Kansas doesn't have more size, they have bigs that know how to play. But I do agree with you, I think we'll be great next year as long as KO doesn't manage the team like he did this year. We'll have a mix of great talent and experience with most of the key players. I'd also like to see us play a...
It's a huge year only in that over the last 25 years this program typically builds toward something pretty special over a 3-4 year span. Next year should hopefully prove that this is something that will continue under Ollie. What I don't agree with is you saying next year is THE year we either...
This team was never going to beat Kansas if they played anything near their A-game. There were spurts all season long where it looked like they could play with anyone, but it never came together for an extended stretch. I've said since last year that 16-17 should be a great year for this team, I...
Clearly you don't understand what I am responding to. It doesn't matter whether I would have made the same decision or not, the guy I responded to calling them "family" as if they were program lifers was being ridiculous. They chose UConn because we were the best offer they had on the board...
Stop trying to top each other and going out of your way to laud Gibbs. Nobody on this board thought he should have been in the position and given the minutes that he got. As far as being a leader, what? Gibbs has 2 prior stops that show he's not a great character guy, and not a damn thing was...
What else is there to discuss? Gibbs and Miller aren't coming back. Purvis played well, and Hamilton forced some midrange stuff but shot the 3 well and was generally aggressive and playing hard.
Brimah seems like a nice kid, anything I'm saying about him is strictly as a player. It's time to end this fascination with him and reduce his role next year.
"Smartest statistical mind", you mean the guy that tried to selectively reject certain stats, tried to literally ignore a game that had been played and stats derived, and then resorted to pure anecdotal evidence? Lol.
Brimah wasn't the factor. Kansas was actually scoring more from the perimeter when Brimah was sitting, and killing us inside later in the 2nd half when Brimah was playing. UConn's run came because Kansas was playing sluggish and tired, and not passing and cutting nearly as crisply as they had...
Or, you know, just not be in a situation where I can statistically argue that Brimah hasn't improved at all between his freshman year and this year, or last year to this year...
Miller was a horrible rebounder, complete foul machine, and a total 0 as a rim protector. Purvis, not Gibbs, was this team's best deep threat. Omar could have played spot up shooter in Gibbs place and we wouldn't have been any worse for it.
So you're saying Gibbs shouldn't have been the PG and that Ollie shouldn't have been playing the guy on this team who is a PG from day 1? We knew very early on Gibbs wasn't the guy, why wouldn't you go with the alternative? Players get better by playing and getting that experience.
Stats don't matter but anecdotal evidence apparently does.
Enjoy standing alone on that island drinking that kool aid and thinking Brimah has shown any marked improvement. Not sure why you're picking this 1 particular thing to die on the cross for.
Brimah also began last year having just recovered from shoulder surgery, and since when do you get to selectively decide what games should and shouldn't count? The Coppin State game happened, it was a regular season game, it counts. He played 35 games last season, 1 great game isn't going to...
Omar and Nolan are family. Gibbs and Shonn were hired guns. Them coming to UConn to play basketball for a high profile program was more self-serving than beneficial to this program in any way.
Gibbs was horrible defensively for at least the first half of the season, and was THE key factor with this team being offensively challenged all year. The only reason he didn't turn the ball over was because he wasn't capable of breaking any defense down, and thus the vast majority of his...
So going into his freshman year, you think he got a scholarship because of what he was at the time and not because of possible developmental projectability? Lol.
I'm sure when Matrim says that he expects a leap from Enoch, he's thinking more improvement than what AB has had in his 3 years.
Going by that logic (and not even asking you to answer everything you ignored in my post) he had .191 WS/40 last year compared to .196 this year. Improvement!
Any improvement you could even argue that he's made would be extremely marginal. You and Matrim would be lying if you didn't think he would be better than this at the end of his junior year.
A lot of teams don't have 7-footers at the 5. I would be in favor of going smaller and starting Facey if need be
Brimah had 2.5 win shares as a freshman, he has 2.5 this year.
Brimah had a 15.1 block % as a freshman, he has 14.2% this year.
Brimah had a 23.8 PER last year, he has 22.0 this...
Not sure why any of you feel the need to bend over backwards to kiss either of these guys asses. Gibbs was largely a failure and KO did him no favors stubbornly sticking with him at PG all year. Miller was a pretty efficient finesse post player, but doesn't rebound well at all, doesn't protect...
Cool, he had 7 against Colorado. He also looked completely lost today and never had any idea where the ball was whenever he was under the basket. He's also a 7-foot 3rd year player averaging 4 rebounds for an AAC team.
We're both fans of this program, difference is that I'm actually objective...
I remember going to that 2ot game against Gtown his freshman year. The call at the end of the game was for Omar, not Shabazz/Boat/Giffey/Daniels. That call to go to Omar over those options shows what should have been.
It's really time to just cut our losses with AB and reduce his role next year. He's a good rim protector but adds literally nothing else of value and one of the reasons we get crushed on the boards is because he never has any idea where the ball is.
Might want to temper those expectations a bit. Last time we had a raw big that ever really developed was Hasheem. Brimah isn't much different today than he was on day 1, any improvement Facey has made has been very incremental. Okwandu never developed into anything under Calhoun either. You...
Wish Shonn didn't decide to his pants from the Cincy game until now. Not sure if the moment was too big for him at a real program or what. Either way, not going to sit here and act like I'll miss either of them much.
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