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Boneyard Telephone Game

The prestigious Pangos All-American Camp, an invite-only event featuring the top high school prospects in the nation, returned this summer after the 2020 rendition took a different form, due to the pandemic. Pro Insight was on hand to evaluate the event and caught up with Alex Karaban of IMG Academy (FL) and Expressions Elite (MA). Karaban was selected to the Top-30 Cream of the Crop Game and averaged 18.5 points and 6.0 rebounds while making a camp-high 14 three pointers in four games.

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Alex Karaban

For the next installment of the Pro Insight Q&A series, we present 2022 prospect Alex Karaban, from Northborough, Massachusetts
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HooperScooper said:
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I’m watching this on my phone and I’m thinking Man, I didn’t know he had a beard…. oh mask.

The thing that leaps off the page to me is how complete his game is. He has a nice little hesitation move on his drive to the basket, he can drive and dish, he can finish around the rim or shoot for three. The more film I watch on this kid the more I want him to play at UConn.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Polley and Robinson were both definitely a few inches taller than what Karaban is listed.

Daniels is definitely a comp I thought about but body wise he was much more slender and lean than Karaban or Giffey. I see Daniels listed as 6'9" 200 lbs. Karaban is listed as 6'"8 210 and Giffey as 6'7" 205. Daniels and Giffey were so good as interchangeable forwards on 2014.

Rudy is interesting. Obviously a much higher level athlete but he did have the ability to score at all 3 levels. And he does sneak in at the very end of 15 year timeframe being that he finished at UConn at end of '06 season.

I'll let you die on whatever mountain you want on this but I still think Giffey is best most recent UConn comp and JRE of Nova may be best current college player comp in terms of skillset and working the floor.
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There's no hill to die on. You're really taking issue with players being an inch taller than Karaban?

You then say Robinson-Earl is his best comp and he's bigger than all the UConn players I named, shot the three worse than all of them, and played center for Nova.

Daniels is a better style of play comparison to how Karaban plays than Giffey or Robinson-Earl from what I've seen. Lydon as Ricker pointed out and Karaban likened his game to seems like maybe the best comparison.
 
Hoops91 said:
I’m not sure he’s a shooter. Is he supposed to be? If not, does his game fit for what UCONN needs? I’m honestly surprised at the hype for him after watching his highlights.
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I am officially worried.

”Hoops91” has reviewed his tape and is not impressed.

Does anyone have Danny Hurley’s cell phone number? I need to call him.
 
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HooperScooper said:
The prestigious Pangos All-American Camp, an invite-only event featuring the top high school prospects in the nation, returned this summer after the 2020 rendition took a different form, due to the pandemic. Pro Insight was on hand to evaluate the event and caught up with Alex Karaban of IMG Academy (FL) and Expressions Elite (MA). Karaban was selected to the Top-30 Cream of the Crop Game and averaged 18.5 points and 6.0 rebounds while making a camp-high 14 three pointers in four games.

www.prospectiveinsight.com

Alex Karaban

For the next installment of the Pro Insight Q&A series, we present 2022 prospect Alex Karaban, from Northborough, Massachusetts
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It would have felt better if he left this out:

"PI: What is your recruitment update?
AK: I'm always looking at more schools, so I'm very open right now. I have a couple of visits planned right now to Northwestern (official), Penn State (official) and UConn (unofficial) — that's for June. But I'm open to anyone — I'm willing to listen to every school."
 
Ricker said:
In this video from his own mouth made in 2021, he says the best comp for him is Tyler Lydon who he is most compared to. Why don't we just go with his view and move on? Skip needing a UConn player comp everybody agrees with.
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As long as it's regarded as a New Hampton player comp.
 
superjohn said:
There's no hill to die on. You're really taking issue with players being an inch taller than Karaban?

You then say Robinson-Earl is his best comp and he's bigger than all the UConn players I named, shot the three worse than all of them, and played center for Nova.

Daniels is a better style of play comparison to how Karaban plays than Giffey or Robinson-Earl from what I've seen. Lydon as Ricker pointed out and Karaban likened his game to seems like maybe the best comparison.
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Alex is free to compare his game to anyone he likes. Lydon is listed as 6'10" and 225 lbs. Karaban is nowhere near that size. Would I be happy if Karaban could put up the shooting, scoring and rebounding numbers of Lydon? Hell yeah. And Karaban is free to look at highlights and try to model his game after Lydon. But that's not a good comp.
 
billybud said:
It did not need fixing...Effectivity equals..."power to be effective"

Synonym ....

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Effectivity - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms

power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect
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^ Interesting, and new to me. Thx.

An alternative take, offered without contrary attitude other than how it tracks the thinking that went into my comment:

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Effectiveness/Effectivity

Hi there, Both "effectiveness" and "effectivity" are uncountable nouns related to the adjective "effective". Which one of these terms would you go for in context like this: We have the expression effective working as part of a team and want to change it into a noun phrase. We have...
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effectivity is just a noun...and is fine to use rather than the adjective.

Many may not be as familiar with that use as old Mirriam Webster is...

Jargon has it's own place....organizations have "styles".

Eg. You would not hold a meeting in government speak. You would conduct a meeting.
 
Chin Diesel said:
And Tyler Polley is literally 6'9"-6'10" tall.
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Polley is 6'9", which you know. He was 6'7", 190 when he was recruited, the exact size as on Karaban's 247 profile. And even if he were two inches taller, that's very obviously not a meaningful difference. Don't be ridiculous.
 
CallMeBruce said:
Don't be ridiculous.
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^ Ridiculous

This reads like a ham-handed add-on, the kind of thing intended to shut down all further conversation, as though no other possibility is to be tolerated.

You've got your point of view, but not enough authority or power to control the discussion.

I'd say, "Nice try," but it wasn't nice, and it wasn't necessary. It lessens what you wrote, dressed up falsely as strengthening. And if you think that's a dumb thing to say, trust that it's just a boorish mirror.
 
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billybud said:
Correcting grammar brightened your affect this morning....which often will affect your effectivity.
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Im Out Shark Tank GIF by ABC Network
 
temery said:
I think it's "affects." I rarely correct grammar, mostly because I suck at grammar, but I'm pretty sure on affect vs effect.
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Ya know, I debated that, Tom. But I remain committed to the post and my gallows pole lies in waiting just in case.

My comp? Old school Rick Barry.
 
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