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We have a lot of talent on paper coming but we had a ton of talent this year, so regardless of what their hype is we have to see the rubber actually meet the road. This year I was sadly mistaken as to what we had, why and how? well the smoke hasn't cleared yet but something went badly wrong.
 
This is a good thing even though a house cleaning wouldn't be bad either. Purvis is a great ambassador for the program, we will need some senior leadership and another guard. Also, I think even with Purvis returning we still have a left over scholarship. If we didn't and some five star center wanted to come here I might feel a little differently.
 
superjohn said:
Good god if we give the keys to Purvis and Hamilton instead of Gilbert and Adams next year, I may go postal.
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Dude, come on. They are giving the ball to the PGs. You don't think Ollie wants to have dynamic, skilled PGs? That would 'magically' fix a LOT of our issues this year.
 
Nobody on this team is getting drafted.
 
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JimOllie said:
Still don't think he'll start next year. I think it should be Adams, Gilbert, Larrier, Hamilton, Brimah.
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Agree. Think it will be hard to keep Larrier out of the starting lineup or equivalent minutes. Looking forward to seeing him in action next year.
 
tentoes4rings said:
Is it the extra muscle or did he just peak athletically at a very young age? Early 20s is awfully young to lose explosive athleticism, but the RP we've seen doesn't even resemble the athlete in the mixed tape.
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I've wondered the same thing. He just does not seem to have the jumping ability that I expected and that is shown on the video. I don't remember any reports of injuries. It would be fun to seem him throw the ball down like in the video when attacking the rim.
 
For the past week everyone on here has been telling me how stupid I am for saying there's no way he's leaving. Love the vindication.
 
I don't think Rodney was the problem this year. Lack of leadership is killing them. One would think that one or both of the grad students would have stepped up in this regard. As newcomers they were perhaps reluctant to do so. As it turned out others on the team may have deferred to the grad students because of their experience and age. Result - everybody deferring and no leadership. Rodney and Daniel should be more comfortable with leadership roles next season as they will be upper classmen. Both have potential to become really good with the players they will have next year. But someone needs to be a leader. No more playing less than 40 minutes and blowing big leads to teams that they should be blowing out!!
 
I hope he is back next year. His shooting is good, his attitude is better. Love the kid, and as @Dove said he's had an unclear role.

Adams as the starting PG with experience, Purvis a shooter and--potentially--a driver if he could finish, Hamilton being the 2nd or 3rd to initiate the offense, Facey at the 4, Brimah at the 5.

Gilbert comes in pretty quick for either Purvis or Hamilton and gives us the traditional UConn look. Larrier comes in for either Hamilton or Facey.

Again, I'm going to temper my expectations, but that team should be able to improve upon this year.

So much of this team's problem is its inability to get into the lane and get easy shots. Adams is the only one who can, and I think Gilbert will be able to as well.
 
If true, this is key for our depth. As others have pointed out, the backcourt would be quite thin next year since aside from Gilbert, the new guys are mostly 3-4-5's. The only question is whether KO can properly handle the rotations.

If Purvis is willing to play the Tony Robertson role off the bench, great. If KO or he thinks that he's going to be an on-ball leader merely by virtue of seniority, we're no better off than this year with the Gibbs/Adams debacle.
 
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Tenspro2002 said:
If true, this is key for our depth. As others have pointed out, the backcourt would be quite thin next year since aside from Gilbert, the new guys are mostly 3-4-5's. The only question is whether KO can properly handle the rotations.

If Purvis is willing to play the Tony Robertson role off the bench, great. If KO or he thinks that he's going to be an on-ball leader merely by virtue of seniority, we're no better off than this year with the Gibbs/Adams debacle.
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Agree with the bolded part. KO needs to do better with his rotations.

On the second part, I think Gilbert's better as a change of pace guy. We'll see, for sure. But talented freshman guards make a lot of mistakes, and one goal of the coaching staff is to ween them into their position so that they succeed more than fail.

Starting Adams--provided he can shoot better, which again we should all expect he will--should provide enough dribble penetration early in the game and allow us to bring in Gilbert in less stressful situations and as a change of pace guy.

This is particularly true if he--like Adams and Napier and many other freshmen--struggles from the 3 in his first season.

Reports say he and Jackson are great 3 point shooters. They said the same about Napier, Lamb, Daniels, Adams and a host of others. It takes time for those kids to adjust (Lamb being the only one who came through). Giffey was a terrible shooter, and then he wasn't. Napier was mediocre and then great. Unless Adams is a much better shooter, or Gilbert comes in blazing like KEA, Gordon, or Anderson, we have to be careful of starting Adams-Gilbert-Hamilton for spacing purposes.
 
krinklecut said:
For the past week everyone on here has been telling me how stupid I am for saying there's no way he's leaving. Love the vindication.
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It was more the fact that he was hinting at leaving all year and he'd have his degree. Appears he changed his mind.
 
Stairmaster said:
I was wrong about this, and I am pleasantly surprised. All you folks who are booing this news are the worst kind of reactionary s. .
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And here you are not two days from your "Perspective" post, calling people who disagree with you "s." Nice.

I'm not reactionary at all. I just disagree, from a basketball perspective, that Purvis is a a good fit for the team. People point to his scoring and his "lock down" defense.

Let's start with the "lock down" defense. Guy averages a block every 10 games and just under 1 steal a game, and doesn't rebound particularly well. Dyson averaged a block every other game and almost 2 steals and 4 boards a game. I'm missing something here. Purvis is a good on-ball defender. Team D? Lock down? Not buying it.

Regarding his offense, he's streaky as hell, and he's not a high BBALL IQ player. That results in things like double dribbles in the closing minutes, turnovers at inopportune times, and the like.

I don't like him getting big minutes on the team because I think he has a net negative impact on everybody around him. I don't think he's being intentionally damaging, I just don't think he plays good team ball, which is almost always the key to winning.

I'd like to see a team without him on it because I want to see the talent gel without him being in the mix.

That's just an opinion - no more, no less. It can certainly be stupid and wrong and baseless or whatever, but no need to say "reactionary" - I've had two years to reach this opinion on his bball game (not him personally) or that I'm an - it's a basketball conversation for lord's sake. Take your own advice and chill out.
 
No problem with this at all - Rodney might be the best recruiter in the program outside of Kevin Ollie.

He's frustrating and out of control at times, but that might be part of being the only player outside of Jalen who thinks it's a good idea to move towards the basket sometimes.

This will run better with Jalen/Alterique next year - that'll help Rodney in a big way.
 
lange10 said:
I don't mind Purvis coming back if Ollie learns to run sets that gets guys open 3's with their feet set (wish we were doing it this year with Gibbs). Purvis is a shaky ball handler and Adams/Alterique need to be running the show next year.

1. Adams
2. Purvis
3. Hamilton
4. Enoch/Larrier/Facey
5. Brimah

6th man: Alterique

Sure, playing Brimah and Enoch at the same time may be a bad idea but I think it could work. Enoch has shown a nice stroke. If he learns KO's defensive principles I think he can play the 4.
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Larrier is a 3 not a 4...take a look at a pic of him. He's skinnier than Rudy Gay.
 
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I'm happy to hear this. Give AG some development and adjustment cushion. Having a senior veteran guard is not a bad thing.
 
intlzncster said:
Dude, come on. They are giving the ball to the PGs. You don't think Ollie wants to have dynamic, skilled PGs? That would 'magically' fix a LOT of our issues this year.
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Any sane person would think so but I'm beyond frustration with Ollie's lineups, he had Cassell in the game last night for crissakes.
 
tzznandrew said:
Agree with the bolded part. KO needs to do better with his rotations.
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Tenspro2002 said:
If true, this is key for our depth. As others have pointed out, the backcourt would be quite thin next year since aside from Gilbert, the new guys are mostly 3-4-5's. The only question is whether KO can properly handle the rotations.
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superjohn said:
Any sane person would think so but I'm beyond frustration with Ollie's lineups, he had Cassell in the game last night for crissakes.
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One of the reason I think KO is so bad with rotations this year, is he just doesn't have the options. He's mixed and matched so much, just hoping to find something. But the reality is, as I've mentioned ad nauseum, he's got .5 PGs on this team.

I mean, I just don't think it's because KO has mental deficiencies. His rotations in 2014 were fantastic. We had the personnel.
 
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Fishy said:
No problem with this at all - Rodney might be the best recruiter in the program outside of Kevin Ollie.

He's frustrating and out of control at times, but that might be part of being the only player outside of Jalen who thinks it's a good idea to move towards the basket sometimes.

This will run better with Jalen/Alterique next year - that'll help Rodney in a big way.
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Totally agree with that. I mentioned in another thread, that the lack of an experienced top shelf PG this year, has exacerbated every one else's deficiencies, particularly those of Purvis, Gibb, and Hamilton.
 
TasteofUConn said:
And here you are not two days from your "Perspective" post, calling people who disagree with you " s." Nice.

I'm not reactionary at all. I just disagree, from a basketball perspective, that Purvis is a a good fit for the team. People point to his scoring and his "lock down" defense.

Let's start with the "lock down" defense. Guy averages a block every 10 games and just under 1 steal a game, and doesn't rebound particularly well. Dyson averaged a block every other game and almost 2 steals and 4 boards a game. I'm missing something here. Purvis is a good on-ball defender. Team D? Lock down? Not buying it.

Regarding his offense, he's streaky as hell, and he's not a high BBALL IQ player. That results in things like double dribbles in the closing minutes, turnovers at inopportune times, and the like.

I don't like him getting big minutes on the team because I think he has a net negative impact on everybody around him. I don't think he's being intentionally damaging, I just don't think he plays good team ball, which is almost always the key to winning.

I'd like to see a team without him on it because I want to see the talent gel without him being in the mix.

That's just an opinion - no more, no less. It can certainly be stupid and wrong and baseless or whatever, but no need to say "reactionary" - I've had two years to reach this opinion on his bball game (not him personally) or that I'm an - it's a basketball conversation for lord's sake. Take your own advice and chill out.
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I recognize that there are many fair points of criticism as it pertains to Purvis's game, be it BBIQ or inability to finish. However, I took a lot of umbrage at the ideas that "he isn't UConn special and never has been", or "thanks, but your effort wasn't good enough", or insinuating that Purvis is somehow the main culprit behind this season as if he's so much more responsible than any other player or coach. We are a depressingly flawed team as it is. I also disagree vehemently that he should be relegated to playing 5-10 minutes a game. Thinking he offers zero value to the team speaks to a direct personal bias against him on the part of whomever says that. What are you going to do, put Jalen out there for 40 minutes and Alterique for 35? As for the defense thing, his man-to-man defensive ability is an eye test thing and not based on block and steal totals in the box score. Most people who don't have a pre-existing disposition against him would agree.

Bottom line, I have a very strong personal stance against people being d.icks to players here. You and others may disagree for a variety of reasons, but it's not cool in my book and that's an opinion I will continue to assert.
 
Crack just beat me to it but anyone who thinks it's not good for a Rodney Purvis to be part of the program for another year is whacked. He is frustrating at times, who isn't on this team? But he plays defense better than anyone, gets the tough assignment and does a really good job on that end. He's improved his 3 point shooting and we can expect that and some more. Love him to finish when going to the hoop and maybe he will. This is a 5th year guy with a great attitude and does great things away from the court too - please rethink your position on him I am very happy he will be back. Makes us deeper and more experienced. Have you seen the 25th ranked player int he country at PG for us as a frosh? Up and down so to have people this incoming class can learn from is huge.
 
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