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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)
 
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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!
 
We actually scored 43 pts in both halves, never woulda guessed that… difference was BYU scored 52 in the second half.
 
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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Mullins will see a lot of minutes in small ball lineup and definitely backing up Ball at the 2 when struggling. Smith I think will lose the most minutes in this scenario as he looks a little slow on picking up the offense and not playing well.
 
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UConnTrumbull said:
I mean he was guarding the presumptive number 1 pick. I think he played well in that sense.
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Third foul was on a hustle play where Ross dove for the ball. He actually had possession of it by diving but the BYU player was there at the same time. I have no problem with the call or Ross playing with intensity.

That fifth foul was horrible however. Ross was moving backwards and Dybansta initiated contact. Should have been a no call.

The third call on Stewart was also a bad call. His arms were straight up and there was no contact. Dybansta made an incredible shot and there was no foul.

That third foul on Stewart was critical with Ross sitting with three. It's not always about the foul count. It's about who is getting them and what is happening in the game. Ross with three and then Stewart getting that phantom three was a pivotal point in the game. I'm not upset with the refs other than they missed a lot of offensive arm bars by the BYU players.

This was a difficult second half to watch because we had the opportunity to blow them out and didn't. But we also won. Our bad win was better than BYU's good loss.

Hopefully Tarris is healthy Wednesday.
 
bendm said:
Dybansta’s post move on AK was clearly a travel he used 2 different pivot feet
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I was shouting about that at the game. He switched his pivot foot from his left foot to right foot .
 
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Palatine said:
Stewart is going to be a valuable piece for us this season.
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Yep. Stewart has had meaningful contributions and big moments in several big games the last two years. Ross has his first good game against a good opponent in 2+ years and all of a sudden he is gold and Stewart is dunzo. Holy recency bias and peak Boneyard. It's awesome Ross is playing well. It's also not a mortal lock it will continue although it would be great if it did. We will need both and both will have their moments. Stew worked hard on D. AJ is a toigh cover.
 
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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We stopped before it started that Hurley can't win close games.
 
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FearThePups said:
No it’s not lame. Who cares that we were up 13 when that starter went down? We only won by 2 points as they came back at the end. So when someone says we’re pretty good, how is that when we blow a big lead and they’re missing 2 starters? We are a decent team, not a great team at this point.
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So any “decent” team missing one of their best players can beat a top 10 team with a top 3 draft pick?

You really didn’t think that post through. You either drank too much tonight or you need a drink.
 
I'm not sure what happened, but we got away from Demary running the show. That was the difference. In the end, he righted the ship. But he's the one who's going to stir the drink.
 
QUOTE="karstenkibbe, post: 5371435, member: 4139"]
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.
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Silas, AK, and Tarris all looked like studs. We all know Solo is a stud, he's struggling with his shot a bit. Ross looks like a different player. We dominated a great team for most of the game. We took foot off gas and BYU was unconscious. I'm pretty damn happy with how things look.
 
Revrat said:
I'm not sure what happened, but we got away from Demary running the show. That was the difference. In the end, he righted the ship. But he's the one who's going to stir the drink.
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I think it was actually Karaban doing the best leading the offense in the first half
 
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3rdbass said:
Mullins will see a lot of minutes in small ball lineup and definitely backing up Ball at the 2 when struggling. Smith I think will lose the most minutes in this scenario as he looks a little slow on picking up the offense and not playing well.
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Smith (22) Ross (12) Stew (29) played a combined 63 mins. Add Mullins to the mix that averages out to ~15mpg each but I think Mullins starts and gets ~20mpg. A third lethal shooter/floor spacer is exactly what the startling lineup needs. Hopefully Alex and Silas also won’t need to play practically the entire game many nights.
 
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navery12 said:
If you had the sound on the announcers literally said if you're in South Carolina or LA you're about to get switched to the women's basketball game and here's how to keep watching this game
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Yes, they said you could switch to the Fox Sports App but then the app said game not available. So they had the USC USC game on Fox and FS2
 
Just back from game...too many pages to read to see id anyone mentioning...Where the heck was the D in the last 7 minutes.. Held BYU to 57 pts in the first 33 minutes of the game and then surrendered 27 pts in the last 7 minutes... yikes!
 
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