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Sheffer was up in Storrs for a few days this week (solid Dom Amore piece in the Courant about his visit) and is spending the weekend in Stamford as the scholar-in-residence at my synagogue. I spent some time talking to him after morning services today. We talked about both the Mississippi State and UCLA losses, but he wanted to hear more about my son’s pre-college gap year experience so far in Jerusalem. Incredibly humble, soft spoken, learned guy who turned his personal battle with cancer into a lifetime mission to inspire and help people be their best versions of themselves.

He remains close with Ray Allen (and Ollie). Sheffer and Ray did some great things together in that UConn backcourt, including those three straight Big East regular season titles, but the impact both have had outside of basketball is equally remarkable and makes me proud to be a lifelong UConn men’s basketball fan.
 
karstenkibbe said:
Sheffer was up in Storrs for a few days this week (solid Dom Amore piece in the Courant about his visit) and is spending the weekend in Stamford as the scholar-in-residence at my synagogue. I spent some time talking to him after morning services today. We talked about both the Mississippi State and UCLA losses, but he wanted to hear more about my son’s pre-college gap year experience so far in Jerusalem. Incredibly humble, soft spoken, learned guy who turned his personal battle with cancer into a lifetime mission to inspire and help people be their best versions of themselves.

He remains close with Ray Allen (and Ollie). Sheffer and Ray did some great things together in that UConn backcourt, including those three straight Big East regular season titles, but the impact both have had outside of basketball is equally remarkable and makes me proud to be a lifelong UConn men’s basketball fan.
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Thank you for sharing. A very underrated Husky was very consistent and best long dime passer ever on the break.
 
karstenkibbe said:
Sheffer was up in Storrs for a few days this week (solid Dom Amore piece in the Courant about his visit) and is spending the weekend in Stamford as the scholar-in-residence at my synagogue. I spent some time talking to him after morning services today. We talked about both the Mississippi State and UCLA losses, but he wanted to hear more about my son’s pre-college gap year experience so far in Jerusalem. Incredibly humble, soft spoken, learned guy who turned his personal battle with cancer into a lifetime mission to inspire and help people be their best versions of themselves.

He remains close with Ray Allen (and Ollie). Sheffer and Ray did some great things together in that UConn backcourt, including those three straight Big East regular season titles, but the impact both have had outside of basketball is equally remarkable and makes me proud to be a lifelong UConn men’s basketball fan.
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Wonderful. I love his story as much as I loved his game. God Bless.
 
mauconnfan said:
Thank you for sharing. A very underrated Husky was very consistent and best long dime passer ever on the break.
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True that, I feel like that's when the fast break reached a new level, the pass beat all the dribbling down the floor. Marcus Williams was a tremendous long outlet passer as well, and Donny Marshall might go down in history as the biggest recipient of long transition passes at UConn.
 
A long story but I was on a vendor call with mostly Europeans. I mention I’m from Connecticut and one guy speaks up and asks me if I like basketball.
I’m like bruh, they kick you out of the state if you don’t.
He asks me if I ever heard of Dorom sheffer?
I’m like , I was a student when he played and he was a great player.
Turns out this guy was from the same hometown as dorom and tells me what a great person he is. He had a picture of him and dorom during a charity event and how he is always supporting the community.
great ammbassador of the UConn program.
 
karstenkibbe said:
Sheffer was up in Storrs for a few days this week (solid Dom Amore piece in the Courant about his visit) and is spending the weekend in Stamford as the scholar-in-residence at my synagogue.
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Here's the Dom Amore article for those interested.

“I am a believer, I am a Jew and one of the biggest messages we have to bring to the world is that there is always hope,” Sheffer said.

His theme was personal accountability. Making changes in one’s own life, he reasons, a healthier lifestyle, relationships, inner peace, can help change the world.

“We are not angels, we are human beings,” he said. “We are meant to fail, to make mistakes. If we blame each other, it is hell. If we take responsibility, it is bonding, it is brotherhood, it is heaven. … Everyone wants to be more happy, feel less anxiety, less fear, with body and mind health.”


The RuffRuff Alternate Access™:
This former UConn men’s basketball legend brings his hopeful message from Israel back to CT
 
karstenkibbe said:
Sheffer was up in Storrs for a few days this week (solid Dom Amore piece in the Courant about his visit) and is spending the weekend in Stamford as the scholar-in-residence at my synagogue. I spent some time talking to him after morning services today. We talked about both the Mississippi State and UCLA losses, but he wanted to hear more about my son’s pre-college gap year experience so far in Jerusalem. Incredibly humble, soft spoken, learned guy who turned his personal battle with cancer into a lifetime mission to inspire and help people be their best versions of themselves.

He remains close with Ray Allen (and Ollie). Sheffer and Ray did some great things together in that UConn backcourt, including those three straight Big East regular season titles, but the impact both have had outside of basketball is equally remarkable and makes me proud to be a lifelong UConn men’s basketball fan.
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Did you ask how Nadav is doing?
 
Dove said:
Did you ask how Nadav is doing?
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It was on my mental checklist. There were so many people waiting to talk to him and I didn’t get to the topic of Nadav. I know they live in very different parts of the country. Nadav in the Tel Aviv area and Doron in an agricultural community in the Galilee up north. I have heard that Nadav and Burrell stay in touch.
 
karstenkibbe said:
It was on my mental checklist. There were so many people waiting to talk to him and I didn’t get to the topic of Nadav. I know they live in very different parts of the country. Nadav in the Tel Aviv area and Doron in an agricultural community in the Galilee up north. I have heard that Nadav and Burrell stay in touch.
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Did you guys go to Marlowe Artisanal Ales afterward?
 
HooperScooper said:
Here's the Dom Amore article for those interested.

“I am a believer, I am a Jew and one of the biggest messages we have to bring to the world is that there is always hope,” Sheffer said.

His theme was personal accountability. Making changes in one’s own life, he reasons, a healthier lifestyle, relationships, inner peace, can help change the world.

“We are not angels, we are human beings,” he said. “We are meant to fail, to make mistakes. If we blame each other, it is hell. If we take responsibility, it is bonding, it is brotherhood, it is heaven. … Everyone wants to be more happy, feel less anxiety, less fear, with body and mind health.”


The RuffRuff Alternate Access™:
This former UConn men’s basketball legend brings his hopeful message from Israel back to CT
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Thanks for the link. Sounds like a great guy doing great work.

Ollie still gets some understandable flack on this board but I always enjoyed watching Kevin and Doron work together along with Ray. Fun teams to watch.

Has anybody read his book “Mensch, VP” as referenced in link? Paperback is available on Amazon for $11.99.
 
I was at a UC-SH game in NJ sitting near the end of the court. I recall a UConn def rebound and an amazingly fast break developing down the court. In what seemed like a half second after the rebound, a supersonic bullet of a pass from Sheffer came toward our corner almost full court for a UC lay-up! I was stunned at how quickly that developed and played out! A masterpiece fast break that I remember to this day.
 
I attended the same Sports and Human Rights summit at the Dodd Center. On Thursday night, we had a speaker dinner at the Alumni House on Hilltop Road. Beforehand, we had a tour of the Husky HOF. Doron spent a considerable amount of time sitting in the rotunda area of the basketball section. It was evident that he was reflecting and absorbing everything. He is incredibly humble. I believe that most attendees of the conference were unaware of his significance. I had a brief conversation with him and another woman, and at one point, I even remarked to her, “You have no idea how much of a big deal he was when he played here.”
 

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