2025 Recruiting: Eric Reibe Official Visit
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Maybe the Moreno to Kentucky announcement today helps with Reibe to UConn. . He's currently scheduled for an OV there after our OV. Sounds like Pope's pitch to Reibe might be as a stretch 4 who has the green light to shoot and create within their offense and play along side of Moreno.
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it cant hurt. next year UK now has Brandon Garrison and Moreno at C but no returning PFs...
we will have Reed/Singare at C and Stew/Abraham at PF.
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Love having a center to hit 3's in 5 man out sets in order to extend d. Definite my fave recruit at the 5 (and #2 in wants behind Thomas). High Iq, though I wonder if he is willing to sacrifice and "simplify" his game to our system as Clingan and now Reed did.
This is a kid who game is lot more similar to Dirk than Enosch. Will he simplify his game (he's talked about being able to break down D off his dribble), or is he good enough that Danny and his staff are giving him more of a offense carte blanche in their recruiting pitch? The tape I've watched from him, has been good. An offensive Clingan would be stretch, but talented big men like that are rare. Better than Danny Wolf. I happen to think he will get more ""#1 recruit" vibes with Mcdermott and end up at Creighton. I hope not lol
This is a kid who game is lot more similar to Dirk than Enosch. Will he simplify his game (he's talked about being able to break down D off his dribble), or is he good enough that Danny and his staff are giving him more of a offense carte blanche in their recruiting pitch? The tape I've watched from him, has been good. An offensive Clingan would be stretch, but talented big men like that are rare. Better than Danny Wolf. I happen to think he will get more ""#1 recruit" vibes with Mcdermott and end up at Creighton. I hope not lol
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I was, then I took a couple of advil and laid down for awhile. I feel much better now.
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If Stew doesn’t go into the draft. That’s far from a given.
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ya but i think staff needs to plan as if he's returning and then go to the portal if he doesnt. like with alex this summer. it's a tough spot to be in but if i were a highschool player i wouldnt count on stew not being there.
I think there’s enough positional versatility there both with Reibe himself, as well as Stewart (who I think can play the 3 or the 4). I think there’s enough minutes to go around even if Stewart is here for his junior year.
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The staff will probably have a decent sense of how Stews NBA prospects look by the fall when the height of the recruiting season matriculates, especially with Maui early in. They’ll likely know by then how he will be predominantly used and if a feature type player.
I still don’t see a kid ready for the draft, his jump shot is flat and still seems to have an itch to take 3s when his strength is at the rim.
I still don’t see a kid ready for the draft, his jump shot is flat and still seems to have an itch to take 3s when his strength is at the rim.
I wasn’t sure if Hawkins was ready to make the jump during that awful January 2023 stretch the team had. A lot can change in a relatively short period of time.
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It's really hard to project after a player's freshman year. Especially being on a loaded team like the Huskies had this past season where it was really tough to get playing time. After his freshman year did you think Jordan Hawkins would be a lottery pick a year later? Similar to Hawkins I'm guessing Stewart won't be the same player this coming season as he was last year. At least that's the hope. If he's the same player you're describing in the last sentence then he won't be going to the NBA next June.
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Stewie is one of our X factors this year. Skills and talent are there. Gotta let the game slow down a little bit and go with his instincts. Danny is going to make sure he has every opportunity to shine this year.
NBA scouts know who he is
NBA scouts know who he is
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We don’t even know if he’s starting. Most prognostications have him coming off the bench in favor of McNeeley. He’s a talented kid but I think most are highly over blowing his draft stock. I’d be surprised if he goes this year and I don’t mind being wrong. He had some very mini flashes last year, but I still see him as a raw product.
Hawk was a core starter and center of offense. Agree that the jump can happen at any point but I don’t even know what his strength is at this point. What I know is it isn’t his jump shot/3, as he shot 21% last year and that was after getting hot-ish towards end of year. Having been at the open practice I can see why in his release. I honestly don’t know why anyone can be “shocked” if he’s back.
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Most prognostications are dumb then if they don't have him starting. He's going to start, and he's going to be a 1st round pick. This conversation is going to look dumb in a few months. I honestly don't know what you were watching based on your comments on Stewart, it certainly wasn't any of the UConn basketball games last year
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Who do you have as our starting 5?
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I’ll take your bet - 100 bucks the opposite of your guarantees happen.
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Stewart scored 2 points or fewer in 26 of the 37 games he appeared in last season.
Yes, he came on late a bit. But also he scored 9 points total in the 6 NCAA tournament games, and did not score in 3 of the 6. He scored over 5 points in 2 of the last 15 games of the season (but they were 2 very nice important games!)
He scored in double figures 1 time in 37 games. He scored 8 points or more in 3 games.
The Stewart hype has to relax. Sure, he could be Jordan Hawkins. This is UConn and Hurley. The development is great. But Jordan Hawkins scored 8 points or more in 1/3 of his games at a freshman, 4x more frequently. Double figures 7 times in 27 games, 10x more frequently.
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What scoring option was Stewart when he saw the floor, how many minutes was he even getting the latter part of the season and how many shots per game was he averaging?
You simply can't go by just points per game or even his highest scoring game from last year because he was still developing his game, he was not in there to take many shots and he flat out had so few opportunities to put up many shots.
Give him a chance to see what he will do when he has more minutes and shots to show you what he can do. I'm not about to predict how many points he'll average this coming season or what his draft situation will be once he declares, but I think he'll be a productive player and has as good a chance to get solid minutes either coming off the bench or even starting some games this season. He looks like a very talented and hard working player to me that has a pretty heigh ceiling.
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Point is lot of hype from some select BYers for a couple small samples. This is a deep roster and it’s unlikely he’ll be a featured player, and part of a sum this year. He has the best player on the team in front of him at his natural position and a 5 star to battle for the 3.
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Mahaney, Stewart, Karaban are locks to start in my eyes. If McNeeley can handle playing the 2 spot he probably starts over Ball there. No idea at the 5 spot.
I recognize it may be bold, I just don't see any way Stewart doesn't start even with all the talent we have
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Maybe I'm projecting too much, I just think the reason Stewart didn't score was because he wasn't being asked to do it. If he were on the same team as Hawkins was freshman year I think he could have put up similar numbers
I will admit my response, or at least the reason I was so adamant in support of Stewart, was who I was responding to. It's just repeated negativity about UConn from them
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Stewart passes the eye test and on many teams he'd be a star. We just happen to have a loaded roster. Will be interesting to see how things play out in terms of minutes and stats. You can't sit Stewart, you can't sit McNeeley, you can't sit Diarra, you can't sit Mahaney, you can't sit Karaban, and you have to find minutes for Ball, Ross, Abraham, and Nowell. One of Reed, Johnson, and Singare will be on the court. We have more quality players than minutes to give them.
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I was thinking Mahaney/McNeeley/Stewart/Karaban/Reed would be our second most likely lineup. My guess is Hass starts over Stewart, but I really have np confidence in that.
We're so deep, feels like at least 9 guys could start and not surprise me.
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Definitely 9 guys you could make a case for starting. And at that point it's already tough to squeeze Ross or Abraham into the rotation. Obviously these things work themselves out, but the depth is crazy with next year's team
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For those who have him as a lock as the starting 3, I agree it's a tad premature, but his D was impressive down the stretch and conversely, the little video I've seen from McNeeley on D didn't look very good. Now based on comments from Hurley, the focus for the first summer session was offense, so McNeeley likely hasn't been drilled heavily on their team D and how to best keep yourself between your assignment and the basket. I have a feeling that Stewart's D is going to earn him a lot of minutes, particularly early in the season while McNeeley's need to improve on that end of the floor might keep him on the bench longer than some expect. Maybe, I'm wrong and both players will be solid on both ends of the floor, making it difficult for Hurley to find enough minutes for both of them.
There's a lot of players on this team that fit the pisitionless, as it is often called, system at UConn. It's more a multi-position system where many combination of players can coexist at any point in the game predicated by matchups, situations, who's playing better in any given game or foul trouble.
I would not be shocked that in some games Stewart gets more PT than McNeeley and in other games it's the reverse. If the type of game is a defensive rock fight, maybe that would favor Stewart, if they need scoring, McNeeley might bring something to the table that fits the need.
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Don't take this in a negative way but I'm curious. You have pretty strong opinions (which is fine) and have been posting a lot lately. Your profile says you joined in 2011 but only have 665 posts. What gives? Were you mostly a lurker for a long time and have come out of your shell recently?
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And Ross has been getting rave reviews. I think he was last year as well, but he has also been on the podium for practices, so his work is matching the talent it seems.
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Been around for way longer than 2011. Where is that old battle ax Fishy these days anyway?
Been a die hard home grown Husky fan since I was a kid late 80s, good chunk of the family Alum. The Ollie years and AAC were hard to watch. Like an oncoming accident you hope sorts itself out while not looking, for something you grew up with so much pride in. I guess everyone treats sports trauma differently. Hurley has created a lot of renewed enthusiasm obviously and reinvented the program into something so amazing it’s hard to believe sometimes.
As a former professional athlete, I don’t wear rose colored glasses 24-7. I know some here do, and expect everyone else to. I just don’t find it objective, or interesting
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