Silas Demary Visit

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Solo doesn’t have some of those natural instincts to finish, but you’re right he can learn some of those things. He’s got such a great frame for being a + finisher.

When or if we add a piece like Silas plus Mullins, that should open up a ton of opportunities and more space.

He doesn’t and it’s something to work on. Being great in the midrange helps you get to the rim even easier though.

Bigs and guards will have to play up even when in the lane, leaving the rim more open. Compared to if they know you can’t shoot it they can bail towards protecting the rim.

 

[UCan3]

He doesn’t and it’s something to work on. Being great in the midrange helps you get to the rim even easier though.

Bigs and guards will have to play up even when in the lane, leaving the rim more open. Compared to if they know you can’t shoot it they can bail towards protecting the rim.

I would happy if he could work on protecting the ball…. It cost us perhaps 2 games this season.…

At the end of the game… you don’t have to look up and look to make a crazy pass…

Just dribble low, protect the ball and MOVE!

 

[UConnSwag11]

I can’t believe the nitpicking

 

[Scot-e]

I can’t believe the nitpicking

Really? Seems normal around here.

 

[UConnSwag11]

 

[FearThePups]

I can’t believe the nitpicking

I can.

 

[bendm]

Oooooooo

assuming this means Demary asked tipton to start mocking up a UConn announcement graphic?

 

[JoeyBuckets]

You guys nitpicking this guys game are insane. Would be a hell of a pickup. The team will be better if he commits. That should be all that matters.

 

[Peacefrog]

94 defensive grade, boy do I like the sound of that.

 

[uconn_jack]

He’s still 6-5 and can be vulnerable to ball pressure. Marquette and St. John’s are ball pressure teams and he struggled. Outliers, but you want options on those days when maybe he’s facing a defender or a defense that forces him to focus more on protecting the ball and our offense bogs down. For all his strengths, we don’t have a great passing 2 in Solo, and if Demary is off his game, there’s not a lot of other places to go on our current roster.

Doron wasn’t terribly quick so that analogy doesn’t necessarily work. But Hass was a nice change of pace from Newton sometimes the way he could push the ball off the dribble.

But of course we need Demary to make it official before we figure out how to build around him. First things first!

Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with a shorter defensive minded PG with great handle. I would take another Diarra in a heartbeat.

 

[Icehawk]

I guess those Capitol Grille meals are the real thing, 'cause this is CLOSED! He should be exactly what we want.

 

[uconn_jack]

He doesn't have a TON of high-level passing reads in his bag. Lobs, dump off, drive and kicks are there. He's certainly a very good passer. Just not GREAT the way a guy like Tristen was. There isn't the fluidity and timing in the PnR the best passers have. More mechanical. It will be interesting to see how our staff trains him up in the zoom and chin actions we love so much. I suspect we could get him to >4 assists next year simply because of our offensive structure.

I agree, but the ability to do more in our offense seems to be there.

 

[mauconnfan]

 

[Kolumbo]

I keep seeing Silas Deane. He should wear # 99

 

[CL82]

SayLess Demerara Jr.

SayLess ... because he lets his game do his talking for him!

 

[CL82]

I can’t believe the nitpicking

It's like you don't know us at all.

 

[jibsey]

Bingo!

 

[Ha Who]

I keep seeing Silas Deane. He should wear # 99

NIL ad in there

 

[Robrio89]

Silas in his introductory press conference said Tarris Reed is coming back.

Great news all around

 

[Hunt for 7]

This is exactly what we needed. Wow this is just a terrific pick up. He was getting better as the year went on. I think given the right match of players on the floor he will get assists.

He is also strong, played through contact on a few of those dunks. One at the beginning of the tape 429 posted (thank you for that by the way) he got hammered no foul called and he just turned around did not complain and sprinted back to get into position. Thats good because we know he ain’t gettin no calls in the BE. That ship has sailed….it was already kind of bad before Hurley got here with Calhoun’s legacy… so what….we still got more chips than anyone else in the last 25 years.

Plays the passing lanes really well. Hope he cheats against the right players in that sense as a few of those steals with a better passer on the other team may have turned into open threes but that is nit picking. Cam used to get in passing lanes well too and Silas is longer and quicker than Cam. Man he may have had more fast break lay ups and dunks than our entire team.

This is truly exciting. Surrounding him with two of the best shooters in the country should be lethal. Solo, Mullins and Silas sound like a great back court to me. One or two more portal adds like this and I already can’t wait for next season to start.

I am not even gonna mess with the last name he will be Silas in my posts. I already have enough spelling issues.

This was a good day for us!!

 

[Gurleyman]

This is exactly what we needed. Wow this is just a terrific pick up. He was getting better as the year went on. I think given the right match of players on the floor he will get assists.

He is also strong, played through contact on a few of those dunks. One at the beginning of the tape 429 posted (thank you for that by the way) he got hammered no foul called and he just turned around did not complain and sprinted back to get into position. Thats good because we know he ain’t gettin no calls in the BE. That ship has sailed….it was already kind of bad before Hurley got here with Calhoun’s legacy… so what….we still got more chips than anyone else in the last 25 years.

Plays the passing lanes really well. Hope he cheats against the right players in that sense as a few of those steals with a better passer on the other team may have turned into open threes but that is nit picking. Cam used to get in passing lanes well too and Silas is longer and quicker than Cam. Man he may have had more fast break lay ups and dunks than our entire team.

This is truly exciting. Surrounding him with two of the best shooters in the country should be lethal. Solo, Mullins and Silas sound like a great back court to me. One or two more portal adds like this and I already can’t wait for next season to start.

I am not even gonna mess with the last name he will be Silas in my posts. I already have enough spelling issues.

This was a good day for us!!

Just think of it as if we recruited former shortstop Ivan DeJesus’ son, we’d have Demary and DeJesus: two-thirds of DeHoly family.

Just don’t capitalize the m.

 

[superjohn]

The more I watch from these "plugged in" guys with podcasts I realize they're not really plugged in. Dauster doesn't even know Solo is coming back. I like to support these guys but this is 20 minutes of nonsense.

 

[auror]

The more I watch from these "plugged in" guys with podcasts I realize they're not really plugged in. Dauster doesn't even know Solo is coming back. I like to support these guys but this is 20 minutes of nonsense.

The UConn podcast is clearly just Dauster's side passion project that he barely has any time to work on. He tweeted that he knew he was coming back and didn't want to spoil it, so had to pretend he wasn't sure. And then was too busy and missed that he had already announced it.