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Message: [QUOTE="Dogbreath2U, post: 2111802, member: 42"] My memory was like yours, but as I've been watching games from the RIP era, I realize that Jake was better than I thought even as a freshman and moreso as a soph. Watch the game against KU when he was a freshman, IIRC. KU team with LaFrentz and Pollard and Jake was strong and tough and much better defender than anyone we've seen at center for quite some time. On the offensive end, not so much. He was beginning to be more of a little bit of a threat as a junior....after what? .......you guessed it? ....attending the Newell Big Man's camp! Another cool thing to watch during that time period was Ricky Moore playing defense. We know he was really good to great as he progressed through his UConn career, but man, he was REALLY good on watching again now. When you know the game outcome, it's easier to watch off the ball and Ricky did something I didn't really recall? He blocked shots of his man after his man had driven, made a fake, and faded away. He did this several times and it was something to see. He was such a combination of strength, quickness, focus, and toughness. During the NC year, he shut down one big time player after another. He was an amazing weapon even with some offensive limitations. As I exercise and watch a lot of UConn games with the assistance of the UConn Husky Games website, I just love the '99 team more and more. We've had some great teams who played really well together, but that group often played like a single organism. Watch how they helped each other on defense. Each starter was so smart and each one knew their role and played it nearly to perfection. I hope to see a UConn team even nearly as good as a team again. 2014 actually was pretty darn good at the end of the season through the NC run in terms of the team aspect, but still not to the '99 level. To me, 2004 team was more talented, but not as smart and not as tight of a team. [/QUOTE]

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