2025 Recruiting: Meleek Thomas Electric Trigaloo

[AntG168]

Agreed. You shoot 25% from the free-throw line, that's not a good year. If he'd have made 70% we'd have win more games. It was like hack-a-Shaq his year at UConn. Extreme hype not lived up to.

10ppg
7.6 reb
3 blocks per game
54% FG

Is a phenomenal year for a freshman

 

[stick]

10ppg
7.6 reb
3 blocks per game
54% FG

Is a phenomenal year for a freshman

His numbers were fine. What he did was destroyed the chemistry of that team. Calhoun started giving Drummond minutes and touches at the expense of Oriakhi and Roscoe Smith. Drummond had moments where he looked otherworldly, but he didn't look like he knew how to play team basketball. It wasn't a coincidence that Oriakhi and Smith transferred after the year. I'm glad it all worked out as UConn won the title 2 years after the fact as the transfers allowed Daniels and Giffey to take on bigger roles.

 

[AntG168]

His numbers were fine. What he did was destroyed the chemistry of that team. Calhoun started giving Drummond minutes and touches at the expense of Oriakhi and Roscoe Smith. Drummond had moments where he looked otherworldly, but he didn't look like he knew how to play team basketball. It wasn't a coincidence that Oriakhi and Smith transferred after the year. I'm glad it all worked out as UConn won the title 2 years after the fact as the transfers allowed Daniels and Giffey to take on bigger roles.

He was inconsistent because he was a freshman. Calhoun should’ve platooned Oriakhi and Drummond the way Hurley did with Clingan and Sanogo. That wasn’t on Drummond. All in all he had a very good freshman year

 

[superjohn]

10ppg
7.6 reb
3 blocks per game
54% FG

Is a phenomenal year for a freshman

His #'s were good but he was the worst ft shooter we've ever had and couldn't be on the court late in close games. He was on probably our most disappointing team ever who got smoked in the first round of the tournament despite having way more talent than Iowa State. Drummond had 2 points.

His #'s were good enough to get First team freshman honors in the Big East but he was supposed to be the runaway freshman of the year in conference and the #2 pick in the draft. He dropped to #9.

In no way would I say he had a phenomenal freshman year especially considering the expectations.

 

[AntG168]

His #'s were good but he was the worst ft shooter we've ever had and couldn't be on the court late in close games. He was on probably our most disappointing team ever who got smoked in the first round of the tournament despite having way more talent than Iowa State. Drummond had 2 points.

His #'s were good enough to get First team freshman honors in the Big East but he was supposed to be the runaway freshman of the year in conference and the #2 pick in the draft. He dropped to #9.

In no way would I say he had a phenomenal freshman year especially considering the expectations.

Judge him against his other freshman big man counterparts

 

[HooperScooper]

Was it reported anywhere that UConn sent someone to OTE yesterday? I guess that would be a pretty good sign whether they're still in or they think they're out. Doesn't say in this article which coaches were at OTE's combine day.

Thomas will head to Alabama this weekend before heading to Arkansas and he also said he has a visit planned to Kansas State. Back-to-back defending champs Connecticut remains very involved in the recruitment after he saw the Huskies during June.

Five-star Meleek Thomas headlines loaded Overtime Elite Combine

Five-star Meleek Thomas was among the headliners at the Overtime Elite Combine.

247sports.com

 

[auror]

Was it reported anywhere that UConn sent someone to OTE yesterday? I guess that would be a pretty good sign whether they're still in or they think they're out. Doesn't say in this article which coaches were at OTE's combine day.

Thomas will head to Alabama this weekend before heading to Arkansas and he also said he has a visit planned to Kansas State. Back-to-back defending champs Connecticut remains very involved in the recruitment after he saw the Huskies during June.

Five-star Meleek Thomas headlines loaded Overtime Elite Combine

Five-star Meleek Thomas was among the headliners at the Overtime Elite Combine.

247sports.com

I was looking earlier but didn't see names reported.

 

[RuffRuff]

Was it reported anywhere that UConn sent someone to OTE yesterday? I guess that would be a pretty good sign whether they're still in or they think they're out. Doesn't say in this article which coaches were at OTE's combine day.

Thomas will head to Alabama this weekend before heading to Arkansas and he also said he has a visit planned to Kansas State. Back-to-back defending champs Connecticut remains very involved in the recruitment after he saw the Huskies during June.

Five-star Meleek Thomas headlines loaded Overtime Elite Combine

Five-star Meleek Thomas was among the headliners at the Overtime Elite Combine.

247sports.com

Anyone wanting to scan the crowd for UConn staff are welcome to here:

 

[HuskyFich]

 

[Umami Zen]

Meleek knows what Hurley is about- How important is NIL??

 

[bballgrda]

Judge him against his other freshman big man counterparts

Such as Anthony Davis, or someone else?

 

[AntG168]

Such as Anthony Davis, or someone else?

Keep going…..

Using the ONE guy in the last who knows how many years is hilarious.

Freshman 7 footers don’t average 10, 7.5 and 3 often.

They just don’t. And the few that do are considered really good.

 

[awy]

the issue with drummond was he didn't realize his potential at the college level, and effort level was a major part of why. he only got into shape when the nba draft came around.

 

[mauconnfan]

His numbers were fine. What he did was destroyed the chemistry of that team. Calhoun started giving Drummond minutes and touches at the expense of Oriakhi and Roscoe Smith. Drummond had moments where he looked otherworldly, but he didn't look like he knew how to play team basketball. It wasn't a coincidence that Oriakhi and Smith transferred after the year. I'm glad it all worked out as UConn won the title 2 years after the fact as the transfers allowed Daniels and Giffey to take on bigger roles.

Maybe his playing time destroyed the chemistry but Drummond didn’t personally. And the reality is AO was an awful teammate that year so my blame goes his way.

All in all a solid freshman year in which JC should’ve planted him in the post but didn’t consistently. Very Good freshman year not phenomenal.

 

[RuffRuff]

Meleek thread gone Andre Drummond is a serious tangential .

 

[bballgrda]

Keep going…..

Using the ONE guy in the last who knows how many years is hilarious.

Freshman 7 footers don’t average 10, 7.5 and 3 often.

They just don’t. And the few that do are considered really good.

I just chose him b/c they had similar levels of hype going into the year (yes I know Davis was the clear #1). Drummond was fine.

 

[boog204]

Meleek thread gone Andre Drummond is a serious tangential .

Thought we had gotten back for a minute... But then we needed to rehash, for the 79092309808 time, whether ADs freshmen year was good or not. Peak Boneyardin'

 

[TheHorde]

Thought we had gotten back for a minute... But then we needed to rehash, for the 79092309808 time, whether ADs freshmen year was good or not. Peak Boneyardin'

I didn’t have Drummond driving this thread off the rails on my bingo card.

 

[boog204]

I didn’t have Drummond driving this thread off the rails on my bingo card.

Yup, didn't see that one coming... Always nice to bring back an argument from 9 years ago to completely derail things. Might as well start up a "why didn't we guard the inbounder in 90" discussion to get it really hoppin'.

 

[TheHorde]

Yup, didn't see that one coming... Always nice to bring back an argument from 9 years ago to completely derail things. Might as well start up a "why didn't we guard the inbounder in 90" discussion to get it really hoppin'.

Two words: Ryan Gomes

 

[KemBuckets21]

Two words: Ryan Gomes

I took Emeka Okafor and Caron Butler, they're not bad!

 

[TheHorde]

I took Emeka Okafor and Caron Butler, they're not bad!

They weren’t! Now do some of the other guys on that roster, Jim. Lmao

 

[KemBuckets21]

They weren’t! Now do some of the other guys on that roster, Jim. Lmao

Mix in about 12 F bombs and we've summarized that press conference.

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

Where do you see men’s basketball recruiting on StorrsCentral? I’m a premium member, I only see football

I, too, found the website hard to navigate and it doesn’t have the same engagement as this one does for now.

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

Maybe his playing time destroyed the chemistry but Drummond didn’t personally. And the reality is AO was an awful teammate that year so my blame goes his way.

All in all a solid freshman year in which JC should’ve planted him in the post but didn’t consistently. Very Good freshman year not phenomenal.

It’s hard for it to be anyone’s fault tbh.

You couldn’t not start what was suppose to be at the time a generational big. You also couldn’t not start a 5* sophomore who just won a national championship.

Roscoe was never a natural 3 and the 4 was always his best position.

That roster was just a mess outside of the guards despite being so talented. If Drummond was able to play in a 5 out without AO he and the team probably look a lot better.