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[northdakotahusky]

I suppose I'm adjusting my expectations temporarily.

 

[northdakotahusky]

I also liked what I saw from boat. He looked like the best guard on the floor. I thought tonight was his best game. We definitely need him to lead.

 

[the Blades]

As I said in the Yale thread.... " terrible team IQ....Gonna be a long year...after the summer lobotomy "
You take away Bazz who passed, scored and settled the team down like the highly skilled AA SR he was.
And 3 guys who were mature enough to play within their own game and score to their strengths in Daniels,
Giffey and Kromah. You know.... guys who limit their mistakes because they don't do Dumb things with the ball.....

...and replaces them with guys like Purvis who is as dumb a starter as I've seen at Uconn ever. Omar who's
back chuckin' up bricks where he left off last year when he was benched. D-Ham who is gonna be a good one,
but still makes alot of mistakes ( the steal from behind on the mid court break when he wouldn't pass,was just swell)
and T-Sam who's forced to do things he can't do....The BB IQ on this team is at an 06-07 level if it wasn't for Boat,
and teams can just wear him down because he can't do it all.

He's the guy I feel bad for...Kemba had Bazz to run the offense to give him a break....Bazz had Boat....now Boat is
out there by himself with Purvis( the big You-tube lie)...a guy that has no f#ckin clue how dribble, pass or set up an
offense. Combo guard ? Ferrari ? what a bunch of lying BS...more like lay-up maker...airball, clunker and TO creator....
no wonder Coach K doubled and pressed Boat right from the start...he's seen Purvis enough in the ACC to know better.

This post was edited on 12/19 11:47 AM by the Blades

 

[KhalidShockedTheWorld]

I feel the same way Blades. The team plays young (too young for my taste) and Purvis is a complete bust. From what I have seen the only thing Purvis does well is finish in transition. In the halfcourt offense he is useless. He cannot shoot and is extremely turnover prone because of poor ballhandling and poor decision making. The talk about him being one and done is laughable beyond words. The only one of the new guys who is a good player ready to play at this level is Hamilton, but he too is mistake prone. And Brimah being a nonfactor last night really hurt the team. He cannot play against the higher level competition. 40 against Coppin State but last night 0 points and 1 board and 5 fouls. Last night in 35 combined minutes Brimah and Nolan had 1 combined 1 rebound. 1 rebound in 35 minutes between our 2 centers!

 

[the Blades]

Originally posted by KhalidShockedTheWorld:
And Brimah being a nonfactor last night really hurt the team. He cannot play against the higher level competition. 40 against Coppin State but last night 0 points and 1 board and 5 fouls. Last night in 35 combined minutes Brimah and Nolan had 1 combined 1 rebound. 1 rebound in 35 minutes between our 2 centers!

Yeah... I didn't even post after the Coppin St. game..it was a fluke...they had a big overweight center who couldn't
move his feet and a bunch of other players that guarded like chairs on D. Okafor has quick feet for his size and is
to highly skilled for a guy like Brimah to guard. Knew it was gonna be a bad night with a foul in the first 12 secs.
Plus Okafor was like a point center and made smart plays out of the post when they doubled.....

I still don't know why KO didn't have Brimah( 13 mins on the court ???) front Okafor, and deny the entry pass with
his height and wingspan. You could see the refs were gonna let him shove and hook Brimah to get position down
on the box. As soon as he caught it.....it was a foul waiting to happen and he was done like dinner.


This post was edited on 12/19 9:38 AM by the Blades

 

[the Blades]

Zags Blog- UConn's Boatright Helped His NBA Stock Against Duke

Pretty much the way it looked to me:

"He showed great speed and quickness," one NBA scout in attendance told SNY.tv. "He did not have enough help.
He plays both ends. He's an off-the-bench, change-of-tempo guy in the NBA."

A second scout said Boatright, who won an NCAA championship alongside Shabazz Napier last season, could be a
second-round pick in 2015. "I think he's a second-round pick," he said. "I think he's better than (former Louisville guard)

Russ Smith. He's playing with no one. ( yes you Rodney ! ) He's doing all that (stuff) by himself. Someone will
give him a chance."
This post was edited on 12/19 11:47 AM by the Blades

 

[Silk31]

Originally posted by KhalidShockedTheWorld:
I feel the same way Blades. The team plays young (too young for my taste) and Purvis is a complete bust. From what I have seen the only thing Purvis does well is finish in transition. In the halfcourt offense he is useless. He cannot shoot and is extremely turnover prone because of poor ballhandling and poor decision making. The talk about him being one and done is laughable beyond words. The only one of the new guys who is a good player ready to play at this level is Hamilton, but he too is mistake prone. And Brimah being a nonfactor last night really hurt the team. He cannot play against the higher level competition. 40 against Coppin State but last night 0 points and 1 board and 5 fouls. Last night in 35 combined minutes Brimah and Nolan had 1 combined 1 rebound. 1 rebound in 35 minutes between our 2 centers!

+1 Khalid on everything...I was at the game and was very disappointed in the 15-2 2nd half run that put the nail in our coffin

Boat just doesn't have enough help, they were doubling him at every chance. Facey played great but he only does so when he attacks the offensive glass and we never get him involved on offense otherwise. Brimah predictably got in foul trouble right away and that is very frustrating. We say how he is much better than Thabeet was at this point but we didn't have to worry about Hash getting in foul trouble as much as we do Brimah - his instincts and game awareness still leave a lot to be desired. We needed Amida in the worst way last night and he let the whistle happy refs park him on the bench - you have to be smarter.

The Purvis one and done talk, which I never subscribed to, continue to be a joke. He can't even hold Dyson's jock strap at this rate and everyone was expecting Dyson 2.0 from "The Ferrari". Hamilton progressing is our only chance to get better as the season rolls on. He needs to be as aggressive as he can be. I want him and Boatright hoisting up 30-35 shots combined per game, I don't care if some of those are forced because they are our best players by far.

DHam looks to pass too much when driving the lane. This isn't Coppin State where you float it to Brimah for a flush when you drive the lane. Duke had that scouted and covered, he got into the lane plenty but wasn't looking for his own shot as much as we needed him to.

I hate to say it but we are under .500 in late December and the outlook doesn't get much better to bolster our resume. If we don't win the AAC Tourney this team has a pretty good shot at going from winning a title to missing the dance - a distinction that nobody wants

 

[Dominicfrank]

i hate being right about this team. I hope we get it together and make a run but that would require at least 3 guys to double their output most likely Calhoun, Purvis, and Samuels and that is just too much to ask.