Thoughts on Scholarship players

[SportsFan88]

A dozen thoughts on the UConn men's 12 scholarship players as they try to make another NCAA Tournament

R.J. Cole and Tyrese Martin take over leadership of the Huskies.

theathletic.com

I love The Athletic

 

[Road2Six]

Anyone care to summarize?

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Anyone care to summarize?

Here’s a short summary: a subscription to the Athletic costs something like $3.99 for 50 years.

 

[SportsFan88]

Anyone care to summarize?

My fault my mans I posted this early and totally forgot about this. But if you are a die hard sports head you should definitely sign up for The Athletic. They even do free stuff all the time

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Here’s a short summary: a subscription to the Athletic costs something like $3.99 for 50 years.

That's a great rate.

I saw $1/mo; $4.99/mo (annual rate after 7-day free trial; $7.99/mo; and general suggestion that half-price subscription are widely available.

Possibly, "Prices slightly lower west of the Mississippi?"

 

[navery12]

Anyone care to summarize?

We'll have basically the same team back and hoping for improvements from the returning players is the summary of most of the write-ups

 

[Road2Six]

Here’s a short summary: a subscription to the Athletic costs something like $3.99 for 50 years.

You must be one of those people who doesn’t share their Netflix subscription.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

You must be one of those people who doesn’t share their Netflix subscription.

The Athletic posts a ton of content on every sport you could possibly be interested in. Their writers - like 99% of writers - make next to nothing. A subscription is cheap as hell. So yeah, it irks me when people can't even be bothered to pay a couple bucks for stuff like that.

 

[husky429]

The Athletic posts a ton of content on every sport you could possibly be interested in. Their writers - like 99% of writers - make next to nothing. A subscription is cheap as hell. So yeah, it irks me when people can't even be bothered to pay a couple bucks for stuff like that.

And they aren't asswipes like certain local reporters

 

[CL82]

I'm not a huge fan of paying for content on the internet, but I will say that the (nominal) cost to benefit of Atlantic subscription is a good deal. I think it is $1/month for the first year.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Fine with Martin and Cole being locker room leaders.

Come game time, I prefer if they're the fourth and fifth scoring options.

 

[uchusky32]

Fine with Martin and Cole being locker room leaders.

Come game time, I prefer if they're the fourth and fifth scoring options.

4th and 5th options? Am I missing something? Did we get 3 high profile transfers? Did the Arizona recruits commit to us?

All fun aside. That would be awesome. If they are our 4th and 5th option we should be playing in the final 4.

 

[Chin Diesel]

4th and 5th options? Am I missing something? Did we get 3 high profile transfers? Did the Arizona recruits commit to us?

All fun aside. That would be awesome. If they are our 4th and 5th option we should be playing in the final 4.

Nope. Unfortunately.

Those who thought Hurley's game plan to keep the scores in the 60's last season when Bouk was out was insufferable will be worse off this upcoming season.

 

[Mooch82]

Fine with Martin and Cole being locker room leaders.

Come game time, I prefer if they're the fourth and fifth scoring options.

Who do you think is on our roster?

 

[bendm]

we'll be good if martin is our 4th or 5th option but no way cole isnt a top 2 or 3 option

 

[Huskybass]

we'll be good if martin is our 4th or 5th option but no way cole isnt a top 2 or 3 option

I'll go a step further and say it's very possible that Cole is our leading scorer.

 

[rip7774]

This thread is really depressing for fans of scoring the ball. But it’s great for rock fight fans! 60-57 nailbiters here we come!

hoping Diggins and Hawkins are ready to play big roles from the jump!

 

[navery12]

I honestly don't get all the pessimism about a lack of scoring next year, we'll have plenty of options even if there's no elite scorer on the team

 

[Huskyforlife]

Cole and Sanogo should be the leading scorers, hopefully followed by a much improved Jackson. 4 and 5 are a more interesting conversation, it'll be a fight between Whaley, Martin, Polley, and probably Gaffney or Hawkins.

 

[SportsFan88]

Yea if Martin is our 4th leading scorer then we will be in pretty good shape and I’ll DEFINITELY be presently surprised

 

[bendm]

dickinson was UM's leading scorer at 14 ppg. that could easily be sanogo for us with a couple other guys (cole, whaley) also averaging double figures. gaff, hawkins, polley, aj, martin, akok could have good scoring games any given night.

 

[ktuck911]

Tyrese Martin needs to be more of an Edmund Saunders type for us, but at SF. Be more of a glue guy than one if the top offensive options for us night in and night out. I think we were a little too dependent on him in that perspective. If he has a night here and there, sire, let him loose, but we need primary options on offense like Cole, hopefully Akok (he was coming on pretty strong pre-injury. Hope he gets it back) along with Sanogo (nice to see we've got a big with offensive game again, the new Emeka Okafor). Let the rest get in line to help fill up the stat sheet... BTW, I can see Gaffney taking his game to the next level his last 2 yes here too. UConn basketball has always been about STRONG guard play. So he & Cole might be going off this coming year