If you could have a 1st team AA at any position, which would you choose?

[freescooter]

99 - Rip
04 - Oak
11 - Kemba
14 - Bazz
23 - Sanogo
24 - Clingan

Who you think was our best player in 2011 and 2014? It has to be the PGs. By my count that’s 3 big men, a wing and two PGs. 23 and 24 we were such a good team it’s hard to single any one player out. And 04 we also had Ben but of course Emeka was on another level.

We don’t win in 99 without Khalid. He wasn’t the best player , just the most important. I’d say the same with 23 and 24. In fact Clingan was badly outplayed by Edney. Edney had 37 pts 10 rebounds. Newton was the guy in that game. They weren’t the best players maybe but they were the most important.

 

[superjohn]

We don’t win in 99 without Khalid. He wasn’t the best player , just the most important. I’d say the same with 23 and 24. In fact Clingan was badly outplayed by Edney. Edney had 37 pts 10 rebounds. Newton was the guy in that game. They weren’t the best players maybe but they were the most important.

It's Edey and just looking at stats doesn't tell the story of that game and why we blew them out. UConn's entire strategy for that game was Clingan is playing Edey straight up no matter what and we're putting everyone else in a straightjacket. Edey was playing out of his mind early making shots he doesn't typically make and never once did we send any doubles or anything to try and throw him off because we weren't going to let their perimeter players go bombs away. Other teams always sent help and always got beat by the other guys from outside...

Edey had 16 points with 6 minutes left in the first half and then didn't score a point until there was 14 minutes left in the game when he hit a ft, he was 0-6 from the field during that time and UConn was up by 13. The game was effectively over with Purdue never again putting any game pressure on UConn. Edey scored 15 points when the game was a blowout and it was straight up garbage time where he was clearing Karaban out for dunks.

Purdue never had a chance in the game because we had the luxury of never having to double team Edey once knowing none of their other players could get open shots.

When you say we couldn't have won without Khalid, that's true but of course we couldn't have won without Rip who was hands down our best player. We could withstand Khalid playing terribly like he did in the elite 8 against Gonzaga going 0-12 from the field or Khalid scoring just 12 points with 6 turnovers in the national championship game against Duke but we couldn't withstand those type of performances from Rip. We needed Rip to score 20+ each night with around 50% shooting which he always did.

 

[freescooter]

Seriously Edney vs Clingan was man vs boy. We won because our other guys, especially Newton, were way better than there other guys.

On Khalid he brought something that UConn had been missing. Rip had the chance the year before and couldn’t deliver. Ray had a chance and couldn’t deliver. They weren’t both way better talents. But Khalid brought a cockiness or something

 

[superjohn]

Seriously Edney vs Clingan was man vs boy. We won because our other guys, especially Newton, were way better than there other guys.

On Khalid he brought something that UConn had been missing. Rip had the chance the year before and couldn’t deliver. Ray had a chance and couldn’t deliver. They weren’t both way better talents. But Khalid brought a cockiness or something

I already explained everything to you and for the second time his name is Edey.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

It's pretty crazy at this point that there is someone that still doesn't understand why UConn was able to play Purdue so much differently than everyone else in the country had to but if there was someone that was going to be beating this horse it's exactly who you'd expect.

 

[Inyatkin]

How good would we have been with Edney, man just imagine