Sanogo Okafor Comparison At This Stage

[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.

 

[Waquoit]

Holy cra

Holy crap - drink much?

You or the poster? Can't tell.

 

[BGesus4]

10 years from now, Sanogo could be better.

Okafor will be almost 50

 

[Palatine]

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

Okafor was the #2 player taken in the NBA draft. So Sanogo would have to become the #1 player in the draft to be considered better.

BTW, Okafor was miles ahead Sanogo on defense at this point in his career. EO was an incredible shot blocker with impeccable timing. Sanogo has shown nothing of the sort.

Sanogo appears to have a world of potntial. But let's stay on Earth with these posts.

 

[ucp990411]

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.

Watch the Maui Invitational from 2010 and then tell me Sanogo's offense is better than Oriahki's

 

[BGesus4]

Watch the Maui Invitational from 2010 and then tell me Sanogo's offense is better than Oriahki's

Oriakhi didn't improve much over his career but he came in and was an instant impact player. Very mature for a freshman in terms of game as a big.

 

[ucp990411]

You or the poster? Can't tell.

Yup, this guy struggles at the keyboard sometimes. And I don't drink or do drugs so I can't blame it on that.

 

[superjohn]

Oriakhi didn't improve much over his career but he came in and was an instant impact player. Very mature for a freshman in terms of game as a big.

The Maui Invitational was Oriakhi's sophomore season, Sanogo is going to be better than Oriakhi.

 

[nadav]

The Maui Invitational was Oriakhi's sophomore season, Sanogo is going to be better than Oriakhi.

That would be fine by me. Mr O may have been a pain in the neck, but Alex was a good player for us.

 

[Watchdog]

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..

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I can't say we've seen enough evidence about Sanogo's jumping ability or lack thereof yet, but I can say Okafor stuffed many dunk attempts against the rim as a freshman. He couldn't get off the floor high enough to dunk. That improved dramatically by his sophomore year though and the rest is history.

 

[Watchdog]

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

Votes must have been tabulated with Smartmatic software............

 

[BGesus4]

The Maui Invitational was Oriakhi's sophomore season, Sanogo is going to be better than Oriakhi.

Yeah my point was he was the same then as he was as a freshman, which was a very effective player, but not a star by any stretch

 

[Umami Zen]

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I can't say we've seen enough evidence about Sanogo's jumping ability or lack thereof yet, but I can say Okafor stuffed many dunk attempts against the rim as a freshman. He couldn't get off the floor high enough to dunk. That improved dramatically by his sophomore year though and the rest is history.

Definitely small sample size for AS.. Coach Mike can help with the hops.. Exciting future for him.. Looking forward to this week's games and watch him bang with some bigger guys..

 

[nelsonmuntz]

And people get mad at my threads.

 

[metsfan2323]

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

I didn't say NCAA player of the year, I said Okafor and Walker were each the best player in the country their JR. year. That's my opinion and I stand by it with confidence. Jameer Nelson and Jimmer Fredette don't have any championship rings.

 

[mauconnfan]

Watch the Maui Invitational from 2010 and then tell me Sanogo's offense is better than Oriahki's

Don’t need to hes better as a freshman than Oriahkis was at the same time. His left hand is a ton better Alex’s left hook was a throw all 3 years.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Why do we insist upon doing this? Making these dumb comparisons? They aren’t similar players. I loved watching Emeka. I look forward to watching Sanogo.

 

[RichZ]

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

Please refrain from toking before posting.

 

[Husky92]

Ok, so for giggles I decided to look up Okafor’s first two games for comparison. In 2001, we played Vanderbilt and New Hampshire as the first games of the season. Okafor had a monster first game(Vandy) and came back to earth second game(NH). He averaged 8.5 pts, 9.5 rbs, 3 blk per game.
By contrast, against CCSU and Hartford Sanogo averaged 8 pts, 4.5 rbs, .5 blk.
Points may be similar, but Okafar more than doubled his rebounds and had 6x as many blocks.
Okafor also started and played more minutes, so take it for what it’s worth.

I like Sanogo, but let’s give his some time to grow into a better college player and enjoy it while we can!

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I didn't say NCAA player of the year, I said Okafor and Walker were each the best player in the country their JR. year. That's my opinion and I stand by it with confidence. Jameer Nelson and Jimmer Fredette don't have any championship rings.

I was rolling eyes at the Big East and the NCAA, not you. They were both best in conference and NCAA that year, in addition to NCs. And I think I'd give the edge to Kemba too, but the 11 game stretch gets counted in, as well as Makers Muppet.

 

[Stainmaster]

Okafor was the #2 player taken in the NBA draft. So Sanogo would have to become the #1 player in the draft to be considered better.

This seems like a weird way to authoritatively rank players. Was Anthony Bennett a better player than Okafor?