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Stewart on crutches....

HW611 said:
If Marquette had a better interior presence they’re probably a much better team.

Shaka has to either develop Hamilton and Clark better for next year or grab a guy out of the portal. Gold hasn’t been great controlling the paint for them.
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If Shaka doesn't leverage the portal with that core, he's be a buffoon.
 
RuffRuff said:
If Shaka doesn't leverage the portal with that core, he's be a buffoon.
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They’re probably a tournament team if they grabbed Georgetown’s Vince and moved Gold to the 4.
 
gsmooth said:
All of that is true what you said, but that last statement, oof. Sure he would've helped vs Marquette, but that's not good if Stewart is the difference between winning and losing vs Marquette.
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Not “is” the difference. “Could have been” the difference. He’s really Alex’s only sub.
 
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So who’s going to get some minutes off the bench now? Any candidates?
 
Letsgohuskies11 said:
Ross gets more I guess? From the lack of playing time I'm guessing Karoma and Millender are unplayable?
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If TV timeouts in the Big East Tournament are longer than the regular season, just like the NCAAT TV timeouts are longer, Hurley probably goes with an 8-man rotation with Riebe, Malachi, and Ross off the bench. If they are not, Hurley probably still goes with an 8-man rotation. Koroma really doesn't provide much of anything on offense, but defensively is the closest player to Stewart that I can think of. All I know is with a possibility of 3 consecutive days of games Karaban should not play close to 40 minutes a game, but it won't surprise me if he does.
 
gsmooth said:
If TV timeouts in the Big East Tournament are longer than the regular season, just like the NCAAT TV timeouts are longer, Hurley probably goes with an 8-man rotation with Riebe, Malachi, and Ross off the bench. If they are not, Hurley probably still goes with an 8-man rotation. Koroma really doesn't provide much of anything on offense, but defensively is the closest player to Stewart that I can think of. All I know is with a possibility of 3 consecutive days of games Karaban should not play close to 40 minutes a game, but it won't surprise me if he does.
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Silas shouldn't be playing 40 either, just tough because Malachi hasn't been reliable
 
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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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Hurley said that, with no setbacks, Stewart is still "in line" to play in the NCAA Tournament, which begins next week. According to a source, Stewart probably wouldn't be ready until the tourney's second weekend.

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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.
 
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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.
 
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