He belongs in the Huskies of honor. Besides being top 10 in points, assists, steals he never left when all the drama was surrounding the program. He's also an alpha and he accepted being second fiddle. He yielded some of his scoring and accepted he wasn't the go to guy. He instead became the perfect wingman, a lockdown defender, and was always there in the clutch.
To this day I wish Jalen Adams would’ve reclassified to play with Boat that year. Instead of coming to play behind Gibbs. He missed out on the true UConn PG apprentice experience.
Yes, Boatright was truly the Obi Wan Kenobe of PG's. We should bring BoatiWan onto Hurley's staff so he could start treating PG's up.
Not sure if this is scarcasm or not?
Dream scenario - Hurley brings Kemba, Shabazz and BoatiWan onto the staff and we just start becoming PG University. We go recruit PGS and season them up, having stockpiles of shakers and bakers waiting in the wings to become the next gen PG extraordinairre.
People always beat Jackson off the dribble and he would try to come from behind for the block/steal. He got steadier by his his last year but I would never call him a great defender.
Well our program is special and accomplished things in an impressive way like no other program.
And it's had to evolve with a rapidly changing landscape, which it's done successfully. We won B2B, almost beat the NC's and are 25-3 this year. I'm as spoiled as anyone, but I'd say that's a mighty fine outcome. If we operated on what made us special in 2010, we'd be obsolete. Now I don't disagree that there seems to be some tweaks Hurley can make to revisit what got us the kinda roster we had in 2023-24, but developing PG's.
I think you’re equating developing to losing/handing the keys to a freshman.
That's not what he's doing. He just wishes Adams didn't do a PG year at Brewster and instead got to play a year with Boat.
We’ve missed on recruits - happens.
This thread was suppose to be about celebrating great defensive players here. Don’t know how saying I wish Boatright could’ve helped Jalen Adams and got adequate help for himself turned into this.
Because it's another "what if" - not celebrating. And Boatright registers pretty low on the all time defensive players.
Getting steals, which Nadav was incredible at, is not the same as absolutely sticking the opponents best guard, on or off the ball, all season ling. As ive said before, if you watched uconn all year, the moment you saw trajon langdon was going to try to take Moore for the last shot down 1, you were already celebrating.
It’s actually neither. Tarris Reed has entered the chat.
If you’re going big guy route, Thabeet was pretty dominating on defensive side of ball.
This. If you graded Emeka and Donovan game by game, I have no doubt Emeka would have better grades. But notwithstanding that, Donovan had more impact on the defensive side just because of the combination of his size and athleticism.
No. Not even close. Last night was a great defensive performance, but you have to compare based on at least a season, and not a game.
I appreciate the insight. The joke clearly passed overhead in another galaxy.
I drove to/from the game from Vermont yesterday. Didn’t get home until 12:30 so if I am slow on the intake forgive me.
That’s dedication, love it!
Jackson made the others guys step it up just by being on the floor .
That was Scott Burrell
Depriest shut down Bassos but that was years earlier maybe even the NIT year
