2025 Recruiting: Jacob Furphy Commits to UConn!

[GlastonTim]

Does anyone know if he can come in spring semester like Karaban did? Their school year schedule is different than ours and read the school year ends in December.

 

[Zionn]

Where is the vid?

 

[FearThePups]

My guess would the 7 footer we will have on the roster.

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.

 

[navery12]

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.

UConn out-rebounded URI 41-40. Until Tom Moore retires there is no need to ever worry about a UConn team rebounding, especially offensive rebounds

 

[FearThePups]

UConn out-rebounded URI 41-40. Until Tom Moore retires there is no need to ever worry about a UConn team rebounding, especially offensive rebounds

Time will tell.

 

[RuffRuff]

Zagoria weighs in on Furphy at about 30:45. Says a few things we haven’t heard, including comps. I know we love comps .

 

[HooperScooper]

Yeah but who’s going to rebound?

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.”

How success has impacted UConn men’s basketball recruiting: ‘We’ve got way more access’

The UConn men’s basketball coaching staff switched its focus in recruiting to go after more skilled offensive players after the 2022 season and have reaped the reward.

www.courant.com

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Actually Australia is 13 hours ahead now, not 12 hours

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:
The World Clock Meeting Planner - Results

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Haven't heard it mentioned yet but let's not forget that he'll be a righty in the Northern Hemisphere.

Now up to a 198 cm tall righty, and growing by the Boneyard minute

 

[Scrutineer]

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

Jacob Furphy, NBA Global Academy , Small Forward

Jacob Furphy is a 6-6, 220-pound Small Forward from Australia, AUST.

247sports.com

Could be #152..........if it's the best class in the history of the sport...........

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Nah seriously tho he’s gotta get a vid drop asap

Already out there, Chopper Furphy to the Big East or whichever opponents

 

[The Yakk]

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.

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.

 

[AllHusky]

So, we have recruited the Tasmanian Devil!!!

 

[UCFan1513]

Zagoria weighs in on Furphy at about 30:45. Says a few things we haven’t heard, including comps. I know we love comps .

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

 

[7774]

Time will tell.

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[RuffRuff]

 

[RuffRuff]

 

[WhereistheDove?]

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.

 

[Huskyforlife]

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.

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.

 

[BGesus4]

Are we not going to address the fact that he’s been lying about not being definitely related to the other Furphy?

 

[DRBackup]

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.

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

 

[HooperScooper]

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.

Are we going to trust these 2 bozos or Dan Hurley, Kimani Young, and Luke Murray? I guess that's a rhetorical question.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

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

Yes, that along with size, strength, and athleticism.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

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.

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.

 

[444JR]

Mahaney/Nowell
Mullins/Adams
Ross/Furphy
Stewart/Abraham
Reed/Reibe/Singare