Chief’s Briefs - St John’s Edition

[Palatine]

In retrospect, Thabeet getting tossed around like a rag doll by DeJuan Blair should have been more of a red flag for NBA GMs. (Incidentally, Blair had a longer NBA career than Thabeet despite being drafted 35 slots later.)

Blair should have been ejected for that foul. He literally threw HT to the floor.

 

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I feel like a large amount of UConn fans knew that Thabeet was going to be a bust.

Always seemed like Calhoun was trying to do different things to make him play tougher and more aggressive.

This was a fun watch last night. If you skip to the 28:15 mark you’ll see Thabeet make a hard foul and Calhoun’s reaction when he comes out is kind of funny.

The amount of times bodies hit the floor to no foul call in this game had me crying laughing.

This is a great game to watch if you turn it off with 5 mins left. AJ Price really took over at the end. That’s how I’m going to choose to remember it.

 

[Iluvsuebird]

I get the argument that the priority of the coaching staff was to develop Samson. I agree that to be the right priority entering the year. But we had several games where we were up 25 to 30 points with 4-5 minutes to go. Those were the minutes that Singare needed to play (if he wasn't going to be red-shirted). That's my only criticism with regard to Singare.