Reibe and Furphy at FIBA U19s

[Lafayette]

Many like predicting playing time, who sees the floor and who will sit. Hurley and his staff will figure it out.

With that said, Furphy, even though he's not a plus athlete, has an advanced offensive game and approach, that should earn him some playing time. One major factor for who plays and who sits will be how well they perform on the other end of the floor and ball security.

One particular skill that I noticed he's very good at getting into the paint and drawing fouls. Now granted the Big East offials allow a lot of contact, but if he gains a reputation of drawing contact, that might continue to be one of his plus capabilities.

There will be a learning curve and how well each player and collective rotation perform will impact who plays, who sits and for how long.

Throughout last year's season, the staff had a significant problem getting the rotations to play consistently on both ends of the floor. Lots of turnovers and inability to stop penetration. As the season went on the bench shrunk. This coming season, the options on the perimeter are much better and more deep. The frontcourt seems to bit thin. The more the team shows cohesion with multiple combinations, the more the PT will get spread around. There will be lots of opportunity to earn minutes. Karaban, Ball, Reed Jr and Demary Jr, all proven performers, will all get a lot of PT. The rest will be battling for whatever PT is available. Those who show they can defend, make solid decisions, demonstrate ball security, learn to execute the multi-action motion offense, though we might see a little less of that, and be productive when they play against high level teams, which there are a lot on the schedule, will have a leg up on the others. I'm not sure who that will be.

One thing about Furphy and that team. He is the best on it.

When he comes to UConn his "supporting cast" will be highly elevated.

 

[auror]

Australia and Cameroon in a battle with 5 minutes left. Let's see if Furphy can come up big against a more athletic team.

 

[k-walk]

This team is so hard to watch

 

[aceboon]

AUS playing really tight, missing wide open floaters in the middle of the zone, turning down open 3s when they swing the ball vs the zone, now Dyson Daniels brother blows an easy layup

 

[auror]

This team is so hard to watch

Couple guys that can't do anything, couple guys that do active harm to their own team.

 

[david]

This team is so hard to watch

If Siulepa played for UConn I don't think I could watch them

 

[aceboon]

Lol @ the brain fart by the Cameroon player, received the inbound and scored on his own basket

 

[aceboon]

If Siulepa played for UConn I don't think I could watch them

If he goes to college next year he's gonna have to learn he's a role player and do dirty work

 

[aceboon]

Wild game, both these teams are doing stupid stuff

 

[traitor71]

Lol @ the brain fart by the Cameroon player, received the inbound and scored on his own basket

He didn't just score, he threw it down as emphatically as one could do. Cameroon with a master class on how not to close out a game.

 

[aceboon]

He didn't just score, he threw it down as emphatically as one could do. Cameroon with a master class on how not to close out a game.

 

[aceboon]

Double OT, whenever it appears that Cameroon has it wrapped up they give Australia life again

 

[auror]

Double OT for Australia. Furphy has played almost the whole game, he's exhausted.

 

[his dudeness]

Heading to double OT.

Siulepa is 7/21 from the field, seems like half of his attempts don't even hit rim.

Furph is cold from 3 but having another solid game overall and leads the team in +/-

 

[husky429]

Double OT for Australia. Furphy has played almost the whole game, he's exhausted.

Jetlag and the overuse has gotta be killing him right now. 4/17 from 3 is not typical for him. Nor is the 4 personal fouls

 

[husky429]

Team high +17 right now despite playing basically the entire game. The entire Australian team falls apart when Furphy sits

 

[auror]

Jetlag and the overuse has gotta be killing him right now. 4/17 from 3 is not typical for him. Nor is the 4 personal fouls

Couple of the fouls were because Australia was down 6 twice with under a minute to go (both in regulation and OT).

 

[ec33]

I am rooting for the team in the lead at this point, so the game will mercifully end.

 

[husky429]

I'm really not seeing it with Dash Daniels. How is this kid a projected lottery pick? I haven't watched the game but he looks barely better than a bunch of kids that aren't even sniffing the NBL. Obviously an NBA frame and speed, but idk what else

 

[FreeKlaiber]

Heading to double OT.

Siulepa is 7/21 from the field, seems like half of his attempts don't even hit rim.

yea but most of his shots hit at least the side of the backboard

reminds me of watching an 8th grader who stayed back a year, just try to manhandle the other team with no skills at all but the samoan Barkley takes it to a new level

 

[ec33]

How is Siulepa in at the end of the game on an offensive possession? And why are they covering him?

 

[k-walk]

Weirdest game i’ve watched in a while

 

[aceboon]

Australia vs France winner determines who advances out of the group besides the US?

 

[husky429]

How is Siulepa in at the end of the game on an offensive possession? And why are they covering him?

He'll have a great rugby career. The kid hasn't seen a passed he liked yet in this tournament... 21 shots for him is 15 too many. Reminds me of Angel Reese with the bricks and boards.

 

[auror]

He'll have a great rugby career. The kid hasn't seen a passed he liked yet in this tournament... 21 shots for him is 15 too many. Reminds me of Angel Reese with the bricks and boards.

He made 2 passes that I saw. One was a no look big-to-big pass through 2 people that got picked off, and the other was a hospital pass out to the wing with 1.5 seconds on the shot clock.