Cane Broom

[JMick]

If that quote is legit then no wonder we were violating the rules and still ended up with a horrid roster

 

[80shusky]

So back in March 2016, when Cane Broome was waiting for the call from UConn, here are all the guards that would have been on the roster in 2017-18: Jalen Adams and Alterique Gilbert.

Vital too right? Or am I missing something? Still point made.

 

[champs99and04]

I must be missing something here. Is Cane Broome good? He's a 6-foot guard (and that's probably being generous) who is a 33% career three point shooter, posts about a 1:1 assist to turnover ratio over three seasons, and certainly didn't promise anything defensively. And he's averaging 8 points per game right now for Cincinnati in his junior year after they burned a scholarship so he could sit out last year.

I mean, in hindsight, he'd make this team better and he makes Cincinnati better. But Ollie was making that call three Gilbert shoulder dislocations ago, before MAL had de-committed (and I know he hadn't committed by that point but Ollie had to have known he was in the driver's seat), before the Diallo fiasco, and before he plucked Vital late in the period who I still prefer to Broome as a player. And no, it was not obvious that Hamilton was going to the draft.

They were 100% right to not offer him a ship.

 

[tcf15]

Vital too right? Or am I missing something? Still point made.

Vital didn't commit to UConn until late April.

 

[Storrs South]

Dan Orlovsky must have meant to say he was talking about KO earlier today

 

[methodology]

So back in March 2016, when Cane Broome was waiting for the call from UConn, here are all the guards that would have been on the roster in 2017-18: Jalen Adams and Alterique Gilbert.

MAL didn't decommitt until March 31st

 

[tcf15]

MAL didn't decommitt until March 31st

This is back in 2016. MAL committed in September 2016 then decommitted in March 2017.

 

[whaler11]

The only thing worse than WeHa is ‘chip’ and ‘ship’.

Sure he averages 20 minutes on the #6 kp team but we are good. Certainly Cinncinati is clueless.

 

[methodology]

This is back in 2016. MAL committed in September 2016 then decommitted in March 2017.

Ok gotcha the past 2 years are a blur

 

[Northbound]

Watching this staff is like watching Stevie Wonder drive a car.

 

[Storrs South]

Didn't KO say during pre-season that he only wanted kids that wanted to be here? A bit ironic.

 

[Guapo]

MARONE

OY VEY

 

[metsfan2323]

Too bad we don't play VCU, we could have recycled this thread and just inserted Issac Vann's name.

 

[willie99]

we're talking about a kid with two years of eligibility remaining when we already had Adams and a Burger Boy at PG, plus DHam was supposed to return. We also had Vance Jackson coming in. Who knows who else was in the pipeline at the time, maybe it looked as if we would land some other top guard which we just happened to do, although he changed his mind.

Nobody knows why Ollie didn't offer, nobody knows what was in their minds at the time. More speculation running rampart and always assuming the worse.

And nobody knew DHam wasn't coming back until he went home after the spring semester. When he left, he was returning

Nothing butt piling on IMO. Furthermore, the way people are talking about this, you'd think Cane was a 4star freshmen recruit averaging 18 points and 7 assists per game or something, geez.

I will concede that with AG out, it would be nice to have a 2nd ball handler on the team who could actually give Jalen a few minutes off every game. Hindsight is 20/20, and with hindsight it becomes cringe worthy and somewhat laughable that we don't have him. But I don't know enough to fault KO on this

 

[Purple Stein]

Too bad we don't play VCU, we could have recycled this thread and just inserted Issac Vann's name.

He was a BEAST at Maine. Too bad he left!

 

[BLUEDOGHOUSE]

we're talking about a kid with two years of eligibility remaining when we already had Adams and a Burger Boy at PG, plus DHam was supposed to return. We also had Vance Jackson coming in. Who knows who else was in the pipeline at the time, maybe it looked as if we would land some other top guard which we just happened to do, although he changed his mind.

Nobody knows why Ollie didn't offer, nobody knows what was in their minds at the time. More speculation running rampart and always assuming the worse.

And nobody knew DHam wasn't coming back until he went home after the spring semester. When he left, he was returning

Nothing butt piling on IMO. Furthermore, the way people are talking about this, you'd think Cane was a 4star freshmen recruit averaging 18 points and 7 assists per game or something, geez.

I will concede that with AG out, it would be nice to have a 2nd ball handler on the team who could actually give Jalen a few minutes off every game. Hindsight is 20/20, and with hindsight it becomes cringe worthy and somewhat laughable that we don't have him. But I don't know enough to fault KO on this

Most are concerned with the recruiting process. What was communicated to April & June.

If 2 Yarders are competing for the coveted Golden Bone (an award for who has the most likes/analogous to AAC Title) do you think one would campaign for the other Yarder (the competition)? This could be a question for fluedslipcon to analyze.

I seriously doubt it though!

 

[pj]

Ollie has consistently had too few guards on the roster the last few years. Who knows if we should have offered Cane but we should have offered more guards than we did.

 

[Jaybo]

I hate everyone.

That a bit harsh

 

[QDOG5]

I'm going to give KO a break on this one. He chose to recruit what he considered superior talent. That's what is constantly asked for on the Yard. There have obviously been some local talent under recruited by the staff but I can understand why Ollie chose to prioritize other players than Broom. There has to be a good joke using the name Cane Broom and the state of our program but at this point it would feel like piling on.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I must be missing something here. Is Cane Broome good? He's a 6-foot guard (and that's probably being generous) who is a 33% career three point shooter, posts about a 1:1 assist to turnover ratio over three seasons, and certainly didn't promise anything defensively. And he's averaging 8 points per game right now for Cincinnati in his junior year after they burned a scholarship so he could sit out last year.

I mean, in hindsight, he'd make this team better and he makes Cincinnati better. But Ollie was making that call three Gilbert shoulder dislocations ago, before MAL had de-committed (and I know he hadn't committed by that point but Ollie had to have known he was in the driver's seat), before the Diallo fiasco, and before he plucked Vital late in the period who I still prefer to Broome as a player. And no, it was not obvious that Hamilton was going to the draft.

They were 100% right to not offer him a ship.

As is commonly the case, your analysis and argument are measured, reasonable, and fact-based.

Here is something you might be missing, and I offer this in the spirit of being helpful to both you and @willie99:

I 'double-read' The Boneyard a lot. The first time I scroll down the page, I don't see the comments from those I ignore. (Heck, I miss entire posts if I'm logged in, like Scrappy's query on Glen Miller). On my second take, I click on "Show Ignored Content" and see who inspired outrage, as well as hissy fits between the relentlessly annoying from all points of view. Yes, @whaler11, I do this too. It fills some time I used to spend watching good basketball.

Here's where I'm going with this - there have only been 2 comments made here by posters I ignore. These anguished barbs are not coming from the pitchfork crowd. It doesn't matter that you can accurately claim that 20-20 hindsight paints a false picture when perception so frequently beats reality in emotional matters.

And not for nothing, a sixth man who puts up 3.3 assists a game sounds good to me.

 

[UConnStats]

If Ollie wasn’t taking him, I have him no problem with him trying to get more talent into the conference. We want the American to have good teams. I don’t think Broome would be looking as good if he were on this team anyway.

 

[mauconnfan]

He's going to light it up in front of a thousand Bearcat fans from east Hartford

 

[uconnfan68]

I was able to chat with April & Sam "June" at the Pro AM. They told me if Cane was a girl they would have named her May. True story. We were eating free bags of Doritos when chit chatting.

Not Wisk?

 

[Greathusky]

Is recruiting against yourself a violation?

and thus we have the answer on why the NCAA is investigating us.

Self anti-recruiting is a grade 1 NCAA violation.

 

[don356]

I think the jury is still out on the Cane Broome option. His numbers in his first year of transfer are not eye popping, but given the transition to a higher level and sitting a year out the real interesting thing will be how he does in his senior year. He's clearly quick and can score, but if he transitions to a 15pt scorer next year then it was a miss.