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BYU Post Game Thread

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
 
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.
 
Defense changed by playing to limit BYU’s three point attempts, and the offense seemed to slow because of BYU’s pressure. AJ went off. UConn won. Great night in Boston.
 
superjohn said:
We're really good, BYU didn't miss a damn shot the last 8 or so minutes. We need to finish the teams off which will come but we're really damn good.
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Looked over before half. Garden has shooting percentages displayed. UConn over 75%, BYU something like 29%. I knew the teams would revert to the mean in the 2nd half. Watched that happen, hoping we’d hold on.

That was a hell of a basketball game. Tremendous environment, plenty loud and the BYU fans showed up too. Props to them.
 
DRBackup said:
Yeah, that guy stinks
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Well dude Hurley himself is self reflective. Not a sin to point out things that he can improve upon. Not the first game by a long shot where we can’t seem to inbound at critical times, or foul constantly and unnecessarily. We fix that and we will be nasty.
 
Bad help defense in the second half. BYU had 7 assists all game. Wright had 4 of them. Lots of hero ball on their side.
 
A game for the cardiologists.
Tremendously entertaining.
Very few new givens come out of this, just 4 games in. A few things:
  • Silas IS the "It" man.
  • It is satisfying watching JRoss progress but I still need more convincing before I become depending (the given.)
  • While it was discouraging to struggle getting the ball inbounds, again, we have the speed and quickness to improve in that phase as opposed to last year.
  • Dybansta is the most pro-ready freshman I've seen in quite a while. What tools! I'm sure Brad Stevens was watching 👀
  • Malachi is a very intense dude. Don't think he played in many games like this for Dayton. Patience, please.
  • It's a new cast. A work in progress. Danny and his coaching band have a lot of instruments to play with to compose a champion.
In 23-24 we had a veteran group who knew the 150 sets. Give it time.
 
I guess if we compare to last years Maui un-wowwy this was a step in the right direction for early season games. If this was an elite 8 game our tune would be different as survive and advance rules would be enforced.

Still, Hurley teams take awhile to get going, sorta like the oven in the house I grew up in.

So early season wins vs top 10 teams with a tourney feel bode well for March seeding and team play improvement.
 
It seemd like a Tale of 2 cities - er, halves. Rare to see such a dramatic energy/personality change in both teams.
 
I hate FOX. One of the biggest games of the year and they don't have a replay available. Only a rerun later in that night (which they moved ahead and skipped 10 minutes in!!) and a condensed game…

From what I saw from the most part, Dybansta is a monster. We played amazing D on him in the first half and he got a lot of superstar calls…

Reed looks like an AA though. Silas was brilliant and I love how Karabsn looks this year. He's doing less 1v1 and playing perfectly in the flow of the offense and looks great doing it.

Solo is struggling from 3. Surprised to see him so bad this year with how good he was last year from there. He was a victim of some wrong ends of 50/50 calls today too. Did Dybansta get called for one charge today?

Stew did a great job on defense against AJ. AJ just hit some really tough shots. On that two handed closeout you cant guard that any better and the ref had the nerve to call that a foul. He's lacking on offense in the meantime but still think it's for reasons already stated before.

Ross!! This was the most confident I've seen him play yet and he showed off every facet of his ability to score. 3s, a strong take to the rim for a dunk (should've been an and-1), and the turnaround midrange, pick and roll assist to Reibe. He has to cut down on the fouls now to stay on court. Wrong side of some 50/50s but now that the coaching staff may look to have him out there as long as possible he can't put himself in that position when he knows he's in foul trouble now.

At what point will the staff look to start him while Mullins is out though? When he's playing like this he looks like one of the best perimeter guys on the team. And he's now had his 2 best games against the best teams we played so far (MSU, BYU). Confidence looks to be soaring.
 
jleves said:
We easily could have lost with 4 minutes left. We never should have been in that situation.
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But if you look at it from just the 4 minute mark on, you can say they held well against a team with a top scorer. Except for the Ferrari play.
 
UCLJ0211 said:
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.
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Last year we had Mahaney as a backup PG to Diarra….Now we have a former starting PG as a backup to another starting PG. This is turning into Gladiator: “Are you not satisfied?!?”
 
HooperScooper said:
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.
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Reed does the Oriakhi thing of putting the ball down low and losing it or causing a held ball situation. Not quite so much when he’s on the block; he took some good immediate shots. But there is some liability
 
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