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Our guard depth looks really good now. Diarra and Joey as your 5th and 6th guards is fantastic and about as good as you can wish for in today’s portal world. Probably going to bring in a forward of some capacity for the last scholarship (assuming the 13th is saved for Castle or whoever wants a mid year reclass)
 
where does staff go with the last spot they want to fill this summer? IMO it's gotta be a SF since theyre assuredly keeping the 13th scholly open for castle and we have a glut of bigs that will be killing each other for PT as is.
 
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This team is going to be REALLY good. Dan Hurley’s best yet. With all this versatility the answer as to whether he’s the man that can coach us to the promise land one day will be answered this season. So much versatility
 
where does staff go with the last spot they want to fill this summer? IMO it's gotta be a SF since theyre assuredly keeping the 13th scholly open for castle and we have a glut of PFs that will be killing each other for PT as is.
My guess is a veteran forward who plays the 4 and maybe a little 5 if needed. Karaban and Johnson are both super green so it would be good for them to have a veteran guy to go against them in practice. Also if doomsday happens and Sanogo goes down, we cannot be running Clingan out there for 25MPG. We need more depth up front
 
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He looks like he has some skills. I don’t know enough about the San Diego roster to know why he only scored 8ppg.
Former St. john's role player Marcellus Earlington (the original bowling ball before Addae-Wusu) was their offenses focal point. And he's not very good, so read into that as you will.

Looking at Calcaterra's stats, I'm horrified by how many "2pt Js" San Diego took. Like everybody. It's so bizarre. They had 6 guys with over 40% of their shots coming on 2pt Js. Only Sanogo was at that level for us (his hooks usually count as that for stats purposes). They only had 2 guys take >40% of their shots from 3 (Calcaterra was one, right at 41%). We had 5. They were just about last in the country in 3PA, but also didn't give up very many. They played a "nobody shoots 3s" style.

As an individual, Calcaterra's ON/OFF defensive numbers are atrocious, so I wouldn't expect him to help us on that side of the ball at all. He gets to the rim about as often as Polley used to and he basically never draws any fouls. Spot up shooter statistical profile, and I expect him to shoot about 37% from 3 (I expect Hurley to cut out any long 2s from his game). That's roughly his career numbers and what he shot in non-conf last year, but he had a big slump in conference play. He's going to be pretty deep towards the bottom of the rotation, I think.
 
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My guess is a veteran forward who plays the 4 and maybe a little 5 if needed.
then you can probably kiss johnson goodbye next summer. i really dont care about a sanogo backup. we have several and if our best player goes down the season is over regardless. it's not worth alienating several other players for a break glass in case of emergency backup that will further squeeze samson and springs for PT.
 
This one came out of left field. I don't remember seeing anything about him. Or maybe I just missed it.
 
Our team doesn't need a transformational shooter.. We now have some very good shooters. Can he give us 12-15 minutes a game as a two way player in Dan Hurley's system? I think so. Will he be a good teammate? I think so. Will he make our guards/wings better in practice? I think so.. A win/win for us and him..
 
then you can probably kiss johnson goodbye next summer. i really dont care about a sanogo backup. we have several and if our best player goes down the season is over regardless. it's not worth alienating several other players for a break glass in case of emergency backup that will further squeeze samson and springs for PT.

Intentionally going into a season with only 10 scholarship players out of fear of alienating the existing bench would be idiotic. We're trying to get to a final four, being aggressive is necessary, this isn't a CYO league.
 
“I felt like UConn was the best fit for my game coming into this last year,” he said. “It’s a historic, winning program that has established itself on the highest level. Coach [Dan] Hurley and his staff really sold me on it. I felt like it was a place where I could help an already great team and come in and help them even more.”


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UConn men’s basketball team lands another guard as Joey Calcaterra transfers in from University of San Diego

 
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We've brought in some good solid three point shooters but they are pretty brutal on 2% fg's across the board.

Not worried about Newton but the other guys clearly haven't been finishers in their careers.
 
Intentionally going into a season with only 10 scholarship players out of fear of alienating the existing bench would be idiotic. We're trying to get to a final four, being aggressive is necessary, this isn't a CYO league.
what are you talking about? we have 11 already and i said we should add a SF not a big since we will be playing a 4 out...never said we should stay at 10...try to read the posts before calling something idiotic.
 
I mean I’m sure he will technically be on the court at some point, but no chance he is playing meaningful minutes without injuries.

This guy isn't coming out of the Southland conference. He was a 25+mpg guy the last three years in a top-10 league, and he can shoot and score. He's going to play real minutes. Not 20mpg, but he's going to be a rotation guy, especially if Hurley is going to play 3-4 guards all the time.
 
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Experience. Welcome Joey! Earn those minutes bud!

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then you can probably kiss johnson goodbye next summer. i really dont care about a sanogo backup. we have several and if our best player goes down the season is over regardless. it's not worth alienating several other players for a break glass in case of emergency backup that will further squeeze samson and springs for PT.
Why? If Johnson wants to be a starter here, then he should have to expect to compete for the starting role. You don’t get handed started positions at UConn by sticking around (ask Richie Springs). He hasn’t earned anything yet. Depth is necessary because injuries do happen, and guys need to practice against other good players to get better
 
“I felt like UConn was the best fit for my game coming into this last year,” he said. “It’s a historic, winning program that has established itself on the highest level. Coach [Dan] Hurley and his staff really sold me on it. I felt like it was a place where I could help an already great team and come in and help them even more.”


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UConn men’s basketball team lands another guard as Joey Calcaterra transfers in from University of San Diego

Better quote than Castle...
 
A solid fill plus maybe the coolest sounding and flowing name on the team.
 
Why? If Johnson wants to be a starter here, then he should have to expect to compete for the starting role.
because bigs take more time to develop and johnson is still very raw by all accounts. i dont want to bring in a 3rd string PF/C to take PT from samson when it looks like he might only average ~10 mpg this year as is. i dont want him to bloom into a future pro on another team. just look at a traditional depth chart. i realize we have positional versatility but if we predominantly play a 4 out w/ AJ at the 4 then we could use depth at SF more than PF/C.

Newton - Diarra
Alleyne - Calcaterra
Hawkins - ???
Jackson - Karaban - Johnson
Sanoogo - Clingan - Springs
 
because bigs take more time to develop and johnson is still very raw by all accounts. i dont want to bring in a 3rd string PF to take 5 mpg from samson when it looks like he might only average ~10 mpg this year as is. i dont want him to bloom into a future pro on another team. just look at a traditional depth chart. i realize we have positional versatility but if we predominantly play a 4 out w/ AJ at the 4 then we could use depth at SF more than PF/C.

Newton - Diarra
Alleyne - Calcaterra
Hawkins - ???
Jackson - Karaban - Johnson
Sanoogo - Clingan - Springs

If Johnson is good, Jackson isn't starting at the 4
 
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