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Waquoit said:
What are you talking about? Of course it's worse, OnCracken. You really think the bench guy deserves the same level of scruitny as the stars? A guy that's bustin', that may just be in over his head a bit versus a star PG that holds on to the ball too long too often? Against the DePaul's that's one thing, against the 'Ville's is another. As we saw yesterday.
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Deserves the same level of scrutiny? Yes. He's a scholarship player in the rotation. Why wouldn't he? No one denies he's working hard. It's a little unclear why you seem to be entitled to ascribe personality flaws to players who don't play the way you expect them to, but your panties get twisted up when someone posts an observation about someone else.

Your posts about Shabazz might as well be from Freescooter they're so ridiculous. I think you actually believe that Olander would be averaging 15-10 and Giffey would be scoring 20+ if Shabazz weren't so selfish.

There are some kids on your front lawn, go yell at them.
 
RJ is what he is......solid off the bench guy but limited against certain levels of speed and ability........he looked slow against LVille and he can't shoot it. Made defending the guards much easier when he was in the game as Hancock and whomever sluffed off to help.........but let's not knock the kid, good kid and wanted to be here and unlike others is damn proud to put that UCONN on his jersey!
 
Pretty sure anyone on this board or anyone who has ever touched a basketball could go to the local court and hit 3 of 11 freethrows right now.
 
BoatShow said:
Pretty sure anyone on this board or anyone who has ever touched a basketball could go to the local court and hit 3 of 11 freethrows right now.
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I can make 7 or 8 right now doesn't make me better than RJ........does it hurt? It could I guess but I doubt he'll be in the game when they count anyway.......he has done some good things too so to harp on the obvious does little good in the case of RJ.....his maturity on the bench and I'm sure in the locker room also goes a long way with this young team!
 
BoatShow said:
Pretty sure anyone on this board or anyone who has ever touched a basketball could go to the local court and hit 3 of 11 freethrows right now.
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I'd bet you don't make them with 14k people watching, unless you're well lubricated before the game.
 
uconnfan68 said:
I'd bet you don't make them with 14k people watching, unless you're well lubricated before the game.
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What's the difference? He may as well have his eyes closed anyways.
 
Evans gives you effort and experience. I agree for a guard or any player to go 3-11 from the free throw line is unacceptable. I think he should be used to turn up the intensity and get the ball moving. Too many times the ball gets to Bazz and Boat and it dribble time. Yes they can create off the dribble, but that leaves the other guys spectating. Giff needs to get the ball in shooting spots he is comfortable in and for the most part he isn't.
 
fleudslipcon said:
He is what he is, and he's trying his best. He's a backup, third guard. He comes off the bench with a lot of energy. No sulking on his part. He's grateful to play on the UConn team and all we have is sour grapes. Maybe we should go to Mizzou!
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I agree with you. He gave us some good play earlier and I bet he does again. The team seems to settle down when he is in there. I trust Ollie on this.
 
Granted that his performance on the court has not been stellar of late, please don't forget the leadership that he brings to this team something that was somewhat lacking last year. Intangibles do count for something.
 
sparky said:
Evans gives you effort and experience. I agree for a guard or any player to go 3-11 from the free throw line is unacceptable. I think he should be used to turn up the intensity and get the ball moving. Too many times the ball gets to Bazz and Boat and it dribble time. Yes they can create off the dribble, but that leaves the other guys spectating. Giff needs to get the ball in shooting spots he is comfortable in and for the most part he isn't.
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For one game, sure, 3-11 is unacceptable. For half a season, the sample size is so small as to not really warrant an opinion. He misses one foul shot every two games - pretty inconsequential. And he isn't even the worst guy in our rotation. Wolf is shooting zero percent (0-2).

Actually, looking at the stats, what I find unacceptable is that our three bigs (Olander-Wolf-Nolan) are a combined 17-32. I'm not worried about so much about the percentage (especially post Drummond) - it's the attempts. We are getting 2 FT a game from our post players. That's nuts.
 
willie99 said:
I imagine this has been said a few times already, but he has lost his confidence. He needs his mojo back
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I think its not a loss of confidence but rather an indication that the talent level is higher than he has ever played against. It is far easier to look good against New Hampshire than it is against Louisville.
 
CTBasketball said:
Don't dis Donnell Beverly. He was an important piece to the 2011 NC team.
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yes and i appreciate his off the court contributions but on the court he was pretty horrible. yes he made the occasional good play but they were far and few between.
 
TheChamps990411 said:
yes and i appreciate his off the court contributions but on the court he was pretty horrible. yes he made the occasional good play but they were far and few between.
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Remember his dunk against #1 Texas in 2010? Great.
 
TheChamps990411 said:
yes and i appreciate his off the court contributions but on the court he was pretty horrible. yes he made the occasional good play but they were far and few between.
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Give the guy some credit, he was never "horrible". He was no Kemba Walker, or even a Taliek Brown, but he gave us solid minutes as a backup PG, didn't turn it over often, and was a decent shooter.
 
TheChamps990411 said:
yes and i appreciate his off the court contributions but on the court he was pretty horrible. yes he made the occasional good play but they were far and few between.
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Important to remember that Donnell came in during a recruiting year when we had zero playing time to offer anyone at any position for the foreseeable future, and he was content to just be a bench guy and get a degree. We had a team of all freshmen and sophomores, none of whom had the NBA in their immediate plans, but the starters (Price-Dyson-Sticks-Adrien-Thabeet) were all in theory good enough to hold their starting positions until they left. Plus Kelly, Wiggins and likely Austrie figured to be long-term rotation guys (Edwards became one, but was an uncertainty at that point).

It's possible that as bad as AJ looked his first year, we could have instead convinced an elite point guard to come in and take his place, but fortunately AJ got healthier and got his old form back. It's also possible that instead of taking Beverly, we could have just pocketed that scholly for a year, but we probably figured there would be some attrition in the large class in front of him, which there was (Wiggins-Kelly-Eaves transferred, plus Mandeldove flaked out, Sticks had a sabbatical, and Dyson got hurt), so saving the scholarship wasn't really any use.
 
Gurleyman said:
Important to remember that Donnell came in during a recruiting year when we had zero playing time to offer anyone at any position for the foreseeable future, and he was content to just be a bench guy and get a degree. We had a team of all freshmen and sophomores, none of whom had the NBA in their immediate plans, but the starters (Price-Dyson-Sticks-Adrien-Thabeet) were all in theory good enough to hold their starting positions until they left. Plus Kelly, Wiggins and likely Austrie figured to be long-term rotation guys (Edwards became one, but was an uncertainty at that point).

It's possible that as bad as AJ looked his first year, we could have instead convinced an elite point guard to come in and take his place, but fortunately AJ got healthier and got his old form back. It's also possible that instead of taking Beverly, we could have just pocketed that scholly for a year, but we probably figured there would be some attrition in the large class in front of him, which there was (Wiggins-Kelly-Eaves transferred, plus Mandeldove flaked out, Sticks had a sabbatical, and Dyson got hurt), so saving the scholarship wasn't really any use.
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Ok. not sure what your point is.
 
joober jones said:
Give the guy some credit, he was never "horrible". He was no Kemba Walker, or even a Taliek Brown, but he gave us solid minutes as a backup PG, didn't turn it over often, and was a decent shooter.
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really? so i imagined all those times he couldnt guard anyone or dribbled the ball off his foot out of bounds trying to drive to the basket ill advised? i dont understand whats the big deal about db when you mention he wasnt good. great kid just not a good player. thats a fact.
 
TheChamps990411 said:
Ok. not sure what your point is.
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Just that he wasn't brought in to be very much in the first place. He was just a character guy to ride the bench on an already loaded team - and fufilled that role nicely.
 
Gurleyman said:
Just that he wasn't brought in to be very much in the first place. He was just a character guy to ride the bench on an already loaded team - and fufilled that role nicely.
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i understand that and thats exactly what he was. but some people saying he was a good player is just crazy to me. he was pretty bad.
 
TheChamps990411 said:
yes and i appreciate his off the court contributions but on the court he was pretty horrible. yes he made the occasional good play but they were far and few between.
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He was not horrible. He was a solid, dependable kid who knew how to play the game. People far smarter than you who actually had some input into his career certainly felt that way.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
He was not horrible. He was a solid, dependable kid who knew how to play the game. People far smarter than you who actually had some input into his career certainly felt that way.
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you can get your opinion across without the juvenile insults. grow up.
 
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