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[QUOTE="superjohn, post: 5321783, member: 1522"]
There was a poster who started a thread that was something like Tarris Reed is going to have the best season ever from a UConn center.  He caught a lot of heat for it and I feel it was undeserved.

In terms of strictly #'s I think Tarris has a decent chance at having the best statistical season we've ever had from a center.  I expect a monster season from him, something like 17/12/3 on 65% shooting. We're not going to see anything close to an even split in minutes again at the position.  I'm high on Reibe's potential and what he can give us as a freshman but Tarris is miles ahead of him at this point.  I've said in the past we will have a two headed monster again at center and I'm backtracking on that a bit.  We'll have that in a way because their skills are so different just as Sanogo and freshman Donovan were so different but we're going to need to ride and rely on Tarris more.  I expect something around 30 mpg for him.  This isn't a knock on Reibe, I just think the Kodiak is that good.

In the seven games Tarris played 25 or more minutes last season he averaged 17.1 ppg, 11.6 rebs, 2.9 blocks on 71% shooting from the field.
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