this is a video from his junior year in high school. When he was ranked above Clingan nationally. Look at his fluidity with the ball at just :25 seconds in. Now imagine that he is currently 6-10 265 with 74 inch wingspan AND that a coaching staff known for hard work and getting most of his players is going to get to develop these talents in a system made for an athletic big body. Raw talent-wise, he is not far behind Sanogo.
Do you not understand statistics? Michigan, a bad team, was worse with Reed on the floor than they were with him off. There is your context. Edey scored 37, but UConn as a team did well with Clingan in the floor.
It was a beautiful offense this year, a joy to watch, and I do not think SJ at the 4 would have made it better. You misunderstood my post, and maybe some others did too. I was simply suggesting that next year, if SJ develops his game during this offseason and can earn time at the 4 it would help his draft status, if that is even a thing. I mentioned the fact that Hurley had him competing with Karaban last year at the 4. How he would have been used I don't know. Where you get the 11% career on 3's I don't know either; how many has he even shot in the last 3 years. Lastly, don't be ignorant and attack other people when maybe it is your comprehension which may be lacking.
Filipowski Min 30.4, Reb. 8.3, FG% 50%, 3pt% 35%, Foul% 67%.
We don't know any of that, and everyone here has their opinions on whether it's possible. But what should be objectively clear is that success is coming at the 5 position and not the 4
I just think you're discounting what a lack of structure can do to a talented kids development. Nobody is saying he was great at Michigan, but there's no doubt there's raw talent to mold here, and he won't be asked to provide Sanogo or Clingan level impact from day 1. I wouldn't even be surprised if he comes off the bench to start.
Well I guess that the mojo that the staff uses when they throw darts at the board to pick transfers is off. Maybe Danny wasn't wearing the proper lucky dartboard-throwing underwear. Too bad it didn't come up "Jalen Thomas."
Probably because Karaban was a freshman and Hurley has been pretty consistent in talking about how high he believes Samsons talent was (especially around that time). Has Karaban and Castle been the only two regular freshmen starters? I feel like if you’re going to start as a freshman for Hurley he wants you to show why he can’t justify putting you on the bench.
From what I’ve seen Johnson do this year I have to think he had a good portion of that game last year. Alex had one semester in the program. Given what we’ve seen from him, I’m sure they liked his game and had a plan to play both. But SJ got injured and by the time he was ready to play, the rotation had been set, and the team was being very successful. So he got sub rotation minutes.
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This. Coaching is the difference between Jalen Adams and Tristen Newton
+/- is the worst statistic you can use for an individual player, especially in college with 1001 variables.
I love poster like you who are second guessing the best staff in the current college basketball era. You should be re adjusting your personal statistical models based on who this staff is targeting / recruiting. Just throw your own stuff out the window..
There’s no point to a message board if every post is just “trust the staff.” You’re not here earnestly to read that over and over. It’s fun to have talks and arguments about this kinda thing, it’s okay to disagree or bring up perceived flaws in a recruits ability without saying the staff are morons.
Yeah, I agree. No one is infallible including this staff. This staff has been incredible in talent evaluation and development. I don't think anyone thought that Joey C and Diarra (this year) would have been the impact players they became. No matter how great they are at it (talent eval), they were definitely wrong on Timberlake. Maybe he would've been better at UConn, but I don't think he would have been that much better. We really dodged the bullet on that one.
Yeah, I don't think Reed is gonna be a bust. It looks like we have a lot of options at the 5 and UConn has prioritized Reed, so obviously they see something they can work with. Also, its a potential 2 year rental.
Robert Reed played the father on the Brady Bunch
