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Joel Ntambwe (UNLV Transfer)

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Kenny11 said:
As long as we don’t get decimated by injuries we will win 20 games. 20 games really isn’t that much and we should have won 20 games this season. We will be better.
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I wouldn't call it easy. Most teams don't do it.

Let's see our schedule, first. Let's see who is on our team. 20 games is doable, but not nearly so easy when you're losing your leading scorer and maybe your second leading scorer.
 
tzznandrew said:
I wouldn't call it easy. Most teams don't do it.

Let's see our schedule, first. Let's see who is on our team. 20 games is doable, but not nearly so easy when you're losing your leading scorer and maybe your second leading scorer.
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Yeah we don't even know who's going to be on the team
 
JMick said:
Yeah we don't even know who's going to be on the team
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Our fans are so used to success they think you can fart out a 20 win season. Hell, we haven't had a winning season in 3 years! Calhoun didn't even win 20 games every year, even after winning multiple titles and having rosters full of Top 100 talent.

Fans would crucify him for the 1997 and 2007 seasons now. They didn't much like it then (and I remember the latter), but there was a sense that the kids would be alright. And they were.
 
tzznandrew said:
Let's see our schedule, first. Let's see who is on our team. 20 games is doable, but not nearly so easy when you're losing your leading scorer and maybe your second leading scorer.
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JMick said:
Yeah we don't even know who's going to be on the team
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And top to bottom, the league will probably be stronger next year.
 
I expect us to have a better yr next yr. 20 wins is my goal. We don't know roster construction yet. But thats what Hurley gets paid the big bucks to figure out
 
AfgHusky15 said:
I don’t know about that. Attendance increased from last year. We do have one of the more rabid fan bases in the entire country, but 3 straight years of being sub.500 can deflate any fan bases’ energy
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The fan base was once very rabid and we even got into the top 25 in average attendance for some seasons in the 90's, but lately not so much. I haven't seen the numbers for this year, 18-19, but the numbers for the 17-18 season show UConn at about #60 in average attendance. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/2019/Attendance.pdf

Attendance increased from 7829 per game in 17-18 to about 8600 per game in 18-19. For some comparisons, Providence averaged 9547, URI 6216, and Creighton about 17,000 in 17-18. Who would ever believe the 4 time national champions would average about 1700 less than PU and only about 1600 more than URI?

UConn at #60 in 17-18 was bad enough, but this year's tribute to Ray Allen had to be embarrassing for Ray when only a little over 9,000 turned out to see his jersey retired.
 
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If his family is in Connecticut then he can get a waver to play next year on a hardship. Heck they are all doing it, plus his coach that recruited him was fired.
Of course the NCAA hates UConn so probably not going to get a waver like every other school has so far.
 
4xChamps said:
Lmao this guy is trying to decide where to spend the next 4 years of his life. Maybe we can give him more than just a weekend to think about it?
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That’s not how recruiting works - true maybe more than a weekend but days not weeks.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Next year is critical. Our fickle fan base is dwindling by the minute. It can’t really take another bad year. I’m sure Hurley has a handle on the scholarship situation
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To be fair the “fickle” fan base just got hit with a $400 seat donation at both XL and Gampel or $800 combined for one season.
 
Pgh2Storrs said:
The climb is frustrating but, outside of the lunatic fringe, I think most can see that we have the right coach and a staff with a plan. Winning next year would be great for our collective sanity, but I don’t think anyone is jumping ship. We’ll get there.
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You know that and I know that. The dedicated fans, sure. But there are casual fans out there who expected 20 wins last year (and without injuries we might have had it). It was disappointing to the casual fan.

This team needs an NCAA bid or deep NIT run. I think they will manage it. The talent was there for an NIT run last year. Marshall took a Wichita State team with less talent than we had to the NIT final four. They changed dramatically over the season.
 
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Would give us an extremely long team in two years with bouknight, Sid Wilson, Akok, polley, and a 5 star center!
 
Chief00 said:
That’s not how recruiting works - true maybe more than a weekend but days not weeks.
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I agree that's not how it works for a typical high school recruit, but it's a little different for a transfer. Coming out of high school, coaches spend years going to these kid's games and building a relationship prior to the visit. Because of that, if all goes well on the visit the kid should feel confident in committing.

For a transfer it's different, especially for a kid like this where he is mainly transferring due to the coach being fired, which happened like 2 weeks ago. He'd be silly to not do his due diligence and make sure that he is making the right decision. And even if he is 100% sure it's uconn, as others have mentioned he probably still feels as if he needs to properly alert UNLV. Heck, as of like 3 days ago most UNLV insiders thought he was coming back to school.
 
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Polley served a purpose he was a shooter who drew forwards away from the basket and opened up lanes, problem was that he wasn’t really serviceable at anything else. His biggest deficiency is toughness. You’d have to to think Calhoun would have taken a VERY different approach with him than Hurley. I wonder if that approach would be more effective.
 
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Chief00 said:
Ntambwe.
Kuminga, I believe is 2021.
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maybe if Kuminga wants to play with his brother sooner he'll take the extra classes/ meet the requirements necessary to reclassify to 2020. (wishful thinking)
 
UcannUconn said:
Polley served a purpose he was a shooter who drew forwards away from the basket and opened up lanes, problem was that he wasn’t really serviceable at anything else. His biggest deficiency is toughness. You’d have to to think Calhoun would have taken a VERY different approach with him than Hurley. I wonder if that approach would be more effective.
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To follow up, on average it took Polley this year over 11.7 minutes to grab a single rebound. That is a stunning number for someone of his height who guards 4s. You would think you would get more defensive rebounds than that just by standing there and barely trying.
 
goskis2018 said:
Are these guys actually brothers? Why do they have different last names
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They are.

Sometimes African kids will use their first name as a last name, and pick up an Anglicized name.

Also might just have different fathers.
 
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