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Chief00 said:
I thought he played in the exhibition games.
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Only 10 minutes in the first exhibition game, but he was playing through his injury. Then he was held out of the 2nd with a swollen knee.
 
tcf15 said:
Only 10 minutes in the first exhibition game, but he was playing through his injury. Then he was held out of the 2nd with a swollen knee.
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Chief gets out and pounds the pavement. I saw him against New Haven - wasn't impressive at all - too early to tell if sore knee held him back. I always understood his recruitment was about Diallo.
I can tell you with certainty he is not a center. Maybe he can be a very undersized power forward who can give us some hustle and energy on the boards?
 
Chief00 said:
Chief gets out and pounds the pavement. I saw him against New Haven - wasn't impressive at all - too early to tell if sore knee held him back. I always understood his recruitment was about Diallo.
I can tell you with certainty he is not a center. Maybe he can be a very undersized power forward who can give us some hustle and energy on the boards?
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Chief, I think you need to join us here in 2017. Oregon just went to the final four with 6'7 Jordan Bell at center. The Warriors just won the NBA championship with 6'6 Draymond Green at center.
 
champs99and04 said:
Chief, I think you need to join us here in 2017. Oregon just went to the final four with 6'7 Jordan Bell at center. The Warriors just won the NBA championship with 6'6 Draymond Green at center.
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Quite frankly, we don't drain threes like the Warriors. The times we won it all we had a 6-11 235pd Jake, 6-10 240 Emeka, 6-9 245 Alex and 6-10 235 Nolan.
 
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RichZ said:
Cobb will be fine if he takes a page from Wes Unseld's book, and works on his defensive rebounding and the ability to see and execute the full court outlet pass. Wes said that he concentrated on defensive rebounding so he could throw the outlet instead of having to run up and down the court all night. I saw a game once where he went like 4 possessions in a row without ever getting past the foul line. Get position, grab the rebound, turn, pass to a breaking teammate for a layup. Rinse, Wash, Repeat.
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Want to see Cobb get his feet in position to play solid D otherwise we would have the second coming of Enoch.
 
Wasn't Hassan Martin 6-6?

And he was one of the best defensive players in the country as a pure big man c.

That length is nice.

Bell is another good example.
 
Chief00 said:
Quite frankly, we don't drain threes like the Warriors. The times we won it all we had a 6-11 235pd Jake, 6-10 240 Emeka, 6-9 245 Alex and 6-10 235 Nolan.
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Nolan are you kidding. Chief needs new glasses.
Sophomore Nolan would't see the floor next year. Freshman Nolan might be the worst center in my UConn memory.
He did learn to set a screen by his senior year.
Freshman skinny Brimah sent sophomore skinny Nolan to the pines.
 
Chief00 said:
Quite frankly, we don't drain threes like the Warriors. The times we won it all we had a 6-11 235pd Jake, 6-10 240 Emeka, 6-9 245 Alex and 6-10 235 Nolan.
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This is like one of those exam questions when they ask you to pick the one item that doesn't go together with the others. Nolan is the correct answer.
 
UConnNick said:
This is like one of those exam questions when they ask you to pick the one item that doesn't go together with the others. Nolan is the correct answer.
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I understand that in terms of talent - but as in football there is some threshold of size you need in the trenches both in height and body size. You got to have some bodies to bang against theirs and some height the opponent needs to shoot over unless you are a pure 3 ball team. I recognize that may not be true in soccer, which is a sports reference point to many in CT casual fans.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
Nolan are you kidding. Chief needs new glasses.
Sophomore Nolan would't see the floor next year. Freshman Nolan might be the worst center in my UConn memory.
He did learn to set a screen by his senior year.
Freshman skinny Brimah sent sophomore skinny Nolan to the pines.
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But Brimah was 7 feet and Nolan's fouls were needed.
 
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There's no question that Nolan made a valuable contribution, particularly down the stretch during the NC run in 2014, but overall for his entire career he was wildly inconsistent. He was what Vitale calls a "Dow Joneser". He was up and down, and you never knew what you were going to get from him game to game. At least Brimah was pretty consistently what he was, a shot blocking foul machine with limited offensive skills. Nolan could very occasionally look like a world beater, but only for a few moments here and there.
 
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UConnNick said:
There's no question that Nolan made a valuable contribution, particularly down the stretch during the NC run in 2014, but overall for his entire career he was wildly inconsistent. He was what Vitale calls a "Dow Joneser". He was up and down, and you never knew what you were going to get from him game to game. At least Brimah was pretty consistently what he was, a shot blocking foul machine with limited offensive skills. Nolan could very occasionally look like a world beater, but only for a few moments here and there.
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My point is neither was 6-6.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
Nolan are you kidding. Chief needs new glasses.
Sophomore Nolan would't see the floor next year. Freshman Nolan might be the worst center in my UConn memory.
He did learn to set a screen by his senior year.
Freshman skinny Brimah sent sophomore skinny Nolan to the pines.
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Sophomore Nolan wouldn't see the floor next year? Are you kidding me? What on earth would lead you to believe our current frontcourt is good enough to keep any of our previous frontcourt players from playing?
 
superjohn said:
Sophomore Nolan wouldn't see the floor next year? Are you kidding me? What on earth would lead you to believe our current frontcourt is good enough to keep any of our previous frontcourt players from playing?
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Because we haven't seen them play yet. It's optimism season, prediction season usually follows than lately disappointment for a few months.
 
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Chief00 said:
Quite frankly, we don't drain threes like the Warriors. The times we won it all we had a 6-11 235pd Jake, 6-10 240 Emeka, 6-9 245 Alex and 6-10 235 Nolan.
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Of course, the time we won it with Nolan we finished a number of games in the tourney with Daniels and Giffey combining to play the 4 and 5.
 
Kitaman said:
Are we sleeping on AA? He's experienced and practicing daily with our 3 guards will help elevate his game higher. Throw in our NBA guard coach, he may be a difference maker, especially in critical foul situations.

I think he's gonna fit in really well with our guards Adams and Gilbert especially. If you look at his stats he's improved every year and he's obviously fearless and clutch when you look at his buzzer beaters. He's now gonna be surrounded with better players and coaches. UConn will have three guards next year that can handle the ball, make plays, create for their teammates and not only shoot but take the big shot and make it. That's not even counting Larrier and Vital who will be big-time contributors at the 2 and 3. If the chemistry is there which I think it will be the sky's the limit.
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businesslawyer said:
Of course, the time we won it with Nolan we finished a number of games in the tourney with Daniels and Giffey combining to play the 4 and 5.
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Yeah we were ahead and had ball handlers / foul shooters in there at end.
 
businesslawyer said:
Of course, the time we won it with Nolan we finished a number of games in the tourney with Daniels and Giffey combining to play the 4 and 5.
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This. Our 2014 team isn't exactly a great counter case for Chief to make. This was by far our most effective lineup.
 
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superjohn said:
Sophomore Nolan wouldn't see the floor next year? Are you kidding me? What on earth would lead you to believe our current frontcourt is good enough to keep any of our previous frontcourt players from playing?
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His lack of actual basketball ability
 
Quite frankly, our reputation on recently developing Bigs is bad enough and now we are saying we don't need a guy over 6-6! God help us.
 
champs99and04 said:
Go re-watch the Florida game.
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That was all about Calhoun tweaking Daniels before the game - saying no one is talking about you - Daniels was 6-9 or 6-10. How does argue against tall dudes!
 
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