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Arizona Post Game Thread

HuskyFich said:
Offensive rebounds and FTs.

Lost the two categories we usually dominate.

Felt like a very beatable team at full health.

Should we start Reibe and Reed together? /s
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Yes. Reibe at the 4 would be a menace if he was quick enough to defend
 
Gurleyman said:
What’s ridiculous is thinking a November game is somehow so big time that we want our most important player to play hurt and risk getting hurt worse. He just had a hamstring problem, now an ankle. If he’s not moving fluidly and protecting the ankle, then maybe the hamstring flares up again or something worse.

If there’s any risk at all at this point in the year, we’re better off letting him get healthy.
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As long as he’s healthy for DePaul, we good. Soft
 
NewBlood said:
Biggest game of the kid's life. You can tell he was overwhelmed at times but then he flashed too
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Exactly. That’s exactly what it looked like. The stage was the biggest he’s been on.
 
RuffRuff said:
You're really anti AZ - they're really, really good. And they haven't even gotten Burries going yet. They are one of the top 3-4 teams in the country. Let me know what it is about them you don't like oh suame, knower of all.

We would have won that game at home on full strength. You realize they flew across the country for it. Neutral court - it's a coin flip.
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I'm not really anti-Arizona, I'm saying we would've rolled them if we were at full strength because that's what would've happened. I'm not obsessed with Brayden Burries like you are, I don't consider them a top 3-4 team in the country, and I don't think 3-3 in these non conference games against big name teams is the best we could possibly hope for if Reed is playing. I don't judge the future of this team based off a cupcake game against New Haven.

I also didn't think the game was over tonight when there was 19 minutes left and I don't think Tarris Reed is a mushy type of kid for not playing tonight. We look at the sport and UConn basketball very differently.
 
Losing winnable games is miserable. This team is who they are. Alex, solo, Stewart, and Ross are who they are.

Alex is a role player that gets taken out of games by good defenders. He hasn’t developed a handle and still gets bullied by bigger players.

Stewart is streaky, and cannot rebound for the life of him.

Solo wants to be a catch and shoot player that doesn’t shoot well off the catch and hunts for fouls. He hasn’t developed a handle.

Ross can’t handle the ball and doesn’t have an identity.

We still have a very high ceiling with Mullins and reed coming back, but I’m just so disappointed in the group above hitting their ceilings. They can’t be the focal point of a championship team.
 
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It’s impossible for us to know how bad Reed is hurting, I’d have to assume Dan and Reed both wanted to have him in this game very bad, so I’ll assume the injury is bad enough to justify 9 more days of rest.

You do gotta wonder if he was justtttt healthy enough to to play the Koroma minutes, how different this game might’ve been though?
 
MuchoDogYears said:
He has a tendency to just pound the ball and not pass it. There were times where he literally ran all over the court dribbling for 20 seconds. He needs to stop playing as if he’s at Dayton and realize that his job is to make assists not pound the ball.
Posters here have a recency bias where because he played well in the last five minutes they talk about him having a good game but he actually had a bad game except for the last five minutes.
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No, he had a really good game. He should've had 10 or 11 assists and was our best on ball defender in his 17 minutes.
 
UDann said:
Good point but 9 for 18 in FT will not cut it. We have always been a great FT team. NOT tonight
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Only because the wrong guys on the team were shooting most of them. Reibe and Koroma were 3-10. Team was 9-18. So the rest of the team was 6-8 (75%).
 
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ArizonaHsky said:
Its a game against a top 5 team. You play in the game unless you can't walk. Thinking this might effect him later in the season is scared Thinking
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Dibbie said:
As long as he’s healthy for DePaul, we good. Soft
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Y’all would be the first to complain if he got a major injury tonight. “Why is he playing hurt? It’s only November! Save him for the important part of the season!”

There’s no good reason to rush Reed back. He has two injuries to recover from and aggravating either of those isn’t worth it.
 
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A lot of thought and evaluation goes into whether a potential AA plays hurt in a big game or not. It's not like us in our softball leagues deciding not to play in a Saturday game because we're too hungover.
 
The student section is horrendous. Absolutely no juice from them. A huge front running student section. Never get behind the team when we’re down. All they do is dress in bananas and waive some inflatable balloons around. We cut it to 53-47 and Arizona shooting in front of the student section and it’s done. 0 home court advantage from the students. Someone handle that
 
I cringed at that shot by Ball as well, but I wouldn't kill the guy for it - he's our best perimeter weapon and he saw some daylight - you tell a guy to have that confidence, so it's not going to disappear in the crunch time if you're lucky. I'd rather him have that confidence, but now recognize via film session that he could have gotten a better one.

The most concerning thing for me is the percentage of those going in for him. He is officially struggling from 3.
 
Posters here complaining about Reed not playing are crazy.

This game would of been nice to win, but come March, this game is relatively meaningless.

We aren't going to drop a seed because we lost to Arizona in November. We would definitely drop a seed if we lose to Butler or DePaul or Xavier in December because Tarris Reed tried to play through an injury, and made it worse.
 
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Being a bit greedy here but if you come back to take a lead with under 2min left in Gampel, you need to finish it off for the win.

Not crushed by this loss but we really should have come out with a W.

Solo made a really bad decision hucking up a horrible 3 attempt so early in the shot clock. But it’s something he’s been doing too much this year. He’s shooting so poorly because his 3pt shot selection is so much worse this year than last year. I’d surmise 10-15 of his attempts this year have been low-percentage attempts. And his obsession with hunting fouls on 3’s is bizarre. Please stop.

Those of you throwing shade at Stew and Ross must have been watching some other game. They didn’t have amazing games, but they did just fine. Stew especially.

Smith is frantic too often, but he made some GREAT assists and clutch plays. Crazy he’s our 2nd string PG.

Our big-time players didn’t show up tonight like they did against BYU. Part of it was just not having Reed to open up the offense for Silas & Alex. Arizona could get away with tight perimeter D. But they both still kinda underperformed. It happens. They’re humans not robots.

LOVED what Reibe brought. That last shot he made a great effort just to get it up to the rim after getting raked across the forearm. Tough missing those FTs but I bet he’ll be better going forward.

I love the overall long-term outlook for this team.
 
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