Justin Verrier

Yeah, whenever I plug in, and by that I mean the past two to three years when UConn finally got really good, like the fact that post-up bigs are still pretty relevant and to the point where like at least two of the successful UConn teams of the past four years have like kind of revolved around those guys and Sunogo and now Terrace Reed is like...

It's almost like you're jolting back a couple of years in history where it's like this just doesn't happen in the NBA now.

And it seemed like to a certain extent, other teams were kind of thriving off of their bigs.

And obviously, Michigan was just gigantic to the point where I mean, Morris Johnson was basically playing the like the three or the four.

I guess he and Yaxo would switch and they're both like power forwards in the NBA, which is wild.

I personally liked it because it's almost like getting a different cuisine that is familiar enough to the thing that you're used to eating all the time.

I will say, could I have stomached that throughout the course of an entire season?

I don't know, because it is slower.

And in that title game, Yukon could not hit anything.

And so there aren't a lot of threes there.

And I do like the dynamic timing.

sort of shooting element to the NBA.

And so I liked it in a tournament setting where it was like one and done.

And I think that adds to the appeal of it all.

But I do like it's a different experience.

I had fun in this tournament more than I had even in the past years where UConn was more successful.

Yeah, the Braylon Mullins experience, I think, is like indicative of that, where it's like to start with, you can't hit the broad side of a barn and you're just kind of maddening because it seems like this is the type of player he should be.

Why is he not excelling at this exact thing?

But then when he does hit big shots, it's more dramatic because you suffered through all the misses.

And so that is heightened.