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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2370327, member: 488"] I hate threads like this because the handful of over-exuberant posters who think he can play in the NBA give the usual crowd the license to bash him all over again. He's not going to play in the NBA, ever. I suppose it's somewhat within the realm of possibility that he could get a ten day contract or find himself playing minutes during one of these game 82 spectacles at some point, but for all intents and purposes he is not good enough to play on an NBA roster. This isn't a case where somebody's game translates better to the NBA than college - if anything, the presence of a defensive three seconds will complicate things for him. Perhaps his abilities as a rim runner will be amplified, but even then he's not the type of freak athlete with superb body control and hands that typically slides into that role. For as good as he was in that capacity, he really needed those lobs to be spoon-fed to him - that's why those plays diminished in volume against good competition and when D-Ham left. But he was a good, if unreliable college player whose presence on an NBA preseason roster should illuminate his redeeming values that were never recognized to their full capacity at UConn. Time will tell whether that was an example of bad coaching. My optimistic impression is that Ollie wanted to play a certain way and Brimah was simply a bad fit, and that moving forward he has worked to identify players who will fit better in our schemes. That doesn't mean it wasn't incredibly frustrating as a fan to watch him flounder at the same things, but I can respect it if Ollie is a guy who values the macro progression over the extraction of slightly better short term results. It's the central debate confronting this program right now and I don't think anybody represented that more than Brimah. That's why he's so polarizing and that's why I think, regardless of what happens moving forward, that he got the short end of the stick from some fans here. [/QUOTE]

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