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Fairfield_1st said:
I didn't think he improved all that much. Still in foul trouble and still trying to block every shot. His offense consisted of lobs that essentially came from one person, DHam. I think if DHam isn't there, you see no difference between the Fr and So years. I will cut him slack in that I didn't expect much change given his off-season shoulder surgery and having no chance to do much other than ride a bike to stay in shape. With a healthy off-season this year, I'm expecting more.
The obvious comparison is Thabeet. He's not as good as Thabeet yet, and Thabeet has been in and out of the NBA and D League for 5 seasons now. You can't teach height, so he'll surely get drafted, but I expect he'll be here all 4 years and will need all of that time to develop.
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I disagree with even the comparison with Thabeet. Thabeet was 7-3, Brimah is 6-11, maybe 7-0. Those three inches are a big difference. Thabeet was also a lot less mobile. They got blocks in very different ways, heck even the way they were used on defense was vastly different. Thabeet had no position but the five in college or the NBA. Brimah may actually be more suited as a four in the NBA eventually.

Even if you do want to compare them, he may not be at Thabeets level right now in terms of effect on the game (I'll give you that) but that doesn't mean he didn't have vast improvements. I'd argue Brimah wasn't as good as Thabeet as a freshman in terms of raw effect on the game and he arguably wasn't as a sophomore relative to sophomore Thabeet but that doesn't mean Brimah didn't vastly improve because Thabeet also vastly improved between freshman and sophomore year.

There is a logical difference between improvement and being as good as another player.
 
caw said:
Brimah may actually be more suited as a four in the NBA eventually./QUOTE]
I struggle to see Brimah at the 4. Really I struggle to see where he fits at the next level period. He doesn't seem to have the strength of a 4 and I haven't seen enough of his mid range game to know if he can step out a bit and hit the 10-12 footer on a regular basis. At the 5, I haven't seen a progression yet with his back to the basket moves and again, strength is an issue. Hopefully he's a gym rat this summer and we can wipe those concerns out. They were much talked about last season, but it didn't translate into the games.
My comparison to Thabeet is based on them both being fairly skinny shot blockers with very raw offensive games and both playing the 5. I recognize there's a height difference and some other nuances to their games, but to my eyes I see AB at the moment as being a baby HT. I can only hope he makes the same jump HT did between his So and Jr years. I would be a happy man if that happened.
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UConn990411 said:
Hmm, no to all of this.
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I hear what you're saying, but the comparison is what my eyes see. As I just mentioned elsewhere, they are both skinny shot blocking pivots with raw offensive games. Both made their mark on the defensive end well before the offense consistently kicked in. Having a healthy summer I look forward to what we see this year. I'd love to see some added strength and a little maturation on the defensive end with regard to his decision on whether to block a shot or not.

I'm done discussing AB on this thread. Welcome Terry Larrier. You made the right choice this time.
 
Husky25 said:
Weren't we talking about Terry Larrier?
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You have to wait until after he suits up for at least one Uconn game, then yarders can bash him in a thread about some other future recruit. Plus I've learned in this thread that there is a chance Terry Larrier may not even really exist.
 
Doheny said:
Okafer was a three star when he graduated HS. After working with a coach and listing weights all summer, he gained skill and twenty pounds of muscle, and he was 4+ by the time he got to Stores. Calhoun's luck was finding a kid with that much self-discipline.
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I said I would come back and prove you were way off. Here you go.

O.K., first off the recruiting rankings were all updated for the last time in April of 2001. Before Okafor graduated. Here are some of the rankings: https://sites.google.com/site/rscihoops/home/2001-final. So he was already into the top 100 at that point in most rankings. He was playing AAU basketball since he hadn't committed anywhere yet he was still eligible to play as a senior. He played really well at an event in Pittsburgh and that's when Calhoun went hard after him.

Here's an article from the Hartford Courant when he committed to play at UConn (April 2001 - Not sure why the article is dated November 13, 2002, that's impossible): http://www.courant.com/hc-okafor0420-story.html

Without taking you back to the spring of 2001 I don't know what else to tell you.
 
ollie needs to keep his foot on the gas with recruiting, we do need size upfront at the 4 and 5
 
Durks07 said:
We were. Then, we did the BY Shuffle. We're one "20 minutes" post and an idiotic remark away from this becoming another pizza thread.
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Great.

Now I'm starving.
 
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did anybody follow shaka to texas from vcu? do we play texas in 2016-2017?
 
WestHartHusk said:
Is there a good vending machine nearby where I can grab a dessert?
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New Haven has a plethora of vending machines with various sugary treats to choose from. :D

I hate myself for what I'm doing here.
 
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Matrim55 said:
I don't think he's knocked it out of the park yet. He's just led off the inning with a solid double.

If we get Gilbert or King - or Fisher, or Heron, or Jackson, or whichever high-ranked 2016 guy we've been recruiting for a while - then that makes the class a home run.
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How about 2nd and 3rd nobody out?
 
Gilbert or Fisher would be great as would King, Heron or even a Tyrique Jones works. He seems to be in the same hold as Diarra and Enoch but smaller so his chances of still being a Husky are probably slimmer at this point.
 
WhereistheDove? said:
He's an athletic nearly 7-footer.... someone is going to take a shot on him regardless of college stats. He may very well be a bust but that's not what we're talking about.
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Again I was just replying to a poster who said he was a sure first round pick. Right now he isn't . I hope he improves his offense and defense and I think adding strength this off season will be critical to accomplishing that.
 
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