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jleves said:
Too late into this 9 page thread, but I would say: probably the most unsatisfying win against a top 7 team on a neutral court I can remember.

Giving up a mid second quarter double digit lead to squeak it out at the end. Uhg. We have to get better.
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There is no such thing as an unsatisfying top 7 win. What are we doing here?
 
jleves said:
Too late into this 9 page thread, but I would say: probably the most unsatisfying win against a top 7 team on a neutral court I can remember.

Giving up a mid second quarter double digit lead to squeak it out at the end. Uhg. We have to get better.
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I dont think we would of been in that situation if Solo was himself. Would have extended the lead more. So without a good Solo, and no Mullins for additional firepower, our offense bogged down in the 2nd when we slowed it down.
 
jleves said:
You were OK with the last 10 minutes?
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Nobody was but we are still gelling as a team and only 4th game of the year and with a key starter out in Mullins. Give it time and see were we are in January. It will be remembered a quality neutral win against a top team that will make the tournament. It is good we dealt with some adversary in this game but still won as we will hopefully better after this game. We need to feed the beast better for sure.
 
I'm glad Massachusetts General Hospital is close to TD Garden. Because those last 10 minutes were heart attack city!

Yeah the stalling drives me nuts. Not sure if Hurley tells them to do that or whether they succumb to the pressure.

Reed could have had 30+ points tonight easily but I don't think most of the players do a good job getting the ball to him in the post. I hated when he got the ball 15 feet from the basket and tried to get himself into post position by dribbling. I don't think that's a good idea. They need to practice passing into the post.

The first half defense was great. Someone want to tell me why it stunk in the second half? Obviously Dybantsa is a matchup nightmare. But Saunders was getting to the hoop way too easily.

Great win for tournament seeding. Nobody is going to care in March that Davis didn't play and Keita got hurt early. Keita kind of stinks any way so not sure he would have made any difference.
 
KingAG said:
Were you okay with the first 30?

And your question is irrelevant to if I’m happy about beating a legitimate top 7 team on a neutral site without our MCDAA starting lottery pick. Yes I’m satisfied. Lmfao
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absolutely happy with the first 30 - not happy with the end. We easily could have lost with 4 minutes left. We never should have been in that situation.
 
HuskyFich said:
We have the two stalwarts: Demery & Reed.
We have the mojo man: Karaban
We have unbelievable defensive wings.

Ross had his best game by a country mile and is starting to look consistent.


Overall, such a gritty win. It’s tough to hold a 20 pt lead against a top 5-10 team, and with their first test, they survived. The slowed pace hurt us, but not having Ball playing well and using Malachi a lot IMO is the reason the pace slowed for so long.

Dybantsa is going to make hundreds of millions of dollars. He is in a completely different galaxy from anyone else on the floor. Can I bet futures on the 2030 MVP? Like buttah.
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I agree with everything except "He (Dybantsa) is in a completely different galaxy from anyone else on the floor." There is some great players at the collegiate level, including some of our guys who are in the same galaxy, not to take anything away from Dybantsa.
 
Dybsanta Worth every dollar BYU paying him; the kid is a star ( already) . Thought Alex played his best game ever in showing that he can play in the league ; made 3’s , put ball on floor and was competitive on defense. Tonight we saw why they went hard after Silas . Not sure where Mullins minutes coming from ( looking at tonight’s minutes distribution ) . Thought Stewart and Ross did a good job guarding Dybsanta. The type of win that adds to the seed line in march .
 
jleves said:
absolutely happy with the first 30 - not happy with the end. We easily could have lost with 4 minutes left.
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So you don’t like wins against good teams we could’ve lost? That’s a miserable way to watch games given that most games against top 7 teams are going to be close hard fought victories. Every UConn team can’t be 23,24 UConn.

Im guessing you weren’t satisfied with 99 because we only won by 3 and could’ve easily lost in the last 4 minutes?
 
MrJoe said:
Dybsanta Worth every dollar BYU paying him; the kid is a star ( already) . Thought Alex played his best game ever in showing that he can play in the league ; made 3’s , put ball on floor and was competitive on defense. Tonight we saw why they went hard after Silas . Not sure where Mullins minutes coming from ( looking at tonight’s minutes distribution ) . Thought Stewart and Ross did a good job guarding Dybsanta. The type of win that adds to the seed line in march .
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Solo went to bench, and Smith had to come in. Mullins could have played instead of Smith with Stewart/Ross.
 
Skiblets said:
The problem wasn’t a stagnant offense. We scored the same number of points in each half, 43.

The problem was all the fouls - same issue as last year - and the corresponding patch work roster in the second half.

Gotta clean it up on D
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disagree. If we had kept running our offense they don’t get close. We stopped running our offense with 13 to go. That’s bananas. Hurley almost caused us this game. First, the constant fouling is a coaching issue. Our constant over reaching 15 feet from the basket is a coaching issue. Our inability to understand the type of game the refs are calling is a coaching issue. Finally, our stagnant offense for 10 minutes is a coaching issue. We have a great team. We just beat the 7th ranked team without a full roster. And that missing player may be our alpha offensively. I learned a lot from this win. I rather learn while winning!
 
KingAG said:
So you don’t like wins against good teams we could’ve lost? That’s a miserable way to watch games given that most games against top 7 teams are going to be close hard fought victories. Every UConn team can’t be 23,24 UConn.

Im guessing you didn’t like 99 because we only won by 3 and could’ve easily lost in the last
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Well those are not comparable games. But OK - we should be good with being up double digits and thankfully winning with frees tonight.

If the last 10 minutes or so don't give you some concern going forward, I don't know what to tell you.
 
jleves said:
Well those are not comparable games. But OK - we should be good with being up double digits and thankfully winning with frees tonight.

If the last 10 minutes or so don't give you some concern going forward, I don't know what to tell you.
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Literally gave me zero concerns. It’s the 4th game and Nobody else has Dybantsa.

If you walk away from a top 7 win feeling worse about the team idk what to tell you lol.
 
While the last ten minutes added way too much stress, I was thrilled that we came away with the win. Two big takeaways for me:

1. I pretty much gave up on Ross going into this season, but you can see it starting to click for him, especially on offense. The transition 3 and the baseline jam were nice, but to me, his most impressive bucket tonight was the foul line fadeaway with a hand in his face. He played with confidence and none of that spaz-like movement. And I thought two of his fouls should have been no-calls.
2. I made a comment a few weeks ago about AK, to which no one responded, and I’ll say it again. All the people in the off-season who said he should be a support piece and a fourth option offensively… well, you’re going to be wrong. He will get his shots and he will be a primary scorer for this team with full support from Hurley.

I thought Reibe was solid and active in his six minutes, although he missed a bunny and lost his guy on a rebound. Silas is going to be a total alpha dog by the start of conference play. The Kodiak needs to be fed continuously. This was a game in which Reed should have had 20 touches.
 
Two even teams tonight! UConn made shots in first half, then it was BYU getting hot in the second. Their zone caused trouble- penetration to open it was lacking. Hated that foul by Malachi with one second left on the 3 pointer. Tough games early in the season. Ross was great, no one can handle Dybantsa. Very quick handshake by coaches at end- as Arte Johnson would say, very interesting (showing my age)
 
Went to the game tonight. We were surprised by how many BYU fans were there and they did make some noise. UConn fans were kind of quiet during BYU's comeback which was a surprise.

This was a physical game and we thought UConn had put BYU away in the 2nd half, but then BYU came back led by Dybantsa, In the first half, Stewart and Ross played tough D on him and I think it took a physical toll on both of them. Lot's of things for UConn to work on, but remember, it's 5 months until March Madness!
 
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