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Kwintin Williams Commits to UConn!

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RichZ said:
Am I remembering wrong, or didn't Williams come into the program after finished a stint in the air force?
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You are correct, sir. Hence the advanced age. But as good a guy as he was, his recruitment was't exactly a sign of a healthy program.
 
I only mentioned his age because I thought it was relevant and we would want to know as much about our new recruit as possible. Wouldn't have posted it if I thought it would create this much controversy.

Anyways I view it as a good thing, nice having some grown men on the team. If he was 40 I could see the concern but we are getting a physically grown player who can jump out of the gym and getting him extremely late in the process. It should only he looked at as a positive.
 
Balker said:
I can't believe this kid is 23, turning 24 before the season starts. Is that what we're going with right now? Someone walk me through this timetable... here's what I've got so far:

- He was originally part of the class of 2014 leaving high school.
- He did a prep school year and was now part of the class of 2015.
- He goes to JUCO for one season
- Sits out one year to get grades up

Was he already 20 years old when he left high school the first time in AK?
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We're you worried about Henefeld's age?
 
Chief00 said:
I agree on the court, AJ was able to keep some of Jerome's bad habits in check and that's why Jerome did better with AJ than without him. Without AJ keeping JD under control - JD did not have a good relative track record - Would AJ been able to do that under the bright lights when Jerome wanted to be the star, we will never know.
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You understand that the big difference in that game was the lack of a UConn bench. When we had to sit guys with fouls the talent dropped off. I believe even Beverly saw minutes in that game . One more quality player and certainly Dyson was a quality player might have swung the balance in our favor.
As long as Dyson subjected himself to Prices leadership which he had done all year he was a terrific asset. His problem especially his disappointing senior year was a conflict for leadership between
he an Kemba. He saw himself in a role he lacked the skill set for.
Jerome was not the guy you want making key decisions especially at crunch time.
 
superjohn said:
I only mentioned his age because I thought it was relevant and we would want to know as much about our new recruit as possible. Wouldn't have posted it if I thought it would create this much controversy.

Anyways I view it as a good thing, nice having some grown men on the team. If he was 40 I could see the concern but we are getting a physically grown player who can jump out of the gym and getting him extremely late in the process. It should only he looked at as a positive.
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No doubt the fact he's older can only be a positive in my opinion. He's physically more mature and more life experienced.
 
He's going to be a hit with the freshmen girls on campus. Girls love older guys and they'll have one in their own grade. Win-win.
 
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Welcome again to the Dog Pound, Kwintin!!! :cool:

I'm still recovering from the fact that somebody had the gall to call @huskymedic a nitwit. The dude brings more value to each single Boneyard sports forum than most everyone else brings combined. Unbelievable...
 
UConnDan97 said:
Welcome again to the Dog Pound, Kwintin!!! :cool:

I'm still recovering from the fact that somebody had the gall to call @huskymedic a nitwit. The dude brings more value to each single Boneyard sports forum than most everyone else brings combined. Unbelievable...
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You ought to hear what my wife calls me after 32 years... no harm, no foul.
 
Olliewood216 said:
I tried just to put this thread out of its misery , looks like the BY is already autocorrecting to Kwintin
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Doesn't work that way.
I tried it with Sid Wilson and the guy who chose Auburn (I don't even remember his name, but I thought of Bruce Pearl when I saw the Huskies assembled for a cookout).
If a recruit doesn't chose UConn, then guys want to post about how things suck.
And here, when the recruit chooses UConn, some want to keep litigating the matter of Dyson.
People are determined to get their money's worth here.
 
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AZHuskiePop said:
You understand that the big difference in that game was the lack of a UConn bench. When we had to sit guys with fouls the talent dropped off. I believe even Beverly saw minutes in that game . One more quality player and certainly Dyson was a quality player might have swung the balance in our favor.
As long as Dyson subjected himself to Prices leadership which he had done all year he was a terrific asset. His problem especially his disappointing senior year was a conflict for leadership between
he an Kemba. He saw himself in a role he lacked the skill set for.
Jerome was not the guy you want making key decisions especially at crunch time.
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Not much to argue here. AJ was really smart and knew how to handle guys and their stubbornness/egos - Jerome would have put that to the test under the bright tournament lights and Stanley's production would have dramatically fallen off due to the Jerome dynamic I have hinted at without getting into details.
 
UConnNick said:
Dyson scored 14 points vs. San Diego in the first round NCAA game during his sophomore year, which was a little above his 12.5 ppg scoring average for the entire season. We lost that game by one point in OT. It was clearly a team loss, and certainly not a game where you could point to Dyson as the primary reason for the L. Then you cherry pick one bad game vs USF (actually, it was against St. John's in the BET) a season later, in which he had nine turnovers, as a predictor of how he would have played against Michigan State a year before that? That also wasn't the last game of his career, as he played in two NIT games afterward, a win over Northeastern in which he was the game high scorer with 18 points, and a loss to VA Tech on the road, in which he scored 15 points. By your logic, I could cherry pick his career high 32 point performance vs. No. 1 Texas during his senior year as the reason he would have led us to the national championship in 2009. That's just as dumb as your logic.

In three postseason tournament games, 1 NCAA and 2 NIT, the guy averaged almost 16 ppg, which was slightly more than his overall career average at UConn of 14.4 ppg. I think you need to look elsewhere for evidence that he wouldn't likely have contributed vs. Michigan State.
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What I get out of your post is it's all about the NIT - since 1991 UConn MBB goal has been about winning games in the NCAA tournament after winning the conference. Even with your NIT focus, Jerome split two games there and lost his only NCAA game. Sorry, that's not what we aspire to.
 
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MSGSeven said:
That team had one loss on the year with Dyson Chief and absolutely smoked Louisville in Louisville in one of the greatest regular season games ever played by a UConn team. Bottomline they were a better team with Dyson the proof is in the record.
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If he was so great he would have won at least one NCAA tournament game in 4 years.
 
superjohn said:
He is 22, will turn 23 at the end of next month. Your post is stupid.
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Very helpful! You really bring a lot of fun to the UConn community!

If I understand correctly, what you're saying is, we don't know why he'll be 23, instead of the 21 or 22 that we would expect? Given what we do know is that there was one post grad year, one year playing JUCO, and one year fixing his grades at JUCO, he should be either 20 or 21 under "normal" circumstances. So he either turned 20 the year after graduating high school, or there are one or more years unaccounted for after high school.

Was he in prison for a year? Did he get held back twice? This wasn't intended as an indictment of his ability to play basketball at the age of 22. I'm sure that's a terrific age for basketball playing! It was, though, a legitimate inquiry regarding any knowledge other posters on these lovely forums might have of this guy's whereabouts for the 4 years that have elapsed since he would have normally been playing college basketball and now.
 
MSGSeven said:
That team had one loss on the year with Dyson Chief and absolutely smoked Louisville in Louisville in one of the greatest regular season games ever played by a UConn team. Bottomline they were a better team with Dyson the proof is in the record.
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The '09 team was better with Dyson in support, however the '10 team with Dyson the leader was not good & vs St.Johns in BE tourney Dyson was a complete disaster.
 
Balker said:
Was he in prison for a year? Did he get held back twice? This wasn't intended as an indictment of his ability to play basketball at the age of 22. I'm sure that's a terrific age for basketball playing! It was, though, a legitimate inquiry regarding any knowledge other posters on these lovely forums might have of this guy's whereabouts for the 4 years that have elapsed since he would have normally been playing college basketball and now.
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I heard he was abducted by aliens and experimented on.....thus his abnormal jumping ability.
 
I am a little worry that he is spending the rest of the summer trying to get his vertical to 48inches. His should ben reporting to storrs for basketball skills instead. He is obvious obsessed with lenght. You need to be smooth also
 
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Balker said:
Very helpful! You really bring a lot of fun to the UConn community!

If I understand correctly, what you're saying is, we don't know why he'll be 23, instead of the 21 or 22 that we would expect? Given what we do know is that there was one post grad year, one year playing JUCO, and one year fixing his grades at JUCO, he should be either 20 or 21 under "normal" circumstances. So he either turned 20 the year after graduating high school, or there are one or more years unaccounted for after high school.

Was he in prison for a year? Did he get held back twice? This wasn't intended as an indictment of his ability to play basketball at the age of 22. I'm sure that's a terrific age for basketball playing! It was, though, a legitimate inquiry regarding any knowledge other posters on these lovely forums might have of this guy's whereabouts for the 4 years that have elapsed since he would have normally been playing college basketball and now.
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It was said a bunch of times in the thread he is 22 and will be 23 before the season starts, so you post he's 23 and will be 24 before the season starts. Now you are asking if he was in prison for a year.

Seriously, wtf is wrong with you?
 
huskymedic said:
You ought to hear what my wife calls me after 32 years... no harm, no foul.
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That's because you no longer bring an
Chief00 said:
Not much to argue here. AJ was really smart and knew how to handle guys and their stubbornness/egos - Jerome would have put that to the test under the bright tournament lights and Stanley's production would have dramatically fallen off due to the Jerome dynamic I have hinted at without getting into details.
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I got no dog in the fight, but despite AJP's early career 'dalliance', that was kid whom dudes lined up to follow.
 
Whtdmd said:
I am a little worry that he is spending the rest of the summer trying to get his vertical to 48inches. His should ben reporting to storrs for basketball skills instead. He is obvious obsessed with lenght. You need to be smooth also
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He's going to be in storrs so I wouldn't sweat it

Let jump man jump.
 
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