What position will Purvis play?

[Waquoit]

Sounds like he can play the Chris Smith role. He's the 1 when playing with Omar and the 2 with Samuel.

 

[ctchamps]

Absolutely have no clue what RB will do in two years. But I can tell that he is shaping up to be the Boneyard lightening rod if UConn struggles at any point this season.

Check that: RB will be the designated player in the Boneyard Doghouse this season. Possibly joined by TO.

 

[James]

Absolutely have no clue what RB will do in two years. But I can tell that he is shaping up to be the Boneyard lightening rod if UConn struggles at any point this season.

Check that: RB will be the designated player in the Boneyard Doghouse this season. Possibly joined by TO.

it's interesting both of them are the two who get piled on the most. I don't forsee olander exiting the doghouse though. hasn't gotten better at all for four years

 

[Huskyforlife]

it's interesting both of them are the two who get piled on the most. I don't forsee olander exiting the doghouse though. hasn't gotten better at all for four years

he's already in the dog house, but i agree he needs to get better.

 

[ctchamps]

it's interesting both of them are the two who get piled on the most. I don't forsee olander exiting the doghouse though. hasn't gotten better at all for four years

TO's horrible season relegated him to the Doghouse. No matter what RB does, good bad or indifferent, he's going to be put in the doghouse. He's the Taliek Brown and Jerome Dyson guy!

Other guys will take hits but Ryan will be the guy some fans will love to hate! He's the gay, black, intellectual, north easterner at a klu klux clan rally in the Bayou.

 

[Waquoit]

Check that: RB will be the designated player in the Boneyard Doghouse this season. Possibly joined by TO.

Nah, TO will retire the trophy.

 

[Dogbreath2U]

Re: Ryan and the doghouse, IMHO it will depend on how he plays and how he handles himself, especially in adversity if such occurs. The cocky attitude will be fine if he backs it up and is a good teammate, but mostly if he is a good teammate. If he tries to force things and put building his own stats above the needs of the team, he will get a hard time. If he works really hard and does not force things, I think he will be treated fine. It seems to me that he has a long way to go to be as good as he thinks he has been. He has not been a good defender, nor a good distributor/team leader. He needs to slow down and play a smarter game, be less frantic, and learn how to create space to get his shot off. I personally think that he needs a senior year to be the primary point and to build his game.

 

[ctchamps]

Re: Ryan and the doghouse, IMHO it will depend on how he plays and how he handles himself, especially in adversity if such occurs. The cocky attitude will be fine if he backs it up and is a good teammate, but mostly if he is a good teammate. If he tries to force things and put building his own stats above the needs of the team, he will get a hard time. If he works really hard and does not force things, I think he will be treated fine. It seems to me that he has a long way to go to be as good as he thinks he has been. He has not been a good defender, nor a good distributor/team leader. He needs to slow down and play a smarter game, be less frantic, and learn how to create space to get his shot off. I personally think that he needs a senior year to be the primary point and to build his game.

Can't disagree with anything you're pointing out.

What I hate about the Boneyard are all the strong opinions people have regarding how the game went. What I love about the Boneyard are all the strong opinions people have regarding how the game went.

Often I'm reading stuff and come to the conclusion we're justifying our perspectives just as much as justifying what took place. Lets say a pg makes a pass to a post player and that post player fumbles the ball, gets it stolen, charges into his defender or shoots up a horrible shot. And let's say the post player does this repeatedly such that giving him the ball is more a liability than a positive. So the pg observes this and realizes the post option is not available. This has happened in the past. I've seen posters nail the pg and I've seen posters nail the post player. In other words it becomes subjective.

I love all the arguments and points of view. The sum of all of us is far greater than individual points of view. But it really baffles me how so many of us really don't understand our nature. It seems we don't realize our internal biases. We only see them in others. Or maybe we do realize them and just don't give a darn. Maybe we're short and love nailing big guys. Or vice versa. Maybe something about player x reminds us of someone we hated growing up vs. player y. It's easy for us to overlook why we hate certain people. A lot of the time it's subconscious.

RB already has a lot of negative descriptors assigned to him even before the season begins. IMO he won't be getting any benefit of the doubt. Just the opposite. He will be the one we will focus our disappointment or anger on. It's easy to say a player with limited court vision is a selfish player as opposed to having a limited skill. In the latter its about the playmaking only and we can excuse the player. In the former it is placing a judgement about the person that puts that person in a bad light. And lots of us do it.

Attitude is an important component to a players and teams development. So it is fair to offer suggestions about a player or team's attitude. But it is equally fair to realize that the viewer has attitudes as well. This forum is loaded with intelligent people with a wide assortment of attitudes. In most cases those who are assigning blame, doing it incessantly, doing it with vitriol, doing it with the need to demean a person, are the ones with the attitude problem. But if that person is with a large enough chorus, it becomes difficult for him to see that maybe the problem exists within himself as much as it resides with the team or a particular player.