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Message: [QUOTE="boog204, post: 5254161, member: 880"] It's weird for me to say I sort of agree with 611, but here I am. I'm psyched that Ross is coming back. I think there is a ton of potential here; more than any other guy on the roster (can't count the frosh yet.) He was probably our most athletic player (with Samson) and the only guy we had last year who could easily switch 1-4. Now, it was often not all that positive, but he can do it. He was great defensively against Nembhard in the late stages of that game and was our only guy who could check Kam Jones. He even played some "PG" facilitator type in that game. He is our closest thing to an AJax/Castle type of versatile player who can do a little of everything and the only true athletic 6-6 UConn wing type that we used to stockpile and is so needed in the college game. The other part, and I trust this, is that Hurley truly believes in him. I don't think it was coachspeak at the beginning of the year when Hurley said Ross would've started the first scrimmage against URI. Hurley said Ross was our best player at times, and I know it was a cupcake, but Ross was electric in the second half of that first game against UNH. We were pretty ecstatic with what we had at that point. Obviously, he was inconsistent/bad for most of the rest of the year, totally lost his confidence, and became an afterthought. I could see him having a huge summer/preseason and being our starting 3. I could also totally see him getting pinned to the bench and passed over by the freshmen. The minutes distribution will be interesting again. Around this time last year, we were excited about how many players we had and were trying to figure out how we could possibly have enough minutes to go around. Many of those players were not even close to what we thought they'd be, and it took care of itself. [/QUOTE]

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