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2025 Recruiting: Jacob Furphy Commits to UConn!

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FearThePups said:
Yeah but who’s going to rebound?
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I don't know but I'll trust Hurley on this.

“We recruit really good offensive players now and we force them to play defense,” Hurley said. “We force them to rebound the ball like it’s a life-or-death proposition, because ball possession represents life in my mind.”

“It’s hard to win championships and it’s hard to win a tournament like the NCAA Tournament unless you can score,” he said. “It’s hard to get out of the first round if you’re in a rock fight, because you feel enormous pressure in the first round of NCAA Tournament games when you coach at UConn. The best way to mitigate that is to have a high-power offense that can go on runs… to blow up a game because you’ve got firepower.”

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hookshot said:
Actually Australia is 13 hours ahead now, not 12 hours
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Factually, has several time zones. Furphy’s Tasmania is actually 15 hours ahead of EDT now (until EDT’s early Sunday morning fall back to EST; then 16 hour difference).

Source: run far too many %¥#£&€ NY, HK/SG/Shanghai, Sydney meetings. Helpful global meeting resource:
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UConnStats said:
They just made a page for him. If you click and view UConn’s class it shows him 152nd. Not sure if that will change. I agree that he’s certainly far better than 152nd regardless

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Jacob Furphy, NBA Global Academy , Small Forward

Jacob Furphy is a 6-6, 220-pound Small Forward from Australia, AUST.
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Could be #152..........if it's the best class in the history of the sport...........:rolleyes:
 
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Cheddie said:
From what I've seen online, there is a 15 hour differential between Hobart and EST time. It may be 3 hours if you're talking Hawaii and the OZ east coast. The date line is another factor.

I loved Australia, and tried not to factor in my American bias. Termed it "driving on the left" rather than the "wrong" side of the road. :)
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As I said, it is 3 hours difference east to west across Australia just at it is 3 hours east to west across the continental U.S. Pretty sure I wrote that clearly.
 
RuffRuff said:
Zagoria weighs in on Furphy at about 30:45. Says a few things we haven’t heard, including comps. I know we love comps ;).

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lol I clicked just to see if they would make a comp that wasn’t a white guy. All we got was Joe Ingles and an out of shape Baylor Scheirmann XD
 
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WhereistheDove? said:
I swear one of their last videos was calling him a potential one and done and now they’re saying he’s not going to get off the bench next year.
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The kid is good, but it’s really hard to imagine where his minutes come from as a freshman. I’m sure he knows the vision.
 
Are we not going to address the fact that he’s been lying about not being definitely related to the other Furphy?
 
FearThePups said:
I think we were number 1 or close to it for offensive rebounds the last 2 years. We had our guards crashing the boards. I know it was only an expedition game vs Rhody, but they rebounded us. Not good.
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Rebounding is nothing but effort, desire, and preparation. I don't expect to see any letdown in those areas under Hurley, so I doubt it will be a problem
 
DRBackup said:
Rebounding is nothing but effort, desire, and preparation. I don't expect to see any letdown in those areas under Hurley, so I doubt it will be a problem
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Yes, that along with size, strength, and athleticism.
 
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Huskyforlife said:
The kid is good, but it’s really hard to imagine where his minutes come from as a freshman. I’m sure he knows the vision.
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I’m just more dumping on especially the one guy at sleepers, who clearly has no idea what he’s talking about but needs to fill a segment every time with confident nonsense.
 
QDOG5 said:
No reason to guess on his height and weight. He's 14.5 hands tall and weighs 15 stone.
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Sorry, I'm a UConn fan, I'm going to need that in Hilton units, if you please.
 
RuffRuff said:
Exactly. Have to think this will be a year some of the older guys have to show their keep, as if not getting PT this year, writing may be on the wall. The program has gone through a significant forward evolution the last two years and I’m not sure Hurley is going to allow for tenure to keep your spot.

When a staff is in the position of being able to attract top talent, and seemingly their pick of the litter, cannot let that window pass you by for loyalty. As the sooner the flywheel starts, the sooner you achieve critical mass. Need to seize that advantage immediately as it will feed itself year over year by sending talent to the NBA. You want to be in this position every year.

Was reading the Mahaney article on Storrs Central and one thing that stood out was that he said he wanted to go to Duke in 8th grade. That’s where that brand is - imbedded, done over decades with a big part of it being the player quality that’s come through. Now that the program is at an apex, and with Hurley at the helm, no reason we can’t be that program to 8th graders over the next decade.
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That's right about Duke. Hopefully Scheyer will be consistently an underperformer and end that attractiveness that's carried over after Krzyzewski's departure.
 
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Prestige is one thing, but I think Danny and Luke's greatest advantage is showing recruits how they will be schemed open in a unique system that will allow them to shine, in addition to having skills like defence honed which the League values.He has the sales pitch.
 
I see 247 has listed our 4th recruit but gave him 0 points. It would seem these "experts" should be able to slot JF in somewhere and assign him some realistic point total based on his performance in some serious international competition.

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2025 Recruit Basketball Team Rankings

In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating.
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Scrutineer said:
I see 247 has listed our 4th recruit but gave him 0 points. It would seem these "experts" should be able to slot JF in somewhere and assign him some realistic point total based on his performance in some serious international competition.

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2025 Recruit Basketball Team Rankings

In order to create the most comprehensive Team Recruiting Ranking without any notion of bias, 247Sports Team Recruiting Ranking is solely based on the 247Sports Composite Rating.
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Very true, I know he is from Down Under, but he shouldn't have zero points.

In the end it does not matter, Duke, Kentucky, and Arkansas can win the recruiting rankings every year, UConn can win the titles.
 
Fatroony5 said:
Agreed. It’s fun watching these international players and how they’re taught to play the game. Super skilled, fundamentally sound, smart players. Lots of countries really placing a huge emphasis on player development and it shows. Excited to see what Furphy can bring.
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Memories of Henefield, Sheffer and Giffey. Let's gooooooooooooo!
 
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