Uconn game thread

[newsman13]

Like I said earlier... We need a top 100 PG for next year. Maybe top 50..Along with a true center.

Barkley, in my mind, was the last truly great PG we had...Cook? played 1 year and was good, not great as a frosh. Ingram never played to 5 star status at St John's..

Hatten wasn't a PG BUT, WAS GREAT.

 



I don't disagree, but there are literally no top 100pgs or Centers still uncommitted. Our best bet is to find a pf to compliment Gift, and another combo guard. We really need to see D'angelo of Phil continue to develop. I don't think we're going to bring in anyone who will be good enough to significantly replace them in the backcourt.

Those two are our guards of the future IMO.

 

Hey, Stith would be barely top 300 and he gets minutes. We've been hurt by plenty of non-top 100 PGs this year. who could shoot etc. Time to get creative here. Our problem is manpower. They don't all have to be All Americans. UCONN had a couple of big white guys who we probably would have ignored. Sometimes you have to shop at Walmart instead of Sachs 5th ave to get what you really need. Louie made a living settling for seconds. We've already shown we can get some biggies but I think we're getting outhustled for the midlevel guys.

 

it usually takes four years for "walmart" players to make noise. i don't know how many people here have the patience. our sachs players weren't as good as uconn's sachs players. i could tell after five minutes we were going to lose.

we're getting better. let's keep shopping at sachs!

 

Amen... Our Sachs players are all freshmen and we have only 6 of them, not the usual 13. Lavin isn't settling for marginal guys like some fans want to do, and I'm happy about that. I'd rather play short guys for one season than have 5 4- year marginal players occupying our bench. Lavin has bigger goals than many of the fans, and that's the way it should be.

This season we are Sampson and Pelle short of a nice tourney run. That's okay because Lavin didn't panic just to fill spots with marginal guys. Not one guy he brought in was marginal. Even mike Perez who plays for UTEP whom nobody wanted would not have been marginal.

I'm happy to be a fan now because I know that even if we fill 3 ships instead of 6, they will be legit players. A little bit of patience will pay off here. Mark my words.

 

my thoughts exactly!

 

[redmannorth]

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Louie made a living settling for seconds.

 

Where do you come up with these wild theories?
I have been following the program very closely since 1981 as these are the facts:
1. In 1983 we finished 3rd in the polls with 3 MCAA as well as a junior college AA;
2. In 1985 we finished 3rd in the polls and went to the final four with 3 MCAA, a junior college POY, a top 100 pg, a top 100 small forward, a highly rated pg and a very highly rated transfer;
3. In 1986 we finished top 5 in the polls with 1 MCAA, a junior college POY, a top 100 pg, a top 100 small forward, a very highly rated transfer ( I don't know where Ron Rowan was rated in high school ) and a top 100 freshman center ( Marco Baldi );
4. In 1991 ( I believe ) we went to the elite eight with 2 MCAA, a top 50 shooting guard, a highly rated pg and a top 50 pf/center.

Where were the seconds Louie settled for? When Louie and his assistants brought in high level talent they won big. The years he lacked top talent we went to the NIT or were one and done.

 

looie told his assistants to bring in one first round draft pick a year and that's pretty much what they did. he could have asked for two or three.

 

Newsman I accept what you are saying but a first round NBA pick does not equate with seconds.