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He would’ve allowed us to rest Whaley and play a better small ball line up. Akok can play the 5 against these types of teams that have active bigs. His shot blocking is really missed as we’d be able to put more pressure on the the three point shooters.

Hopefully UCONN doesn’t postpone anymore games
 
HuskyHawk said:
I don’t want to see him at the 5. But we desperately need his shot blocking and overall hustle.
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When we have to go small or Whaley is in foul trouble, he is a good option to play the 5.
 
Huskyhoops25 said:
What is the timeline for his return?
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Someone posted that due to the 17 days off his return has been pushed back to mid January or so. Someone correct me if I’m wrong
 
Unfortunately we're going have to wait but we need Jackson and Sanogo playing more. Hurley has to gain trust in them and let them play through some stuff for us to reach our potential. Adams is what he is and that's an end of bench type, minutes need to be going to Jackson instead of the smurf lineup of Cole, Gaffney, and Adams.
 
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superjohn said:
Unfortunately we're going have to wait but we need Jackson and Sanogo playing more. Hurley has to gain trust in them and let them play through some stuff for us to reach our potential. Adams is what he is and that's an end of bench type, minutes need to be going to Jackson instead of the smurf lineup of Cole, Gaffney, and Adams.
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IMO Jackson should be getting all of Adams' minutes at this point. Sanoogo needs to get 15 minutes a game--I don't care how it happens.
 
superjohn said:
Unfortunately we're going have to wait but we need Jackson and Sanogo playing more. Hurley has to gain trust in them and let them play through some stuff for us to reach our potential. Adams is what he is and that's an end of bench type, minutes need to be going to Jackson instead of the smurf lineup of Cole, Gaffney, and Adams.
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yup. If we had a couple more games against lower d1 teams to experiment, give these guys more playing time and work out the kinks, Jackson and Sanogo would definitely be playing more.
 
husky429 said:
IMO Jackson should be getting all of Adams' minutes at this point. Sanoogo needs to get 15 minutes a game--I don't care how it happens.
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Agreed but jackson needs to step it up. He had one really bad defensive lapse and Hurley took him right out. Offensive mistakes I think Hurley let's him play through more. But in defense it looks like he has a really short leash.
 
UConnSwag11 said:
When we have to go small or Whaley is in foul trouble, he is a good option to play the 5.
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I hope to never see us go small again except to milk a late lead against a press. I want Akok at the 4 so we aren’t so damned small all the time. As has been the case all year, our worst moments today came with 3-4 guard lineups.
 
husky429 said:
IMO Jackson should be getting all of Adams' minutes at this point. Sanoogo needs to get 15 minutes a game--I don't care how it happens.
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Why was Jackson taken out and never put back in? He brought energy and passing right away. If he was benched because he took a three that's ridiculous, Adams shoots whenever he touches it and rarely ever makes one while not bringing any of the other things Jackson brings.
 
superjohn said:
Unfortunately we're going have to wait but we need Jackson and Sanogo playing more. Hurley has to gain trust in them and let them play through some stuff for us to reach our potential. Adams is what he is and that's an end of bench type, minutes need to be going to Jackson instead of the smurf lineup of Cole, Gaffney, and Adams.
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Cole needs to be on the floor with one of them. They both can’t be in the floor together. They need to tell Jackson to play great defense and play near the rim on offense. I like Sanogo’s play. He’ll get better as the season goes on but can’t hang right now with the mobile bigs
 
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superjohn said:
Why was Jackson taken out and never put back in? He brought energy and passing right away. If he was benched because he took a three that's ridiculous, Adams shoots whenever he touches it and rarely ever makes one while not bringing any of the other things Jackson brings.
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Made one defensive mistake.

Hurley's leash with Jackson is very, very short. Probably some issues with practice
 
superjohn said:
Why was Jackson taken out and never put back in? He brought energy and passing right away. If he was benched because he took a three that's ridiculous, Adams shoots whenever he touches it and rarely ever makes one while not bringing any of the other things Jackson brings.
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Agreed. I’d like to see Jackson in for his size and athleticism on defense.
 
UconnFanNVa said:
Agreed but jackson needs to step it up. He had one really bad defensive lapse and Hurley took him right out. Offensive mistakes I think Hurley let's him play through more. But in defense it looks like he has a really short leash.
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He also had a steal that lead to a fast break basket and made a beautiful feed that Josh then missed an easy layup. He’s the most dynamic player we have besides Bouk. He makes stuff happen, and yes makes mistakes too. I’ll take the trade off.
 
HuskyHawk said:
He also had a steal that lead to a fast break basket and made a beautiful feed that Josh then missed an easy layup. He’s the most dynamic player we have besides Bouk. He makes stuff happen, and yes makes mistakes too. I’ll take the trade off.
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You don't have to convince me! I favor the kid more than anyone not named bouk and akok. But I just noticed that Hurley has a short leash with him on defense. He has to be extra careful not to mess up on defense to stay in the game.
 
Kenny11 said:
yup. If we had a couple more games against lower d1 teams to experiment, give these guys more playing time and work out the kinks, Jackson and Sanogo would definitely be playing more.
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I agree - that’s why I cant understand why we’re not trying to get a game in Wednesday before Christmas Agsinst some scrub squad - Do we really want this loss to stick with us for the next week and a half? Gotta get a game in wed. Don’t care who opponent is. Get sanogo and Ajax more pt. Badams is who he is/ Carlton is who he is / gaffney is who he is.
 
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If I’m him a withdraw from school/this dumpster fire of a season get an agent and train professionally.
 
Hopefully they bring Akok back January 9 at Butler playing in spurts to get him in game mode and then play him more in the Nova game on the 15th.
 
jibsey said:
He is a brick layer but rebounding, jumping ability and passing, yes.
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Right. No need to shoot. It’s on the other players to get the ball from him if he’s beyond the free throw line
 
superjohn said:
Why was Jackson taken out and never put back in? He brought energy and passing right away. If he was benched because he took a three that's ridiculous, Adams shoots whenever he touches it and rarely ever makes one while not bringing any of the other things Jackson brings.
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He was absolutely lost defensively but I agree he’s going to have to play through these mistakes we don’t have cupcakes this year for the freshman to learn.
 
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UConnSwag11 said:
He would’ve allowed us to rest Whaley and play a better small ball line up. Akok can play the 5 against these types of teams that have active bigs. His shot blocking is really missed as we’d be able to put more pressure on the the three point shooters.

Hopefully UCONN doesn’t postpone anymore games
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No we don't need Akok back immediately. It would be nice of course, but he needs to heal appropriately. The team is solid. Lots of good things going on. An early season loss to a good team doesn't warrant emergency at all.
 
Everyone should remember that Akok is just coming back from a major injury. Even if he's medically cleared to play you're expecting too much if you think he's going to come back right where he left off last season.

In the offseason we talked about questioning whether Polley and Akok would come back as they were last year. Well we've seen Polley so far. Hopefully Akok is more ready but I don't know how you can expect that.
 
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