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i think most of us pre season thought 9-3 was the good guess mark as we saw 5 or 6 quality games with 2 or 3 being very tough ones. so 9-3 was a nice goal but not a reach. where we are right now is truly great. KO got his contract today(not going to rant this thread up with that) and kids are clearly developing.
i realize i am in the minority here but i would like to see this lineup get some minutes. Wolf-Olander-DD-Omar-Bazz. i just think its a great lineup with what each kid brings to the table and we never play it. thats my only beef so far really. a small thing but i think the lenght could work very well. it also puts Omar, DD and Olander in natural positions all together which could be interesting to see flow wise.
Bazz is truly a leader this year, really developed mentally i feel. he has the tools to take over but would rather work everyone else around as much as possible and do work when needed. Omar was cold shooting in the 1st half and instead of trying some crazy shot at the buzzer, Bazz right away passed and gave Omar a look. thats team bball and chemistry on display quietly. i liked that a lot.
i see the Armstrong potential in Nolan, he just looks raw. thats fine and i hope we do develope him quicker as i think hes not to far off than Armstrong at uconn year by year. he needs 20lbs of muscle and girl to piss him off so he comes out of the lockerroom jacked and angry next year. if he gains weight and works hard, he could turn into a nice piece for us soon. i look to his development this summer as 1 of the measurments on KO's first summer as the HC. i'm expecting a bit of a O and weight on his frame for sure next fall. for now, keep chugging and fighting for time. hes getting the pampers wet and he has some good and bad runs. i think he was well worth the scholarship late. sleeper excited about him long term you could say.
Wolf! HHHHHHOOOOOWWWWWWWLLLLLLLL!!!!!i have been going nutzo about it in the chats for a bit now. kid hustles and is agressive. when your atttitude is like that, the other things can come if u develope. he has a nice jumper on him that he is streaky with. when he makes one he starts it up, if he doesn't look to shoot he is trying for position. i like how far he has come already. i say start him for good and also i want to see him take the tip. nice dunk for him 2 night and overall a good game.
Olander. the way we are using him is killing his progress, thats my take. hes a pf not a center and a face 4 who wants to pick and pop not post and bang. completely using him wrong but we dont have a choice with depth down low. so be it. but i would love to see a Wolf and Olander lineup. Olander can play the Adrien role and flash foul line extended all day, he can make that shot a lot more than Jeff did if u remember those days. ppl talk about the black hole with Olander this year, its becuase KO is trying to get him established in the post at all costs. put him in the O i talk about and he feeds the ball around or pops shots from the foul line all dam day. lay off him, hes working his ass of and taking a huge bullet for this team. i also think that type of O could really open up the gaurds space and allow them driving lanes when the D tries to switch and .
Boat, man i feel for the kid. hes just having a tough time it seems. gets his shot back one game then its missing again. just feels like hes not all there right now. hes a great player and team kid, hes just going thru a drought it seems. i hope its just a temp thing and he explodes on the scene in Jan. hes tough, he will figure it out. i don't like him and bazz together for extended minutes. short bursts are ok but long minutes the 2 seem to kill each others momentum as they both need the ball in hand. i think there is a good way to split that but its a tough balance. the issue is they are your 2 studs so while there games together aren't the best it still possibly better than anything u have otherwise on any posession so i see KO's dilema with it. i can't argue with his decision on it either way but i would liek to see both sides of the argument tired, he has stuck with playing both side of the argument as much as possible.
Omar comin' along. thats the new catch phrase. slowly but surely u can see the different pieces coming out at times. eventually its all going to click together and hes going to rip some poor shooting gaurds head off next year, i can't wait for it. the kid is built body ready and playing a lot of 3 right now as its best for the team. when he gets the 2 spot full time a year or 2 from now hes going to feast on bitches. his outside shot is streaky but he can D up real well and gets above the rim. a summer in the weight room will see him 4 or 5 inches above the rim i think and he will have Dyson like slashing going on. u can see it already forming. his midrange is silky. it took him a bit to adjust to the speed of the college game but he has arrived i think. he will be pouring it in as a soph/jr. i see 3 years max. some of it depends on Boat and Bazz how long here and minutes vs Omar getting the 2 spot locked down. his jr year could be Boat(sr)-Omar-DD(sr) at the 123, god help the rest of college bball by that point if so. i see that being his max out year and the 3 of them going bonkers together lottery up the wazzu.
DD, also really coming thru lately. took one heck of a jaw to floor late 2night. hope its a tooth or cut lip and not much more. he looked drunk as going to the lockerroom. concusion maybe? the kid needs to put on 30 pounds of muscle, no way around it. he has the shot and the tools. he needs weight. muscle would allow him to be far above the rim which he already gets over and be a force as a 3. were playing him as a 4 but hes a 3 imho furutre wise, its just the size this year...imagine him with some weight so no sf could push him around, he would be lenghtly compared to most. now add in his stroke form 3, his average handle for the position and what seems to be a nice inside game for his tools. as a 3 he would look good with his post moves and lane cuts. as a 4 right now he looks a bit overmatched between a bigger defender and also being skinny. just like Nolan, i look at what KO does with DD this summer. if he can put on weight and improve, watch out for a coming out party next year.
Gif is Gif. same story different game. hes simply a nice glue guy, rock solid and a quality piece to any good team. always has been and always will be. every once in a while he has a night and sometimes u didn't know he was there. but he always gets a board or makes a pass or a steal and has some type of influence. love having him on the roster but hes never going to be the answer, just his style of play. i hope we can land him a nice euro pro deal 2 years from now, he would be a huge asset to the program connections wise in time if so.
Evans is a great 1 year rental. he really is. he is beefy as a guard, mentally there and agressive. he gets it, the game and why he is there. its fun to watch. i can't help but think hes a quality guy in the locker room from the way the younger guys seem to interact with him. very happy with him. i hope he enjoys the expierence being able to put the home state name on his chest.
no Leon 2night? well from the overall look of it so far hes last depth wise of the group. from what i saw though his ship was not a throw away. he clealry has some pittsnogle(wvu big trashy man years ago) in him just a couple inches smaller. he seems like a nice pf project. we may not see much of him until his jr or sr year i feel becuase we will recruit some stud to play asap i think soon. will be interesting to see if he stays here 4 years to see the potential out or not and if he develops into something. he looked to have a shot on him and a good handle for a 4 man that young. we shall see in time...
Allen, had to mention him. another home state kid. i appreciate his work ethic and what he brings. its nice to have a extra pice to call upon in tough times. i noticed on tv KO shook each kids hand and after he finished the end of the line with walkons he went back and said a extra thing to Allen. family counts and so does effort. the kid has it. just a nice extra piece on the roster, no other way to explain it. glad the extra ship went to him since we couldn't fill it with a player that could help right away.
10-2. thrilled here. in the 3 big games we played we went 1-2. we were in all 3 of them. not upset at all. we have a couple other ok wins so our rpi/sos i figure isn't brillant but not bad either. the BE schedule will take care of that anyway. i think in a typical UConn year with what i saw, 11-1 or 12-0 would be expected but all things considering, 10-2 this year is great. hell if we went 9-3 but things went like they are i think i would be writing the same thing. under that then i think were having a different talk about some players or styles.
boards issue, i keep seeing ppl bitch about it. we are not going to board better than any good team and most teams either. just a simple fact. its how we are built. but KO knows that and he has us winning all the other things to make up for that. if we wanted to board well and commit to that, then other things wouldn't be so dominate for us. i like the style he has decided to go with, its one that for this team this year can work and get us possibly to a 20ish win season.
one of the flaws this team has is its fire power. we have a couple good scorers but i don't see enough of a force where we can ever distance ourselves in a game for good early or late. we are a bit streaky and just not built for ass kicking points wise, we are more grind and shine. its a bit different lifestyle wise then past UConn teams but KO seems to be making it work adjusting to the roster he has. almost has the feel of a B1G type bball style.
anything .500 or better i think seemed to be the overall mark this year in a lot of heads pre season. sitting at 10-2 looking at the schedule i think we can break it down a bit. i'm going to asume DD is not a long injury for this.
next 5? @marq, dep, @nd, lville, @pitt. thats a tough opening stretch. 3 ranked teams and marq is not a game we will be favored in. 1-4 is the realistic look at it from outside eyes who are looking at nothing but names and records/rpis/schedules. i would argue that 1-4 would be the base i would hope for. depual is better but they are still a team we should beat, i would worry about melvin having a game on us. i hope for 2-3 in that 5 game run, i think thats fair to this team, anything more than that is a great 5 game stretch. its the toughest stretch we have and a real slap in the face to open the BE schedule up. 3 tough roads games and a visit from lville who is one of only a handul of teams in the country at best that can matchup with our great guards. i'm gong to say 2-3 for this run. the only tragic ending is a 0-5 to start the BE schedule. we need to be mentally tough the depaul game and get a W when we need one.
next 5? ruty, @prov, usf, @sju, @shu. time to heal up the wounds. no reason 3-2 shouldn't be the base here and 4-1 or 5-0 are very realistic expectations. none of those teams whould be better than uconn this year. as suaul tho, for 4 of these teams playing uconn is there super bowl so we can't be mentally hurt from the first 5 game stretch. enough said. i'll say 4-1 and 3-2 or worse is tragic and something injury wise or elsewhere has happened to this team.
next 5? cuse, nova, cincy, @dep, gtown. 4 of 5 at home, gotta like that. hopefully we are rolling from the last 5 and if so momentum could be key here as 2 or 3 of the 5 we will prob be home dogs wich is rare for uconn as a program. again we need to take care of business in depaul and the nova game looks winable on paper. cincy is a interesting streaky team this year. with 4 of 5 at home and the road game being depaul, i say 3-2 is the relaistic pick here, anything more is great and depending on a 2-3 record vs who it could be a letdown. both 2-3 and 4-1 are possible but i'll go with 3-2 for this 5 game stretch.
the final 3 are @cincy, @usf and prov. cincy will either be looking for revenge or tney blood resume style at home in the 2nd game of the matchup this year, real tough one i view it as. the next to are winnable and imho where ko shines. no matter the tough year these games could easily mean a 20 win seaosn or not for perception record wise. win these and ko is mentally tough enhough to keep his guys mentally tough enough. i like uconn going 2-1 in this final stretch. anything less is a letdown and 3-0 is compltely possible but a tough one in cincy holds me back from saying yes to it. by this point i expect prov and usf to be wishing the seasons are over. one thing to not forget is if prov gets all 9 of its all american players that are hurt back in time for this last game of the year, would not surprise me one bit.
final record? i see 21-9. earlier this year i thik 9 ooc wins and 20 wins total were goals many had as gauges. ko sure as hell passed the first half of it and i have faith he will shine in time in the 2nd half of it. the first stretch may bring out the clowns, trolls and questions with such a tough stretch but i think all things considered we will pull tru and finish this year with extremely positive thoughts going into next year.
lets land 2 or 3 recruits now. get us a big guy and either a guar dor wing and lets go to war. if the big guy is impact right away then god help any team next year that gets in our way, i mean that with the worst interntions possible. i want blood. for jc, ko and everyone else who i as a fan fight for in my rooting passion for uconn. i was to rip ncaa heads off with our fast breaks and have other major programs crying in there offices about how ko is our next guys for 30 years and who the hell are they going to replace there old white guy coaches with. we solved the probelm years before a lot of programs have to, thanks to jc for that. it hasn't clicked in a lot of your heads yet, but it will in time. the guy was a master of puppets and i pray rain of the coldest degree on every other college basketball team for the next 30 years.
21-9, i can see it and i would be very happy with it. 10 toes in. what say u?
i realize i am in the minority here but i would like to see this lineup get some minutes. Wolf-Olander-DD-Omar-Bazz. i just think its a great lineup with what each kid brings to the table and we never play it. thats my only beef so far really. a small thing but i think the lenght could work very well. it also puts Omar, DD and Olander in natural positions all together which could be interesting to see flow wise.
Bazz is truly a leader this year, really developed mentally i feel. he has the tools to take over but would rather work everyone else around as much as possible and do work when needed. Omar was cold shooting in the 1st half and instead of trying some crazy shot at the buzzer, Bazz right away passed and gave Omar a look. thats team bball and chemistry on display quietly. i liked that a lot.
i see the Armstrong potential in Nolan, he just looks raw. thats fine and i hope we do develope him quicker as i think hes not to far off than Armstrong at uconn year by year. he needs 20lbs of muscle and girl to piss him off so he comes out of the lockerroom jacked and angry next year. if he gains weight and works hard, he could turn into a nice piece for us soon. i look to his development this summer as 1 of the measurments on KO's first summer as the HC. i'm expecting a bit of a O and weight on his frame for sure next fall. for now, keep chugging and fighting for time. hes getting the pampers wet and he has some good and bad runs. i think he was well worth the scholarship late. sleeper excited about him long term you could say.
Wolf! HHHHHHOOOOOWWWWWWWLLLLLLLL!!!!!i have been going nutzo about it in the chats for a bit now. kid hustles and is agressive. when your atttitude is like that, the other things can come if u develope. he has a nice jumper on him that he is streaky with. when he makes one he starts it up, if he doesn't look to shoot he is trying for position. i like how far he has come already. i say start him for good and also i want to see him take the tip. nice dunk for him 2 night and overall a good game.
Olander. the way we are using him is killing his progress, thats my take. hes a pf not a center and a face 4 who wants to pick and pop not post and bang. completely using him wrong but we dont have a choice with depth down low. so be it. but i would love to see a Wolf and Olander lineup. Olander can play the Adrien role and flash foul line extended all day, he can make that shot a lot more than Jeff did if u remember those days. ppl talk about the black hole with Olander this year, its becuase KO is trying to get him established in the post at all costs. put him in the O i talk about and he feeds the ball around or pops shots from the foul line all dam day. lay off him, hes working his ass of and taking a huge bullet for this team. i also think that type of O could really open up the gaurds space and allow them driving lanes when the D tries to switch and .
Boat, man i feel for the kid. hes just having a tough time it seems. gets his shot back one game then its missing again. just feels like hes not all there right now. hes a great player and team kid, hes just going thru a drought it seems. i hope its just a temp thing and he explodes on the scene in Jan. hes tough, he will figure it out. i don't like him and bazz together for extended minutes. short bursts are ok but long minutes the 2 seem to kill each others momentum as they both need the ball in hand. i think there is a good way to split that but its a tough balance. the issue is they are your 2 studs so while there games together aren't the best it still possibly better than anything u have otherwise on any posession so i see KO's dilema with it. i can't argue with his decision on it either way but i would liek to see both sides of the argument tired, he has stuck with playing both side of the argument as much as possible.
Omar comin' along. thats the new catch phrase. slowly but surely u can see the different pieces coming out at times. eventually its all going to click together and hes going to rip some poor shooting gaurds head off next year, i can't wait for it. the kid is built body ready and playing a lot of 3 right now as its best for the team. when he gets the 2 spot full time a year or 2 from now hes going to feast on bitches. his outside shot is streaky but he can D up real well and gets above the rim. a summer in the weight room will see him 4 or 5 inches above the rim i think and he will have Dyson like slashing going on. u can see it already forming. his midrange is silky. it took him a bit to adjust to the speed of the college game but he has arrived i think. he will be pouring it in as a soph/jr. i see 3 years max. some of it depends on Boat and Bazz how long here and minutes vs Omar getting the 2 spot locked down. his jr year could be Boat(sr)-Omar-DD(sr) at the 123, god help the rest of college bball by that point if so. i see that being his max out year and the 3 of them going bonkers together lottery up the wazzu.
DD, also really coming thru lately. took one heck of a jaw to floor late 2night. hope its a tooth or cut lip and not much more. he looked drunk as going to the lockerroom. concusion maybe? the kid needs to put on 30 pounds of muscle, no way around it. he has the shot and the tools. he needs weight. muscle would allow him to be far above the rim which he already gets over and be a force as a 3. were playing him as a 4 but hes a 3 imho furutre wise, its just the size this year...imagine him with some weight so no sf could push him around, he would be lenghtly compared to most. now add in his stroke form 3, his average handle for the position and what seems to be a nice inside game for his tools. as a 3 he would look good with his post moves and lane cuts. as a 4 right now he looks a bit overmatched between a bigger defender and also being skinny. just like Nolan, i look at what KO does with DD this summer. if he can put on weight and improve, watch out for a coming out party next year.
Gif is Gif. same story different game. hes simply a nice glue guy, rock solid and a quality piece to any good team. always has been and always will be. every once in a while he has a night and sometimes u didn't know he was there. but he always gets a board or makes a pass or a steal and has some type of influence. love having him on the roster but hes never going to be the answer, just his style of play. i hope we can land him a nice euro pro deal 2 years from now, he would be a huge asset to the program connections wise in time if so.
Evans is a great 1 year rental. he really is. he is beefy as a guard, mentally there and agressive. he gets it, the game and why he is there. its fun to watch. i can't help but think hes a quality guy in the locker room from the way the younger guys seem to interact with him. very happy with him. i hope he enjoys the expierence being able to put the home state name on his chest.
no Leon 2night? well from the overall look of it so far hes last depth wise of the group. from what i saw though his ship was not a throw away. he clealry has some pittsnogle(wvu big trashy man years ago) in him just a couple inches smaller. he seems like a nice pf project. we may not see much of him until his jr or sr year i feel becuase we will recruit some stud to play asap i think soon. will be interesting to see if he stays here 4 years to see the potential out or not and if he develops into something. he looked to have a shot on him and a good handle for a 4 man that young. we shall see in time...
Allen, had to mention him. another home state kid. i appreciate his work ethic and what he brings. its nice to have a extra pice to call upon in tough times. i noticed on tv KO shook each kids hand and after he finished the end of the line with walkons he went back and said a extra thing to Allen. family counts and so does effort. the kid has it. just a nice extra piece on the roster, no other way to explain it. glad the extra ship went to him since we couldn't fill it with a player that could help right away.
10-2. thrilled here. in the 3 big games we played we went 1-2. we were in all 3 of them. not upset at all. we have a couple other ok wins so our rpi/sos i figure isn't brillant but not bad either. the BE schedule will take care of that anyway. i think in a typical UConn year with what i saw, 11-1 or 12-0 would be expected but all things considering, 10-2 this year is great. hell if we went 9-3 but things went like they are i think i would be writing the same thing. under that then i think were having a different talk about some players or styles.
boards issue, i keep seeing ppl bitch about it. we are not going to board better than any good team and most teams either. just a simple fact. its how we are built. but KO knows that and he has us winning all the other things to make up for that. if we wanted to board well and commit to that, then other things wouldn't be so dominate for us. i like the style he has decided to go with, its one that for this team this year can work and get us possibly to a 20ish win season.
one of the flaws this team has is its fire power. we have a couple good scorers but i don't see enough of a force where we can ever distance ourselves in a game for good early or late. we are a bit streaky and just not built for ass kicking points wise, we are more grind and shine. its a bit different lifestyle wise then past UConn teams but KO seems to be making it work adjusting to the roster he has. almost has the feel of a B1G type bball style.
anything .500 or better i think seemed to be the overall mark this year in a lot of heads pre season. sitting at 10-2 looking at the schedule i think we can break it down a bit. i'm going to asume DD is not a long injury for this.
next 5? @marq, dep, @nd, lville, @pitt. thats a tough opening stretch. 3 ranked teams and marq is not a game we will be favored in. 1-4 is the realistic look at it from outside eyes who are looking at nothing but names and records/rpis/schedules. i would argue that 1-4 would be the base i would hope for. depual is better but they are still a team we should beat, i would worry about melvin having a game on us. i hope for 2-3 in that 5 game run, i think thats fair to this team, anything more than that is a great 5 game stretch. its the toughest stretch we have and a real slap in the face to open the BE schedule up. 3 tough roads games and a visit from lville who is one of only a handul of teams in the country at best that can matchup with our great guards. i'm gong to say 2-3 for this run. the only tragic ending is a 0-5 to start the BE schedule. we need to be mentally tough the depaul game and get a W when we need one.
next 5? ruty, @prov, usf, @sju, @shu. time to heal up the wounds. no reason 3-2 shouldn't be the base here and 4-1 or 5-0 are very realistic expectations. none of those teams whould be better than uconn this year. as suaul tho, for 4 of these teams playing uconn is there super bowl so we can't be mentally hurt from the first 5 game stretch. enough said. i'll say 4-1 and 3-2 or worse is tragic and something injury wise or elsewhere has happened to this team.
next 5? cuse, nova, cincy, @dep, gtown. 4 of 5 at home, gotta like that. hopefully we are rolling from the last 5 and if so momentum could be key here as 2 or 3 of the 5 we will prob be home dogs wich is rare for uconn as a program. again we need to take care of business in depaul and the nova game looks winable on paper. cincy is a interesting streaky team this year. with 4 of 5 at home and the road game being depaul, i say 3-2 is the relaistic pick here, anything more is great and depending on a 2-3 record vs who it could be a letdown. both 2-3 and 4-1 are possible but i'll go with 3-2 for this 5 game stretch.
the final 3 are @cincy, @usf and prov. cincy will either be looking for revenge or tney blood resume style at home in the 2nd game of the matchup this year, real tough one i view it as. the next to are winnable and imho where ko shines. no matter the tough year these games could easily mean a 20 win seaosn or not for perception record wise. win these and ko is mentally tough enhough to keep his guys mentally tough enough. i like uconn going 2-1 in this final stretch. anything less is a letdown and 3-0 is compltely possible but a tough one in cincy holds me back from saying yes to it. by this point i expect prov and usf to be wishing the seasons are over. one thing to not forget is if prov gets all 9 of its all american players that are hurt back in time for this last game of the year, would not surprise me one bit.
final record? i see 21-9. earlier this year i thik 9 ooc wins and 20 wins total were goals many had as gauges. ko sure as hell passed the first half of it and i have faith he will shine in time in the 2nd half of it. the first stretch may bring out the clowns, trolls and questions with such a tough stretch but i think all things considered we will pull tru and finish this year with extremely positive thoughts going into next year.
lets land 2 or 3 recruits now. get us a big guy and either a guar dor wing and lets go to war. if the big guy is impact right away then god help any team next year that gets in our way, i mean that with the worst interntions possible. i want blood. for jc, ko and everyone else who i as a fan fight for in my rooting passion for uconn. i was to rip ncaa heads off with our fast breaks and have other major programs crying in there offices about how ko is our next guys for 30 years and who the hell are they going to replace there old white guy coaches with. we solved the probelm years before a lot of programs have to, thanks to jc for that. it hasn't clicked in a lot of your heads yet, but it will in time. the guy was a master of puppets and i pray rain of the coldest degree on every other college basketball team for the next 30 years.
21-9, i can see it and i would be very happy with it. 10 toes in. what say u?
