Recent content by pj

It doesn't seem like there should be competitive reasons for the highest-revenue league to need to mortgage its future to bring even more money in now. A hard deal to understand.

You're probably the only one relying on Ross to bring us #7. But, I agree - if someone surprises on the upside, that may put us over the top.

Tristen Newton led his team in assists. Austrie in his best year was fourth on the team in assists (2.3 apg in 2008-09).

Calhoun was a great coach, but his great point guards were already great point guards in high school, and he wasn't picky about height. Hurley has tried to get tall, long guards, and when he couldn't recruit a tall natural point guard, he tried to convert shooting guards like Mahaney and...

ChatGPT profiles you and tells you what you want to hear.

Gerry Mac has to prove he can develop these guys and get them portal and NIL offers. It's a good strategy for him, and for the players, if he can.

Now that NIL is available, maybe the next Ja Morant and Dame Lillard would prefer to spend their second year and third years earning money in college instead of toiling unpaid at Weber State and Murray State.

With an extra touchdown per game this team would be 3-0.

Those chairs put up a good defense and got the stop. But, Dan likes big players. I think he'd want high-back chairs with headrests for UConn.

Yeah, since he was a walk on, his departure is not a sign that a new player is coming on. Maybe they felt with 15 scholarship players they didn't have practice or coaching time for walk-ons, so they are getting rid of walk-ons. Maybe he'll be a student manager or some such.

Maybe Givony put out what the coaches want him to put out. Maybe they want Karaban to focus on facilitating Reed, Ball, Mullins more than scoring. He's still a deadly shooter when given space, but him creating off the dribble is not our best option.

Agreed. These kind of thoughts are not new for him. He had exactly the same thought in college, and acted on it ("In Dan Hurley’s junior year, the pressure he put on himself became unbearable, and he stepped away after just two games that season amid struggles on and off the court. “I was done,”...

Interesting that he highlights Reed, Karaban, Demary, and Ball and then says the team's ceiling depends on Braylon Mullins and the backup center, no mention of Jaylin Stewart or Jayden Ross. Does that mean Mullins will be the fifth starter?

What may be best on the practice court playing HORSE is not what's best in a game. "motions that are short, compact, and repeatable" require getting into the same starting posture every time. When an opponent sees you getting into that posture, he knows exactly what's coming.

Cuse is probably the best team on our schedule and in the upper half of the ACC. It may not compare to Notre Dame, but it can be the marquee win for this year. It also gives us a chance at 13-0, which I don't think is on anyone's radar right now (apart from UConnDan97).