/fit this year, saw what we had on the roster, saw potential elsewhere, and said "adios."

 

[torero]

With Hadley, we just fumbled the ball in terms of presenting how he would feature/fit this year, saw what we had on the roster, saw potential elsewhere, and said "adios."

This is not what I was told, and I am VERY confident in my source. Louisville offered him a very large number, and Tad said congratulations, we can't match that, go cash them checks. Left on good terms. Lambkin did not leave on good terms.

My post in Barzil with the details: https://allbuffs.com/threads/cu-basketball-recruiting-news-rumors-barzil-style.99399/post-3645740

 

[Buffnik]

We basically had an 8-man rotation in high leverage games last season. Hammond is the only guy from that group who returned. We knew this would be a challenging year, especially when we didn't bring in a single blue chip transfer.

 

[Da Lama]

This is not what I was told, and I am VERY confident in my source. Louisville offered him a very large number, and Tad said congratulations, we can't match that, go cash them checks. Left on good terms. Lambkin did not leave on good terms.

My post in Barzil with the details: https://allbuffs.com/threads/cu-basketball-recruiting-news-rumors-barzil-style.99399/post-3645740

I'm not disagreeing that Hadley left on good terms. What I'm saying is it sounds like there was a concurrent issue that the staff was slow to decide what the plan for 2025 was. It didn't drive decisions, but it didn't help.