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^^ Agreed. no reason he cant make a similar type jump in improvement between sophomore and junior year that Willie Cauly-stein has made. I'm not ready to give up on him yet.
 
HuskyBballFan said:
He wasn't on Okafor straight up so that obviously was not the strategy. They doubled Okafor every single time he touched the ball in the post. There are several reasons why they did that, but one of them is to keep Brimah from having to defend him on the block and almost certainly get in foul trouble. Can you think of a single possession where Brimah was left on an island guarding Okafor in the post?

Ollie's postgame quotes refute everything you're saying. He didn't want Brimah trying to take a charge (1st foul), hand checking 15 feet from the basket (2nd foul), or holding Okafor away from the ball (3rd foul). Brimah just isn't the most cerebral player right now.
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I'm going to rewatch the tape I have but all I'm saying is that a different defensive scheme might help him be on the floor to get more than 1 shot and no rebounds. If we played Duke a second time would KO do something different for Amida? I say yes.
 
jibsey said:
I'm going to rewatch the tape I have but all I'm saying is that a different defensive scheme might help him be on the floor to get more than 1 shot and no rebounds. If we played Duke a second time would KO do something different for Amida? I say yes.
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What defensive schemes? What defensive scheme do you employ so that your C doesn't rotate late and get a blocking foul on a wing driving baseline? What defensive scheme do you employ so that your C doesn't reach out and grab the opposing C when he's simply going to the other side of the blocks before he even has the ball? What defensive scheme do you employ so that your C doesn't reach out and grab the opposing C when he's facing up and driving more than 10ft from the basket? That's not scheme, that's simply Amida playing much smarter which he will hopefully do in time. I know you want to somehow blame the coaching staff because for some reason that's what it always boils down to with some of you but the players need to do their jobs at some point, I know its not "hot takey" or a buzzword like "scheme", but its the truth.
 
FASTEDDY said:
Brimah is a 4 year player.

Remember Thabeet was Great in College and a bust in the NBA.

Brimah has a long long way to go to be as good in college as Thabeet was.
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4 years or a ton of time in the D league.
 
jibsey said:
Yeah I was watching and saw where it was which is exactly my point. Had a cheap one at the foul line too. Coaching shouldn't have him bodying up these players when we need him to alter, block shots, and rebound which we didn't have him for. If he was in the game maybe we don't get killed as bad on the glass the way we did.
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Your strategy is to alter the defense so Brimah is available to rebound? Did you really expect him to get 10 or something? The kid cannot rebound right now against a good D1 front court, forget an elite one.
jibsey said:
I'm going to rewatch the tape I have but all I'm saying is that a different defensive scheme might help him be on the floor to get more than 1 shot and no rebounds. If we played Duke a second time would KO do something different for Amida? I say yes.
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The only way he is going to learn to play the defense UConn needs him to play is to play that defense. You don't change your defensive scheme to keep someone on the floor longer without him learning how to play defense. He's simply going to have to get abused over and over again until he learns it. Hopefully that happens fast, but he's got to learn to play the D that is expected.
 
Kitaman said:
He'll be back, that's at least one positive takeaway from tonight.
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Unless you think that very true statement costs us Stone. A thought that entered my mind when Brimah picked up his second foul. AB isn't going to get better than he is. He's a luxury, a lane clogger, shot blocker, for a college team that doesn't need scoring or rebounding from the center position. Anyone who drafts him should be fired and on the heels of Boone's and Thabeet's flameouts it will create a narrative that UConn produces only stiffs as big men. The era of Okafor, Voskuhl, Knight, carving out nice NBA careers would be over.
 
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some crazy talk going on around here. Okafor was handled very well last night. That is a plus. We showed we can compete with the the best teams even with a seriously flawed offense.
AB was consistent with how he performs against tough competition. AB is still a hard working raw talent who has a chance to be special.
 
I do have a question. Has any other uninjured player ever gone from 40 points to 0 points in their next game?
 
David 76 said:
I do have a question. Has any other uninjured player ever gone from 40 points to 0 points in their next game?
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Stephen Curry might have come close (but not quite). Loyola put two guys on him for an entire game and he might have scored 2 points while standing in the corner and letting everyone else play 4 on 3 in a crazy bastardized version of the sport.
 
SubbaBub said:
Unless you think that very true statement costs us Stone. A thought that entered my mind when Brimah picked up his second foul. AB isn't going to get better than he is. He's a luxury, a lane clogger, shot blocker, for a college team that doesn't need scoring or rebounding from the center position. Anyone who drafts him should be fired and on the heels of Boone's and Thabeet's flameouts it will create a narrative that UConn produces only stiffs as big men. The era of Okafor, Voskuhl, Knight, carving out nice NBA careers would be over.
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Jesus. I'm not saying he'll ever light the NBA on fire, but the kid's only a sophomore. Lighten up.
 
Gurleyman said:
Believe it or not, I double checked and Curry had zero points in that Loyola game on 0-3 shooting after scoring 39 in his previous game against Florida Atlantic.
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Too bad about that missed free throw against Florida Atlantic
 
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Inyatkin said:
Too bad about that missed free throw against Florida Atlantic
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Or if we had just taken Brimah out of the game before giving him that one last dunk for 40.
 
Gurleyman said:
Believe it or not, I double checked and Curry had zero points in that Loyola game on 0-3 shooting after scoring 39 in his previous game against Florida Atlantic.
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Amidah has the record!
 
jibsey said:
I'm going to rewatch the tape I have but all I'm saying is that a different defensive scheme might help him be on the floor to get more than 1 shot and no rebounds. If we played Duke a second time would KO do something different for Amida? I say yes.
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He can't though. The only thing I was thinking was Nolan playing him and that's all good and dandy but guess who loses minutes? The guy who go 14 and 9 Mr Facey. Unfortunately the only hope was for him to use his head and stay in the game. How did that work out? Go to a zone and we don't make them work as hard and they eventually get comfortable after a prolonged look at it. It's on Brimah to stay in the game, its really that simple!
 
Huskyforlife said:
I think 4-5 fouls were not fouls, but the prospect of him being an nba player next year is honestly stupid funny
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I kept trying to tell people on this sub that there is no way he get drafted next year when he can't grab a rebound. People said I was underestimating the need for a 7 footer like Amida lol
 
Gurleyman said:
Believe it or not, I double checked and Curry had zero points in that Loyola game on 0-3 shooting after scoring 39 in his previous game against Florida Atlantic.
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Damn...good memory you've got there!
 
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mauconnfan said:
He can't though. The only thing I was thinking was Nolan playing him and that's all good and dandy but guess who loses minutes? The guy who go 14 and 9 Mr Facey. Unfortunately the only hope was for him to use his head and stay in the game. How did that work out? Go to a zone and we don't make them work as hard and they eventually get comfortable after a prolonged look at it. It's on Brimah to stay in the game, its really that simple!
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Yes, I agree that Facey can't lose the minutes so there is no easy or maybe no solution because Okafor is really going to abuse anyone he plays. They say Amida weighs around 235, Nolan 230? The difference seemed so much more than that like a giant playing with kids, and if refs are going to call cheap fouls there's no chance because he can't avoid incidental contact. Even with all of that it was 6 points with 3 minutes and then again 1 1/2 minutes.
 
HuskyBballFan said:
He wasn't on Okafor straight up so that obviously was not the strategy. They doubled Okafor every single time he touched the ball in the post. There are several reasons why they did that, but one of them is to keep Brimah from having to defend him on the block and almost certainly get in foul trouble. Can you think of a single possession where Brimah was left on an island guarding Okafor in the post?

Ollie's postgame quotes refute everything you're saying. He didn't want Brimah trying to take a charge (1st foul), hand checking 15 feet from the basket (2nd foul), or holding Okafor away from the ball (3rd foul). Brimah just isn't the most cerebral player right now.
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He actually played him straight up on his 5th foul and actually blocked him. The ref called a foul which obviously was not a foul.
 
To early in the morning Bruce. I see the posts now and wonder wtf I was doing or trying to say. Haven't recovered from the Yale loss I figure.
 
Brimah shoots his fouls shot fairly well. So I don't see why not give him a pick and pop option from the foul line to see what happens.
And if Brimah is out at the foul line, maybe we can post DHam and Facey and see what happens.
 
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