I think Solo is figuring out how to use his offensive tools effectively, and the 3 is suffering ironically. Really exciting watching him take it to the hole or pulling up for that 10-15 footer. A year ago he knew he was shooting the 3 or passing. Once the whole process of what tool to use becomes instinctive, I’ll bet the 3 comes back.
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Its interesting that his mid range shot has gotten pretty good which is very valuable as we saw yesterday. Maybe its a mental thing where its hard to shoot so well from mid and long ranges . If we had to pick to being an excellent 3 point shooter or him being an excellent mid range shooter, I would probably choose him to shoot 3s with more accuracy. But I hope he can merge these skills.
Watched the replay & am p*ssed about the non-call at 45 seconds to go when Silas was very obviously bumped by the defender, which caused him to lose ball out of bounds. Instead of UConn shooting 1&1 FTs, AZ got the ball. UConn was in the bonus, and assuming Silas makes 1 or 2 FTs, UConn would either be tied or up by 1. Not the only bad call- that phantom foul on Karaban on the rebound, the non-call when Stewart got thrown aside when Peat was crashing to the basket on offense. I would love for full strength UConn to meet AZ again in tourney and get their revenge.
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Two things on that: 1) I don't think anyone is pretending this team is as good as those teams at rebounding as a unit. 2) I'm sure UConn never played as good a rebounding 4/5 combination in those years without at least one of Sanogo/Clingan.
While I do agree the 1-3 were better rebounding in 23 and 24 they also played 75/79 games with the big of the other team having to worry about boxing out Clingan and/or Sanogo. Neither missed a game in 23, in 24 Clingan missed SJU, DePaul, Butler, Xavier, and Georgetown. None of which were ranked, and certainly not in the top five in the country. The best 4/5 combo in those five games was probably Soriano/Ledlum and, well, good luck convincing anyone those two were nearly as good as Krivas/Peat.
I said before the game, Zona crashes the glass hard. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.