Have you been watching Chin? He may be a little better but not by a lot. He’s brought hands down in the paint when he’s already done a solid job defending, ultimately getting a foul called for no reason other than him not just staying straight up.
I'd prefer Kalkbrenner is on the court as much as possible, getting torched on defense by our quicker players
#1 not scared
My concern is Samson and Karaban are going to rack up fouls trying to stop him on the offensive end.
He’s not an isolation back to the basket player. I don’t think he’ll be as much as a mismatch as most think. I think the GTown kid was a way bigger mismatch
He’s a mismatch in the PnR and a mismatch on the glass. Both areas where quick fouls are easy to rack up
Agreed. Kalk is a rim runner who gets most of his baskets off of pick and rolls and offensive boards. He’s a lot closer to Samson than Sanogo in terms of what he wants to do on offense.
Like others, I'm concerned with AK getting into early foul trouble. I'd rather see Kalkbrenner work hard to get his points against SJ and maybe Stewart or whoever Hurley throws out there, w/out going off for some career game, stay out of serous foul trouble with our scorers while keeping their other weapons in check. Yeah, that's a mouthful, but you get idea.
We’ll see. I’m leaning towards Samson holding his own
If Kalk is covering someone in the small ball lineup, he will be playing way too far from the hoop to be an effective rebounder, IMO.
We might just have to take our medicine with him in the post. They have so many shooters, doubling could put us in a really bad spot on the perimeter.
Creighton is one of the worst offensive rebounding teams in the conference. It's only Kalkbrenner and then King off the bench.
It may seem we are "horrible" on the boards but UConn has out rebounded every team since Donovan went down. We've given up a few too many offensive boards though imo
