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UConNick said:
Donyell Marshall, Rip Hamilton, Khalid el-Amin, Charlie Villanueva, Rudy Gay, Andrew Bynum (sigh), Kemba Walker, and I'm probably missing some other top 15-20 players. That guys gotta be trolling, right?
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Some dude named Caron as well. BGordon was 25 that year i believe so i guess doesn't fit the narrative
 
I say stuff that I think will happen.. I knew freeman was being rehired I didn’t think they would have 2 guys doing almost the same job.
 
PG: Jalen Adams, Brendan Adams, Alterique Gilbert
SG: Tarin Smith, Christian Vital
SF: Tyler Polley, Sidney Wilson
PF: Kwintin Williams, Mamadou Diarra, Isaiah Whaley
C: Eric Cobb, Josh Carlton

I like that squad to win 20+ games.
 
JimOllie said:
PG: Jalen Adams, Brendan Adams, Alterique Gilbert
SG: Tarin Smith, Christian Vital
SF: Tyler Polley, Sidney Wilson
PF: Kwintin Williams, Mamadou Diarra, Isaiah Whaley
C: Eric Cobb, Josh Carlton

I like that squad to win 20+ games.
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Give me Brendan Adams or give me death!
 
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Add Jalen to the 2 line as well. In all likelihood the more time he spends there the better we are doing.
 
JimOllie said:
PG: Jalen Adams, Brendan Adams, Alterique Gilbert
SG: Tarin Smith, Christian Vital
SF: Tyler Polley, Sidney Wilson
PF: Kwintin Williams, Mamadou Diarra, Isaiah Whaley
C: Eric Cobb, Josh Carlton

I like that squad to win 20+ games.
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Criticism of Vital aside, if Tarin Smith wasn’t able to crack the starting lineup at Duquesne last year, I’d feel uncomfortable slotting him in here. Let him be what AA was supposed to be.
 
JimOllie said:
PG: Jalen Adams, Brendan Adams, Alterique Gilbert
SG: Tarin Smith, Christian Vital
SF: Tyler Polley, Sidney Wilson
PF: Kwintin Williams, Mamadou Diarra, Isaiah Whaley
C: Eric Cobb, Josh Carlton

I like that squad to win 20+ games.
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Hoping the first guy listed at each spot wouldn't be your desired starting line up.
 
Stainmaster said:
Criticism of Vital aside, if Tarin Smith wasn’t able to crack the starting lineup at Duquesne last year, I’d feel uncomfortable slotting him in here. Let him be what AA was supposed to be.
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In no way was I implying the first guys listed at their positions would be starters. Smith would be the 4th guard at best.
 
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bazzketball13 said:
Thanks for helping me prove my point. This kid is 10th overall. Not 20th.
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Rivals had Kemba Walker at 14 and has Lecque at 13. According to you we never signed Kemba Walker and he never played here since we've never recruited anyone ranked that high before. This is ignoring the fact that Drummond was #2 and that some other guys were ranked around 10 which has already been pointed out to you
 
JMick said:
Rivals had Kemba Walker at 14 and has Lecque at 13. According to you we never signed Kemba Walker and he never played here since we've never recruited anyone ranked that high before. This is ignoring the fact that Drummond was #2 and that some other guys were ranked around 10 which has already been pointed out to you
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Your the one that’s including leque in next seasons plans. Be realistic, tell me why a 5 star would forgo his senior season to come to a team coming off 2 losing seasons, new coaching staff not a talented roster over a team like UNC? His home school. Hurley is going to have to show the world he can win and they will come. To think any 5 star is coming in 2018..please
 
Stainmaster said:
Criticism of Vital aside, if Tarin Smith wasn’t able to crack the starting lineup at Duquesne last year, I’d feel uncomfortable slotting him in here. Let him be what AA was supposed to be.
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If he starts here or if he plays as many minutes here as Anderson did, we’re not going to be very good. He’s a very, very similar player to Anderson.

And now, my tepid defense of Antoine Anderson.

The problem wasn’t really that he was not what we thought, it’s that the role he played was not the one he was suited for. (It was a little like Tony Robertson’s early career....he came in as a scoring guard and his career was diminished because we had to use him at point due to the fact that Marcus Cox was terrible.)

As a third ball-handler subbing in for Adams and Gilbert, I think Antoien would have been much more effective...but we had to play him 31 minutes a night and that exposed him pretty badly. (It exposed Vital, too.)

But, to his credit, I think he did help us avoid absolute disaster - I cannot imagine what last season would have looked like if we just had Adams and Vital handling the ball. Adams would have dissolved into a mist from the workload and Vital would have post-traumatic stress from the turnover rate.
 
Fishy said:
As a third ball-handler subbing in for Adams and Gilbert, I think Antoien would have been much more effective...but we had to play him 31 minutes a night and that exposed him pretty badly. (It exposed Vital, too.)

But, to his credit, I think he did help us avoid absolute disaster - I cannot imagine what last season would have looked like if we just had Adams and Vital handling the ball. Adams would have dissolved into a mist from the workload and Vital would have post-traumatic stress from the turnover rate.
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Anderson should have been Ricky Moore, instead we needed to use him Tony Robertson.
 
bazzketball13 said:
Your the one that’s including leque in next seasons plans. Be realistic, tell me why a 5 star would forgo his senior season to come to a team coming off 2 losing seasons, new coaching staff not a talented roster over a team like UNC? His home school. Hurley is going to have to show the world he can win and they will come. To think any 5 star is coming in 2018..please
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You do realize we're his home school, right? He's from the Bronx. Plays AAU on the Nike circuit with Rens out of NYC. Just goes to prep school in NC. There are a heck of a lot more reasons to pick a school besides previous year's record. I don't understand why you're trying so hard to marginalize a program I assume you loved at one point. Hopefully when Hurley has us back on track you'll come back around, too.
 
bazzketball13 said:
Your the one that’s including leque in next seasons plans. Be realistic, tell me why a 5 star would forgo his senior season to come to a team coming off 2 losing seasons, new coaching staff not a talented roster over a team like UNC? His home school. Hurley is going to have to show the world he can win and they will come. To think any 5 star is coming in 2018..please
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Wrong again, he's not from North Carolina you idiot. You have not made one good post or prediction since you started posting here. 99% of what you've said is objectively false.
 
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bazzketball13 said:
Your the one that’s including leque in next seasons plans. Be realistic, tell me why a 5 star would forgo his senior season to come to a team coming off 2 losing seasons, new coaching staff not a talented roster over a team like UNC? His home school. Hurley is going to have to show the world he can win and they will come. To think any 5 star is coming in 2018..please
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Please go away. You’re an obvious troll who knows nothing, and litters the board with nonsense. Just leave.
 
bazzketball13 said:
Your the one that’s including leque in next seasons plans. Be realistic, tell me why a 5 star would forgo his senior season to come to a team coming off 2 losing seasons, new coaching staff not a talented roster over a team like UNC? His home school. Hurley is going to have to show the world he can win and they will come. To think any 5 star is coming in 2018..please
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Think '19 - '20 and hold on for this year. New coach? Yes. Major roster upgrade? Ummm...... Idk.

I want Carlton to prove me wrong but I'm not seeing what some others are with him or Diarra. I want to be wrong.

If Polley doesn't come around, where is the outside game? Love CV's heart. Does anybody see him at 40% shooting?

Go Huskies
 
Ewekon said:
Think '19 - '20 and hold on for this year. New coach? Yes. Major roster upgrade? Ummm. Idk.

I want Carlton to prove me wrong but I'm not seeing what some others are with him or Diarra. I want to be wrong.

If Polley doesn't come around, where is the outside game? Love CV's heart. Does anybody see him at 40% shooting?

Go Huskies
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You expected a "major roster upgrade" in less than 4 weeks??

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blue93 said:
The fact that it looks like we’re headed towards a full roster after a coaching change is impressive in itself. Some people just like to complain.
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I feel like we've been trapped in a cave for 3 years, we just got shown the way out, and this guy next to us is complaining that it's too bright.
Really, you can't have it both ways.
Dan Hurley will right this ship, and quickly, but it's not - nor can it be - instant.
The internet has made everybody so damn impatient . . . .
 
I would not be surprised to see Smith starting alongside JA next year. Kid knows the system already and averaged 13 points in the A10 last year while being their best perimeter defender. He's much better than the recent grad transfers we had on the defensive end. 2 Senior guards will give us the best chance to win while AG works his way back. Also having 2 starting guards graduating is a good talking point for all these 2019 guards we're targeting.
 
Ewekon said:
Think '19 - '20 and hold on for this year. New coach? Yes. Major roster upgrade? Ummm. Idk.

I want Carlton to prove me wrong but I'm not seeing what some others are with him or Diarra. I want to be wrong.

If Polley doesn't come around, where is the outside game? Love CV's heart. Does anybody see him at 40% shooting?

Go Huskies
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Carlton showed more ability as a freshman than many previous UConn bigs as freshman. It's only a question of development for him. I liked him more than Enoch, that's for sure. And I expect him to far exceed Gavin Edwards.
 
UcannUconn said:
I would not be surprised to see Smith starting alongside JA next year. Kid knows the system already and averaged 13 points in the A10 last year while being their best perimeter defender.
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I've never seen Smith play but that description sounds exactly like Antwoine Anderson a year ago at this time. And he didn't look good enough to get starter minutes at this level in an average UConn season (this season was way below average).
 
HooperScooper said:
I've never seen Smith play but that description sounds exactly like Antwoine Anderson a year ago at this time. And he didn't look good enough to get starter minutes at this level in an average UConn season (this season was way below average).
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Smith will not be starting if things go the way we hope. CV has earned that spot unless rique comes back with no rust ready to go
 
AntG168 said:
Smith will not be starting if things go the way we hope. CV has earned that spot unless rique comes back with no rust ready to go
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It’s all pure speculation but my guess is that Hurley starts who’s ever the better defender. Which, IMO, is Smith. AG I would guess is going to be coming off the bench in a limited role until we have full confidence in his shoulder. I also suspect we’ll see a lot of 3 guard lineups. Fast pace, full court pressure since we’re not a good shooting team but we are fast and fairly athletic.
 
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