Palpable buzz

[tcf15]

 

[RichZ]

I don't know about palpability, but I'm damned sure anxious to see what the coaching change has wrought.

 

[HuskyBandDad]

Dam breaking???

 

[husky429]

I love to hear that about Adams. The difference between him being in the NBA and not comes down to toughness, really. So much fluidity, coordination, and his finishing is amazing when he doesn't shy from contact.

Rique: If the shoulder healing rumors are true, we may have the best starting backcourt in America.

Carlton: Rumors has been he's getting MUCH better. I think he's good for 8/6/1 this year.

Brendan Adams: People keep saying we might be surprised by his skill as a freshman. He's probably behind 3-4 other guards--no pressure on him; he can just play basketball.

 

[UofCT]

Carlton: Rumors has been he's getting MUCH better. I think he's good for 8/6/1 this year.

8 whole points?

 

[Wordbomar]

8 whole points?

If we got 8ppg out of him that would be awesome! Why do you act like that’s a minor accomplishment?

 

[husky429]

8 whole points?

We wont ever get much scoring from the 5. Our guards are too good

 

[KembaStepback]

I love to hear that about Adams. The difference between him being in the NBA and not comes down to toughness, really. So much fluidity, coordination, and his finishing is amazing when he doesn't shy from contact.

Rique: If the shoulder healing rumors are true, we may have the best starting backcourt in America.

Carlton: Rumors has been he's getting MUCH better. I think he's good for 8/6/1 this year.

Brendan Adams: People keep saying we might be surprised by his skill as a freshman. He's probably behind 3-4 other guards--no pressure on him; he can just play basketball.

I love to hear this too...but I'd say the reason he isn't in the NBA is because his 3 pt shot isn't where it needed to be. Guards in the NBA need to be able to shoot unless they are freak athletes. Even then, they tend to struggle. Adams is a good athlete but he's not a freak.

 

[pj]

We wont ever get much scoring from the 5. Our guards are too good

Our guards do miss shots from time to time. If we have a good 5, he'll find the ball and put it in the hole. 3 offensive rebounds a game would provide ~4 ppg on putbacks and make it a lot easier to get to 8 ppg.

I do think that Carlton is going to have about the same rebounds as points. To get to 8 ppg he probably needs at least 7, maybe 8, rpg. Last year he had 4.4 pts and 3.7 rebounds in 15 mpg. If he can cut down fouls and double his minutes, it shouldn't be too hard to match that per-minute production for 8.8 ppg/7.4 rpg.

 

[Huskybass]

I don't know about palpability, but I'm damned sure anxious to see what the coaching change has wrought.

It will be like night and day. Those last 2 seasons were miserable. It will be great to return to the type of basketball that we had grown to expect.

 

[Nebraskan18]

I think Brendan Adams is going to do huge things for us in his career, love his game and strength/frame. Wouldn't be surprised if he's our starting off guard/6th man next year.

 

[husky429]

I love to hear this too...but I'd say the reason he isn't in the NBA is because his 3 pt shot isn't where it needed to be. Guards in the NBA need to be able to shoot unless they are freak athletes. Even then, they tend to struggle. Adams is a good athlete but he's not a freak.

His catch and shoot is good. Struggles off the dribble A LOT.

Part of his softness was never fixing that shot. Hopefully it has changed

 

[UofCT]

We wont ever get much scoring from the 5. Our guards are too good

Good guards know how to get bigs involved. 8-12 points would be nice from Carlton

 

[UConnStats]

I think Brendan Adams is going to do huge things for us in his career, love his game and strength/frame. Wouldn't be surprised if he's our starting off guard/6th man next year.

Imagine if he was a 6’4 version of his brother. Exactly what this program needs

 

[CL82]

Yes, doomed.

 

[tcf15]

Imagine if he was a 6’4 version of his brother. Exactly what this program needs

 

[UConnStats]

 

[storrsroars]

I could've sworn that in looking at this thread, at every link my cursor was pointing not the index finger, but the middle one.

 

[husky429]

Imagine if he was a 6’4 version of his brother. Exactly what this program needs

Stop teasing me, stats

 

[UConnStats]

Stop teasing me, stats

I got a dollar and a dream

 

[JimHurley]

I really don’t understand how anyone thinks this team won’t make the tournament this season. To say the talent isn’t there is absurd. The talent is there and now we have a staff who’s going to get the most out of it.

 

[kansashusky]

I really don’t understand how anyone thinks this team won’t make the tournament this season. To say the talent isn’t there is absurd. The talent is there and now we have a staff who’s going to get the most out of it.

We have a good to really good back court; but there are so many question marks in the front court. The first being rebounding. Christian Vital led our team at rebound last year at 5.4. Our back court still has some issues, 3 pt shooting, assists and turnovers were MISERABLE last year. I think people forget we would go whole halves without an assist. We had a negative assist to turnover ratio. We also shot 32 percent from three and we lost our best three point shooter in Terry Larrier at 37% ( I am excluding Polley because he shot less that 90 3 pointers)

If this team makes the tournament, then we will have overachieved.

 

[intlzncster]

I love to hear this too...but I'd say the reason he isn't in the NBA is because his 3 pt shot isn't where it needed to be. Guards in the NBA need to be able to shoot unless they are freak athletes. Even then, they tend to struggle. Adams is a good athlete but he's not a freak.

Lonzo Ball went #2. And he's neither of those.

 

[husky429]

Lonzo Ball went #2. And he's neither of those.

His bbiq is off the charts and hes 6'6. Terrible comparison

 

[intlzncster]

I really don’t understand how anyone thinks this team won’t make the tournament this season. To say the talent isn’t there is absurd. The talent is there and now we have a staff who’s going to get the most out of it.

The talent is not there in the front court. It is not developed either. We are undeveloped (but talented) at the wing too.

Our hope is that the American is so bad that we can play our way in.