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Arkansas-Pine Bluff Post Game Thread

Trap game that first 15mins I guess, but full throttle easy 40pts in the end. Solo is looking good, Castle is sharpening up, Alex making up for his prior misses - man, I love this team. Stewart's and-1 was impressive, I think we're looking good for next year with him and Ball.

I'm with everyone else here - the fluidity of the offense is impressive. It's a bit different than last year but the overall premise of grinding down your opponent remains.
 
Missed this one. Going have to fire up the DVR. What should I be looking for? What stood out? I read that Stewart got some minutes.
 
Our freshmen are growing fast right in front of our eyes.

Ball is very impressive with a monster block and coast to coast lay up. He will be ready earlier than expected.

Stewart showed promises to be next man off the bench and ready to contribute.

Castle’s defense is suffocating. Wait until he is fully healthy.
 
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Edward Sargent said:
You are No Tom! Tom would have had the box score with minutes to lead us off! I am spoiled
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Unfortunately I don't know how to do that. Here's the link to the boxscore though:
www.espn.com

UConn 101-63 Arkansas-Pine Bluff (Dec 9, 2023) Box Score - ESPN

Box score for the UConn Huskies vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions NCAAM game from December 9, 2023 on ESPN. Includes all points, rebounds and steals stats.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

When it comes to basketball topics I think I'm way better than Tom. When it comes to asking for advice about buying anything in my life then I come up way short to Tom. :)
 
Pretty rare to find a player Diarra's size blocking 3 shots in a single game.

Earlier in the thread, the breakdown of defensive schemes against us by Kansas and UNC was absolutely excellent. Makes it clear why it can take quite awhile for players to smoothly execute the offense, and, understand what to do on defense in coordination with their teammates. Impressive that coaches can see this in live game action, scheme a response on the fly when needed, and coach their players to execute the desired actions in timeouts and halftimes, with constantly changing groupings of players.
 
Ricker said:
Pretty rare to find a player Diarra's size blocking 3 shots in a single game.

Earlier in the thread, the breakdown of defensive schemes against us by Kansas and UNC was absolutely excellent. Makes it clear why it can take quite awhile for players to smoothly execute the offense, and, understand what to do on defense in coordination with their teammates. Impressive that coaches can see this in live game action, scheme a response on the fly when needed, and coach their players to execute the desired actions in timeouts and halftimes, with constantly changing groupings of players.
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He’s had 2 games with multiple blocks this year. Probably had to learn good timing being the smaller, younger brother lol.
 
Edward Sargent said:
Not sure Danny will be too happy about our 3 pt defense as it was a point of emphasis and we gave up quite a few
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He won’t be happy about it but we are the champs and teams are going to hit 3’s against us because they know they have to. That’s how it goes being the hunted
 
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I was just looking at the Play-By-Play with the boxscore. With 2:34 left in the first half the Huskies were up 33-31 after 2 free throws by APB. With 2:35 left in the 2nd half the lead peaked at 45, 101-56, after Diarra's 2 free throws. So over a 20 minute span the Huskies outscored APB 68-25. That's a pretty good 20 minutes of basketball.
 
Matrim55 said:
I've been watching UConn for 40 years, and this offense (which really started early February of last year) is the best we've ever run. In terms of screen/cut/slip/curl, skip passes & hit-aheads etc., even our very best offenses under Calhoun weren't this unselfish and relentlessly good.

Not saying these are the best UConn teams ever, but goshdarn man, this is some beautiful ball.

Incredible buy-in and execution from these kids at this point in the season. It took us til February last year.
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I don't know if it's the best. Calhoun's offense's ran off of good defense with fast breaks and ball screens.

Calhoun's motion offense, when ran effectively with good guard play, big men inside and forwards slashing to the hoop was fun to watch.

Hurley's offense is brilliant, but I'm not sure if it's better than JC's offense of the past.
 
B1GEast said:
I don't know if it's the best. Calhoun's offense's ran off of good defense with fast breaks and ball screens.

Calhoun's motion offense, when ran effectively with good guard play, big men inside and forwards slashing to the hoop was fun to watch.

Hurley's offense is brilliant, but I'm not sure if it's better than JC's offense of the past.
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It’s much better. Not for any reason than that modern offense is just much better than it was in the 90s and 00s. Analytics changed a lot.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Missed this one. Going have to fire up the DVR. What should I be looking for? What stood out? I read that Stewart got some minutes.
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Stewart had an impressive 4-5 minute run with some very nice offensive moves. I was disappointed when he was taken out and didn’t see another minute in the first half. And especially around the 3 minute mark when Karaban came back in with 2 fouls. What better time not to ride the confidence of the young man. Then 2nd half early he came in for about a minute and was taken out. Strange but there’s others I guess too.
 
mauconnfan said:
Stewart had an impressive 4-5 minute run with some very nice offensive moves. I was disappointed when he was taken out and didn’t see another minute in the first half. And especially around the 3 minute mark when Karaban came back in with 2 fouls. What better time not to ride the confidence of the young man. Then 2nd half early he came in for about a minute and was taken out. Strange but there’s others I guess too.
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7 pts 2 rebs and a steal in 14 minutes; Hurley post-game said he earned more going fwd.
 
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Matrim55 said:
I've been watching UConn for 40 years, and this offense (which really started early February of last year) is the best we've ever run. In terms of screen/cut/slip/curl, skip passes & hit-aheads etc., even our very best offenses under Calhoun weren't this unselfish and relentlessly good.

Not saying these are the best UConn teams ever, but goshdarn man, this is some beautiful ball.

This is from the other day, but it still stands up, obviously:



Incredible buy-in and execution from these kids at this point in the season. It took us til February last year.
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So, you're saying all that movement is planned?:rolleyes:
 
Palatine said:
I knew it wasn't Bilas. But I still keep thinking that was Bilas's voice.
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Weird. After our game I was flipping between several games yesterday and in two games playing at the same time I thought Bilas was doing the commentary. And he was not at any of those games.
 
todbo said:
21assista on 33 field goals. Pretty nice numbers, pretty nice teamwork.
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Right at 60% for the season.

311 FG
189 assists.
 
tomtom80 said:
Ha! Mrs TomTom asked me during the game “Why is Bilas doing this game?”
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Thought it many times during the game. Intonation, detailed analysis, so similar. Thought he must have worked on an imitation of Bilas. Didn't even fast forward past the Yak-Yak of the announcers just before the start of the second half to see who it was.

I liked it.
 
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