OT: Count down to 1st game

[TerryBoyz]

Always liked his work ethic.

 

[TerryBoyz]

The next few days are going to challenging. We will have to be creative.

 

[Chin Diesel]

#12 has a an interesting starting 5.

AJ Price
Taliek Brown
Tyler Polley
Kentan Facey
Andre Drummond

Verne Giscombe off the bench.

Having Taliek run the point and freeing AJ up to be a more natural scorer and secondary distributor. Put Polley on the wing and corner to catch and shoot off the penetration and Facey and Drummond to clean up the boards.

That would be a decent defensive team too with Facey and Drummond being able to help out with Polley's defensive limitations.

 

[Gator 8202]

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The next few days are going to challenging. We will have to be creative.

He had the largest hands I have ever seen. His brother was my High School vice principal.

 

[TerryBoyz]

 

[TerryBoyz]

It’s also a clever way to pay homage to a few more great huskies

 

[McLovin]

 

[HuskyFich]

 

[Palatine]

This baby is completely off the rails. There are now 43 days until opening tip off!!!

 

[McLovin]

This baby is completely off the rails. There are now 43 days until opening tip off!!!

Do some simple arithmetic on the numbers…

 

[Get a Job]

Not a big fan of this addition stuff. I enjoy the creativity, but I don't like the ambiguity. It is not objectively clear that the numbers are to be added. At least add some operators!

 

[HuskyFich]

Not a big fan of this addition stuff. I enjoy the creativity, but I don't like the ambiguity. It is not objectively clear that the numbers are to be added. At least add some operators!

Please….find me a photo of a uconn mens player who wore 8 or 7….or 6

 

[Vancat]

Best Players to Wear Each Number in UConn MBB History: 0-15

Naming the best player to wear each jersey number in UConn men’s basketball history. We’ll divvy it up over the next three weeks, starting with numbers 0 through 15.

www.audacy.com

No.s 6-9 kinda sketchy.
Nos. 6-9: Five men’s players wore numbers 6-through-9 in the 1940s. The most notable of those was No. 9 Walt Dropo. The first true star at UConn, you probably know him better as the former American League Rookie of the Year with the Red Sox. In Storrs, the Moose from Moosup left as the all-time leading scorer in basketball, averaging 20.7 points a game in three years by scoring 848 points in just 41 games.

 

[Get a Job]

Please….find me a photo of a uconn mens player who wore 8 or 7….or 6

The dearth of available photos doesn't preclude the use of a plus sign!

Anyone know why those numbers are rarely or never used at UConn?

 

[8893]

The dearth of available photos doesn't preclude the use of a plus sign!

Anyone know why those numbers are rarely or never used at UConn?

tl;dr: Because a human hand has five fingers.

Crunching the Numbers: College Basketball Players Can’t Wear 6, 7, 8 or 9 (Published 2015)

A longstanding N.C.A.A. edict, rooted in maintaining clarity in referees’ hand signals to the scorer’s table, prohibits players from wearing certain numerals.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Palatine]

On the left, Bernie Fisher, Captain of the 1946 Huskies, number one in our hearts and #7 on the court.

 

[elmcityboy]

Please….find me a photo of a uconn mens player who wore 8 or 7….or 6

this would have worked yesterday:

 

[Get a Job]

 

[jayteeman]

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

tl;dr: Because a human hand has five fingers.

 

[Vancat]

 

[dennismenace]

EK

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[Vancat]

Love me some Earl Kelley but we passed 10 a while ago.

 

[jayteeman]

 

[TerryBoyz]

Sorry. I think I lost a few days. Day of game is day 0– so we can get in a few more players.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

Love me some Earl Kelley but we passed 10 a while ago.

Maybe it's one of those math ones again. The game was from 1985 so, 1-9+8+5=5.

 

[Vancat]

 

[Jorgensen]

 

[TerryBoyz]

One of my faves. Also like the jerseys that year.

 

[Jorgensen]

We don’t win #3 without #3