Blessing in disguise
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You are insane. This was bed wetting.
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That should be the takeaway from this 100%. Nobody who loses to Wagner can call themselves the "Top 5".
Now pick yourself up, learn how to rebound, and figure out how to play perimeter defense.
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And if they find a way to turn it around and do well the rest of the season, this loss will be seen as an aberration in 15 weeks from now.
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They don't need humility. They need defensive rebounding.
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The danger is if a leader does not emerge right away to show them how to turn it around. In other words make sure his teammates have a short memory in terms of depression or a hit to their confidence.
The locker room will be a precarious place for a couple of days. Hopefully Jalen or Rodney can make sure they put this behind them. Those freshman got a wake up call tonight, but need to know that college basketball ain't high school.
Also a leader will need to emerge when and after Ollie rips them a new arsewhole. Our vets better not be hanging their heads is all I'm saying.
This was a bad loss.
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in some ways it is a blessing
First, the 2 players UConn could least afford to have bad games at the same time is Purv and JA - and it happened
Larrier will be good but he needs to rein in the cocky attitude
AB, to me, has gotten worse as each season rolls on, he let that overweight white guy have his way
Haven't seen the stats but I am sure the guards outrebounded the bigs again - I cant even remember one UConn big pull down a clean rebound
For cryin out loud - this team looks to be the worse ever on perimeter D
If this team doesn't see some shots falling - they are hurting - did they shoot 30%???
KO needs to recruit a big who can catch a ball, clean rebound and defend
It was sooooo bad tonight - I couldn't even get mad- I was stunned
KO will have fun tomorrow and Sunday
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First, the 2 players UConn could least afford to have bad games at the same time is Purv and JA - and it happened
Larrier will be good but he needs to rein in the cocky attitude
AB, to me, has gotten worse as each season rolls on, he let that overweight white guy have his way
Haven't seen the stats but I am sure the guards outrebounded the bigs again - I cant even remember one UConn big pull down a clean rebound
For cryin out loud - this team looks to be the worse ever on perimeter D
If this team doesn't see some shots falling - they are hurting - did they shoot 30%???
KO needs to recruit a big who can catch a ball, clean rebound and defend
It was sooooo bad tonight - I couldn't even get mad- I was stunned
KO will have fun tomorrow and Sunday
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A blessing in disguise is a hard fought lost to a very good team, this was a reality check that we aren't what we thought we were at this point.
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Exactly. The sooner the youngsters can take over the team and the seniors accept reduced roles the better UConn will be.
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The freshman played fine .
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More like the Four Tops. Diarra didn't play.
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It's not as bad as some are making it out to be - just a reference to a Drake song: UConn Hoops Freshmen Quintet Borrows From Drake: 'Top 5, Top 5 Top 5'
No one is sure who started it, but as one recruit after another chose UConn, they joined the group chat.
Vance Jackson and Christian Vital would begin ribbing each other, Mamadou Diarra would egg people on.
"Alterique Gilbert and I would just sit back and listen," said 6-foot-10 Juwan Durham, from Tampa. "It was hilarious."
Soon, lyrics from the Drake song "Grammys" began to click for them all: "Top 5, top 5, top 5," and UConn's heralded recruiting class of 2016 had a name.
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The freshman played better than anyone else, but that does not mean they played fine. There is not one area of the game in which our team played fine.
Its the same problems but with new players. No uptempo, poor rotations on D, poor perimeter defense, no movement on offense, running down the clock, poor rebounding, etc. I am not sure how this gets fixed when it appears to be the result of coaching philosophy.
One are which can improve is shot selection, but that could result in more last second shots as time runs out. I am most concerned about the defense and rebounding issues which keep surfacing every year.
On Durham, in the short time he played he looked slow and was easily beaten down court and then in the lane. There is so much that needs to be fixed, I don't believe anyone player will turn this around. It needs to be a team effort.
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Or more accurately growing pains. This won't be the last of them.
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