Jessie Govan

[Calhoun's Court]

Wings Academy sounds like a perfect place for UCONN to recruit

 

[CTBasketball]

Diallo or Govan?

Diallo is far better, but he plays more of a PF/SF type role. Strong guy with bounce and can rebound and dunk well. Govan is more of a center who has solid fundamentals.

 

[tcf15]

Jerry Meyer with the crystal ball pick to UConn.

 

[husky99]

Diallo is far better, but he plays more of a PF/SF type role. Strong guy with bounce and can rebound and dunk well. Govan is more of a center who has solid fundamentals.

Diallo is far better, but he plays more of a PF/SF type role. Strong guy with bounce and can rebound and dunk well. Govan is more of a center who has solid fundamentals.

Very different player's

 

[Brochacho]

Diallo or Govan?

The one that says yes first.

 

[jleves]

Diallo or Govan?

Diallo is far better, but he plays more of a PF/SF type role. Strong guy with bounce and can rebound and dunk well. Govan is more of a center who has solid fundamentals.

Are we more in need of a PF than a center for the next 2 or 3 years?

Better yet - why not both?

 

[tzznandrew]

Are we more in need of a PF than a center for the next 2 or 3 years?

Better yet - why not both?

Agreed. Let's get greedy.

 

[GemParty]

Jerry Meyer with the crystal ball pick to UConn.

Curious, when did Meyer, make his pick- UConn.

 

[Dynasty]

Curious, when did Meyer, make his pick- UConn.

Today, though there is someone who made a UConn pick all the way back in November.

 

[HuskyInfinity]

Choosing between the two, who's the better option for a big man, chance comanche or govan?

 

[husky99]

Choosing between the two, who's the better option for a big man, chance comanche or govan?

I would take either or both..

 

[SixRings]

Choosing between the two, who's the better option for a big man, chance comanche or govan?

We need girth. Govan.
But it probably doesn't matter because Govan is a 2015 recruit and Ollie is leaving for the NBA later this week.

 

[OkaForPrez]

Govan might be at the SMU game on Sunday.

http://zagsblog.com/recruiting/st-johns-success-impressing-recruits/

247 timeline has the unofficial on Sunday as well. I'm not sure if that is in response to Zags or not but its a 2nd source. Also according to that timeline this is Jessie's 3rd unofficial visit to uconn. We were among the first to offer him along with Arizona back in June of 13.

 

[tcf15]

Looks like he'll be there today

Jessie Govan‏@JGovan15
Omw to UConn

 

[Chief00]

Quite frankly, I like that he doesn't over complicate the game - and likes the paint area. From a coaches perspective that what you want in a Big.

 

[3uconn]

Looks like he'll be there today

Jessie Govan‏@JGovan15
Omw to UConn

Also it looks like his AAU teammate will be at the game as well:

@NYLightning1: Ny Lightning player Elijah pemberton 2015 will be at uconn against SMU game today uconn showing high interest"

He looks to be a combo guard from a quick google search.

 

[3uconn]

And some more players:
@NYLightning1: Ny lightning players Matt turner, Shawn Coles, and Devin marsh will be at uconn against SMU

Matt Turner looks to be a combo guard. Shawn Coles big freshman center. Devin Marsh plays for East Hartford. I've seen him play once this year and possibly again next week as well. I thought he was better than Kahari when I saw them. He's a wing. SF or stretch PF.

Don't think any of these guys are going to be big targets at all.

 

[Danpisco12]

Also it looks like his AAU teammate will be at the game as well:

@NYLightning1: Ny Lightning player Elijah pemberton 2015 will be at uconn against SMU game today uconn showing high interest"

He looks to be a combo guard from a quick google search.

Pemberton goes to my old high school, Xavier in Middletown. I've seen him play a few times and he's a pretty good player.

 

[Matrim55]

Georgetown landed Noah Dickerson, a top-60 PF/C. He's 6-foot-8, 260 lbs.

This is good news for us, since 1) Georgetown is our main competition for Govan, and 2) Dickerson and Govan are similar in build and game.

 

[Scot-e]

Gtown (PE-TOOWEY!) was our main competition for Govan? Does his dad teach there or something? I think Zona-Kansas might have a better shot then Gtown (PE-TOOWEY!)- I did not even know they still played basketball.

 

[Husky1972]

Gtown (PE-TOOWEY!)- I did not even know they still played basketball.

Yeah, they're still playing.

You might have lost track of them cuz they are in a new conference. They also went to a lesser known tournament called the NIT. Which is understandable because they finished behind some perennial powerhouses that are in the new conference: Creighton, St. John's, & Providence where they came in 7th.

You can find them in the Big East. It's called that because the folks in charge wanted a name showing size and location, preferring Big East or Little East, or something like that. However, they were both taken. So, they thought they would buy out one of the names and decided on the "Big East", as bigger must mean better and because it was a very famous name. So they paid $120 mil thinking they got great value, but didn't realize that all the real perennial powerhouses had left, especially one with 3 National Championships and lots and lots of the league titles.

So, the name doesn't mean as much any more, and doesn't get the same notoriety as before, which is why you probably thought that they aren't playing anymore.

Trust me, they are. You just have to look for them. Which is another story about this famous sports network called the "Mother Ship" which is where the powerhouses still play, but they and their new conference are on this new network which can be a little hard to find, if anyone really wanted to. But, that's another story for another day.

 

[kyle]

Don't forget about their two tourney wins in the last seven years.

 

[upstater]

Thompson has got a lot of talent coming into DC. But he seems to lose as many recruits to transfers as he takes in.

 

[UConnNick]

Strangely, this kid reminds me a lot of a 7 foot player whose name was Lake, I believe. He played for the now defunct Laurel Crest Academy in Bristol back in the late 1960's. You almost never saw 7 footers playing BB back in those days at the HS level. This kid was a legit 7 feet, and probably a ringer because he appeared as mysteriously as he departed. I think he may have only played for one or maybe two seasons at most. He was their version of Nadav Henefeld.

He was a fairly decent player, nothing special, but had pretty good fundamentals. He was slower than molasses, but hey, a 7 foot kid on a HS BB team in the late 60's meant nobody could guard him.

During his senior year, Laurel Crest did something they had never done in their history. They scheduled the local Bristol high schools, and I'm pretty sure they beat Eastern, Central and St. Paul's with the big guy. The games were fairly competitive, as I recall, but they won 'em all. They finally had their lone season in the sun vs. the townies.

Laurel Crest went belly up a few years later.

 

[RMoore1999]

Strangely, this kid reminds me a lot of a 7 foot player whose name was Lake, I believe. He played for the now defunct Laurel Crest Academy in Bristol back in the late 1960's. You almost never saw 7 footers playing BB back in those days at the HS level. This kid was a legit 7 feet, and probably a ringer because he appeared as mysteriously as he departed. I think he may have only played for one or maybe two seasons at most. He was their version of Nadav Henefeld.

He was a fairly decent player, nothing special, but had pretty good fundamentals. He was slower than molasses, but hey, a 7 foot kid on a HS BB team in the late 60's meant nobody could guard him.

During his senior year, Laurel Crest did something they had never done in their history. They scheduled the local Bristol high schools, and I'm pretty sure they beat Eastern, Central and St. Paul's with the big guy. The games were fairly competitive, as I recall, but they won 'em all. They finally had their lone season in the sun vs. the townies.

Laurel Crest went belly up a few years later.