basketball.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n“To start with it was a really difficult decision, I had an amazing year with a great group of guys and coaches (at UConn) but I ended up deciding to transfer because I want an opportunity to play, and I just didn\u2019t think I could get that at UConn.”<\/p>\n
Despite not playing as much as he would have liked, Furphy still took a lot out of his experiences from playing at one of the top programs in college basketballs under arguably one of the best coaches in college basketball history.<\/p>\n
And the man, who has been compared to Australian basketball legend Joe Ingles, said his Huskies experiences would allow him to lead Boston College next season.<\/p>\n
“I think that overall I learned just a better way to adapt to a hard environment and just the professionalism needed at this level, which I think I could bring and set an example at BC,” Furphy said.<\/p>\n
“Also obviously as well making it to the National Championship game, just shows you how hard it is to actually get there.<\/p>\n
“I think the learnings of dealing with not playing much has made me a better player for sure, it’s given me a challenge mentally but through that challenge it has helped me develop that toughness needed to excel at the next level.<\/p>\n
“My goals are just to bring the intensity and the habits needed for a team to win, also to just ultimately have the best season possible.”<\/p>\n
Furphy has already made his Australian Boomers senior debut and is expected to be a regular in the national team in the years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young Aussie Jacob Furphy has revealed why he chose to move on from UConn and join Boston College…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-639943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}