Oskar Giltay Commits to UConn

[RuffRuff]

No doubt Reibe’s offense will be missed but if anyone was worse than Koroma on D it was Reibe. Good Lord if he tried he fouled.

This guy is more like Reed-lite on D which is to say Rebounds and blocks…rim protector. Hopefully can become Clingan like in 3 years.

Thing is Hines is a bit of a fouler too.

These guys are freshmen coming into Hurley's system - I wouldn't call them anything just yet until they get some UConn coaching. Both have great upside, awesome motors and a little crazy in them. We are going to have some dawgs this year - something we've lacked. Hines, this kid, Khamenia, Landrew, Silas all have dawg in them. I think it comes out in Mullins as well in year two.

Reibe had none. Utterly dawgless. Can't say Solo, AK, Stew had much. Tarris was too nice.

 

[uconnfan68]

We’re bringing in Stanford and Duke kids. To play in a high iq system. They’ll fit.

 

[uconn_jack]

Str

I've fallen into this trap too, but then realize pretty quickly Hurley's system counters with big guards and pulling these guys away from the basket. When an opponent has a Mara, not sure there is anyway to counter that with another big - he's unique. We outrebounded Michigan.

Strength can negate height, especially on defense and rebounding. Its why Mara wasn't a huge problem for us, and Reibe struggled against strong players. I mean Zuby was only 6'9" but was 240 lbs and strong as an ox. Look at Hines at 6'10" and 265 lbs, just 1" shorter than Reed. I also fully expect Oskar, who was only an 18 yrs old frosh, to become stronger and be close to 245 lbs next year (might even grow an inch). I am not as worried about height/size as the rest of you.

 

[uconn_jack]

And

And big doesn’t mean good - Krivas was good but didn’t find him near a Mara. He was stiff and plodding comparatively. Mara was like a prey mantis meets a ballet dancer.

And the size of Illinois didn't bother us much either. The 7'1" Ivisic may have scored 16 pts, but it was on 4-11 (36%), kinda sucks for your center.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

I saw this earlier but it's been a very busy day. Excellent addition, I like the athleticism and the motor.

Still might need a 4, though ...

 

[husky429]

We’re bringing in Stanford and Duke kids. To play in a high iq system. They’ll fit.

Basketball players at these schools are as dumb as anywhere else. Let's not kid ourselves here.

 

[RuffRuff]

Basketball players at these schools are as dumb as anywhere else. Let's not kid ourselves here.

You’re saying all basketball players are dumb?

 

[RBHusky7]

Something like that. We're pretty damn short in the froncourt compared to our biggest competition for the things we want to accomplish. Michigan, Florida, Duke, and St. John's are all going to be incredibly tall. We're starting a 6'10 center and a 6'8 power forward with only 1 6'10 guy off the bench currently.

6-10 is fine, we just need one more serviceable PF in the 6-7 to 6-9 range. People have become so focused on height when we had a McDonald’s AA 7 footer and he was useless in the tourney. We are never going to recreate the 2024 title team which was huge at basically every position especially Clingan. We just need a rotational quality PF as Khamenia isn’t going to play 35m a game like Karaban.

Silas - 6’4”
Mullins - 6’6”
Ross - 6’7”
Khamenia - 6’8”
Hines - 6’10”

That’s a big team 1-5.

 

[HooperScooper]

Basketball players at these schools are as dumb as anywhere else. Let's not kid ourselves here.

Does Stanford still have the policy that athletes must go through an acceptable admissions pre-read before they can get a scholarship offer? I'm sure the school had lesser standards for athletes than the regular applicant pool but in general they were offering kids who were very smart. Their athletic department was still very successful under that policy. Not sure they do it like that any more. I'm going to guess they don't.

 

[KingAG]

We outrebounded them by a healthy margin and we couldn't score around the rim against them.

No one could. Did you see the Michigan/Arizona game?

 

[QDOG5]

Yes, I realize that, but bowl doesn't rhyme with Mullins like mullet does.

Mullet and Mullins don’t rhyme! My goodness.

 

[Umami Zen]

6-10 is fine, we just need one more serviceable PF in the 6-7 to 6-9 range. People have become so focused on height when we had a McDonald’s AA 7 footer and he was useless in the tourney. We are never going to recreate the 2024 title team which was huge at basically every position especially Clingan. We just need a rotational quality PF as Khamenia isn’t going to play 35m a game like Karaban.

Silas - 6’4”
Mullins - 6’6”
Ross - 6’7”
Khamenia - 6’8”
Hines - 6’10”

That’s a big team 1-5.

In a motion offense-Big enough

 

[Dove]

Mullet and Mullins don’t rhyme! My goodness.

 

[Dove]

Giltay? More like heel toe dosey do, amirite?
(Trying to add more country music references for increased Big12 compatibility)

I fought really hard not to do the heel-toe-dosey doe thing!!

Didn't want to show my gae.