Reibe and Furphy at FIBA U19s

[husky429]

All of the games are on Youtube streamed for free. Gonna be amazing experience for these guys and help prepare them for what's in Storrs.

Australia: Plenty of good competition with them playing in the group phase with France and USA. Some real talent on the team. A few D1 players, Dash Daniels who is playing NBL and may go first round in the draft next year. Team probably isn't going to have a great record (and will be crushed by USA), but it should be fun to see him against the guys we want him to be dominating this November.

6/28 @ 11:15vs USA
6/29 @ 1:30 vs Cameroon
7/1 @ 11:15 vs France


Germany: Christian Anderson from Texas Tech will probably be leading the team. Kid playing for UW, some other D1 guys and a bunch of guys playing in vairous European pro leagues. Reibe is going to have to EARN his playing time here for sure. Reibe needs to prove himself to me now...he's been hit or miss and way too soft over the past couple years. I need to see him play tough and aggressive to have faith he can be the backup 5 we need.

6/28 @ 8:30 vs Slovenia
6/29 @ 5:45 vs China
7/1 @ 8:30 vs Canada


Figured I'd start a thread for anyone watching games or highlights here.

 

[Huskyforlife]

All of the games are on Youtube streamed for free. Gonna be amazing experience for these guys and help prepare them for what's in Storrs.

Australia: Plenty of good competition with them playing in the group phase with France and USA. Some real talent on the team. A few D1 players, Dash Daniels who is playing NBL and may go first round in the draft next year. Team probably isn't going to have a great record (and will be crushed by USA), but it should be fun to see him against the guys we want him to be dominating this November.

6/28 @ 11:15vs USA
6/29 @ 1:30 vs Cameroon
7/1 @ 11:15 vs France


Germany: Christian Anderson from Texas Tech will probably be leading the team. Kid playing for UW, some other D1 guys and a bunch of guys playing in vairous European pro leagues. Reibe is going to have to EARN his playing time here for sure. Reibe needs to prove himself to me now...he's been hit or miss and way too soft over the past couple years. I need to see him play tough and aggressive to have faith he can be the backup 5 we need.

6/28 @ 8:30 vs Slovenia
6/29 @ 5:45 vs China
7/1 @ 8:30 vs Canada


Figured I'd start a thread for anyone watching games or highlights here.

Reibe is the only true center on his roster, feels like he’s guaranteed a big role.

 

[auror]

Reibe is the only true center on his roster, feels like he’s guaranteed a big role.

Yeah he should have a good role, but their PF Hannes Steinbach filled in for Reibe at the U-18 Eurobasket last summer and they won the tournament. But this event does have some taller dudes, 8 other 7-footers, only 1 of whom is European. Steinbach is more like 6'9".

 

[ec33]

Reibe is the only true center on his roster, feels like he’s guaranteed a big role.

Reibe is the only other true center on the UConn roster, I think he has a strong shot at the backup spot.

 

[superjohn]

Not sure what people are talking about here. We have two centers, another two headed monster in Reed and Reibe.

 

[formerlurker]

Not sure what people are talking about here. We have two centers, another two headed monster in Reed and Reibe.

Only Center on his FIBA roster

 

[Huskyforlife]

Reibe is the only other true center on the UConn roster, I think he has a strong shot at the backup spot.

He’s the only option, so yeah.

 

[auror]

Reibe tipping off

 

[husky429]

Reibe tipping off

Looks like our boy got the start. I'm (quite literally) watching this on a bench while my wife buys clothes in Europe. She can't even WEAR THEM she's 7 months pregnant.

 

[Sphinx]

Our boy lasted three minutes before committing two personals and hitting the bench. No points, no rebounds, twice beaten on defense. His replacement was ten seconds into the game before scoring on a slam dunk. Just the sort of start you want if you're looking for obvious areas for improvement. (smile)

 

[auror]

Looks like our boy got the start. I'm (quite literally) watching this on a bench while my wife buys clothes in Europe. She can't even WEAR THEM she's 7 months pregnant.

My wife told me after I put it on that we could've gone if she knew the tournament was in Switzerland.

 

[caw]

Looks like our boy got the start. I'm (quite literally) watching this on a bench while my wife buys clothes in Europe. She can't even WEAR THEM she's 7 months pregnant.

Not a great start for Reibe.

 

[auror]

Not a great start for Reibe.

Big thing he's going to have to work on is help positioning. Something I noticed going back to high school. He's always worried about his matchup in the post and often doesn't get in help-side position. Leads to fouls (he picked up 2 in like 3 minutes) and opponent getting layups he doesn't get to.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Big thing he's going to have to work on is help positioning. Something I noticed going back to high school. He's always worried about his matchup in the post and often doesn't get in help-side position. Leads to fouls (he picked up 2 in like 3 minutes) and opponent getting layups he doesn't get to.

He'll have to increase his foot quickness in order to get better at help defense and defense overall.

 

[auror]

He'll have to increase his foot quickness in order to get better at help defense and defense overall.

More mental than footspeed, to me. Some strength too as he can't push his defender out from screening him with a post up.

Just came back in after the foul trouble and got a quick oreb and putback.

 

[Blakeon18]

Furphy and Reibe: the more info the better on these two whenever they play. Thank you to those who are watching.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Any leads on whether these games will be available on delay? I’m out running errands and would love to catch the Australia game today.

 

[husky429]

Any leads on whether these games will be available on delay? I’m out running errands and would love to catch the Australia game today.

All of them are saved on the Youtube page. FIBA has awesome access

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Haven’t watched much but Reibe 4 points at half. 2/2 on 2s, 0/1 on 3s, only 1 REB.

 

[auror]

Haven’t watched much but Reibe 4 points at half. 2/2 on 2s, 0/1 on 3s, only 1 REB.

He did nothing but maybe tip a rebound in his first several minute stretch, but got 2 fouls and sat for the next quarter or so. Next stretch was better. Offensive rebound and nice use the basket reverse lay-in. Then caught a pass outside the paint and power dribbled into his defender for a nice soft floater. Then took a bad "I haven't shot yet) contested 3 he missed badly.

Just picked up a bad 3rd foul right to start the 2nd. Probably bad call (defender jumped into him and landed on Reibe like 2 seconds after shooting a floater).

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

More mental than footspeed, to me. Some strength too as he can't push his defender out from screening him with a post up.

Just came back in after the foul trouble and got a quick oreb and putback.

I think it's both mental and foot speed. Mental in that his aggressiveness has to dial up quite a bit.

 

[husky429]

Much better 3rd quarter after that questionable foul. Just had a nice 2-dribble drive, missed the lay in... but got the o-board and finished. Had another rebound in there somewhere as well. Contesting a TON of shots in the scrum for boards especially.

Declan Duru is pretty nice.

 

[auror]

Lol Reibe with the drive against his defender. Got fouled, no call, then did a crazy spin move for the wide open layup... that he missed lol.

 

[husky429]

Lol Reibe with the drive against his defender. Got fouled, no call, then did a crazy spin move for the wide open layup... that he missed lol.

He had a nice baseline spin move from the mid-post earlier that he was fouled before the shot on... not sure a perimeter drive with a spin is quite in the wheelhouse yet. Also, why? You're huge kid, act like it.

 

[husky429]

This UW commit has 15 PTS and 17 REB with a couple minutes to go. Wow

Unfortunately Reibe didn't get to finish the game with other guys playing well. Ended up with 6/5/0 in 13 minutes. 3/5 from 2, 0/2 from 3 with 1 TO. No steals, and should've been credited with a block.

Nice comeback win for Germany.