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Stewart on crutches....

Possible 3 games in 3 days somehow Hurley has to get rest for Silas and Karaban. So either Smith can play 5-8 minutes or we will have to run with Ross, Mullins, Ball and no Silas for a few. Could Karoma get 4-5 minutes as a defender and rebounder while Karaban rests as we go with Ross and a center up front? I doubt we bring 2 bigs at this point and Hurley is always protecting Tarris with Reibe minutes for fouls and rest purposes. Really hurts our BE chances with no Stewart.
 
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Two years in a row with personnel mistakes coming home to roost at year's end.

Fourteen man roster with two four year veterans brought in only to be stuck on the bench getting minor minutes, two freshmen being redshirted and a third with cameos in a few games. Plus two portal guys, one struggling early and the other late.

It's hard to say Malachi was a mistake because he saved us early on, but something changed after about ten games. Almost the same with Reibe. He was so good early I figured he would be a key guy down the stretch and in the tournaments but now who knows. There was that odd reference Dan Hurley made a month or so ago about Reibe's people, or some similar reference, that almost sounded like there'd been a falling out and it seems Reibe's minutes have decreased.
 
Scrutineer said:
Two years in a row with personnel mistakes coming home to roost at year's end.

Fourteen man roster with two four year veterans brought in only to be stuck on the bench getting minor minutes, two freshmen being redshirted and a third with cameos in a few games. Plus two portal guys, one struggling early and the other late.

It's hard to say Malachi was a mistake because he saved us early on, but something changed after about ten games. Almost the same with Reibe. He was so good early I figured he would be a key guy down the stretch and in the tournaments but now who knows. There was that odd reference Dan Hurley made a month or so ago about Reibe's people, or some similar reference, that almost sounded like there'd been a falling out and it seems Reibe's minutes have decreased.
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Reibe is still pretty solid. His defense still needs some work and he's not a bucket like Reed, but he is good for 6-10 pts depending on how much time he plays and rebounds pretty well. He does his job well of spelling Reed and giving extended minutes if he has foul trouble, and the more minutes he plays in a game the more impact he seems to have.

That said, Reed is better right now and should get most of the minutes, this isn't a center by committee year. However, I do think Hurley should have a little quicker hook on Reed when he's playing one of his lackidasical games and put Reibe for some extended time.

I'm not sure what Reibe's camp could really be that unhappy about, he's playing about 15 mpg (to Reed's 25 mpg). I can't imagine Hurley would have suggested he would get more than that this year with senior Reed on the team. Granted its been more like 10 mpg recently since Tarris has been playing well, but he still gets 15-20 mpg occasionally.
 
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UCTitleTown said:
I'll never forget when a likely national championship was derailed by Jerome Dyson's torn meniscus. Was there ever a more impactful UConn injury than that?
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AJ Price 2008?

Special K 2000?

Scheffer the same year Ricky was hurt?

Marcus Williams 2005?

All point guards, all hurt in March, all resulting in early exits from the dance
 
Scrutineer said:
Two years in a row with personnel mistakes coming home to roost at year's end.

Fourteen man roster with two four year veterans brought in only to be stuck on the bench getting minor minutes, two freshmen being redshirted and a third with cameos in a few games. Plus two portal guys, one struggling early and the other late.

It's hard to say Malachi was a mistake because he saved us early on, but something changed after about ten games. Almost the same with Reibe. He was so good early I figured he would be a key guy down the stretch and in the tournaments but now who knows. There was that odd reference Dan Hurley made a month or so ago about Reibe's people, or some similar reference, that almost sounded like there'd been a falling out and it seems Reibe's minutes have decreased.
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I have zero issue with bringing in Koroma and Millender. They were here to be practice players and good teammates, and by all accounts, they have done both exceedingly well. You cannot have a 15-man viable roster with NIL and just playing time. What high D1 portal guy is going to come in to be the 14th man? The two overseas guys were total projects and roster filler. Could we have maybe found others? Who knows. That's far above my paygrade.

Little Ross was never going to play. He's a roster filler, and I'd imagine probably a favor of sorts with a redshirt promise. Furphy probably had a chance to get minutes, but was sidelined early and never caught up.

The bench issue is that, again, the guys we did bring/keep have been incredibly inconsistent, and in reality, we have only had 6 fairly consistent guys all year, and this with Reibe taking a little step back recently. I love Ross, and he's been impactful lately and had great moments and really poor moments. Same can be said for Stew, except his rough moments have been more as of late. Malachi was fantastic early in the season and was outplaying Silas. Now, Malachi is barely playable. I don't fault Dan Hurley for bringing him in. He was considered an excellent get. Just hasn't worked out as intended.
 
Scrutineer said:
Two years in a row with personnel mistakes coming home to roost at year's end.

Fourteen man roster with two four year veterans brought in only to be stuck on the bench getting minor minutes, two freshmen being redshirted and a third with cameos in a few games. Plus two portal guys, one struggling early and the other late.

It's hard to say Malachi was a mistake because he saved us early on, but something changed after about ten games. Almost the same with Reibe. He was so good early I figured he would be a key guy down the stretch and in the tournaments but now who knows. There was that odd reference Dan Hurley made a month or so ago about Reibe's people, or some similar reference, that almost sounded like there'd been a falling out and it seems Reibe's minutes have decreased.
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You actually thought Millender and Koroma were brought in to play real minutes?
 
uconn_jack said:
Reibe is still pretty solid. His defense still needs some work and he's not a bucket like Reed, but he is good for 6-10 pts depending on how much time he plays and rebounds pretty well. He does his job well of spelling Reed and giving extended minutes if he has foul trouble, and the more minutes he plays in a game the more impact he seems to have.

That said, Reed is better right now and should get most of the minutes, this isn't a center by committee year. However, I do think Hurley should have a little quicker hook on Reed when he's playing one of his lackidasical games and put Reibe for some extended time.

I'm not sure what Reibe's camp could really be that unhappy about, he's playing about 15 mpg (to Reed's 25 mpg). I can't imagine Hurley would have suggested he would get more than that this year with senior Reed on the team. Granted its been more like 10 mpg recently since Tarris has been playing well, but he still gets 15-20 mpg occasionally.
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Reibe will be fine once we play outside of the big east, just like earlier this season. He's just not physically there YET, for the big east.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
I gotta ask, why? What has he shown that makes you think that he should enter the rotation in the Big East tournament?
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I’ve told this story before but I went to an early season Husky game years ago and Chad Wise (RIP) scored like 4 points and had a couple of assists in a blowout. The older gentleman sitting in front of me swore that he was going to be a huge contributor that season and we’d see big things from him. I said, “I don’t think so, we’re playing (I don’t remember who), this isn’t Cuse or Pitt”. He scoffed and said “You just watch”. Pretty sure Ben, Taliek, Caron, TRob, etc were on that roster so while Chad had a nice dunk in that game, minutes would be sparse. I think he played in 11 games that season in mop up minutes. Not a criticism, the guys in front of him were just some of the best in the country…

I think about this interaction a lot when wondering what on earth would possess people to have the opinions they have here at times and realize, maybe those guys who were sitting in front of me 20+ years ago learned how to use the interweb and now have screen handles.

If Koroma or Furphy are on the floor at any point before the final minute of the second half, we’re more than likely in deep poo.
 
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I will say one of the negatives of the Hurley era has been injuries. Not only them happening so often but the fact is seems Hurley has little idea of who is hurt, why they are hurt, or for how long they will be out.

3 examples from this year alone. Tarris Reed ankle injury. Karaben phantom injury ("moving like a cargo ship?") and now the Stewart injury.
IIRC, Hurley thought Reed was good to go for a game and found out minutes before he was a no go. Now he thought Stewart would be ready for Marquette but he is expected to be out until the 2nd weekend of the tourney? That is a huge time frame disconnect.

Hurley and the training staff don't seem to be on the same page, and it needs to get sorted.
 
Mets1432 said:
I will say one of the negatives of the Hurley era has been injuries. Not only them happening so often but the fact is seems Hurley has little idea of who is hurt, why they are hurt, or for how long they will be out.

3 examples from this year alone. Tarris Reed ankle injury. Karaben phantom injury ("moving like a cargo ship?") and now the Stewart injury.
IIRC, Hurley thought Reed was good to go for a game and found out minutes before he was a no go. Now he thought Stewart would be ready for Marquette but he is expected to be out until the 2nd weekend of the tourney? That is a huge time frame disconnect.

Hurley and the training staff don't seem to be on the same page, and it needs to get sorted.
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They obviously know what is going on. They just don't tell us.
 
Mets1432 said:
I will say one of the negatives of the Hurley era has been injuries. Not only them happening so often but the fact is seems Hurley has little idea of who is hurt, why they are hurt, or for how long they will be out.

3 examples from this year alone. Tarris Reed ankle injury. Karaben phantom injury ("moving like a cargo ship?") and now the Stewart injury.
IIRC, Hurley thought Reed was good to go for a game and found out minutes before he was a no go. Now he thought Stewart would be ready for Marquette but he is expected to be out until the 2nd weekend of the tourney? That is a huge time frame disconnect.

Hurley and the training staff don't seem to be on the same page, and it needs to get sorted.
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This? Stewart is 6th man often started for Mullins or Liam. But right now that’s it. Duke is down 2 starters. Other teams have stsrters injured so it’s March and better our starters or key bench was injured earlier in the season.
 
oshkosh said:
The AJ Price injury in the NCAAT vs San Diego was also bad because the impact was the most immediate.
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I think the biggest one was actually the brain clot that almost killed him. Leaving aside the ensuing laptop scandal and suspension (no way to know if that same scandal happens in a parallel world where he stayed healthy), he would have been an experienced sophomore on that 2006 team that badly needed backcourt quickness on defense and a secondary ballhandler on offense. The 2005 team had Price and Rashad (staph infection) with serious hospital stays.

But, if Price stays healthy, he graduates in 2008, and the whole Kemba arc maybe changes. Wouldn't want to mess with any timelines that would alter that.
 
Stewart is out people. We have a three day tournament this week. We’re a mild injury away from playing one of the “ good practice teammates “.
 
Being a Bronx NYC born and raised, Malachi may get it going in front of his people, his hometown crowd. Everybody got a story.

We're gonna miss Stewart all the way through this weekend. All you folks who don't think Jaylin makes substantial contributions to this team are crazy.
 
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BigErnMcCracken said:
I gotta ask, why? What has he shown that makes you think that he should enter the rotation in the Big East tournament?
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The short bits I’ve seen makes me think he’s got a good bbiq. The film from last year against the USA team showed that too. Also looked like a shooter, and we need another one of those. And he’s a warm body that’s available, and we need some minutes from someone.
 
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