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BYU Post Game Thread

Scottobot said:
yes. it is clear that Ross is ahead of Stewart. I don’t understand why Stewart can’t hit his stride. He needs look at himself in mirror and say “I am going to be a great player and nothing is gonna stop me”. He needs to figure how to make games like this not happen.
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Is part of it that he is playing out of position. He should be playing the 4 not 3.
 
willie99 said:
We won, again, that's working. Early in the season you work on the system you need to win in March

My Avatar did exactly that. He took the air out of the ball and made his teams run the type of offense they're going to need to succeed long term

We gell, Calhoun was great in March, so is Hurley

Enjoy what we have, we're lucky. I'm a fan, my job is to support the team and scream at the refs. I leave the coaching to our sensational staff. They know how to win
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I enjoy this team. It’s okay to have an opinion about what your observing
 
WhereistheDove? said:
How does one take a half a step?
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I ran my first marathon with a 6'4" buddy (I am 5'9"). I was warned not to run with him as he would "half step" me. Sure enough I always felt I was trying to keep up with him because his stride was that much longer. I was gassed by mile 18!
 
Later in the season this game will be pointed to as strong evidence for why we deserve a top seed. It’s November and we don’t even have our full lineup playing, and we already saw shades of March 23/24 by building a 20 point lead over a team we very well may meet again in the Final 4.

We have a fair number of these incredible players for just a few more months. Enjoy some basketball.
 
Fairfield_1st said:
There were 2 straight possessions in the 2nd half where BYU clearly pushed off and scored. Dybantsa was one and one of the white dudes was the other. It was inconsistent reffing overall. Let 'em play in the first half and called everything in the 2nd.
Tough sequence for Malachi late in the game. Played matador defense on a guy going to the hoop and then stepped on the sideline on the other end.
Difficult 2nd half, but great game for hardening the team and giving Hurley teaching points.
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It would be nice if college refs would call a foul when the offensive player causes the contact and then gets the space to get their shot off.
 
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UCHuskies08 said:
Ridiculous take. They're another top 10 team. They made a run. It's basketball. Enjoy the win.


Why would I be concerned about beating a top 10 team? Do you guys imagine all the other teams win every game by 15? You know other top teams have close games too?
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You don’t have to be I could care less if you are or aren’t honestly. That’s my opinion because the other close games you speak of, probably didn’t have 20 point leads 2nd half and watch their team look a little scared coming down the stretch. Trouble getting the ball in bounds, over half court in time and making awful decisions passing the ball. But hey you want to have a party because they beat BYU by all means have at it. I elect to see what our team will need to get better at so maybe don’t read my stuff????
 
Scottobot said:
We were absolutely pwning them. That is why that sloppy ending is so disappointing. We crushed them for 32 mins, but final score makes it look like a close gamea.
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It was a close game. I give them credit for not quitting and playing for the full 40 minutes. They came close to stealing a win.
 
Iluvsuebird said:
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!
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Yeah, that guy stinks
 
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Scottobot said:
I think its because we went from being euphoric we a re crushing BYU, to OMG we might blow this, and its natural for people emotionally invested to feel that way. Had we been behind and had some crazy comeback people’s mind set would have been different.
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Why is it “we might blow this”? We’re the 6 time national champs and we have winning in our DNA. The crowd was 90% ours. Oh wait. I forgot we’re “dooooomed” (such a candyass trait).
 
NJHusky said:
Is part of it that he is playing out of position. He should be playing the 4 not 3.
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Exactly, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the one thing he did well yesterday was his defense on Dybantsa at the 4. And when Mullins is back that's where the majority of his minutes will be coming from, and people will be shocked when he looks better
 
dalydosehoops said:
First of at least two, maybe three, pieces from Boston:

dalydoseofhoops.blogspot.com

UConn passes first major test, shows positives for future

Silas Demary, Jr. exults after game-saving steal in final seconds allowed UConn survive late rally from BYU. (Photo by UConn Men’s Basketbal...
dalydoseofhoops.blogspot.com dalydoseofhoops.blogspot.com
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My most important takeaway from the game:

“There’s things we gotta fix. We’re still at the experimental stage of some stuff that we’re running and (edited) that we gotta get rid of. But I think the group’s got the potential to where the defense won’t hold us back from winning a championship this year.”
 
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gsmooth said:
I was shouting about that at the game. He switched his pivot foot from his left foot to right foot .
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He lifted it, but didn’t drag it or put it back down. It wasn’t a travel.
 
Nothing but positives from last night. Took a while to adjust to the uptick in competition but once they settled in, they had a dominant stretch. This was game 3. Even while the lead was dwindling down, all I kept thinking about was wait until March. Wait until we are at full strength. This team can be scary good.
On a side note, I recommend some of you to look on Twitter. See the excitement posted by the parents of some of our new players. Danny is building something truly special here that trickles all the way down.
 
uconntoatl said:
It went from an 18 point lead to a two point win. That’s not my definition of working—-what we do before we slow down the offense is what I consider what is working well, not what we do when the offense slows down intentionally.
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Not that I'm justifying squandering the 20 pt lead, but the BYU team we played in the second was completely different than the first. It's not like big comebacks are a foreign concept for the better teams in college ball. It happens, and I would consider it BYU waking up more than UConn having a meltdown
 
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Could UConn have double-teamed Dybantsa, or would BYU’s outside shooting have killed us? BYU missed open shots in 1st half, which helped UConn grab their lead, but BYU sure was shooting well in 2nd half
 
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Will never beat these seats
 
3rdbass said:
I have seen him play for Dayton and I would hardly say he isn't good. He just has to learn to play smarter with the ball and pick and choose when he should shoot the ball or take it to the rack. I think he will be a fine back-up PG once the year goes on and definitely better than what we had last year.
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John Gwynn 2.0?
 
CTBasketball said:
He isn’t good. He has a broken shot and pounds the ball into the ground. Defensively he gets bullied when not 30 ft from the basket.
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He’s averaging 6.5 ppg, a 2:1 assist/TO ratio, and made 5/8 3 pointers already (albeit a small sample size there) in about 20 mins a game. I’ll take that from a back up PG any day.

Maybe there will be some games against high level competition where he will get sped up a little and be uncomfortable, but I believe that will improve as the year goes on and he gets some reps playing against teams like BYU, Arizona, etc. early this season.

He should be a very good piece for us once the conference play begins.
 
djct1999 said:
Nothing but positives from last night. Took a while to adjust to the uptick in competition but once they settled in, they had a dominant stretch. This was game 3. Even while the lead was dwindling down, all I kept thinking about was wait until March. Wait until we are at full strength. This team can be scary good.
On a side note, I recommend some of you to look on Twitter. See the excitement posted by the parents of some of our new players. Danny is building something truly special here that trickles all the way down.
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Agreed. Better coached. Strong fundamentals both sides of the court. Physically dominant. Calm and collected. If we play like this all year we're going to be a real problem.
 
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