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Might just have been the best decision of his life. Unless he falls completely off the depth chart or suffers a season ending injury, I don't think there's any question that he will have the opportunity to make a good living for the next 8 to 12 years playing overseas. There's no way that was going to happen off his 3 years at GW. But E J Harrison was a huge success in England for a dozen years off his single season as a senior walk-on at UConn, and R J Evans is playing professionally there now.

I guess he needs to change his middle name to John or something, and go by his initials the way his aforementioned predecessors did. Right now, he'd be L V Kromah. Think he needs the J.

But seriously, it's apparent that he's earned KO's trust, because he's vying with Giffey for the position of 1st non-big off the bench. Considering the sway KO has with some of his league contacts, who knows -- LV (LJ?) might even get a run in the Development League. If there's anyone who can get him ready for that, it's KO, who lived Continental League life a couple years before sticking in the bigs.
 
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His decision was very good for himself but as a greedy Husky fan, even better for the team this year. His addition won the Indiana game already with his D on Yogi when called upon..........there will be more!
 
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Am also very glad Lasan joined the team.

He went from being a major player at GW to filling in where & when needed on our team. In a way he kinda reminds me of Rash Jones in that respect.

When he's on the break, he just glides in for layups like few I've seen before - it would be too much of the stretch to call him Lasan "the Glide" Kromah, but the potential is there.

Will he play in the big league? I think he's on the outside looking in - excellent D and good offense, but his dribbling/handle is a little shaky.

He can play pro if he wants - but it will most likely be overseas for a decade and a bucketful of money...
 
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At 6'6 , with nice athletcism, his goal should be making an NBA roster.
 
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Am also very glad Lasan joined the team.

He went from being a major player at GW to filling in where & when needed on our team. In a way he kinda reminds me of Rash Jones in that respect.

When he's on the break, he just glides in for layups like few I've seen before - it would be too much of the stretch to call him Lasan "the Glide" Kromah, but the potential is there.

Will he play in the big league? I think he's on the outside looking in - excellent D and good offense, but his dribbling/handle is a little shaky.

He can play pro if he wants - but it will most likely be overseas for a decade and a bucketful of money...

Not as explosive as the junior version of Tony Robertson, but can't remember a kid who could drive and finish with "high %" layups as well since then.
 
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Glad to have him, Kromah is a nice complimentary player but the NBA? He doesn't even start at UConn so I'd say NBA is not in his future but there is no reason that he can't make a living playing in Europe. Exceptional pick up for us who may end up being a Lyman Depriest type stopper for us.
 
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The funny part of watching Kromah's game this year, having seen him play scores of times for GW over the prior four years, is the trust to make the right decisions -- offensively and defensively -- that this staff has in him. Because while he was always a superior A-Ten level athlete, let me assure you he was not so trusted at GW, not by Lonergan and not by Hobbs before that. But this staff clearly trusts him to make the right decisions at crunch time, at a level that they only trust Bazz, Daniels and maybe Nels more.

And, to his credit, from what I'm seeing LK has earned the trust because he is consistently making the correct small decisions on both ends of the court. Good for him.
 

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Speaking of the CBA, does anyone know what city the Connecticut Gold Coast Stars played out of? I was reading a little about them, I guess they were around for one season in the mid-70s but I couldn't find any info as to where on the coast they were actually based.
 

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The funny part of watching Kromah's game this year, having seen him play scores of times for GW over the prior four years, is the trust to make the right decisions -- offensively and defensively -- that this staff has in him. Because while he was always a superior A-Ten level athlete, let me assure you he was not so trusted at GW, not by Lonergan and not by Hobbs before that. But this staff clearly trusts him to make the right decisions at crunch time, at a level that they only trust Bazz, Daniels and maybe Nels more.

And, to his credit, from what I'm seeing LK has earned the trust because he is consistently making the correct small decisions on both ends of the court. Good for him.
Obviously watching games from my television I only get a limited number of observations how KO interacts with his players, but I would say that in my limited number of observations he is as tough on LK as on any player on the team. And I think the reason for this is there is no other player besides SN that KO expects to be a leader on the court.
 

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his decision is great for us too
 

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How do players like Lasan Kromah and RJ Evans impact our APR?

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How do players like Lasan Kromah and RJ Evans impact our APR?

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Interesting question. My guess is they will have no impact because they are grad students and already have a degree. The degree and degree work would be credited to the undergrad university; but I really have no idea beyond that.
 

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How do players like Lasan Kromah and RJ Evans impact our APR?

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Negatively at UConn - a wash anywhere else.
 
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