Aaron torres on uconn

[Marat]

We didn't play well vs Arizona in that game. Reed/Mullins were out, and crowd was kinda quiet. Towards the end of the game the team was waking up and took the lead only to lose it . Lacked rebounding and that did us in . I would claim we played that game kinda like we've been playing recently .

Get this team healthy, develop offensive chemistry and we can beat everybody.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Why would we believe any analyst? According to them T Shannon and the Illini were a bad matchup for us

 

[Kitaman]

I think our pace (this squad) is not conducive to blow outs unless we're shooting at a high percentage. We are methodical and at times plodders, mainly running half court sets.

Prior championship teams would supplement the same offense with a running/speed game. Andre Jackson running fast breaks was a thing of beauty. Tristan would also run the fast break to perfection. 6 point leads would multiply to double digits almost instantly.

This team even with the offensive advantage will slow it down at half court. It's working great and we're winning. My concern with such half court focus could we comeback from a 2nd half double digit deficit without a good fast break offense.

I'm still looking for that player who utilizes the outlet pass after rebound leading transition baskets. It's like we don't have a need for speed.

 

[El Obrero]

And another thing, Mr. Torres: Last year's squad was clearly inferior to this one, on both sides of the ball, and especially at point guard (arguably the most important position in the tournament). They weren't even in the same league defensively, and yet Hurley brought them within one possession of taking down the eventual national champion. Yeah, that was in the second round. But this year's team won't see that level of competition until the sweet sixteen at least. I like our chances.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I think our pace (this squad) is not conducive to blow outs unless we're shooting at a high percentage. We are methodical and at times plodders, mainly running half court sets.

Prior championship teams would supplement the same offense with a running/speed game. Andre Jackson running fast breaks was a thing of beauty. Tristan would also run the fast break to perfection. 6 point leads would multiply to double digits almost instantly.

This team even with the offensive advantage will slow it down at half court. It's working great and we're winning. My concern with such half court focus could we comeback from a 2nd half double digit deficit without a good fast break offense.

I'm still looking for that player who utilizes the outlet pass after rebound leading transition baskets. It's like we don't have a need for speed.

Some of that is just rebounding. We had a stretch where we ran more and then we went away from it and I suspect it's because we struggled to secure clean defensive rebounds and look up court. We really should look to push the pace when we can because teams soft press us to limit how much time we have to run our offense. That means they aren't rushing back on D and would be vulnerable.

 

[Icehawk]

This team is a grinder. Slow, steady, and not stopping. They aren't going to make the kill shots those curb-stomping championship teams made but they can gut a win out against anyone, anywhere.

 

[Lafayette]

Bad Bunny is the Super Bowl show

c'mon and give me credit for the assist....

 

[Lafayette]

Our pace is actually a bit slower than Virginia who also runs a long offensive set using 24-28s per play.

Given that, we won't have as many shot attempts as other teams who have more pace. But, since we are #5/#6 defense in the country, we tend to get stops on D so in general if we get more attempts then them, it comes down to shooting pct basically. While we work for high percentage shots, we also have ground down the clock to a last second heave.

Message should be clear from Hurley - execute the offense better and keep up the defensive pressure.

 

[superjohn]

I wouldn't consider that likely.

Why?

 

[Slick]

There’s a reason Hurleys teams have peaked in March/april. They don’t run all of their sets and variations of those sets until it really counts. In addition it’s not because the offense is broken right now, it’s because players are missing open shots. If ball and karaban shoot their career averages the past few games they are blowouts. All this negativity is mind blowing.

Unfortunately Ball has a major problem with his shooting wrist. It really hasn’t gotten better and Hurley said most college players wouldn’t play if they had his wrist issue. Hurley also stated at the start of the season we needed major improvements from Jaden Ross and Jalen Stewart. The last 2 games they COMBINED for 4 points!! That kind of production is awful and puts us in very poor position to win. Thank god for Reibe and Smith or we would have lost the last game

 

[superjohn]

Unfortunately Ball has a major problem with his shooting wrist. It really hasn’t gotten better and Hurley said most college players wouldn’t play if they had his wrist issue. Hurley also stated at the start of the season we needed major improvements from Jaden Ross and Jalen Stewart. The last 2 games they COMBINED for 4 points!! That kind of production is awful and puts us in very poor position to win. Thank god for Reibe and Smith or we would have lost the last game

Where/when did Hurley say that about Solo? I was shocked when someone asked him after the Providence game about Solo's wrist and Hurley said something like I don't know about that, he came off the bench and shot like 11 shots.

It was clear as day Solo's wrist was badly hurt last game after being airborne and directly falling on it.

 

[JustbrewitMan]

Where/when did Hurley say that about Solo? I was shocked when someone asked him after the Providence game about Solo's wrist and Hurley said something like I don't know about that, he came off the bench and shot like 11 shots.

It was clear as day Solo's wrist was badly hurt last game after being airborne and directly falling on it.

It was after either after the GTown or Nova game that he brought it up in his presser.