Sanogo Okafor Comparison At This Stage

[jibsey]

Thoughts?

 

[temery]

They both have six letters in their name. Three vowels and three consonants. They're both tall.

 

[dogpause]

Okafor was great, but Sanogo appears to have the potential to be even better.

 

[Offhegoes]

Okafor was great, but Sanogo appears to have the potential to be even better.

That’s a brutal take. Emeka was NBA rookie of the year, first team All American his junior year, NCAA champion and most outstanding player in the tournament, 2X national defensive player of the year. Sanogo hasn’t scored over 8 points vs Hartford and Central. Love your optimism, but pump the breaks. I don’t see that.

 

[calluke]

Two different players. Emeka was taller and best blocker I've ever seen. Sanago is more built and has more offensive capabilities at this point then okafor did.

 

[Rico444]

Sanogo doesn't have anywhere close to the same defensive instincts as Okafor did, and that is in no way an insult. Emeka was as special a defender as we've ever had.

 

[Umami Zen]

Each had/have talent in their own way.. Don't know if AS will ever have the vertical jumping ability of Mek.. But smart players play to their strengths and limit exposing their weaknesses.. AS is a space- eater with his size.. Uses his body well..

 

[BGesus4]

Sanogo appears to be on a path to be a more skilled scorer (more moves, better touch), but he doesn't have the length and athleticism of Okafor.

I feel like Dejuan Blair/Adrien is a better analogy for his game.

 

[Lefty2one]

Okafor was the best collegiate player this program has ever had.

 

[Ajs120102]

new UConn players don’t always equate or are similar to old UConn players.

 

[Griffman]

Okafor was great, but Sanogo appears to have the potential to be even better.

No more soup for you! One year!

 

[8893]

Thoughts?

Bloodies or mimosas?

 

[metsfan2323]

Okafor was the best collegiate player this program has ever had.

That used to be true, but now I think Kemba is his equal. Both were the best players in the country their junior year and both led their team to a championship.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Okafor was the best collegiate player this program has ever had.

 

[Sphinx]

Although listed at 6-9, Sanogo is definitely shorter than Polley and barely taller than Jackson when standing side by side on the court. Probably 6-7 plus. He hasn't the height of a true center and, when combined with limited leaping ability, you have the reason for his contributing so little rim protection in the first two games. He's not going to be a shot blocker, so he will never challenge Okafor defensively. Offensively, he's has to be tested against a true big-time front line, but I have a suspicion he will always find a way to bulk his way to the basket. I think he'll eventually be every bit Okafor's match offensively.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Okafor was great, but Sanogo appears to have the potential to be even better.

Wake up it’s morning

 

[Rocktheworld]

Okafor was great, but Sanogo appears to have the potential to be even better.

You forgot to log into your Scrappy3.0 account

 

[AuRevoirAAC]

Through two games, he definitely has similar tendencies to guys like Jeff Adrien, Alex Oriakhi and Shonn Miller.

That said, he has one block on the season. An Emeka comparison is simply not there...yet.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

That used to be true, but now I think Kemba is his equal. Both were the best players in the country their junior year and both led their team to a championship.

And yet, only Okafor was named Conference Player of the Year, and neither was judged NCAA Player if the Year

 

[UCTitleTown]

Toraino Walker before JC ran him out of the program.

 

[ucp990411]

Okafor was great, but Sanogo appears to have the potential to be even better.

Holy cra

Okafor was great, but Sanogo appears to have the potential to be even better.

Holy crap - drink much?

 

[ucp990411]

Toraino Walker before JC ran him out of the program.

Toraino ran himself out of the program

 

[mauconnfan]

Toraino Walker before JC ran him out of the program.

Interesting comparison. But this makes me more curious as to the story of JC running him out of the program please tell me how this happened?

Anyway Sanogo can be a much better Oriahki to me. His offense is already better as his left hand is really good.

 

[8893]

Anyway Sanogo can be a much better Oriahki to me. His offense is already better as his left hand is really good.

And he comes without AO, Sr.

 

[CTBasketball]

These takes are hot!! Too hot!!

 

[Chin Diesel]

Bloodies or mimosas?

I was thinking more on line of the same weed Snoop was smokin' last night before he did his boxing commentary.

 

[BParkDog]

Two games is far too few to judge his career potential. Let's let the young fella play at least 4 or 5 games. Then, we judge.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Toraino Walker before JC ran him out of the program.

Toraino ran himself out of the program

Physically yes. I mentioned this in the chat room the other night. @superjohn correctly mentioned Sanogo is a much better offensive player than Toraino, but in terms of being physically ready down low on day one, I still think that is the best UConn comp.

 

[Umami Zen]

My two cents..Out of respect for Emeka's impressive resume at UConn.. I will wait for AS to play two or three seasons before making any comparisons... AS has potential.. Not sure if it's Emeka potential..

 

[SubbaBub]

Someone looked up such meaningful games of Oak's career such as Marathon Oil?

The squad is clearly better, but yet struggled for long stretches against CCSU and UHa.

At least the guy comparing people to better players of the dark years is at least being realistic. Oak was beating on future NBA players as a freshman. Let's woah up a bit until they beat somebody good.