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Message: [QUOTE="alohachris, post: 3362838, member: 10025"] Totally agree. Vital & Gilbert are Queens AAU, park types of players with all too predictable games. To the bench! UConn needs some guards & a swing man who can consistently hit three's off the dribble. That'll open up the paint. Vital & Gilbert aren't those guards. 22 turnovers tonight! They did nothing to set up Akok or Bouk. Terrible leadership & selfish shot selections with bad, bad form. Ever notice that they rarely hit the bigs when they are open or where bigs like it - except on alley-oops.? And little Gilbert forcing the drive into the lane? We all know what usually happens - a block or turnover trying to get it over to a big too late. If he keeps shooting & shooting like this, I'd sit him for a half or even a whole game so he gets the message. Alterique is not a shooter, period. He's got to get his mind right! Polley provides absolutely nothing if he's not getting/hitting open shots off a pass. No dribble. No rebounds. No left hand. No D. No moves. No passing or creating. He may have a great looking basketball body, but Polley plays soft & scared, not aggressive enough. I wouldn't start him either. In fact, I'll bet that Danny Hurley can't wait to get rid of all of Ollie's Follies. All have basic fundamental flaws. They are not the kinds of players UConn or Hurley needs to rebuild UConn as a power. Just confirms that Ollie was a terrible recruiter. UConn needs fundamentally sound players with great talent AS WELL AS role playing hustlers (like Vital & Gilbert)! I'm sure they'll arrive in Storrs when we're in the Big East. [/QUOTE]

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