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Justin M said:
Yeah to the casual basketball fan Amida is a "better defender" because he has tremendous blocks and is a rim protector, however, he has very little discipline.
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In reality, the "casual basketball fan" ignores Brimah's factor as a deterrent.
 
@Justin M hamilton Gibbs were defensive sieves until about 3 weeks ago. Early in the year, with ab playing, they would often lazily call for switches or ball watch and find themselves out of position .

Look it's very important for Nolan to be focused and do what he does well. He will be called upon because brimah and facey will get into foul trouble . I'm just concerned about his inability to do anything on offense (catch , finish , average screener). But I agree uconn needs both hitting on all cylinders to really compete with elite squads
 
It took a few games to adjust defensively after he went out, but we did eventually adjust. Phil has helped the perimeter defense by his presence as he's a better pick and roll defender, but most of the improvement on the perimeter has been due to the guards -- Adams and Gibbs have visibly improved.

My bigger concern is on offense. While Brimah has the potential to help Hamilton by being available on the back line for the lob, his hands are bad enough without a finger injury. If he can't catch the ball, he'll be pretty useless.
 
OkaForPrez said:
@mauconnfan I get why you have to take an aggressive anti Brimah-Blinders, not to be confused with anti Brimah, position. I think you often oversell your point though and drift too far then come back to center (no pun intended) and say we all want to see him succeed. The truth is somewhere between Brimah as an NBA Caliber talent and where you put him on the sliding scale. We can argue about how far between the two until the cows come home (Oh home on the range!) but let's just all agree you're wrong. :D
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Ok good

NEXT ;)

But so you know Justin M does get it.:D
 
Excalibur said:
It took a few games to adjust defensively after he went out, but we did eventually adjust. Phil has helped the perimeter defense by his presence as he's a better pick and roll defender (Strongly agree), but most of the improvement on the perimeter has been due to the guards -- Adams and Gibbs have visibly improved.

My bigger concern is on offense. While Brimah has the potential to help Hamilton by being available on the back line for the lob, his hands are bad enough without a finger injury. If he can't catch the ball, he'll be pretty useless.
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Disagree about Adams. Strongly agree about Gibbs. Add in DHam. Don't buy the argument that the bad perimeter defense was singly or even primarily due to the safety blanket of Brimah. A lot of the guard penetration was the result of ineffectual high screen play by the bigs.

If an argument can be made that Phil stays too long on hedging (I feel he's guilty of this only occasionally) there is a stronger argument that Amida leaves too early or positions ineffectively facilitating the drive to baskets by opposing guards. Heck there are times he's screened his own team mates.

All last season the coaching staff was working with Amida to reduce his fouling. Towards the end of last season they were trying to get him to discern when to position for rebounding as opposed to trying to block every shot. If he figures this out, and it appeared he had before the injury, he is a very good defensive player. If he can figure out how to be a better screen player he would be an outstanding defensive player. To be clear my criteria is predicated on a player who is well rounded at the roles of defense vs. those who focus only on the savant blocking abilities of Amida.
 
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