It become a pick-and-roll for most teams, and the big is usually unguarded. I'm still seeing Kalkbrenner all alone for dunks.
I’ll admit that Creighton really exploited us that game. Our defense has some rough performances in big games - really big games, at that - but more teams struggled against our defense than took advantage of it. Our opponents shot 42.6% from two against us, which was fourth best in the nation. And we were fourth in the nation in block percentage. So most players didn’t get unguarded pick and rolls like Kalkbrenner. Opponents shot too well from three against us, but we were way above average at preventing three-point attempts in the first place. I think we need to be able to adjust when a team is well-equipped to handle the hard hedge, and we need to play to our personnel’s strengths more, but let’s not pretend we didn’t have awesome defensive performances.
I can’t imagine how we would have ended up without a top flight defense. I’d be happy with guarding the 3 better, and getting more blocks though.
So basically you want to be the best defense ever. Sure, that would be nice.
Still haunted by Justin Brown...
Best offense too.
...or Antric Klaiber, or Jonathan Mandeldove.. or maybe Toby Kimball, Cliff Robinson, or Chuck Alexsinas, to mention a few.
Especially when he's a pure 5 playing behind an All Big East center who's gonna play 30+ minutes a game
Anyone who expects DC to be a major force his freshman year
Holy cow
Castle said yesterday he’s going to be one and done. I don’t think he even reclasses at this point unless he is starting.
He’s his own player as they all are. He isn’t likely to ever have the foot speed and agility Knight had. Offensively already has more skill than Mandeldove or Brown. He can be an impact player, but it will require adapting a scheme around what he can and can’t do. It will be interesting to see if Dan Hurley is willing to do that. I don’t think it will happen, if it does, until Sanogo is gone. So DC’s sophomore year perhaps.
CTInsider article today Hurley says" Adama ran out of gas down the stretch. He was playing 37,38 minutes in these games. We needed him to play that many minutes for us to be in the position we were. He was pretty spent down the stretch. You could see it in the lack of lift he had at the Garden." There is a way to prevent this from happening and hopefully Dan Hurley can adjust his in game coaching to do so.
I really do feel this way - not to recruit over Clingan but to provide more depth.
completely agree. at 6'6 forgot to give him minutes playing off ball...goes to show we only have a spot in the rotation for 1 more good transfer G if castle reclasses.
I think DC at high post, and Adama down low on offense might work pretty well. Who knows on defense. It depends on what Danny is willing to do.
I think Karaban is going to play the 3 spot as much or more than 4. But yes, if Castle comes back there is just room for one more that actually plays. Hurley mentioned “developmental guys” for a reason, we need bench guys that don‘t expect to play right now.
you dont like jackson at PF so are you expecting samson to play 30 mpg? or do you think springs is going to play 10-15 mpg?? those are the only other options. without akok we need karaban at PF more than on the wing, which is fine.
Thank you for the first paragraph here. Not a single person here wanted Gaffney to get more playing time in January when his play was killing us and we lost some close games. Not a single person here wanted Gaffney to get more playing time so he would be ready to take the reigns this year, or even so he wouldn’t transfer out.
That's simply not true...there were definitely posters who wanted Gaffney to play more, there were even posters who thought he would be UConn's starting point guard next season.
