Jaylin Stewart will be OUT for tonight’s game

[98Uconn]

day to day, right knee per “that guy”

 

[Husky Alien]

Well if he's anything like Youssouf Singare he should not be anywhere near the court against a top 15 team...

D Koroma is not a Singare player. He is capable player for 3 or 4 minutes at a time, depending on the game situation.

 

[UCLJ0211]

Big game incoming from J Ross!

 

[alexd]

Stew had a nice outing at Nova. Wonder what's up.

See post #30

 

[UCMB88]

D Koroma is not a Singare player. He is capable player for 3 or 4 minutes at a time, depending on the game situation.

Correct. He's in his 6th year of college basketball, which began in 2020 at Iona. He'll be 26 years old in April. He's not a Singare. Hurley would not have added him to the roster if he didn't think Dwayne couldn't give us a few minutes in a emergency type situation.

 

[boog204]

Well if he's anything like Youssouf Singare he should not be anywhere near the court against a top 15 team...

Youssouf Singare Going to be a secret weapon?

 

[UCTitleTown]

Koroma has next to nothing offensively besides dunking and setting some screens here and there. He would be an emergency sub into the game if he is subbed in at all. Koroma is 6'8" 212 while Stewart is 6'7" 225, so they are similar in size-that would be the connection. I think Hurley's original plan is a 8-man rotation, but it would not surprise me to see Koroma play some spot minutes if there is a foul trouble emergency.

Good call. He got in for garbage time. Who'd have expected garbage time minutes against St. John's?

 

[gsmooth]

Good call. He got in for garbage time. Who'd have expected garbage time minutes against St. John's?

LOL. Never in my wildest dreams I would've thought the result would be UConn demolishing St. John's like that.

 

[RuffRuff]

We didn't really miss Stew much last night. Starters got a ton of minutes last night in that blowout, Ross with the only bench piece to get more than 7 minutes at 17.

 

[Jaydumo20]

We didn't really miss Stew much last night. Starters got a ton of minutes last night in that blowout, Ross with the only bench piece to get more than 7 minutes at 17.

True. we cant treat his absence as a factor though. That's specious reasoning.

It is obvious, with AK's whole career as testament, that when the team is in sync everybody's game is elevated. It's not a coincidence that Malachi, AK, Solo, Ross and Silas had great games last night. We are a system team. So likelihood is that Stew will start having great games as this great team play continues.
His best game was arguably the Marquette BET game with the '24 team. Go figure

 

[slepers]

We didn't really miss Stew much last night. Starters got a ton of minutes last night in that blowout, Ross with the only bench piece to get more than 7 minutes at 17.

I know Malachi is short but you should still be able to see him!

 

[UCTitleTown]

I think Millender has a better handle than Smith.

 

[aboogieee]

 

[RashadRay11]

Hope J Stew gets well soon. We can use his defense and rebounding and spark plug shooting off the bench

 

[Bryant]

Some thoughts are best left in your head. Without real information you are speculating and it is not fair to Jaylin.

 

[sdglast]

I suspected he would be out today....My guess is they are hoping that by holding him out Wednesday and today, he gets nearly 2 weeks of rest before Marquette game. Frankly, they could hold him out of that game too if need be ahead of the Big East Tournament. Hope he makes a good recovery.

 

[gsmooth]

I suspected he would be out today....My guess is they are hoping that by holding him out Wednesday and today, he gets nearly 2 weeks of rest before Marquette game. Frankly, they could hold him out of that game too if need be ahead of the Big East Tournament. Hope he makes a good recovery.

That's what I think is the case. It's better he gets as close to full recovery than have him play today and aggravate the knee injury.

 

[Lafayette]

Truly hoping his knee is better for BET.

 

[Kitaman]

How can a swollen knee be minor?

 

[I Bleed Blue]

Hope Stew is good for the BET. He can rest through the Marquette game

 

[aceboon]

 

[3rdbass]

Good we need him as an extra plus physical defender who can contribute a little and give Alex a blow from time to time.

 

[3rdbass]

I think Millender has a better handle than Smith.

That is a realy hot take. Smith might be a bad offensive player overall but he does have a good handle.

 

[Lafayette]

How can a swollen knee be minor?

Depends what's causing it. You can have a bone bruise on your patella or high tibia\fibula or low femur. You can have ligaments inflamed. Then there is tendonitis of the IT band there too. Lots of reasons a knee can be swollen. Best is just ice and some ipuprofen but then no steroid treatment of the knee since NSAIDs as non-sterioid anti-inflammatories don't mix well with steroid based anti-inflamattories like corticosteroids