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David Onuorah commits to uconn

Finally got some inventory up front that needs some polish - now for the big boy coach.
 
don356 said:
Unfortunately his pedigree looks to be someone who will send Gary Clark to the ft line quite a bit.
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Maybe, but unlike our previous bigs, he's also somebody who'll make Gary Clark think twice about taking it to the tin next time.
 
Gary Clark has eaten every big we've had the past three years for lunch. Brimah, Miller, Facey, Nolan, Hamilton, Enoch. Dude is one of the best players in our league and seems to save his best games for us.

I don't see that changing next year. At least we have some options though!
 
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We know that Spring is a entirely difficult time to grab solid players for the Fall of the next year. The damage of 4 not showing on our roster ... was never gonna be band aid'd with what was available. Maybe just Lotrimin for the fungus.

There simply wasn't much opportunity to get what we needed.

We will miss watching Durham and/or Enoch might develop. But Cobb, Whaley and Onuorah might actually be better for us positionally.

This coming season is on our perimeter players improving.
 
Kitaman said:
I'm lovin our big Bigs!

Welcome!
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Haha, don't let the naysayers squash your optimism. We have 4 possibly NBA players in JA AG TL CV. Add our collection of bigs with Cobb, Carlton, Polley, Wailey, Onurah, Diarra, we have depth and two scholarships. If we can get Davide and one really good big that's better than the bigs we already have, it could be a recipe to have a shot in our drive45! I'm not going to apologize for joining you in really liking what's coming together. Slow and steady, not much fanfare, but if KO K Free Ricky and the rest can develop a serious us against the World, WE ARE UCONN mentality and chemistry why not us? Davide and a big and then let Chill do what he is getting paid to do. The jury is out until we see his 2018 BODIES of work ha! LETS GO HUSKIES!!
 
8893 said:
In her defense (which I am not quick to take up), it was slightly more logical than that. She was actually aware that not all the suicides were attributable to Cornell; but she believed they were attributable to a higher percentage of depression in the general area, which she, in turn, attributed to a higher incidence of Seasonal Affective Disorder caused by lack of enough exposure to sunlight. Since she was already dealing with a bit of SAD herself, she was reluctant to make it worse by putting herself in an area that appeared likely to increase it.

Overall, based on that and a few other things, I think she made the right call for her, but I'm glad we went to look at it (especially since my ulterior motive was to get my middle daughter interested in college, period, and it accomplished that).
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Wow! Can't believe your girls are that that big already
 
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I really think our front court is in good hands with the new S&C coach. Excited to see the "before and after". I think it's going to be most noticeable with Josh Carlton.
 
Fishy said:
What "they need" is a good high-major front court player who can play 28 minutes and actually make the opposing coach have to think about dealing with him on both ends of the court.

That's what they need. But that's not what they got.

This kid is a bloop single on a good day. He'll fit in with the bunt single and the 'reached on an error' they'd previously signed this spring.
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Think we all know what they need and we also have an idea of what they could get. The timing along with the situation they are in makes this potentially much better than a bloop single if we are going to talk in baseball terms. I mean there's a bloop single in which you are jammed, break your bat and it finds a spot between everyone but there's also a great AB where you foul off 2 pitches with 2 strikes on you then get fooled on a curve ball but flip the bat on the outside corner and serve one over the first basemans head for a bloop single well earned, good AB. He starts out at the latter and anything more he brings he advances.

You started it with the baseball analogy here it is. He's never going to be a bunt single just by bringing an experienced body and a good guy he's surpassed that.
 
August_West said:
We needed bodies we got bodies. Would we all have liked even a 3.5 star big? Sure. But I like this pickup. A space eater who maybe was coached well, if shonn Miller is any indicator ( and no I'm not comparing him to Miller's inherent athletic gifts , just maybe having some veteran headiness) also I'm of the opinion that with Gilbert Adams and larrier that opposing coaches will have enough to worry about. I kinda like the idea that 5 players don't all have a ball Jones/need, 3 studs will do the trick just fine if it is rounded out with smart, hard workers.

I'm optimistic on the floor next year ( the off court recruiting/transfer mess is another story) but if Ollie can coach the floor like I'm hoping and we have better chemistry Im ok.


You may discount all this though. I picked Purvis as AAC player of the year last summer.
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10 Toes in players make coaches look great!
 
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Huskyforlife said:
I think Clark is more likely to make him foul out before this happens.
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Fouling out doesn't matter. Bodies matter.

Cobb, Carlton, Onuorah = 15 fouls
Diarra provides another 5 fouls at the 4 position.
 
Huskyforlife said:
I think Clark is more likely to make him foul out before this happens.
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I used to hate Pitt & 'Cuse with a passion and to use a Calhounism, QUITE FRANKLY I STILL HATE THEM! But I have found that the delusional quick exit Cincinnati fans & their Team as well as the leprechaun, have brought out the intense hatred that is a part of being all in for UCONN. If you don't see red when those bums that have NOTHING to hang their dumb dumb hats on come into our house then you don't get it. Those creeps have been putting Gary Clarke on a pedestal and throwing his name at us as if he's Bill Russell. The fact is that we haven't shut him down, nor have we dominated those simpletons. Gary Clarke is good, but not elite. Our bigs have been lacking for years. Thabeet and Brimah are no Okafor. The Cincinnati fans are already chirping, they're good at that. Four rings doesn't silence their asses either. They are like the Monty Python character that gets all of his limbs cut off and proclaims them "mere flesh wounds." It's time for us to be 16-2, 17-1 in our conference. If our bigs are not on a collective mission to stop Cincinnati, Clarke and the leprechaun then we leave disgusted with our tails between our legs as usual. Again, QUITE FRANKLY, I'm SICK of that crap program that hasn't won being able to dawg our program. That brings me back to my previous post about the us against the World, or as KO says"WE AINT NO CINDERELLA, WE UCONN" mentality. David Onurah said he picked us over Georgetown because of the hunger in our players eyes. If that's happening in silent Storrs, then stay silent, I'll see them at#NOTMIDNIGHTMADNESS. Can I get an AMEN?? Go HUSKIES!!
 
If this guy can just sub in the game from time to time and clean up the glass, score a few points and only turn it over once or twice a game while giving someone else a breather I will be happy. Be a nuisance in the paint, alter a shot or two.

I would be happy with a 7 points on 2-4 shooting/3-5 freethrows, 6 rebounds (4D, 2O), 1 turnover, 1 assist, 2 blocks kind of line. Maybe a few games where he plays out of his mind and doubles that give or take. Anything extra is just gravy.
 
Travelman32 said:
If this guy can just sub in the game from time to time and clean up the glass, score a few points and only turn it over once or twice a game while giving someone else a breather I will be happy. Be a nuisance in the paint, alter a shot or two.

I would be happy with a 7 points on 2-4 shooting/3-5 freethrows, 6 rebounds (4D, 2O), 1 turnover, 1 assist, 2 blocks kind of line. Maybe a few games where he plays out of his mind and doubles that give or take. Anything extra is just gravy.
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I doubt he can get to 7 points but 6 rebounds should be within reach. An A/TO ratio of 1 is not going to happen, nor 2 blocks per game.

I think we have a number of bigs, it's likely no one of them plays a lot of minutes, and efficiency is going to be more important than gaudy stat lines.
 
I wouldn't even call it a bloop single. More of a ground ball to second that advances the runner.

Even the projections that are being floated ITT are way too optimistic. This is a guy who played 25 minutes a game in the Ivy League, didn't show much against the power teams he faced, and makes Brimah look like Kevin Durant offensively.

If we're counting on him too play more than 15 minutes a game, we're in trouble, and in all likelihood he'll inherit the Olander role circa 2011 of getting a few token minutes to start each half. If he averaged 5 and 7 in the Ivy League, there's no reason to think he'll exceed or even match that production moving up a level.

But he does provide a service in shot blocking that we were sourly missing, and between Carlton, Cobb, Whaley, Diarra, there is something to be said for the amount of bodies we have amassed. How many other teams can say they go four or five deep in bigs without much of a drop-off? We have a bunch of guys who were apparently good enough to play D-1 ball, which was more than we could say last year.
 
champs99and04 said:
I wouldn't even call it a bloop single. More of a ground ball to second that advances the runner.

Even the projections that are being floated ITT are way too optimistic. This is a guy who played 25 minutes a game in the Ivy League, didn't show much against the power teams he faced, and makes Brimah look like Kevin Durant offensively.

If we're counting on him too play more than 15 minutes a game, we're in trouble, and in all likelihood he'll inherit the Olander role circa 2011 of getting a few token minutes to start each half. If he averaged 5 and 7 in the Ivy League, there's no reason to think he'll exceed or even match that production moving up a level.

But he does provide a service in shot blocking that we were sourly missing, and between Carlton, Cobb, Whaley, Diarra, there is something to be said for the amount of bodies we have amassed. How many other teams can say they go four or five deep in bigs without much of a drop-off? We have a bunch of guys who were apparently good enough to play D-1 ball, which was more than we could say last year.
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Gotta keep in mind, that was as a Junior. I don't expect him to have a major impact here, but having a year off to work on his game is at least one reason to think he might be able to maintain that production moving up to high major competition.
 
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I would be happy if Carlton, Cobb and Onuorah can combine for 10 points and 10 rebounds. Ecstatic, actually.
 
intlzncster said:
What do you mean a year off? He's a grad transfer who'll play immeditely
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he sat out all but one game last year for "personal reasons".

Fifth-year grad transfer David Onuorah commits to Huskies

Onuorah, a 6-foot-9 forward, played the past four seasons at Cornell. He averaged 5.0 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.6 blocks while shooting 51 percent from the floor as a junior in 2015-16, finishing ninth in the Ivy League in rebounding. However, he played just one game last season before sitting out the rest of the season for “personal reasons.”
 


I wanna see him do some of this from time to time along with rebounding.
 
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