Fishy
Elite Premium Poster
- Joined
- Aug 24, 2011
- Messages
- 18,242
- Reaction Score
- 133,035
Style points don't really matter.
Seton Hall is even more broken right now than UConn is - their season has completely gotten away and it's not coming back.
The good -
I thought the defensive intensity was good. Seton Hall shot under 26% - that was not an accident. For the first time in ages, it seems, UConn forced turnovers.
Roscoe and Alex woke up some. Roscoe had the two buckets in the first half that gave UConn some mild separation in a game for the first time since about Christmas. I still think he needs more than 16 minutes. Alex had a productive 28 minutes. In a perfect world, where Drummond is not saddled with two first half fouls, perhaps Alex at 25 minutes and Roscoe at about 20 is perfect.
They got to the line. They're not a threat from beyond the arc - they really need to get to the line, and convert from there, to win.
They didn't set themselves on fire to start the second half. Nope, they had a lil run and caused SH to call a TO. Perfect.
They put their boot on SH's neck and did not let them back into the game - more on D than on O and perhaps mostly because Seton Hall is kinda punchless, but still, it happened.
The bad -
Still some bad body language from Shabazz and Jeremy. You can't look to Heaven every time you miss a free throw. First, it looks bad to teammates, most of whom are younger. Second, God doesn't care.
They still seem convinced that there is an invisible wall 25' from the basket. No matter how quickly they get up court, they still want to stop and make sure the invisible wall is not there. The defense catches up and the action starts to move away from the basket from there.
Every possession is the same...get to 25', check for the wall, confirm that it is not there, pass it out and let's start again. Our seven year old girl plays in a league where you have to pass it twice before you shoot - she thinks UConn plays under those rules too. (She asked.)
The passing is....odd. And bad. Boat, Nap and Lamb love the slow, big-windup, sidearm pass - so does the defense. Let me put it like this - white guys are jumping the passing lanes. Tighten that up - and a skip pass every now and again won't kill anyone.
An open shot is a good shot if you are Jeremy Lamb. Jeremy Lamb passing up an open shot to get the ball to Tyler Olander for an open shot is still a bad play.
George Blaney knows more about basketball that this entire board does. If we all live to be 1,000 years old, we'll never learn enough to have an intelligent conversation with that man about basketball. That said, holy duck*, can he act like he has a pulse?!
On the SH three in the second half where Nap gave a half-hearted run-by on D, Blaney should have thrown a chair at a fan, kicked over the scorer's table and called a time out. This is how a snowball starts...one bad play on O, a terrible play on D, a three and then the snowball is the size of a schoolbus and the orphanage gets wiped out.
Thank God Seton Hall is awful and the snowball melted, but Jesus, he's gotta pretend he's alive at times.
Seton Hall is even more broken right now than UConn is - their season has completely gotten away and it's not coming back.
The good -
I thought the defensive intensity was good. Seton Hall shot under 26% - that was not an accident. For the first time in ages, it seems, UConn forced turnovers.
Roscoe and Alex woke up some. Roscoe had the two buckets in the first half that gave UConn some mild separation in a game for the first time since about Christmas. I still think he needs more than 16 minutes. Alex had a productive 28 minutes. In a perfect world, where Drummond is not saddled with two first half fouls, perhaps Alex at 25 minutes and Roscoe at about 20 is perfect.
They got to the line. They're not a threat from beyond the arc - they really need to get to the line, and convert from there, to win.
They didn't set themselves on fire to start the second half. Nope, they had a lil run and caused SH to call a TO. Perfect.
They put their boot on SH's neck and did not let them back into the game - more on D than on O and perhaps mostly because Seton Hall is kinda punchless, but still, it happened.
The bad -
Still some bad body language from Shabazz and Jeremy. You can't look to Heaven every time you miss a free throw. First, it looks bad to teammates, most of whom are younger. Second, God doesn't care.
They still seem convinced that there is an invisible wall 25' from the basket. No matter how quickly they get up court, they still want to stop and make sure the invisible wall is not there. The defense catches up and the action starts to move away from the basket from there.
Every possession is the same...get to 25', check for the wall, confirm that it is not there, pass it out and let's start again. Our seven year old girl plays in a league where you have to pass it twice before you shoot - she thinks UConn plays under those rules too. (She asked.)
The passing is....odd. And bad. Boat, Nap and Lamb love the slow, big-windup, sidearm pass - so does the defense. Let me put it like this - white guys are jumping the passing lanes. Tighten that up - and a skip pass every now and again won't kill anyone.
An open shot is a good shot if you are Jeremy Lamb. Jeremy Lamb passing up an open shot to get the ball to Tyler Olander for an open shot is still a bad play.
George Blaney knows more about basketball that this entire board does. If we all live to be 1,000 years old, we'll never learn enough to have an intelligent conversation with that man about basketball. That said, holy duck*, can he act like he has a pulse?!
On the SH three in the second half where Nap gave a half-hearted run-by on D, Blaney should have thrown a chair at a fan, kicked over the scorer's table and called a time out. This is how a snowball starts...one bad play on O, a terrible play on D, a three and then the snowball is the size of a schoolbus and the orphanage gets wiped out.
Thank God Seton Hall is awful and the snowball melted, but Jesus, he's gotta pretend he's alive at times.
