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MadDogRevival said:
I'll repeat this here . . . and every time this comes up. Because I feel that strongly about it.
Shabazz Napier is the THE greatest Husky of all time.
Played significant minutes as a Frosh backing Kemba - was a critical piece to our 2011 ship. STAYED during the Ollie transition, allowing us to stay relevant. Pretty much threw the team on his back down the stretch and brought us #4.
If you take him out, we definitely don't have 4 and maybe don't have 3.
Greatest Husky ever, and I love the rest (Allen, El Amin, Hamilton, Kemba, Okafor, and so on).
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If you take Jeremy Lamb out you don’t have a 3rd or Boat no 4th. No doubt what he did was simply amazing he was the key to 4 but like all of the NCs so many pieces for it to happen besides the obvious Rips, Emekas, Kembas and Bazzs. There’s an argument for quite a few Huskies some who played well before all the recent successes. Being a major piece in 2 of them certainly gives you serious consideration for having the winner. It’s a fun debate I’m not even sure I could actually single anyone out.
 
Austin316 said:
Absolute love Shabazz I’m just a Knicks fan.
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You missed the joke. Willie was asking what Bazz did to you for you to want him to suffer in a Knicks uniform. I’m looking forward to seeing more of his games now.
 
mauconnfan said:
If you take Jeremy Lamb out you don’t have a 3rd or Boat no 4th.
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Come on Mau. We've been doing this for about 7 or 8 years now. My point was, "the guy was an important part of 11 and THE reason we won 14." So that's two. You cannot seriously counter with, "yeah but these two guys were important to 1."

I get why Shabazz doesn't get more votes in the "greatest Husky ever" poll. It's part legitimate argument, and part the guy just doesn't look the part.

I mean, you've got a guy like Ben Freaking Gordon, with 40" vertical, tremendous athleticism, incredible long ball. You've got Ray Allen - one of the greatest shooters in the history of the planet. Had his own movie.

Shabazz - undersized. Don't recall him ever dunking. Not particularly athletic. Didn't make a big splash in the NBA.

I get it. It's tough to vote for somebody for homecoming queen when there are multiple hotter chicks in the running.

Not just 2 natties, one of which has his name carved in it for the ridiculous hero-ball he played and the other of which he played significant important minutes as a Frosh. He also kept the program together during the beginning of our darkest time, pulling a Natty out of the jaws of the dark beast that Ollie created, on the way down, while most of us didn't suspect the rot that was about to set in.
 
MadDogRevival said:
Come on Mau. We've been doing this for about 7 or 8 years now. My point was, "the guy was an important part of 11 and THE reason we won 14." So that's two. You cannot seriously counter with, "yeah but these two guys were important to 1."

I get why Shabazz doesn't get more votes in the "greatest Husky ever" poll. It's part legitimate argument, and part the guy just doesn't look the part.

I mean, you've got a guy like Ben Freaking Gordon, with 40" vertical, tremendous athleticism, incredible long ball. You've got Ray Allen - one of the greatest shooters in the history of the planet. Had his own movie.

Shabazz - undersized. Don't recall him ever dunking. Not particularly athletic. Didn't make a big splash in the NBA.

I get it. It's tough to vote for somebody for homecoming queen when there are multiple hotter chicks in the running.

Not just 2 natties, one of which has his name carved in it for the ridiculous hero-ball he played and the other of which he played significant important minutes as a Frosh. He also kept the program together during the beginning of our darkest time, pulling a Natty out of the jaws of the dark beast that Ollie created, on the way down, while most of us didn't suspect the rot that was about to set in.
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Not sure I disagreed???
 
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UConn990411 said:
The new Nets management seems to have its together, so this might not be the career disaster many of you are predicting it to be.
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I really like what he’s done recently.

From drafting levert and Allen, to using cap space to get picks from teams like Denver and getting Russell from the lakers.

Plus he got Harris and dinwiddie off the scrap heap for peanuts.
 
UConn990411 said:
The new Nets management seems to have its together, so this might not be the career disaster many of you are predicting it to be.
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I think Nets fans are (and should be) happy with the direction of the franchise under Marks.

Now that they're done tanking on behalf of the Celts, I'm rooting for them as a Brooklynite.
 
Don’t you know ... Shabazz coached the 2014 National Championship
 
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NEforceUConn said:
Shabazz - This sums it up for me as one of the Greatest Huskies:




The run off the court to locker room is awesome.

ps Dan H - show that clip to recruits.
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Love love love playing big out of conference opponents at Gampel. I believe we have Arizona coming in this year. Would be a huge win for the program! Like that Texas game when they came in ranked #1(2?) in the country years back.
 
Stainmaster said:
Here's a slightly biased take:

The team boils down to a very promising young center, talented yet extremely inconsistent wing players, and two interesting combo guards; D'Angelo Russell showed that getting out of LA was great for his game, but he's made of glass, and Spencer Dinwiddie played well above his means last year but I'm not quite sold on his ability to do that over the long haul.

Aside from Joe Harris, the bench is weak as heck. We literally have no guard depth to speak of. A couple more guys will probably come in, but he has an excellent shot at carving out a large role. Out of the three PGs on the roster currently, Bazz is by far the best outside shooter. My inclination is that offense will be the key to get him entrenched in the rotation.

It's a 4th/5th place team, but by no means are they at the absolute cellar.
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And a great venue
 
MadDogRevival said:
Come on Mau. We've been doing this for about 7 or 8 years now. My point was, "the guy was an important part of 11 and THE reason we won 14." So that's two. You cannot seriously counter with, "yeah but these two guys were important to 1."

I get why Shabazz doesn't get more votes in the "greatest Husky ever" poll. It's part legitimate argument, and part the guy just doesn't look the part.

I mean, you've got a guy like Ben Freaking Gordon, with 40" vertical, tremendous athleticism, incredible long ball. You've got Ray Allen - one of the greatest shooters in the history of the planet. Had his own movie.

Shabazz - undersized. Don't recall him ever dunking. Not particularly athletic. Didn't make a big splash in the NBA.

I get it. It's tough to vote for somebody for homecoming queen when there are multiple hotter chicks in the running.

Not just 2 natties, one of which has his name carved in it for the ridiculous hero-ball he played and the other of which he played significant important minutes as a Frosh. He also kept the program together during the beginning of our darkest time, pulling a Natty out of the jaws of the dark beast that Ollie created, on the way down, while most of us didn't suspect the rot that was about to set in.
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I'm cool with not being able to single out just one Husky player as the best of all time. There have been several players who could contend for this; better that they each share in a part of it.
 
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NEforceUConn said:
Shabazz - This sums it up for me as one of the Greatest Huskies:




The run off the court to locker room is awesome.

ps Dan H - show that clip to recruits.
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sledog said:
W/o going to archives, what time of yr was that game?
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Mr. French said:
December.
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Great game.

but I'm still trying to figure out how they won the rematch after scoring 4 points for literally about the first 27% of the game.
 
the Q said:
Great game.

but I'm still trying to figure out how they won the rematch after scoring 4 points for literally about the first 27% of the game.
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From the 9 minute mark of the Florida first half through the 6 minute mark of the Kentucky first half might be the greatest stretch in program history. They outscored Florida and Kentucky 89-52 over a span of about 43 minutes.

The three minute mark of the Duke game through whenever we took our foot off against Tech has to be up there, too, but that was as a favorite. We knocked Florida and Kentucky out cold as what, a combined 10-point underdog?
 
champs99and04 said:
From the 9 minute mark of the Florida first half through the 6 minute mark of the Kentucky first half might be the greatest stretch in program history. They outscored Florida and Kentucky 89-52 over a span of about 43 minutes.

The three minute mark of the Duke game through whenever we took our foot off against Tech has to be up there, too, but that was as a favorite. We knocked Florida and Kentucky out cold as what, a combined 10-point underdog?
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I have to look back what they did sandwiches around that Louisville game in 09 and around the dismantling of Kentucky in 2011 in the preseason tourney. Those are the only other 2 that immediate jump out at me as potential options without doing any heavy research.
 
champs99and04 said:
From the 9 minute mark of the Florida first half through the 6 minute mark of the Kentucky first half might be the greatest stretch in program history. They outscored Florida and Kentucky 89-52 over a span of about 43 minutes.

The three minute mark of the Duke game through whenever we took our foot off against Tech has to be up there, too, but that was as a favorite. We knocked Florida and Kentucky out cold as what, a combined 10-point underdog?
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And I’m still annoyed at the bs 2nd foul on Daniels, who was retreating.

Gave that game way more heartburn than it needed to have
 
the Q said:
And I’m still annoyed at the bs 2nd foul on Daniels . . .
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Definitely. Could have easily been the "but for" moment that we all looked back upon had it not worked out. Daniels was taken out of his game early.

Really shows how seasoned that team was. Shabazz was unshakeable, and that leadership permeated the team.

Still occasionally rewatch the 2nd half sequence where Shabazz hit a tough 3 and Giffey hit two threes - one from dead straight - to keep Kentucky at arm's length. When Giffey hit the 2nd one, that's when I had my first, "I think we're going to do this" moment. Just got goosebumps thinking about it.
 
MadDogRevival said:
Definitely. Could have easily been the "but for" moment that we all looked back upon had it not worked out. Daniels was taken out of his game early.

Really shows how seasoned that team was. Shabazz was unshakeable, and that leadership permeated the team.

Still occasionally rewatch the 2nd half sequence where Shabazz hit a tough 3 and Giffey hit two threes - one from dead straight - to keep Kentucky at arm's length. When Giffey hit the 2nd one, that's when I had my first, "I think we're going to do this" moment. Just got goosebumps thinking about it.
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1) Funny, that was my moment to say the same thing. Although it was more like "holy crap, they can really pull this off"...which was amazing because 2

2) the way they kept letting Kentucky get the lead back down to 1, only to extend it with some tough shots like the Boat step back fade, it was great. Those mistakes on guarding Giffey were just monstrous though.

3) the other "but for" moment could've been when Boat just destroyed his ankle. I'm amazed that he was able to finish that. It looked awful.
 
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the Q said:
1) Funny, that was my moment to say the same thing. Although it was more like "holy crap, they can really pull this off"...which was amazing because 2

2) the way they kept letting Kentucky get the lead back down to 1, only to extend it with some tough shots like the Boat step back fade, it was great. Those mistakes on guarding Giffey were just monstrous though.

3) the other "but for" moment could've been when Boat just destroyed his ankle. I'm amazed that he was able to finish that. It looked awful.
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Agree with every point here. It's crazy to re-watch that game and see how they simply refused to give in. Kentucky just could not grab the lead. Those Giffey threes in particular were gigantic.
 
champs99and04 said:
From the 9 minute mark of the Florida first half through the 6 minute mark of the Kentucky first half might be the greatest stretch in program history. They outscored Florida and Kentucky 89-52 over a span of about 43 minutes.

The three minute mark of the Duke game through whenever we took our foot off against Tech has to be up there, too, but that was as a favorite. We knocked Florida and Kentucky out cold as what, a combined 10-point underdog?
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Off memory it was 16-4 FLA and we made it 16-15 in about 2 minutes.
 
MadDogRevival said:
Definitely. Could have easily been the "but for" moment that we all looked back upon had it not worked out. Daniels was taken out of his game early.

Really shows how seasoned that team was. Shabazz was unshakeable, and that leadership permeated the team.

Still occasionally rewatch the 2nd half sequence where Shabazz hit a tough 3 and Giffey hit two threes - one from dead straight - to keep Kentucky at arm's length. When Giffey hit the 2nd one, that's when I had my first, "I think we're going to do this" moment. Just got goosebumps thinking about it.
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Great recollection, I could have written that post.

And @tcf15 has given me plenty of YouTube resources to re-live those magic moments.
 
NEforceUConn said:
The run off the court to locker room is awesome.
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Haha - Love the run off, but did you that Bazz did it because he's claustrophobic and didn't want the midcourt congratulatory scrum? Still, it looks terrific though. "Bang, we're done."

(FWIW, I rank Kemba and Bazz as 1 and 1a. Give Kemba the edge because his support was so young and he really carried the team and 11 games in a row is legendary. Of course Bazz's "This is what happens when you ban us speech" is AWESOME. So yeah, 1 and 1a, and I see how people could flip the order. )
 
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CL82 said:
Haha - Love the run off, but did you that Bazz did it because he's claustrophobic and didn't want the midcourt congratulatory scrum? Still, it looks terrific though. "Bang, we're done."

(FWIW, I rank Kemba and Bazz as 1 and 1a. Give Kemba the edge because his support was so young and he really carried the team and 11 games in a row is legendary. Of course Bazz's "This is what happens when you ban us speech" is AWESOME. So yeah, 1 and 1a, and I see how people could flip the order. )
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I get it. You all missed the first 20 years of Jim Calhoun. We all feel loved here in NostalgiaVille. But the Rise ... was more fun. By a lot.

We need a new board - the young playground kids could hang out.
 
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