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Let's talk Jaylin Stewart

I appreciate Stew for his confidence and loyalty, but I do hope he focuses on being the best 3nD player on the team, I think we have 4 guys easily ahead of him in the shot order and we need someone to play that role around them. I hope his loyalty pays off in a breakout season regardless though.
 
Huskyforlife said:
I appreciate Stew for his confidence and loyalty, but I do hope he focuses on being the best 3nD player on the team, I think we have 4 guys easily ahead of him in the shot order and we need someone to play that role around them. I hope his loyalty pays off in a breakout season regardless though.
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4 guys? Probably only 2 in Ball and Demary. I expect Stew to be the 3rd and sometimes 1st or 2nd if he picks up his offense. He has the skills. Who are you putting ahead Tarris. We know centers like him will get limited touches as he he can only score close to the basket and I don't like relying on a Fresman like Mullins. Just let him play his game and take open shots. I think Jaylin is probably the only player besides Demary and Smith who can penetrate so I hope to see more of this next year as we need that on offense.
 
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3rdbass said:
4 guys? Probably only 2 in Ball and Demary. I expect Stew to be the 3rd and sometimes 1st or 2nd if he picks up his offense. He has the skills. Who are you putting ahead Tarris. We know centers like him will get limited touches as he he can only score close to the basket and I don't like relying on a Fresman like Mullins. Just let him play his game and take open shots. I think Jaylin is probably the only player besides Demary and Smith who can penetrate so I hope to see more of this next year as we need that on offense.
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I guess it's debatable but you don't think Karaban will get more shots than Stewart? And you can also argue they need to feed Reed more this year.
 
HooperScooper said:
I guess it's debatable but you don't think Karaban will get more shots than Stewart? And you can also argue they need to feed Reed more this year.
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I forgot about Karaban but maybe him getting less shots is better. Just take open 3s. I rather have Stewart trying to penetrate and product offense than Karaban. If Karaban is our 4th option on offense I think that is a good thing. He really is the ultimate glue guy and not someone who should be a main scorer for us. Kind of like the 2 other championship teams.
 
I'm interested to see how the scoring is spread out this season. Will Alex be more efficient on less shots? If Solo improves , he's a near 20 ppg game kind of guy. Reed needs to get his. Jaylin saying he's going to be the guy. Wonder what it'll look like next year. Demary seems to be the one who's doing to dictate how things roll
 
3rdbass said:
I forgot about Karaban but maybe him getting less shots is better. Just take open 3s. I rather have Stewart trying to penetrate and product offense than Karaban. If Karaban is our 4th option on offense I think that is a good thing. He really is the ultimate glue guy and not someone who should be a main scorer for us. Kind of like the 2 other championship teams.
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Karaban is not going to be open 3's only 4th option guy. He struggled sometimes going to the basket last year, but he's very capable, and with more offense around him for the defense to worry about, he should have more success. Especially if he gets more consistent with that mid-lane floater he can pretty much get when he wants.
 
uconn_jack said:
Karaban is not going to be open 3's only 4th option guy. He struggled sometimes going to the basket last year, but he's very capable, and with more offense around him for the defense to worry about, he should have more success. Especially if he gets more consistent with that mid-lane floater he can pretty much get when he wants.
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I'm just saying he was more sucessful when he didn't have to create and could just score off 3 point shots and cuts. He is too slow to create much offense and doesn't have a post game. He is a glue guy and that is what I want to see him play. We have the talent so he doesn't have to worry about scoring much. 10 points would be good. He should be a who shoots open 3s, rebounds and play good interior D.
 
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3rdbass said:
I'm just saying he was more sucessful when he didn't have to create and could just score off 3 point shots and cuts. He is too slow to create much offense and doesn't have a post game. He is a glue guy and that is what I want to see him play. We have the talent so he doesn't have to worry about scoring much. 10 points would be good. He should be a 3 and D guy.
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I don't see him only scoring 10 ppg. He was at 9.3 ppg freshman year when he was by far the 4th or maybe even 5th option (I'll say 4th because he was a better scorer than Jackson). Then he was at 13.3 ppg sophomore year when he was the 4th or 5th option again and then 14.3 ppg this past season when he was one of the top 3 options but was much less efficient. I just don't see a 4 year starter, who I expect to be much more efficient this coming season, going back to 10 ppg after what he did his first 3 seasons. If it leads to the team being more efficient offensively and more wins then I'm all for it. But I just don't think it will happen. Put him down for 13-14 ppg.
 
HooperScooper said:
I don't see him only scoring 10 ppg. He was at 9.3 ppg freshman year when he was by far the 4th or maybe even 5th option (I'll say 4th because he was a better scorer than Jackson). Then he was at 13.3 ppg sophomore year when he was the 4th or 5th option again and then 14.3 ppg this past season when he was one of the top 3 options but was much less efficient. I just don't see a 4 year starter, who I expect to be much more efficient this coming season, going back to 10 ppg after what he did his first 3 seasons. If it leads to the team being more efficient offensively and more wins then I'm all for it. But I just don't think it will happen. Put him down for 13-14 ppg.
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I just prefer for him not to create offense as that isn't his strength. We will have other options to do it this year if Jaylin is aggressive, Demary and Smith.
 
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Our entire team leans more catch and shoot than dribble create/shoot.

Ball - likely working on his drive, mid-range, so he might be trying to emulate Ray Allen and become that.
Demary, Jr - splits stats show he is much more effective on catch and shoot - drives to the hoop were inconsistent.
Smith - more of a dribble creator
AK - right place, right time guy and point forward gets putbacks, bad switches with a 6'2" guard on him, etc. Catch and shoot 3 shooter.
Mullins - TBD
Furphy - TBD

Hopefully Stewart has been working hard in the off season to develop something in his arsenal.
 
3rdbass said:
4 guys? Probably only 2 in Ball and Demary. I expect Stew to be the 3rd and sometimes 1st or 2nd if he picks up his offense. He has the skills. Who are you putting ahead Tarris. We know centers like him will get limited touches as he he can only score close to the basket and I don't like relying on a Fresman like Mullins. Just let him play his game and take open shots. I think Jaylin is probably the only player besides Demary and Smith who can penetrate so I hope to see more of this next year as we need that on offense.
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Karaban and Reed are studs that shouldn't be taking back seats to Stewart. Those 4 are all conference level players, if not all american. We need Stew to fit in around them.
 
Huskyforlife said:
Karaban and Reed are studs that shouldn't be taking back seats to Stewart. Those 4 are all conference level players, if not all american. We need Stew to fit in around them.
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I was talking more about initiating offense. Stewart should be ahead of both in that part. Karaban is good glue guy and we should keep him that way. We saw last year when he had to initiate offense how awful he was. He is slow and can't dribble and is very predictable. I love Karaban but he is very Limited offensively. I do think Stewart has the skills to be better offensive threat than Karaban and I hope he shows it this year. Reed will score alot of points from others passing to him and offensive rebounds.
 
3rdbass said:
I was talking more about initiating offense. Stewart should be ahead of both in that part. Karaban is good glue guy and we should keep him that way. We saw last year when he had to initiate offense how awful he was. He is slow and can't dribble and is very predictable. I love Karaban but he is very Limited offensively. I do think Stewart has the skills to be better offensive threat than Karaban and I hope he shows it this year. Reed will score alot of points from others passing to him and offensive rebounds.
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That wasn’t the point in my original post, but okay.
 
uconnblueinky said:
Can you see Stewart being like a Daniel Hamilton kind of player?
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Absolutely not, stewart does not have a good handle. Hopefully that changes. Hamilton was a great passer. Would have played in nba for a long time if he did not leave early. apparently hated school
 
Huskyforlife said:
That wasn’t the point in my original post, but okay.
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It is when I think Stewart has chance to be bigger provider of offense than Karaban scoring. I think for our offense and team to have a chance to win it all Stewart is going to have to be a key contributor penetrating to the rim and scoring. We just can't rely on Demary to do that all the time. Maybe I'm a little too high on Stewart and he will just be a little better than this years version but that would be big disappointment for a player of his skillset. He has no McNeeley in front of him this year to stop his development so he has to step up and be one of the scoring leaders with Demary, Ball and Reed. I think we will be a very tough team to beat with Stewart able to score in multiple ways. Karaban has proven besides good cuts and shooting 3s he doesn't have consistent other ways to score.
 
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We don’t even know if Jaylin will be starting, so relying our offense on his ability to score in isolation or to initiate would be risky

Last year we had 2 guys that could just take the ball and try to get a bucket. Diarra (injured and playing out of role) and Liam (playing out of role)

Enter Silas Demary. An upperclassman double digit scoring PG from a high major program that hung 20+ points on 4 different tournament teams to end the season. Scoring is his job

I expect moderate improvement from Solo Ball. As the season went on, he became automatic in the midrange after getting run off the line. The next step is to finish closer to the hoop to give us another perimeter scorer

Also enter Tarris Reed. If the perimeter isn’t working, just drop it to him in the paint. He will go get a bucket. There were 7 games where he played 25+ minutes last year, and he averaged 17 PPG in those games. Last year we had no pressure release if the guards and forwards couldn’t make it work. Now we have a BE 1st team caliber C

Karaban can go back to his natural role closer to 2024. Braylon will be a shooter obviously. This leaves Stewart plugging the holes of whatever is missing. Some games it will be defense and rebounding, some games cutting and finishing, some games being a floor spacer
 
REB1094 said:
We don’t even know if Jaylin will be starting, so relying our offense on his ability to score in isolation or to initiate would be risky

Last year we had 2 guys that could just take the ball and try to get a bucket. Diarra (injured and playing out of role) and Liam (playing out of role)

Enter Silas Demary. An upperclassman double digit scoring PG from a high major program that hung 20+ points on 4 different tournament teams to end the season. Scoring is his job

I expect moderate improvement from Solo Ball. As the season went on, he became automatic in the midrange after getting run off the line. The next step is to finish closer to the hoop to give us another perimeter scorer

Also enter Tarris Reed. If the perimeter isn’t working, just drop it to him in the paint. He will go get a bucket. There were 7 games where he played 25+ minutes last year, and he averaged 17 PPG in those games. Last year we had no pressure release if the guards and forwards couldn’t make it work. Now we have a BE 1st team caliber C

Karaban can go back to his natural role closer to 2024. Braylon will be a shooter obviously. This leaves Stewart plugging the holes of whatever is missing. Some games it will be defense and rebounding, some games cutting and finishing, some games being a floor spacer
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Yeah my hope is that Jaylin can step up his game in being aggressive and doing what McNeeley did for us as he has the athletic tools to do that. LIke I said before if Jaylin just comes back only a little improved over last year he would be a disappointment. I think he will start and by his comments and obviously he came back to start and not play behind a undersized Fresman at SF. Not saying Mullins won't have an impact as we always need great shooters I just think it will be from the bench as a super sub. That is just my hope. It might not happen and Mullins ends up taking the SF and we are kind of limited offensively again this year like we were last year without enough creators. I know Tarris will score more inside than last year but my concern is when defense gets tough we will only have 1 player who can break down teams on offense at a time.
 
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3rdbass said:
I was talking more about initiating offense. Stewart should be ahead of both in that part. Karaban is good glue guy and we should keep him that way. We saw last year when he had to initiate offense how awful he was. He is slow and can't dribble and is very predictable. I love Karaban but he is very Limited offensively. I do think Stewart has the skills to be better offensive threat than Karaban and I hope he shows it this year. Reed will score alot of points from others passing to him and offensive rebounds.
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The love of Stew, based solely on potential over actual production, is really something. Stew is a career 3.9ppg scorer and has disappeared more than he's appeared. He has lots of potential and has isolated flashes. He has shown no ability to be consistent.

But, for the second straight year, we have a thread based solely on how he's going to be the key to the season and should be our 2nd option on offense. Last year, he had early-entry potential and would be in the teens as a scorer. We have people saying that Stew should get more shots and initiate offense more than a guy who (so far) was a starter on two national championship teams, will end his career with 1800-2000 points, and may go down as the biggest winner in the history of UConn basketball. Peak Boneyardin'.
 
My maybe hot take is Jaylin will be better in 25-26 than Liam was in 24-25. In my opinion he has clear potential to be the leading scorer. He doesn’t need to be it and easily may not be, but totally could be.
 
jibsey said:
Stew has come in games and had brief periods of offense dominance. He can’t coast, he has to maintain that on both ends and if not he will lose minutes. That simple.
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Yep totally agree. There is no excuses this year. It sounds like from his comments he knows what he has to do. He has the ability but will he actually do it is the question. If not Mullins will be starting or at least playing a lot of minutes at SF. My concern with this team like last year is who is going to create off the dribble when things get tough. I guess we could play both Demary and Smith at times as those are the only 2 players who have proven they have that ability. Stewart has in flashes but hasn't been consistent.
 
Stew should definitely watch the McNeeley tape because it offers strong hints about what is possible in the offense. Given that, I’m not sure Stew is the natural connector that Liam was but I think he is capable of matching a lot of Liam’s shooting whether catching and shooting or on the drive.
 
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