What's up with our roster
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Hey it's only about 3 years behind.....just like the FB roster on this site...that's why I added this: Uconn Roster
Here you go....... is it to early to look ahead?
2015-16
# GUARDS Rivals Rating
Jalen Adams 6-2/180 PG FR Roxbury. MA 5 star ..........Jalen Adams highlights
44 Rodney Purvis 6-4/205 Guard RS JR Raleigh. N.C. 5 star
3 Terrence Samuel 6-4/202 PG JR Brooklyn, N.Y. 3 Star
10 Sam Cassell Jr. 6-4/192 Guard JR Baltimore, MD 3 Star
WING FORWARDS:
5 Daniel Hamilton 6-7/190 G/F SO Los Angeles, CA 5 star
21 Omar Calhoun 6-5/205 G/F SR Brooklyn, N.Y. 4 star
FORWARDS
12 Kentan Facey 6-9/206 Forward JR Trelawny, Jamaica 4 star
Steven Enoch 6-10/235 F/C FR Norwalk, CT 4 star...........Steven Enoch Highlights
14 Rakim Lubin 6-8/260 Forward SO Gadsden, AL 3 star
CENTERS
35 Amida Brimah 7-0/230 Center JR Accra, Ghana 3 Star
1 Phillip Nolan 6-10/237 C/F SR Milwaukee, Wis. 3 star
only loss Boat and two scholarship ( I'd hope this doesn't happen again !) walk-ons
This post was edited on 3/16 12:17 PM by the Blades
2015-16
# GUARDS Rivals Rating
Jalen Adams 6-2/180 PG FR Roxbury. MA 5 star ..........Jalen Adams highlights
44 Rodney Purvis 6-4/205 Guard RS JR Raleigh. N.C. 5 star
3 Terrence Samuel 6-4/202 PG JR Brooklyn, N.Y. 3 Star
10 Sam Cassell Jr. 6-4/192 Guard JR Baltimore, MD 3 Star
WING FORWARDS:
5 Daniel Hamilton 6-7/190 G/F SO Los Angeles, CA 5 star
21 Omar Calhoun 6-5/205 G/F SR Brooklyn, N.Y. 4 star
FORWARDS
12 Kentan Facey 6-9/206 Forward JR Trelawny, Jamaica 4 star
Steven Enoch 6-10/235 F/C FR Norwalk, CT 4 star...........Steven Enoch Highlights
14 Rakim Lubin 6-8/260 Forward SO Gadsden, AL 3 star
CENTERS
35 Amida Brimah 7-0/230 Center JR Accra, Ghana 3 Star
1 Phillip Nolan 6-10/237 C/F SR Milwaukee, Wis. 3 star
only loss Boat and two scholarship ( I'd hope this doesn't happen again !) walk-ons
This post was edited on 3/16 12:17 PM by the Blades
While I would like to get excited about this team next year and I am sure I will when it gets closer, we can not or nor should we count on Brimah or Nolan being any better than this year which was well below D1 average.
Stone MUST come to UCONN or we are looking at a NIT team with a shot at being better rather than a NCAA Sweet 16 or better team with Stone.
Stone MUST come to UCONN or we are looking at a NIT team with a shot at being better rather than a NCAA Sweet 16 or better team with Stone.
What Purvis does over the summer with his FT shooting and TO's reduction will have a much more dramatic effect
on next years team...Nolan's been an enigma and Brimah's to weak but Uconn won a NC with Nolan and Brimah even
less as a player.
A bigger concern is that Adams won't have a year of apprenticeship behind a veteran.... like Kemba, Bazz and Boat had. And
college games and NC's are won with guard play, at least the last 2 for Uconn were. So if Purvis and Calhoun (any time
he makes more than 3 dribbles) Turn it Over at the rate they did this year it's gonna destroy winning. Especially if Adams
doesn't become the second coming of KEA and even he had a PG who could handle it a bit with him in the backcourt
in Ricky Moore.
This post was edited on 3/17 8:27 AM by the Blades
on next years team...Nolan's been an enigma and Brimah's to weak but Uconn won a NC with Nolan and Brimah even
less as a player.
A bigger concern is that Adams won't have a year of apprenticeship behind a veteran.... like Kemba, Bazz and Boat had. And
college games and NC's are won with guard play, at least the last 2 for Uconn were. So if Purvis and Calhoun (any time
he makes more than 3 dribbles) Turn it Over at the rate they did this year it's gonna destroy winning. Especially if Adams
doesn't become the second coming of KEA and even he had a PG who could handle it a bit with him in the backcourt
in Ricky Moore.
This post was edited on 3/17 8:27 AM by the Blades
KEA had the best handle of any guard in UConn history. His value to the UConn team was that he could keep his dribble alive under pressure because it was low to the ground, compact and he could weave through defenders with the dribble. Chris Smith had a great crossover dribble, which he used to blow by defenders but he used that dribble almost exclusively to score.
Purvis and Calhoun do need to work on their handles but UConn should have a second ballhandler in Samuel from whom Adams can learn if not be seriously mentored. It might make sense to get another ballhandling guard. The problem with Samuel is he absolutely cannot shoot from outside and teams invite him to drive so they can either block his shot or take a charge, either way they know what is coming. If Samuel could shoot he would be a better player, but he can't, so he isn't. And if pigs could fly we would eat our bacon at an airport, but we don't.
This post was edited on 3/16 12:55 PM by KhalidShockedTheWorld
Purvis and Calhoun do need to work on their handles but UConn should have a second ballhandler in Samuel from whom Adams can learn if not be seriously mentored. It might make sense to get another ballhandling guard. The problem with Samuel is he absolutely cannot shoot from outside and teams invite him to drive so they can either block his shot or take a charge, either way they know what is coming. If Samuel could shoot he would be a better player, but he can't, so he isn't. And if pigs could fly we would eat our bacon at an airport, but we don't.
This post was edited on 3/16 12:55 PM by KhalidShockedTheWorld
