Evan Miyakawa Roster Outlook Tool Blog (UConn free example)

[auror]

Evan Miyakawa has a blog out about a new tool on his website. He picked a few teams to show for free and UConn was one of them. The tool only ranks roster strength, and does not consider coaching.

Five Team Roster Outlooks for 2025-26

A peak behind the curtain at a brand new tool at EvanMiya.com

blog.evanmiya.com

 

[CL82]

Evan Miyakawa has a blog out about a new tool on his website. He picked a few teams to show for free and UConn was one of them. The tool only ranks roster strength, and does not consider coaching.

Five Team Roster Outlooks for 2025-26

A peak behind the curtain at a brand new tool at EvanMiya.com

blog.evanmiya.com

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No love for Jayden Ross

 

[NCHuskie919]

Interesting that his computer model thinks Jacob Ross steps onto campus and is immediately better defensively than his older brother.

 

[husky429]

Interesting that his computer model thinks Jacob Ross steps onto campus and is immediately better defensively than his older brother.

Jayden was horrendous on defense, so it "computes," if you will.

 

[80shusky]

Well, those are Final Four or better efficiency ratings and would translate to a really good season.

 

[Iluvsuebird]

For me the question is not if Jayden will pan out. The bigger, better question is whether Stewart will pan out. Because if he does, oh boy we we will be hard to beat.

 

[Lafayette]

Furphy is going to be a better defender than Ball? How does that compute?

 

[auror]

Furphy is going to be a better defender than Ball? How does that compute?

Have to think of it in a Bayesian context. We know Ball wasn't very good on defense last year, and we only have an idea that Furphy probably won't be great. Ball will likely improve as players do as they get older, but will he improve enough to be better than Furphy's theoretical average freshman outcome considering how poor Ball was last year?

The numbers are close enough that you should consider it like the model saying it's 50/50 as to who will be a better defender. That being said, I think we can be bullish on Ball's defense this year considering his tools and some improvement he showed during the course of the season.

 

[husky429]

Furphy is going to be a better defender than Ball? How does that compute?

Ball spent much of last season nearly the worst defender in all of high-major basketball. The computers don't trust him yet

 

[SeattleHoop]

Ball spent much of last season nearly the worst defender in all of high-major basketball. The computers don't trust him yet

I knew he wasn’t a good defender , but was he honestly one of the worse defenders in the league? Genuinely curious. I feel like he has all the tools to be good on both sides of the ball

 

[HuskyFich]

Furphy is going to be a better defender than Ball? How does that compute?

I believe Furphy is going to surprise a lot of people on D. Seems to be a “right place, right time” kinda guy.

 

[husky429]

I knew he wasn’t a good defender , but was he honestly one of the worse defenders in the league? Genuinely curious. I feel like he has all the tools to be good on both sides of the ball

During the first half of the season the computers had him as pretty awful. IIRC he was the 2nd worst of any high-major starter. He improved quite a bit though.

Physical tools are there, always have been. Game is 99% mental for Solo on both sides of the ball at this point.

 

[aceboon]

I knew he wasn’t a good defender , but was he honestly one of the worse defenders in the league? Genuinely curious. I feel like he has all the tools to be good on both sides of the ball

feels like every opposing guard he lined up against gave him work

 

[HooperScooper]

During the first half of the season the computers had him as pretty awful. IIRC he was the 2nd worst of any high-major starter. He improved quite a bit though.

Physical tools are there, always have been. Game is 99% mental for Solo on both sides of the ball at this point.

He also acknowledged in this interview from a couple weeks ago that he needs to improve his defense and he's going to work hard on that this offseason. He has the physical tools and the willingness so I think we're going to see much improved defense from him next season.