- Very disappointing loss.
- OK, it's over 8 minutes in. Are we going to start making some shots? Or at least get the O-board on a few of our misses?
- Is Sanogo the only one on the team who can hit a three today? It sure seemed like it in the first half.
- How was that push-off by Nembhardt on Alleyne not a foul?
- Halftime thoughts. Sanogo had it all over Kalkbrenner in the half. 13 points, 4 boards, 2 dimes and a steal, to 4 points, 2 boards a dime, a steal and a block.
- Add in our reserve center's output, and the advantage in the pivot. King has on rebound. That's it. Clingan on the other hand, had a bucket, a block and 4 boards.
- Our guards are 3 of 13. 4 of 18 if you count Ajax as a guard.
- We managed to get 7 offensive rebounds, which is 3 more than Creighton. But we had a lot more opportunities. We missed 20 shots to their 15.
- Tied it up quickly in the 2nd half, then went back and forth for a bit.
- Why do I think that if Kalkbrenner went onto Adama instead of the other way around it still would have been a foul n Adama.
- Really big defensive lapse by Ajax on Sheierman.
- Bad call on the moving screen on Karaban. Hawk was already two steps past him, so it wasn't a screen any more.
- Newton got clumsy with the ball and lost it to Alexander. In situ it felt like the most significant turnover of the game.
- Seemed like a 5 minute comedy of errors mid-second half. 4 turnovers, 3 fouls and 8 missed FG attempts without a score. It was really only 2 minutes of gametime, from 10:40 to 8:36.
- Why the hell is Jackson taking threes? Or shots in general. He went 3 for 11 from the floor, and had ZERO assists. For my money, it was his worst game as a Husky.
- Not sure why we didn't go to Hawkins and/or Karaban more in the 2nd half.
- We outrebounded them, with all the advantage coming on the offensive boards.
- The foul disparity reared its ugly head again. 14 to 10 doesn't seem like a lot, but it's when and where they're called. Creighton took 17 FTs to our 4.
- Sanogo won the battle of the bigs against Kalkbrenner again. 17/10/2/1/0 to RK 12/6/1/3/1.
14 - Seemed like Creighton was matching the "comedy of errors" in their own way, so I could chalk it off as both fan bases might have felt the same way
15 - 11 shots and 0 assists sure jumped out for me. My unsophisticated 'analysis' is that UConn played Creighton's game, and McDermott saying, "As long as they keep taking bad shots, we'll win this game" came to be true. I was under the impression that the improvements we've seen from AJax issued forth from different coaching strategy & directives. This therefore baffled me, and requires work. February 11th isn't fatally late, but this was a step backwards.
16 - Karaban for certain, and it would have likely spilled over to help Hawkins.
18 - I read in another thread that Hurley's two necessaries were keeping the opponent under 11 assists, and having equal fouls for both teams. Succeeded regarding the assists, but, wow, only 4 FTs?
ZERO attempts for Newton. That's a prescription for losing, and runs contrary to how things have recently turned around. What explains this regression, which I would link to the observations about AJax above?