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Nils Machowski Committed!

NJHusky said:
If y say so. I feel like AM 2.0 is coming against good teams. I guess we’ll see in Vegas.
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He very well could end up being AM 2.0 for us. A huge difference however is that his role can be reduced quite a bit easier than when we had AM. We needed AM to be our primary PG (with Hassan getting a decent amount of playing time and Nowell developing). AM couldn't handle that role and Nowell was injured early, then not up to the task later on. Diarra played too many minutes on a damaged knee and broke down late in the season.

We have alternatives this year.
 
I like this addition. I have confidence he can have an offensive impact because he appears aggressive seeking his shots, and he gives us at least combo guard ball handling against late game presses if we are protecting a lead. As a team, we need help behind Silas and hearing him emphasize his point guard experience and reference to his euro point experience gives me a bit more hope., BUT, I'm concerned about games where Silas has 2 early fouls and we have to play extended minutes with County or Machowski and no Silas offensively or defensively. If the staff already feels 'all set' at point guard I'm a bit surprised. I think we need a defensive point guard 'dog'.
 
Ricker said:
I like this addition. I have confidence he can have an offensive impact because he appears aggressive seeking his shots, and he gives us at least combo guard ball handling against late game presses if we are protecting a lead. As a team, we need help behind Silas and hearing him emphasize his point guard experience and reference to his euro point experience gives me a bit more hope., BUT, I'm concerned about games where Silas has 2 early fouls and we have to play extended minutes with County or Machowski and no Silas offensively or defensively. If the staff already feels 'all set' at point guard I'm a bit surprised. I think we need a defensive point guard 'dog'.
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If Demary has to sit with foul trouble Ross can always switch onto his man, County/Machowski shift to the lowest threat perimeter player.

Maybe Jacob Ross steps up as a situational defensive stopper. He’s got good size and athleticism at 6’5.

Mullins could handle lead guard duties in a pinch where we need a tall defensive oriented lineup. Mullins, Landrew, Ross backcourt. Don’t really see that happening, but my point is this roster is versatile and guys are coming into the season with points to prove ie Mullins handling the ball more.
 
444JR said:
If Demary has to sit with foul trouble Ross can always switch onto his man, County/Machowski shift to the lowest threat perimeter player.

Maybe Jacob Ross steps up as a situational defensive stopper. He’s got good size and athleticism at 6’5.

Mullins could handle lead guard duties in a pinch where we need a tall defensive oriented lineup. Mullins, Landrew, Ross backcourt. Don’t really see that happening, but my point is this roster is versatile and guys are coming into the season with points to prove ie Mullins handling the ball more.
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Mullins will be able to do it if needed. He already spoke about his preparation for next season and he mentioned that specifically, ball handling. He knows it was a weakness and I look forward to seeing how good his handle gets.
 
bendm said:
Agree with all except Ross being better next year than Mullins was last year. I guess he will be significantly on defense. Hopefully our bench is better at every position except junior over smith. I’d say:

Starters
Silas (Senior) > Silas (Junior)
Braylon (Soph) > Solo (Junior)
Jayden (Senior) = Braylon (Frosh)
Nik (Soph) < Alex (Senior)
Najai (Soph) < Tarris (Senior)

Bench
Junior (Frosh) < Malachi (Senior)
Nils (Senior) > Ross (Junior)
Colben (Frosh) > Stew (Junior)
Backup PF ? Dwayne (Senior)
Oskar (Soph) > Reibe (Frosh)
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I'm good with calling Jayden/Braylon a wash trading some offense for some defense but that assumes Ross continues to improve. His improvement has been slow and steady so not sure we should expect a huge jump. Mullins played a lot of minutes last year (he would have played more if not for foul trouble) and I wonder if Ross will be able to match his minutes. Not sure how much Landrew will poach his minutes. If Landrew is our starting 3 by conference play as some think, then I guess that is a good sign because I don't expect Ross to regress, so that would mean Landrew is pretty good.

It is hard to pick a Freshman over Malachi but I was not impressed with Malachi so I tend to see him as a low bar. That being said Malachi stepped up big for us in the end when we needed him most. Not sure we could expect he same from County. But as long as Silas stays healthy that should not be an issue. Health is always the unknown variable.
 
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NJHusky said:
If y say so. I feel like AM 2.0 is coming against good teams. I guess we’ll see in Vegas.
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As bad as the Cam comparisons are, this one is worse. Mahaney was brought in to be a 30 min/game primary ball handler. Missing on that is a big deal. Missing on a guy whose role is to play 10-15 at two different positions and make open shots is far less impactful.
 
Excalibur said:
As bad as the Cam comparisons are, this one is worse. Mahaney was brought in to be a 30 min/game primary ball handler. Missing on that is a big deal. Missing on a guy whose role is to play 10-15 at two different positions and make open shots is far less impactful.
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You do remember AM was barely playing even with Hass on 1 leg? He couldn’t even get 15 min at times. I’m afraid he’ll be overmatched at this level, like Am
 
A Wofford fan on Reddit posted this about him when a UConn fan asked what to expect:

"He's a literal flamethrower. There were often games where he was our entire offense. Extremely smart offensive player. Can make extremely long distance shots even when he is the focal point for the defense."

Seems like a great option for what we need him to do here. The more I sit with it the more I like this pick up.
 
NJHusky said:
If y say so. I feel like AM 2.0 is coming against good teams. I guess we’ll see in Vegas.
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AM was trying to be a starting point guard and run our offense. Nils will have a less vital role as a scorer off the bench - maybe a 5-10 minute guy on a night he’s not effective, and maybe a 25 minute guy on a day he’s got something going. Possibly more if Silas, Braylon or Jayden are out.

JoeyC is thought of as a unique one dimensional gunslinger - so I don’t like to use him as a comparison, but we can maybe think of him a JoeyC/Alleyne hybrid sort of player.

Nobody had Dylan Darling as a key part of the SJU portal class, but he won some games for them. Including a big role in beating us. You need bench pieces.
 
NJHusky said:
You do remember AM was barely playing even with Hass on 1 leg? He couldn’t even get 15 min at times. I’m afraid he’ll be overmatched at this level, like Am
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I think you reinforced @Excalibur's point more than your own. Either way, we'll see, and this is hardly the place to spend energy in April after the recruitment has wrapped up.
 
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NJHusky said:
You do remember AM was barely playing even with Hass on 1 leg? He couldn’t even get 15 min at times. I’m afraid he’ll be overmatched at this level, like Am
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Difference is Nils was averaging 24mpg against B12, BE, and B10 teams to end the year at UCF shooting 43/39/90 and giving you 7 and 4 boards. He’s already shown he won’t be totally overmatched.
 
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Hurlees4hed said:
A Wofford fan on Reddit posted this about him when a UConn fan asked what to expect:

"He's a literal flamethrower. There were often games where he was our entire offense. Extremely smart offensive player. Can make extremely long distance shots even when he is the focal point for the defense."

Seems like a great option for what we need him to do here. The more I sit with it the more I like this pick up.
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"...flamethrower..." Yeah, and Furphy was a crafty scorer for his national team vs quality international competition. I do know based on what I saw that we would have been in real trouble if we had to play Furphy any real minutes last year. He was not ready and was physically overmatched.

We really have no idea how Machowski's game will translate here, but I'd bet a ton of money he won't be what Cam was or what Solo would have been as some are saying. He's a depth piece. I think the staff knows that too. I'm not expecting more than 5-7 min's per game from him, but I will be happy if he surprises and carves out a few more. Any thoughts he's going to get 18+ minutes per game are delusional, unless we're dealing with multiple injuries
 
UCONNFAN179 said:
"...flamethrower..." Yeah, and Furphy was a crafty scorer for his national team vs quality international competition. I do know based on what I saw that we would have been in real trouble if we had to play Furphy any real minutes last year. He was not ready and was physically overmatched.

We really have no idea how Machowski's game will translate here, but I'd bet a ton of money he won't be what Cam was or what Solo would have been as some are saying. He's a depth piece. I think the staff knows that too. I'm not expecting more than 5-7 min's per game from him, but I will be happy if he surprises and carves out a few more. Any thoughts he's going to get 18+ minutes per game are delusional, unless we're dealing with multiple injuries
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He’s gonna be closer to 20mpg than 5
 
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UCONNFAN179 said:
"...flamethrower..." Yeah, and Furphy was a crafty scorer for his national team vs quality international competition. I do know based on what I saw that we would have been in real trouble if we had to play Furphy any real minutes last year. He was not ready and was physically overmatched.

We really have no idea how Machowski's game will translate here, but I'd bet a ton of money he won't be what Cam was or what Solo would have been as some are saying. He's a depth piece. I think the staff knows that too. I'm not expecting more than 5-7 min's per game from him, but I will be happy if he surprises and carves out a few more. Any thoughts he's going to get 18+ minutes per game are delusional, unless we're dealing with multiple injuries
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I don’t think anyone here in this thread is expecting Nils to get starter minutes.

Not sure where this diatribe is coming from.
 
Look through the threads.

We had Solo on this roster and he announced he was red-shirting and many folks here have been saying Nils is his replacement for this year. Others have compared the acquisition to us bringing in Cam 2 years ago. He's not either of those. He's a depth piece that can HOPEFULLY give us something like 6-10 minutes per game. He will not approach anything close to 20 mpg as some are saying unless we have multiple injuries
 
UCONNFAN179 said:
"...flamethrower..." Yeah, and Furphy was a crafty scorer for his national team vs quality international competition. I do know based on what I saw that we would have been in real trouble if we had to play Furphy any real minutes last year. He was not ready and was physically overmatched.

We really have no idea how Machowski's game will translate here, but I'd bet a ton of money he won't be what Cam was or what Solo would have been as some are saying. He's a depth piece. I think the staff knows that too. I'm not expecting more than 5-7 min's per game from him, but I will be happy if he surprises and carves out a few more. Any thoughts he's going to get 18+ minutes per game are delusional, unless we're dealing with multiple injuries
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He bolsters the guard rotation with elite shooting, and above average rebounding and other skills that have proven out over three college season against division 1 competition - as well as experience at pg for his national team v. quality international competition...

I think we have a much better idea of how Machowski's game will translate here.
 
UCONNFAN179 said:
Look through the threads.

We had Solo on this roster and he announced he was red-shirting and many folks here have been saying Nils is his replacement for this year. Others have compared the acquisition to us bringing in Cam 2 years ago. He's not either of those. He's a depth piece that can HOPEFULLY give us something like 6-10 minutes per game. He will not approach anything close to 20 mpg as some are saying unless we have multiple injuries
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I have been through the threads and I think you may be misconstruing things here. I can't remember seeing a single projected starting lineup that included Machowski - I think many people are projecting that he can replace some of Solo's outside shooting threat, which honestly won't be that hard if we are only looking at last year. As to Cam, I've seen a couple straight 1-1 comparisons, but mostly people have asked if or projected that he will be a Cam-type of player more so than him playing at that elite level (Cam is a legend).
 
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Samoo said:
I have been through the threads and I think you may be misconstruing things here. I can't remember seeing a single projected starting lineup that included Machowski - I think many people are projecting that he can replace some of Solo's outside shooting threat, which honestly won't be that hard if we are only looking at last year. As to Cam, I've seen a couple straight 1-1 comparisons, but mostly people have asked if or projected that he will be a Cam-type of player more so than him playing at that elite level (Cam is a legend).
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Maybe... but just look up 4 messages. The first response to my post was someone immediately saying he'll get "closer to 20 mpg than 5..." He's not getting anything close to 20mpg unless we have real problems. The guy is very likely just a fringe rotation piece...6-10 mpg. Let's not try to pretend otherwise. The fact that we picked him up after Solo was ruled out is not close to an even swap... Even with Solo's poor shooting last year, it's a massive downgrade. He's not a Solo replacement and he's certainly not Cam, or even Cam-light as some have said. I don't care if he was Wofford's best offensive player last year. My hope is he's playable at something like 6-10 mpg....like Joey C was. I suspect that's what the staff is hoping too.
 
UCONNFAN179 said:
Look through the threads.

We had Solo on this roster and he announced he was red-shirting and many folks here have been saying Nils is his replacement for this year. Others have compared the acquisition to us bringing in Cam 2 years ago. He's not either of those. He's a depth piece that can HOPEFULLY give us something like 6-10 minutes per game. He will not approach anything close to 20 mpg as some are saying unless we have multiple injuries
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Nils is not gonna be a starter so how is he the Solo replacement? but that doesn’t mean he won’t be our best guard off the bench getting around 15mpg since he can backup either G spot.
 
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bendm said:
Definitely not the majority opinion. Nils is not gonna be a starter but that doesn’t mean he won’t be our best guard off the bench getting around 15mpg since he can backup either G spot.
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I'll be shocked if he averages 15mpg
 
UCONNFAN179 said:
I'll be shocked if he averages 15mpg
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I’ll be shocked if he doesn’t. Joey C with better ball handling and passing skills is the majority comparison. If you think Nils is only playing 5mpg then you must have county getting what, 20mpg?

Can You and njhusky DM each other about how much you think nils stinks and spare the rest of us.
 
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bendm said:
I’ll be shocked if he doesn’t. Joey C with better ball handling and passing skills is the consensus comparison. If you think Nils is only playing in garbage time then you just have county getting what, 20mpg?

You and njhusky should DM each other about how much you think nils stinks and spare the rest of us.
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Dude is gonna be a full part of the rotation - guessing Mullins does 25 at the two and 5 or so at the 3 and our German gets about 15. It all depends how County develops too. If he blossoms then maybe he eats some of that.
 
9 players averaged more than 13 minutes a game with AK averaging 34.4 minutes per game and no one else more than 28 minutes so we just might have a ten man rotation next year.
 
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