I'm sorry Phil, but...

[B1GEast]

Absurd. I never ever said that Nolan would be better than Hilton, just that he could be better than he is now, period.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Like I said, everyone seems to hate Dyson with a passion on message boards (I'm not one of them) but god forbid you call it how you see it with how bad Phil has been this year and everyone runs to his defense....makes no sense to me

But to all the Phil Lovers out there, you may be in for a long season and not sure how much longer you can defend his play.

There is no defending it. That's the point. I don't think anyone really saw much more from Phil when he first got here. Just like how nobody ever had to "defend" Charles Okwandu.

Personally, I was expecting, and I think this was fair, 5 and 4 from Phil this year. Now obviously he's nowhere near that; but am I shocked? Meh

I wouldn't be shocked if Rock beats him to 5 and 4.

 

[johnhuskies95]

So to suggest that Phil might be good as a senior, you bring up another player who was good as a senior, despite that player's performance prior to his senior year being several magnitudes better than Phil's to this point? I can't imagine why I might have tried to "connect dots" on that one. Why bring up Armstrong at all, if not to invite a comparison between him and Nolan? Their "scenarios" aren't similar: Hilton was a good player who struggled to get minutes behind lottery picks like Okafor and Villanueva, and when he got starter's minutes as a senior, he continued to be a good player. Nolan is, at this point, a terrible player who continues to get opportunities because of the relative dearth of depth in UConn's frontcourt. Comparing Nolan to Armstrong (which you did, despite your bizarre attempts to pretend otherwise), two very dissimilar players in very dissimilar situations, is one of the laziest comparisons I see made over and over on this board, based entirely on the fact that both players are roughly the same height and weight.

Just days after a moderator warns people to stop bashing players you're calling one of our guys "terrible"?

 

[CallMeBruce]

Just days after a moderator warns people to stop bashing players you're calling one of our guys "terrible"?

He's been one of the worst players in the conference. Literally there is only one other player in the American who has played remotely meaningful minutes (at least 100) and has been less effective than Nolan. This isn't personal; he seems like a good dude, but he's absolutely not getting it done.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

He's been one of the worst players in the conference. Literally there is only one other player in the American who has played remotely meaningful minutes (at least 100) and has been less effective than Nolan. This isn't personal; he seems like a good dude, but he's absolutely not getting it done.

3 pages into a stupid thread, you manage to raise the Stupid Bar. Nice work.

 

[johnhuskies95]

He's been one of the worst players in the conference. Literally there is only one other player in the American who has played remotely meaningful minutes (at least 100) and has been less effective than Nolan. This isn't personal; he seems like a good dude, but he's absolutely not getting it done.

You're missing the point. Whether or not your right isn't what matters, although I'd argue that there's no way in hell any scholarship player at UConn is even close to terrible.

I get that you're new here, and I've been here for about five years so I'm not even close to an elder statesman, but you just don't call players terrible or make disparaging comments like that.

At the risk of lecturing too much I'll stop now.

 

[mauconnfan]

Although Phil is not playing great now, mostly bringing this thought on with his inability to finish. To see him struggle offensively and think that is all he brings to the table would just tell you how little people know of the game. Although he didn't score much last year he was an important piece and now that he tries to score and fails he suddenly is one of the worst players in the conference. He is not performing as well as last year overall that is easy to see, but to suddenly get tot he point of statements like that is ridiculous. But that's what we deal with as fans, how soon they forget!

He will make plays as the season wears down which will once again make those happy he's on our side. But maybe they won't see them because he didn't score!

 

[joober jones]

There's much to the story of every game that the box score leaves out.

 

[joober jones]

Absurd. I never ever said that Nolan would be better than Hilton, just that he could be better than he is now, period.

Come on, they're practically the same person. Both were born in November, named after their fathers, were/will be seniors in a year ending in 6, and have both been mentioned as having a fondness for Hardees.