Kwintin Williams Commits to UConn!

[UCweCONN]

Sam Had basketball skill but lacked the athletism to play at our level.
This kid is minimally a very good athlete whose basketball skills are in question. We will soon see.
Unless your point is about incompletness the comparison doesn't appear to be fair.

My comment was concerning his age when starting his UCONN career, not a comparison between the two as athletes..... This guy can touch ceiling tiles in the Gampel roof while Cassell couldn't clear two stacked tiles lying flat on the floor.

 

[Huskybass]

Why does everyone get excited over a juco transfer? The bar is set way too low.

First, it is some good news. Second, he is very athletic. Not sure we need more than that to be excited to some degree.

 

[the Q]

Total rebounding was a push (42-42) and while State had 18 offensive rebounds, we also added 16.

Just seems like a really odd thing to remember a former National Defensive POY and Big East POY and then a 4 year player who made multiple All Big East teams (1st and 3rd) over a lost Final 4 game.

to be fair, it was their only FF (they got cheated out of one run when Price got hurt the year before, never know what that team could've done healthy...even though that joke of a goal tend ended up costing them the game in regulation), and it was as a heavy favorite.

 

[NowInStorrs]

Jessica Moore?
The men on the other hand...
...went to the Great Alaska Shootout in '95.

Maybe this can be a nice boost then if we can establish an Alaskan pipeline for recruits.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

to be fair, it was their only FF (they got cheated out of one run when Price got hurt the year before, never know what that team could've done healthy...even though that joke of a goal tend ended up costing them the game in regulation), and it was as a heavy favorite.

Yeah, but considering as a program we've only made 5 in our history, I think it would hold a bit more weight.

It's true that squad came up short in the Big East Championship. Hell I was at school from 05-09 and I think we won 1 game in NY during that time (maybe 0 actually), but that 2009 team for my money is the best UConn team since the 2004 squad.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Jessica Moore? The men on the other hand... ...went to the Great Alaska Shootout in '95.

Wrong board obviously and only referrring to men's UConn Huskies basketball, not to the girls' or ladies' teams. Any Alaskan past UConn Huskies men's team hoopsters, or is Williams a first in Storrs?

 

[Waquoit]

You sound like the kind of person who trashes the free continental breakfast because you think you're omelette-worthy. But you aren't.

Is that where we are as a program now? Non omlette-worthy?

 

[Vancat]

Not being a member of The Boneyard is not my definition of Casual Fan. It is not meant to be a divisive term - it's an affectionate term. I have never been critical of casual fans and I have always welcomed them. While I don't think coed First Night is in the best interest of the team, I have never criticized the casual fan for enjoying the festivities.

I try to like you. I really do. But then you have to burp up one or more of those half dozen distasteful phrases you insist on repeating all the time.

 

[RipCity]

It's insane that people still reply to this guy.

 

[Leebo]

He will be 23 by the time he steps on the court for us. He was a basketball vagabond who probably once thought he would never lace them up for a D1 school but he certainly seems to have matured and has stuck with it.

Do you have a link for his age?

 

[pj]

Is that where we are as a program now? Non omlette-worthy?

We've been starved of omelettes so long we're looking forward to cheese danish and croissants (hoping for chocolate chips inside).

 

[Stinger92860]

Do you have a link for his age?

www.ssa.gov

 

[pj]

www.ssa.gov

www.pullfrom.ass

 

[NowInStorrs]

We've been starved of omelettes so long we're looking forward to cheese danish and croissants (hoping for chocolate chips inside).

I hate to break this to you cheese danishes are a god tier breakfast item.

 

[Storrsbred]

To answer your specifically worded question, it is yes. Jessica Moore. No one on the men's team, however, that I can recall.

Don't think anyone's asked, so has a player from Alaska ever played for our UConn Huskies?

 

[UConnNick]

To answer your specifically worded question, it is yes. Jessica Moore. No one on the men's team, however, that I can recall.

QUOTE="Da_Aisijimo_Gou, post: 2256766, member: 264"]Don't think anyone's asked, so has a player from Alaska ever played for our UConn Huskies?

Jessica was tougher than some of our ghostly, stick figure big men have been over the past few seasons.

 

[the Q]

Yeah, but considering as a program we've only made 5 in our history, I think it would hold a bit more weight.

It's true that squad came up short in the Big East Championship. Hell I was at school from 05-09 and I think we won 1 game in NY during that time (maybe 0 actually), but that 2009 team for my money is the best UConn team since the 2004 squad.

Maybe if we hadn't lost to a clearly inferior team because of the place we were supposed to have the biggest edge.

No chance it was better than the 06 team. The 06 team is probabaly the most talented team of the decade period. Forget just uconn.

Admittedly part of it is that this closed the 2nd half of the 2000s that were full of underachievers.

 

[Chief00]

Stop trying to make "casual fan" happen, Chief...

Without the casual fan, Dave Benedict would have even greater revenue issues, especially in football. Keep coming to the games!

 

[intlzncster]

Someone I respect maintained that football might have been his biggest upside sport.

I believe it. He was a bigger Cam Newton before there was Cam Newton. Apparently could sling it like 80 yards. 6'7 220 QB. Or if he didn't pan out behind center, and absolute stud TE. Run, Jump, Catch.

Burrell was such a tremendous athlete, he was one of those guys you wish you could have seen pan out in all 3 of his respective sports. Would he have made the Majors? Would he have been productive in the NFL? I'd love to be able to know.

 

[uconn34]

I would take Miley Cyrus at this point if she could get 5 rebounds a game. I am betting that this kid can not hit the side of a barn 10 feet out but he will bring some sorely needed excitement to this team.

 

[uconn34]

Could be the male version of Gabby Williams. Great athlete who becomes a great player.

 

[intlzncster]

Seems like he had a strategy of volleying the ball to himself until he could get it in the hoop. That only works in the California Penal League, won't work even in the American.
-He looks like he's on a friggen pogo stick! He's not just got the jumping abilities, but he is super quick off his feet.

If you are quick enough up and down, have some strength and good enough positioning, it totally works. Dennis Rodman used to be a master at this, at the NBA level.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

So he went to high school(18). Did a prep year(19) played a JUCO year(20) transferred and sat (21). He'll be 21 unless he has a really early bday or was retained in school then he would be 22.

 

[intlzncster]

So he went to high school(18). Did a prep year(19) played a JUCO year(20) transferred and sat (21). He'll be 21 unless he has a really early bday or was retained in school then he would be 22.

Wish he was 25. We could use some actual full grown men up front. To compete with the likes of Kansas.

 

[UConnNick]

I believe it. He was a bigger Cam Newton before there was Cam Newton. Apparently could sling it like 80 yards. 6'7 220 QB. Or if he didn't pan out behind center, and absolute stud TE. Run, Jump, Catch.

Burrell was such a tremendous athlete, he was one of those guys you wish you could have seen pan out in all 3 of his respective sports. Would he have made the Majors? Would he have been productive in the NFL? I'd love to be able to know.

During Scottie's freshman season, we played Villanova in an unusual, very early season conference game in mid-Dec. It might have been the first televised game of the season beyond CT, as it was likely on ESPN. To demonstrate what a freakishly great three sport athlete he was, they showed a black-and-white film clip of him throwing a pass in a Hamden HS football game. His team was at their own five yl. He threw the ball on the fly from his own end zone at least 70 or more yards. The receiver caught the ball and went out of bounds at about the other team's 15 yl.

 

[Chief00]

Don't believe this one KO phone call BS - this was all on Chil.

 

[MSGSeven]

Maybe if we hadn't lost to a clearly inferior team because of the place we were supposed to have the biggest edge.

No chance it was better than the 06 team. The 06 team is probabaly the most talented team of the decade period. Forget just UConn.

Admittedly part of it is that this closed the 2nd half of the 2000s that were full of underachievers.

The 06 team had one ball handler. Yes it was very talented but very flawed as well. The 09 team was right there with the 04 team until Dyson got hurt. After Dyson went down the 09 team might've actually overachieved but their road to the final four wasn't exactly Hacksaw Ridge.

 

[superjohn]

Do you have a link for his age?

No, you've just got to trust me.

 

[Chief00]

The 06 team had one ball handler. Yes it was very talented but very flawed as well. The 09 team was right there with the 04 team until Dyson got hurt. After Dyson went down the 09 team might've actually overachieved but their road to the final four wasn't exactly Hacksaw Ridge.

So the absence of a guy who never won an NCAA tournament game in 4 years, was the difference between the 2009 and 2004 team? The same guy who had a 9 turnover game the end of his senior year.
You must be joking! The 2004 team had the 2nd and 3rd pick in the NBA draft (Emeka and Ben). We had two lottery picks, I believe , coming off the bench (Charlie and Hilton) and another first round pick in Josh. Additionally, Talik, Denham and Shad were very good college players.

Jim has said many times 2004 was his most talented team!

 

[the Q]

The 06 team had one ball handler. Yes it was very talented but very flawed as well. The 09 team was right there with the 04 team until Dyson got hurt. After Dyson went down the 09 team might've actually overachieved but their road to the final four wasn't exactly Hacksaw Ridge.

I would argue the 09 team had Mostly the same issue. Kemba was an out of control frosh and Austrie was absolutely not a ball handler.

Beating missouris 40 minutes of hack defense with only price really is amazing.