In today’s episode of Locked On UConn, we delve into the inspiring mindset of a UConn player who epitomizes the team’s spirit with the quote, “Whatever the team needs, I’m here to do it. I don’t care how many points I score; I’m here to hoop and help the team win.” We introduce you to Solo Ball, a promising new recruit, discuss his journey and potential impact on the team, and explore the legacy of hiring within versus outside the family for future leadership. Tune in for insights, player highlights, and discussions on UConn’s winning culture.
“Whatever the team needs, i’m here too do it, idc how many pts I score, i’m here to hoop and help the team win” UConn culture, we’ll tell you who this was…..
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Lets go back to the future:
a lefty combo guard out of Sharpsburg Maryland, announced his commitment to the Huskies on Friday afternoon. He’s the third commit lined up for the class of 2023, and the second in the last week.
Solo Ball — already in the running for best name in college sports — chose UConn over DePaul, USC, Miami, and some school in Rhode Island. He’s the 69th-ranked player in 247’s Composite Top 150 and the third-ranked player out of Maryland.
Ball plays at Brewster Academy in New Hampshire, the same school that produced Jalen Adams. This past spring, Ball was teammates with newest UConn commit Jayden Ross on Team Melo, Carmelo Anthony’s grassroots program.
Ball’s performance on the Nike EYBL Indianapolis session sent his stock skyrocketing to start the summer, after averaging 17.8 points, 5.5 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.0 steals, all while shooting 57 percent from the field.
BIG GAME POTENTIAL 9 pts off the bench against Indiana 7 pts off the bench against Texas both games he played 26 and 29 minutes respectively
His best game came against another fellow 1 seed in last years tournament, North Carolina, 13pts 50 pct from 3 in 29 minutes
Wax poetic about SOLO, I went back int eh archives to Sept 5 of last year, He’s a tough kid, Both of his parents are from Baltimore, my favorite recruiting quote, Solo still plays like a 5 ft 5 guard, ,which he was till his sophomore year in highschool. Bred for toughness.
“Whatever the team needs, i’m here too do it, idc how many pts I score, i’m here to hoop and help the team win”
If that doesn’t sound like a Dan Hurley guy, I don’t know what is.
Lets talk-legacy, SHould blue bloods follow the UConn way and hire outside of the family, that coming up after this..,
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Had a rare respectful conversation with Duke fans last night aton Twitter. about Jon Scheyer.
ANd i started thinking about this when i listed to Dan on Jim Rome talking his journey. It almost sounded, and i know this isn’t his intention, he was pointing out that in todays society we take shortcuts, That he took the traditional route to being the top of his profession and I wanted to talk about that but that’s what prompted me to talk about this today briefly.
THere isn’t a more compelling use case for hiring internally vs going outside of the family than Uconn with Kevin Ollie and Dan Hurley.
The beautiful thing for UConn fans is, even with K.O.’s faults we still won a title in his 2nd year which is such an outlier it’s amazing in itself.
And it’ snot just duke, it’s other blue bloods like carolina. Hubert davis, long time assitant took over for Roy Williams. Made a final four in his 2nd year lost int he title game to Kansas.
So it’s jus tsoemthing to think about husky fans. If Dan Was to leave, do we do what We did in the past and hire Kimani or Luke… or do we go outside the family?
Goign to chat TBT, comign up after this:
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SOOOO TBT and the Stars fo Storrs: first tell the fans about it, because for a hoops head like me, I’ve wanted Uconn to get involved for the past 10 years, so how did this come about?
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This has been another episode of Locked On Uconn,
I’m your host Mark Zanetto, asking you to Stay locked in, stay connected, make sure your toughness meter is always rising, and as always Go Huskies!
