Newton is coming back!

[superjohn]

Clingan and Castle go lottery, not Karaban. And yes I do think this is a 15-25 kind of season, not a top-5 kind of season, because of the lack of experience and bench depth.

Getting Cam Spencer would definitely change this assessment.

Too early in the morning, I thought you said Clingan and Karaban.

I'll wait until the roster is complete before judging. We didn't have a top 5 kind of season until it mattered this past season so we will see.

I do love the mix of what we have returning along with arguably our best freshman class ever coming in. Spencer would make any talk of us repeating seem more legit.

 

[bluestreak]

Was reading about Elliot Cadeau reclassifying for UNC to be their starting PG next year. And thinking to myself, it sure would be nice if the Huskies have a veteran at the helm. And now this news this morning! Yes! Yes and YYYYES!
Welcome back Tristen.

 

[notEwekon]

Love it.

One of my favorite storylines from last season was Tristen making the twitter dorks smell their own bullchit throughout the tournament run. Quiet, dignified and a straight up assassin.

 

[Tampahusky]

We just needed one guy coming back!!! We are Final Four material !!! Let’s throw that ball up im ready.

 

[aburks41]

Was reading about Elliot Cadeau reclassifying for UNC to be their starting PG next year. And thinking to myself, it sure would be nice if the Huskies have a veteran at the helm. And now this news this morning! Yes! Yes and YYYYES!
Welcome back Tristen.

The game against UNC at MSG will be hilarious. Our 2 PG's are 6'7" and 6'6". UNC's RJ Davis is 6' and Cadeau is 6'2". Good luck to them...

 

[Chin Diesel]

This definitely takes stress off of Castle having to be "on" every game. He will have some duds just like every freshman, including DC last year, will have during a season.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Wow - no matter how you slice it, our starting 5/top 6 will be bigger than most NBA teams. For what that's worth...

 

[Jaydumo20]

Badass

 

[Connhomer99]

Between karaban, clingan, castle and newton. We have maybe 4 guys projected To be drafted Next year. Last year we didn’t have that going in to the season. We probably had Hawkins and sanago maybe Jackson but that’s 3 not 4 guys projected drafted. Last year we didn’t have championship experience. Last year we didn’t expect clingan and karaban to be as good as they were (freshmen). Will we miss Joey and Allene type guys. Maybe. But we got a lot of things going for us too. Some guys can step it up in other ways. And we can still add a transfer. right now you definitely can’t count us out for a repeat. Lotsa talent on this team. Lotsa things can still happen. But A tad more inexperienced because we haven’t pulled all those transfers in but top to bottom I like our chances

personally Tristan newton is one of my favorite huskies ever. I wouldn’t even be surprised if he emerges as a 15-5-5 guy.

 

[VA Blue Dog]

This is a great move for Tristen. He won't be relegated to some part time G-League role. He can play with a little chip on his shoulder. He proved himself last year and we love him. We are so lucky to have him back. He will assume the leadership role.

 

[Connhomer99]

The game against UNC at MSG will be hilarious. Our 2 PG's are 6'7" and 6'6". UNC's RJ Davis is 6' and Cadeau is 6'2". Good luck to them...

I would say as well always have size advantage inside but their armando bacot is pretty tough. Excited for that matchup!!! If we can get bacot in full trouble might be a Long night for unc

 

[UConnSwag11]

The game against UNC at MSG will be hilarious. Our 2 PG's are 6'7" and 6'6". UNC's RJ Davis is 6' and Cadeau is 6'2". Good luck to them...

Don’t knock the short guys. We’ve had success with them

 

[superjohn]

The game against UNC at MSG will be hilarious. Our 2 PG's are 6'7" and 6'6". UNC's RJ Davis is 6' and Cadeau is 6'2". Good luck to them...

They're definitely big point guards but I doubt Castle is taller than 6'6 and Newton is 6'3.5

I'm sure Cadeau's height is also inflated.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Now A morning of refreshing AJax Twitter and shirking any type of work.

 

[AntG168]

Adding two lottery picks to 2 all big east level players is not a fringe top 25 lucky s16 team. Make no mistake, that’d be highly disappointing not enjoyable.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Newton and Castle should thrive together in our interchangeable PG/scoring role on offense. Now we just need to get enough shooting around them after losing two ~40% 3-point shooters.

 

[kobebeanbryant]

In my opinion the move is to slide Newton into Hawkins spot let him be the scorer that he is and relieve him of his ball handling duties (they go to Castle and Diarra)

Sliding Newton off ball coincided with a bit of a rough stretch for him this past season. He seems to excel with the ball in his hands attacking the rim. Will be interesting to see how that on/off ball dynamic plays out with him and Castle.

Unless he has a big leap, Diarra should have a minimal role. He’s not taking ball handling duties away from Newton. Although I can see him getting forced onto the court in certain matchups against quick guards (that Newton and Castle will have trouble staying in front of).

 

[AdamaNation]

Stewart is a big strong dude...weighs around 220-230...likely to get time at the 4 in my humble opinion...he looks like he could run some people over...

Yeah him at the for and Alex at the more traditional 3.

 

[aburks41]

They're definitely big point guards but I doubt Castle is taller than 6'6 and Newton is 6'3.5

I'm sure Cadeau's height is also inflated.

Castle's twitter bio literally says 6'7"

 

[aburks41]

Don’t knock the short guys. We’ve had success with them

Not knocking them, just saying that the height differential is going to be funny. We're a massive, massive team. Bigger than probably almost every NBA team

 

[McLovin]

Someone contact Verizon or AT&T and get this man sponsored.

T-Mobile (not because of anything besides that sounds the most fun / could be a fun nickname lol)

 

[Waquoit]

Or Nabisco.

 

[superjohn]

Castle's twitter bio literally says 6'7"

Dude, he's a basketball player almost all of them inflate their height. Newton is listed at 6'5 and people are calling him 6'6 in writeups, he's 6'3.5

 

[CL82]

Getting Cam Spencer would definitely change this assessment.

I wonder how much Newton's coming being back impacts Cam Spencer's decision. I have to think it's a plus, because a big question mark just disappeared for us. I would think Jackson's announcement would be more meaningful for Spencer, but that decision has likely already been made and Spencer is likely already aware of it.

 

[willie99]

Can't wait