Recent content by pj

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).

Perhaps I'm missing something, but the only cases I saw 'starting from his hip' were off the dribble. He has long arms and a low dribble which is good, and starting low off the dribble is good for deception. As long as he can pass so he has multiple options in the time it takes to get the ball...

Yeah, Furphy is 9 and Koroma gets 3rd center minutes. Not more than a 9-man rotation by February. Ross may be #10 unless he's stepped up.

Great news that he'll never stop leading UConn basketball.

You keep arguing that players will only play well if they are starting, or playing starters' minutes. Well, that has never been acceptable to Jim Calhoun or Dan Hurley - players have be ready to perform at every moment they are on the court, and they need to get past any of those mental blocks...

It's given him the opportunity to win national championships. Maybe he still likes having that opportunity.

See not winning a championship.

The Solo and Mahaney comparison is an interesting one. Mahaney actually finished the last 5 games with good lines -- 6-11 on 3pt shots (55%), 10-20 overall (50%), 6-7 on free throws (86%), 6 points per game, 1.4 assists per game, 0.8 rebounds per game, 0.4 steals per game, all in 13.2 minutes...

I would agree that conclusions were reached early, but I don't think that refutes the "couldn't handle physicality" criticism, or indicates a "phasing out". The minutes don't jibe with the coaches phasing him out. The first 5 games of the season he got double digit minutes, for 6 straight games...

6 visits in 7 days. He'll want to sleep.