Imperative that PG has 3 point shot skills

[JimHurley]

I know a guy who fits this profile perfectly - Tremont Waters. Big time miss for us.

 

[David 76]

Yeah Taliek Brown was unsuccessful here.

Taliek, Ricky, KO.
Don't worry about AG. He will be fine. Kid played 2 games and really impressed in 1 of them

 

[mauconnfan]

I know a guy who fits this profile perfectly - Tremont Waters. Big time miss for us.

He hasn't played a college game yet and he's not as good as AG, why a big time miss? He's 3 inches smaller than AG to boot and not as fast or strong. He can shoot it better now it would seem but will he get enough good looks?

Nothing wrong with who we have at the guards for the future in JA, AG, CV and MAL - we're fine there this is not the issue. BIGS (healthy would help) and shooters are needed not tiny guards who didn't want to come here.

 

[Danzz]

You really need the guy who has the ball in his hands to have an ability to hit 3-5 three's so that you can open up the floor.

Also having a specialist--a guy who can hit a three set a pick get boards make a quality pass--etc...a high iQ guy--we dont have that this year. We have too many guys who need the ball.

You don't need a 3 pt shooting guard but it is great to have 1. Taliek was a horrible shooter. You are describing Rashad and Kemba/Bazz/Smitty.

 

[UConnLen]

I've been a UConn fan since mid 60's and have always "the name of the game is putting the ball in the hoop". UConn for many years has had point guards that could do that and with the exception of 2004 w/Taleik our NC teams have with Khalid, Kemba and Bazz. 1999 also had Rip, 2004 had Ben, 2011 had Bazz and 2014 had a couple too that were good from the arc. Look, this is a very young inexperienced team with 4 seniors that aren't on any draft boards, no juniors three Jrs who played limited minutes last year or redshirted, and 5 frosh-and one of the best ones is coming off dual acl surgeries, and another has bad knees. This will be a work in progress and hopefully they will all improve as the season goes on. BUT YES we need shooters- I was told when JC took over in 1986 by a well respected HS CT HS coach that he would recruit ATHLETES and hope to make them better basketball players. JC was successful for sure, because he always recruited shooters too.