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Message: [QUOTE="DogMania, post: 5115851, member: 21"] Thanks for linking that clip of some practice highlights. He definitely looks like a player who can eventually earn meaningful minutes here at some point, even if they continue to recruit top 35 players. Think about it. He's only 2 games into his sophomore season, and looked pretty good in that clip against rotation players and pretty darn good during the end of the last game. I wonder if many think he's been here a lot longer, forgetting he was part of the Castle, Ball, Stewart and Ross class. For a raw sophomore new to the game, I think he's developing nicely. Some players new to the game never quite get there and the game is just too fast for them. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think he's going to be fine in that regard and just needs time to get stronger and develop. I don't think he decided to return to sit on the bench for 3 or 4 years. I think Hurley believes in him and Singare is betting on himself, or however that saying goes. It's just a matter of time. He's relatively new to the game and is only going to get better. He looks plenty athletic enough for this level and seems to be starting to fill out and get stronger. I'm rooting for him and hope he gets some spot situational PT at some point in the season. What makes that challenging is that they have so many small ball options with Karaban, Stewart and even McNeeley who could eat up a few minutes at the 5. I don't know if many teams have one to two long physical bigs where we would need him in the lineup if both SJ and Reed are in foul trouble, but maybe that's the type of situation that Singare might just get some run. I'd at least like to see how he would handle that in a game where the outcome looks in our favor or in some stinker where the team is not playing well, which seems to happen each year. When I think about some of the raw bigs that came to UConn and developed into starting or solid backup 5s, he doesn't look that much different at comparable stages. Hasheem Thabeet, Amida Brima, Travis Knight, Souleymane Wane to name a few. Wane never quite got the feel of the game but was a serviceable backup. The other three went through serious growing pains to the angst of many fans on the Boneyard before establishing themselves as solid starters. Even then, many complained about holes in their games to very end of their UConn careers. [/QUOTE]

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