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Message: [QUOTE="Mooch82, post: 2460673, member: 736"] The problem is we are dangerously close to people forgetting what "UConn Basketball" was, and recruiting will suffer even more than it already has. We need to get better, and get better quickly. The talent we have is OK...but our coaching is terrible. If the talent gets worse than OK, and coaching stays the same, we're going to become completely irrelevant very quickly. We need to fix this in the window where we still MAY have a chance to get into a better conference (P5 or Big East). Our bigs are EXTREMELY unskilled, and our ability to improve big men over the course of their career has been putrid recently (with the one exception of Facey's junior to senior year jump). Onuorah may be the worst offensive player we've ever had at UConn. Diarra is a warrior but offers very little offensively. Carlton and Whaley could grow into something, but right now are 0 threat offensively. Cobb is the one guy with some potential here, but even he doesn't even look at the rim unless he's with 4 feet of the hoop. The Gilbert loss hurts us mainly for depth purposes. If we play a 3 guard lineup, which we do often, we have exactly zero guards to bring off the bench. Adams, Vital, and Anderson are going to get extremely fatigued, and God forbid one of them gets in foul trouble. Polley hasn't shown yet he can play at this level, and Larrier is more effective as a 4. I don't know the answer here. A lot needs to be fixed, and quickly. We've had some bad luck, but you also make your own luck to an extent. We needed to close on another guard this year after MAL left, and we swung and missed about 5 times. This is really coming back to haunt us now. Sincerely, An extremely depressed UConn and Giants fan [/QUOTE]

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