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Tyler Polley returning to UConn

T-Squared said:
I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. I just don’t see why you over-estimate his value when the one thing that he’s supposed to be good at he’s actually just mediocre at.
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The number is the number, guy. People are salivating over transfers they've literally never heard of a month ago who don't shoot as well.

Find me the list of 55% three point shooters and we can have the debate over whether or not he's a mediocre shooter.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
The number is the number, guy. People are salivating over transfers they've literally never heard of a month ago who don't shoot as well.

Find me the list of 55% three point shooters and we can have the debate over whether or not he's a mediocre shooter.
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Not for nothing, but Polley only hit 40% from 3 once - in 2019-20 (40.5%). He hit on 38% in 2018-19.
 
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Travelman32 said:
No infatuation. The point was quite clear.
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There is no rhetorical connection between the first quote and the next two quotes.

I'm guessing you thought you were catching Ern being hypocritical. The failure here is not Ern saying one thing and doing another; the failure here is your misunderstanding of the premise of his first quote.

There is a very important difference between his criticism of certain snarky comments and what follows. If you need further clues as to the difference, let's just consider the concept of common decency.
 
navery12 said:
It's okay Chief, I know you're a Casual Fan™️ so wouldn't expect you to know there are advantages regarding practice time and workouts to entering your name in the draft
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There’s a reason it took Tyler longer than the other seniors to decide.
 
He was a nonstarter who opposing teams had a full defensive gameplan against specifically due to his ability to change a game with how good a shooter he is. Ppl arguing they don’t like Polley cuz he’s not a good enough shooter need their piss checked.

plus he was rocking a 99 championship t shirt in his ig story today 🤙
 
Travelman32 said:
No infatuation. The point was quite clear.
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It actually didn't make any sense. You posted posts of mine where i said I'd get a kick out of Ollie poaching kids from UConn and another post of mine saying I can't understand the impulse to say snarky things about kids that play for UConn. I guess you were trying to do some kind of "gotcha" thing but since those two ideas aren't at all in tension it didn't make any sense. A good effort though.
 
Polley from the arc. For his career he is 38.1%

Frosh - 41.7%
Soph - 38 %
Jr - 40.5%
Sr -35.5%
 
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BigErnMcCracken said:
It actually didn't make any sense. You posted posts of mine where i said I'd get a kick out of Ollie poaching kids from UConn and another post of mine saying I can't understand the impulse to say snarky things about kids that play for UConn. I guess you were trying to do some kind of "gotcha" thing but since those two ideas aren't at all in tension it didn't make any sense. A good effort though.
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It’s still is really weird to wish negative things on the university you’re supposedly a fan of just to troll some message board posters who are also fans of the same university as you.
 
UCDaveD said:
It’s still is really weird to wish negative things on the university you’re supposedly a fan of just to troll some message board posters who are also fans of the same university as you.
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Cool.
 
Palatine said:
Polley from the arc. For his career he is 38.1%

Frosh - 41.7%
Soph - 38 %
Jr - 40.5%
Sr -35.5%
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anyone looking at these numbers should see that coming off his injury he was way under his 3 year average of 39.2%... as a frosh he was very low volume but made a nice improvement from his sophomore to junior years. being fully recovered he should bounce back to that 40% mark next year.
 
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I can live without the disappointment of a streaky shooter that inflates to 40% because of a handful of wild games.
Give me a finally healthy and savvier 5th year grad student, 6'9" all the time, making a consistent 40%+, helping us most of the time.
 
He is likely to be much better on D with better lateral quickness, and as a rebounder (yes, I wrote that) because of more explosiveness, 5th year maturity and experience/system familiarity, coming off his ACL tear year 2. It takes that long to get your legs back. The day he suits up for practice he will be our best outside threat, and Hurley knows it.

Does that make him a star, or the best player on the team? No. But it makes him a major contributor when everyone knows that our most glaring problem this year was shooting. So, welcome back, Tyler Polley.
 
microfich said:
I can live without the disappointment of a streaky shooter that inflates to 40% because of a handful of wild games.
Give me a finally healthy and savvier 5th year grad student, 6'9" all the time, making a consistent 40%+, helping us most of the time.
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That's how it works in all sports. A .330 hitter in baseball doesn't get a hit every three at bats. He goes 4-4 one day and 3-4 the next. Than slows down.

40% isn't Polley's streak, it's been his average in two complete years.
 
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Focusing exclusively on Polley’s three point shooting is missing a huge part of the equation of his. potential
The fact that someone has to step out on him sets a number of good things in motion.
1. Tyler has shown improvement in beating his man and going to the hoop
Even if he only gets fouled getting a shooter to the line could mean 4-5 additional points a game. Even only making two three’s he can become a consistent double figure scorer.
2. When the strong side wing defender has to step out you create a lane for a slasher like Martin or Gaffney working on a two man game ie passing results in easy two or a FT .
3. Fear of those things will require that defender to hedge giving a good. shooter better looks, shot selection was a problem last year.
Getting to the FT line and passing resulting in assists can improve the team all because he is a known shooter.
Rebounding is a bonus as he is typically out of position.
Tyler problems in the past were largely due to his lack of strength. He was a skinny kid when he came here but now he is a grown man.
Hopefully he is working on my suggestions in the off season.
 
Palatine said:
That's how it works in all sports. A .330 hitter in baseball doesn't get a hit every three at bats. He goes 4-4 one day and 3-4 the next. Than slows down.

40% isn't Polley's streak, it's been his average in two complete years.
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Yeah, I understand percentages. It means if he goes 50 for 50 in 10 games then 0 for 125 in 30 games he's a 40% shooter who helps us 25% of the time and kills us 75% of the time.

Polley was under 40% 13 times this season
He was over 40% 7 times
At 40% twice.

Understand what I was getting at? For a 5th year senior, I want someone who helps us in a lot more games, not someone who just averages 40%.
 
microfich said:
Yeah, I understand percentages. It means if he goes 50 for 50 in 10 games then 0 for 125 in 30 games he's a 40% shooter who helps us 25% of the time and kills us 75% of the time.

Polley was under 40% 13 times this season
He was over 40% 7 times
At 40% twice.

Understand what I was getting at? For a 5th year senior, I want someone who helps us in a lot more games, not someone who just averages 40%.
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Whelp then all is that is left so say is youre misguided ( I wanted to say idiot, but my fiancée tells me I have to be nicer on here)
 
August_West said:
Whelp then all is that is left so say is youre misguided ( I wanted to say idiot, but my fiancée tells me I have to be nicer on here)
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Mention to your fiance that I said it was ok if you were, shall we say, less than nice on here. Let's see how much weight that carries.🤣
 
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That one game when he was on fire he did use the crossover- to side step 3 combo...but overall you are right.
 
kansashusky said:
Glad to see Tyler working out, but he will never use those dribble combinations in a game to create his own shot. Needs to work on coming off screens quicker and creating a midrange game.
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He was drilling those exact combos in game during that hot stretch in January. I think there is potential to continue to use that in game, but agree yes running off screens needs to become his bread and butter.
 
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