Three Germans!!!

[willie99]

if Jimmy wants him.................

 

[jfuchs91]

I wasn't overly impressed by the first video that was posted of him, but the most recent one has me feeling better about him. He's got decent size, a good shot, solid all-around skills, and seems like a heady player. I'm not expecting too much from him, but it seems like he's already got some skills and it's nice to get a player that isn't a "project". The thing I like about foreign players is that I always feel like there's a chance they could be a complete steal because no one focuses on them. I don't necessarily think that will be the case with Tolksdorf, but I'm looking forward to seeing him on the court and I hope he surprises us. Welcome to the UConn family, Leon!

 

[caw]

His shot looks nice. I assume the three point line being used is the FIBA line of 22.1 ft?

JC is going to have his hands full working on a new game plan with this team. The bigs UConn has aren't the rebounders/shotblockers of a few years ago/or even last year.

 

[UConn990411]

No one here had heard of this guy until 12 seconds ago (and we still don't even know how to pronounce his name), yet you think this is a reach?

The only opinion people should have of this guy right now is that he's another warm body and bumps the team's number of players over 6'6 to five. That's it.

 

[djct1999]

so bj hayes commits to gtown. obekpa is supposedly on the verge of signing with cincy. and we snag a virtually unknown from germany who may or may not be a shooter.....sorry guys, hard for me to get that excited.

 

[superjohn]

BJ Hayes looked like a stiff to me, he looks like a spring recruit whose stock went way up just because he is tall and available late.

 

[djct1999]

BJ Hayes looked like a stiff to me, he looks like a spring recruit whose stock went way up just because he is tall and available late.

i dont disagree. the theme here is we are still losing on guys who at one pt we would never lose. anyway, if hayes is a stiff, what are your thoughts on tolksdorf?

 

[superjohn]

I have no idea about Tolsdorf but I haven't been expecting any kind of savior to come in, it's very late in the game and we are facing a tournament ban, BJ Hayes probably would have gotten a lot of people excited around here only to be have them disappointed later. We had a great year recruiting last year with Drummond, Boatright and Daniels and I expect us to have a great year recruiting next year.

 

[Kitaman]

I think he looks pretty solid. He has a beautiful shooting stroke.

Did you say beautiful? Can we at least wait a year?

Welcome Leon!

 

[Burnsbros23]

Ill take Phil Nolan over Bj Hayes.

 

[upstater]

so bj hayes commits to gtown. obekpa is supposedly on the verge of signing with cincy. and we snag a virtually unknown from germany who may or may not be a shooter.....sorry guys, hard for me to get that excited.

I thought we got a big man last week.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

i dont disagree. the theme here is we are still losing on guys who at one pt we would never lose. anyway, if hayes is a stiff, what are your thoughts on tolksdorf?

From a prospect perspective (say that 3 times fast), there is virtually no difference between BJ Hayes and Phillip Nolan.

 

[3rdbass]

so bj hayes commits to gtown. obekpa is supposedly on the verge of signing with cincy. and we snag a virtually unknown from germany who may or may not be a shooter.....sorry guys, hard for me to get that excited.

Exactly. I mean yes he has a nice stroke but he looks very 1 dimensional player. Just not impressed with this pick and JC has had reaches before that didn't pan out(look at all the transfers). Just not impressed but like I said if he helps are APR I have no issues with him taking a spot. We need practice players and he does have some height.

 

[UConn990411]

Oh my god.

You watched an 8-minute YouTube video with no context of the competition - stop trying to draw any conclusions.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

If he's another Niels Giffey, then we have a glue guy that will be part of our rotation for 4 years and won't complain about a damn thing. Those kinds of players are important too. No one is proclaiming that he's more than that, and he doesn't have to be more than that.

 

[djct1999]

From a prospect perspective (say that 3 times fast), there is virtually no difference between BJ Hayes and Phillip Nolan.

Maybe in terms of upside potential. Seems to me their games and skill set are completely different. Between Nolan, Olander, and now the German, seems like the closest thing to a layup will be olander taking a jumpshot from the foul line extended. I get the staff is in a bit of jam to fill out a roster, but to give a scholarship on a reach player is exactly the same recipe that got us into this mess in the first place.

 

[hooskies]

I don't remember too many people being that hyped about Jeremy Lamb, so i'm gunna wait and see from now on...

 

[djct1999]

I thought we got a big man last week.

problems solved.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

Maybe in terms of upside potential. Seems to me their games and skill set are completely different. Between Nolan, Olander, and now the German, seems like the closest thing to a layup will be olander taking a jumpshot from the foul line extended. I get the staff is in a bit of jam to fill out a roster, but to give a scholarship on a reach player is exactly the same recipe that got us into this mess in the first place.

Before we got Nolan and Leon, we had 8 scholarship players. Did you really want to go into next year with 8 guys? I know, in a perfect world we wouldn't be signing "reaches" but there aren't too many non-reaches out there.

And you keep putting Bradley Hayes in the non-reach category despite the fact that nobody had even heard of him 4 weeks ago. Again, there's a reason for that.

 

[mauconnfan]

so bj hayes commits to gtown. obekpa is supposedly on the verge of signing with cincy. and we snag a virtually unknown from germany who may or may not be a shooter.....sorry guys, hard for me to get that excited.

That's unusual!!

 

[3rdbass]

I don't remember too many people being that hyped about Jeremy Lamb, so i'm gunna wait and see from now on...

Please, you can't compare JL to this player. I know I was hyped as he was a boderline top 50 recruit. This guy wouldn't even be in the top 250 if he was playing high school ball here. No comparison at all. I guess JC knows what he is doing but like someone else mentioned we seem to be filling out the roster with a lot of reaches like we did when we got the Jonathan Mandelove's, Rob Garrison's, Ben Eave's, Darius Smith's and Jamall Trice's of the world. Though if I remember DS was a boderline top 100 almost but the other guys were just filling in roster spots and it ended bad for us.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

Please, you can't compare JL to this player. I know I was hyped as he was a boderline top 50 recruit. This guy wouldn't even be in the top 250 if he was playing high school ball here. No comparison at all. I guess JC knows what he is doing but like someone else mentioned we seem to be filling out the roster with a lot of reaches like we did when we got the Jonathan Mandelove's, Rob Garrison's, Ben Eave's, Darius Smith's and Jamall Trice's of the world. Though if I remember DS was a boderline top 100 almost but the other guys were just filling in roster spots and it ended bad for us.

You have absolutely no idea if this is true. You watched a youtube highlight video of the kid. DeAndre Daniels looked like Scottie Pippen in his youtube highlights.

 

[DogMania]

With our post season ban, getting a legit D1 talent at this late stage is fine with me.​

​

Let's give the kid a chance before we label him a reach. Granted the program could use another big, but we seem to have enough ships to add a shooter.​

 

[UofCT]

Might not be a bad kid to redshirt

 

[hasheemthedream]

Who is behind this germany connection? I haven't heard anything about which coach keeps landing these kids from Germany. Anyone know? We are already 0 for 2 with kids from there, maybe this one will pan out.

I really wish we hit the JUCO route more often. The JUCO kids seem much more ready to play right away and worst care scenario if they don't work out, they are out of the system in 2 years. We haven't had a JUCO player since I think selvie, which was probably 5+ years ago.