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Love him! His shot has an interesting look to it- release is nice and high, but he doesn’t look squared up to basket when he shoots, it sometimes looks like he’s diagonal to it. I don’t care as he is reliable and a great defender too.
 
Conndog said:
Love him! His shot has an interesting look to it- release is nice and high, but he doesn’t look squared up to basket when he shoots, it sometimes looks like he’s diagonal to it. I don’t care as he is reliable and a great defender too.
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He turns to the side on the jump shot. I think we may see that more that we would if he wasn't a lefty.
 
Alleyne has really started to develop into the player we thought we were getting. I'll chalk it up to taking some time to adapt to the tougher, high quality Big East comp vs. the mediocre ACC. ;)

Over the last 8 games, his defense has been outstanding, and he's shot 10/25 (40%) from 3pt.

Hoping he can keep that momentum going into the postseason!
 
JustbrewitMan said:
Alleyne has really started to develop into the player we thought we were getting. I'll chalk it up to taking some time to adapt to the tougher, high quality Big East comp vs. the mediocre ACC. ;)

Over the last 8 games, his defense has been outstanding, and he's shot 10/25 (40%) from 3pt.

Hoping he can keep that momentum going into the postseason!
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When you look at the team construction it is around 40% foundation, and about 60% add-on.

Pre-season/early-season the raw talent, accompanied by so much depth, we were .... well .... invincible. Beat everybody, even top pre- season ranked teams by double digits.

Then we hit the meat grinder of the BE regular season. 5 top 20 teams among the top 5 of the BE rankings.

The coaching staff and the players are demonstrably improving, together. Great time to hit our stride to peak, starting next week.

We are very talented. Very experienced and very experienced, together as a top team. We are battle tested.

I think we are very ready for the post season to begin.
 
prankster said:
I think we are very ready for the post season to begin.
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I think we need to take care of business at the Garden tomorrow and at Nova on the 4th, before we start thinking about the BET. We need to beat St. John's on general principals, and we need to sweep somebody not ranked in the bottom three of the league.
 
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ToolzieFan said:
If he can play anywhere close to as well as he did tonight, we’re in much better shape going forward. His shot looked better, he played with confidence, and he was tough as nails on defense. He’s the type of glue guy I love bringing in off the bench.
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Our bench was 4-5 from the three
He and Joey were 100% . Boy if we could get that tandem going .?
I like that Lefty stroke . Watching him shoot Reminded me of a contemporary of mine named Gary Liberatore who could hoist them up .

Diarra was 0-1 ,
The starters 6-16 .350%
The team 10-21 not to shabby
 
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AZHuskiePop said:
Our bench was 4-5 from the three
He and Joey were 100% . Boy if we could get that tandem going .?
I like that Lefty stroke . Watching him shoot Reminded me of a contemporary of mine named Gary Liberatore who could hoist them up .

Diarra was 0-1 ,
The starters 6-16 .350%
The team 10-21 not to shabby
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Gary L was a really good player.
 
fleudslipcon said:
He pretty much shut down Hopkins while Alex was on the bench if you remove the slip foul.
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At his size, to D-up Hopkins the way he did is impressive. I love the young man's toughness on D, and I've been hoping his shot would start dropping as getting some offense off the bench helps enormously.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
Our bench was 4-5 from the three
He and Joey were 100% . Boy if we could get that tandem going .?
I like that Lefty stroke . Watching him shoot Reminded me of a contemporary of mine named Gary Liberatore who could hoist them up .

Diarra was 0-1 ,
The starters 6-16 .350%
The team 10-21 not to shabby
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Liberatore was awesome.. Ronny Riordan wasn't bad either
 
huskiesouth said:
Gary L was a really good player.
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He scored over 3,000 pts before the 3 ball. He had NBA range .
My fellow gym rats and I went to a few New Haven vs Quinnipiac wars back in the Day . Best game in the area Although UB vs Sacred Heart was decent .
I thought New Haven screwed up emphasizing football instead of going the D1 BB and Hockey route QU took.
 
ConnEd said:
At his size, to D-up Hopkins the way he did is impressive. I love the young man's toughness on D, and I've been hoping his shot would start dropping as getting some offense off the bench helps enormously.
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Yeah I was surprised. When Karaban was out and both Jackson and Alleyne were in, we had Alleyne on Hopkins and not Jackson.
 
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We could do worse than bringing Alleyne back to fill out the lineup next year in that shooter spot. Castle/Alleyne/Jackson/Karaban/Clingan could be really nice on both ends if Alleyne can consistently be this type of shooter. Maybe his boy Castle will talk him into one more year?
 
For some reason it took him longer then the other newbies to get acclimated. He is living up to what we expected. He is playing lighter and shooting like he is a man who has run out of bricks.
 
DW1361 said:
For some reason it took him longer then the other newbies to get acclimated. He is living up to what we expected. He is playing lighter and shooting like he is a man who has run out of bricks.
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very much so. It's not just that he is making shots, which is always good, but now he is making 3s off the dribble. It's easy to see his body language exudes confidence. The guy can fill it up as seen in this 1st rd in the 2021 NCAAT:

 
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When the defenses collapse on our bigs he should always be an option for those easy midranges. He got Clingan at least one assist this way vs STJ
 
Nice to see him excelling and he stepped up his game just in time. Hope he returns next year to elevate his game even further.
 
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