Chief’s Briefs - Butler Edition

[RuffRuff]

Win is a win. AK with huge shots.

 

[housekeys]

It's not a conspiracy. They commit few fouls. We foul a lot. They draw a lot of fouls.

Oh yeah? Let's revisit when they come to play in Hartford/Storrs.

 

[housekeys]

We are 294th in 2PA (32.3 pg), and 56th in 3PA (27.2 pg). That's not a winning combo for putting pressure on the defense and drawing fouls. You want to draw fouls? Get into the lane more. That's not how this team has been built, however.

Put down the Basketball 101 book and watch the game.

 

[housekeys]

12 to 30 foul shots, why do so many think this is not a huge unfair issue? As in Maui, it is difficult to win when your opponent gets 250% more foul shots before the final deliberate fouls.

Fair or unfair, I don't think it is strictly a UConn thing. There is a reason playing away drops your odds of winning and there is a reason the E in ESPN stands for "electricity" . Refs are part of the total E package and they know it.

 

[tennmike]

Generally plays good D and gives us much needed length on the perimeter (huge steal late in the Gonzaga game). A little raw offensively, hit a nice 3 today, but then can throw up some wild shots. I had a bad feeling he was going to mess up that 2 on 1 break today. A lot of potential there though.

Can Abraham cover guys as well as Ross? Could you get more?

 

[Fan1978]

The veterans Karaban and Diarra made the big plays at the end along with some help from the freshman McNeeley.

12 to 30 foul shots, why do so many think this is not a huge unfair issue? As in Maui, it is difficult to win when your opponent gets 250% more foul shots before the final deliberate fouls.

Our 3 point shooting improvement (45%) was led my Karaban and McNeeley. However, Ball had an off night. The 9 point advantage we had on threes made the difference.

We need better defense from the center position and less mistakes. Screen had a double/double and was 9-9 from the foul line. That was the primary reason he was 11 points over his 6 points per game average. We had 8 fouls from our center position.

Mahaney played well and we even saw him play with Diarra some, as Chief has been advocating. Still overall his plus/minus was underwater, but it was really other guys making mistakes not him. He had 7 points and as a shooting guard with McNeeley and Karaban out there we could be really hard to defend on the 3 line with Diarra running the show and Reed giving us a post threat.

Rebounding and assists advantages, which usually indicate a UConn win, were not significant. But, a very good road win in a tough building.

If ball does not shoot well, he offers nothing but an empty boxscore. Danny needs to run plays to hit him of designed back cuts etc to keep the defense honest. Fortunately, Mahaney made some nice offensive plays today. Definitely need more of that. Screen is a very limited player and Tarris made him look good. reed needed to keep him off the block early and not sure why that adjustment was not made. I agree with chief about the ridiculous foul discrepancy. mcneeley and alex not receive the same foul treatment on their drives. Tarris and screen also were not treated fairly. It is a road game so you expect some home calls but this was ridiculous.

 

[Mets8692]

Let me ask a general question.

What happened to our lobs at the rim? Last 2-3 years I saw atleast 2-3 lobs per game, sometimes many more. It feels like that has left our system completely.

Is it simply we lack the athletic talent? Or is it poor point guard play.

On that breakaway late with Diarra and Ross, it looked like a lob angle, instead it was a late pass that should have led to a turnover if it wasn't for the refs making a call.

Hurley used to say you know a team is good when they dunk a lot. This team does not dunk a lot.

 

[NJHusky]

Ok, some more stats.

We are 294th in 2PA (32.3 pg), and 56th in 3PA (27.2 pg). That's not a winning combo for putting pressure on the defense and drawing fouls. You want to draw fouls? Get into the lane more. That's not how this team has been built, however.

Liam has been doing it more recently, and he's been relatively effective. But I'm not sure we're going to change our identity much to alter the FT disparity calculus.

But we move and cut continuously…and it appears to me that our guys are getting grabbed and bumped but they don’t get called. While if we breath on someone down low, it gets called. There are many here more knowledgeable, but it just seems that way to me

 

[coachn]

The veterans Karaban and Diarra made the big plays at the end along with some help from the freshman McNeeley.

12 to 30 foul shots, why do so many think this is not a huge unfair issue? As in Maui, it is difficult to win when your opponent gets 250% more foul shots before the final deliberate fouls.

Our 3 point shooting improvement (45%) was led my Karaban and McNeeley. However, Ball had an off night. The 9 point advantage we had on threes made the difference.

We need better defense from the center position and less mistakes. Screen had a double/double and was 9-9 from the foul line. That was the primary reason he was 11 points over his 6 points per game average. We had 8 fouls from our center position.

Mahaney played well and we even saw him play with Diarra some, as Chief has been advocating. Still overall his plus/minus was underwater, but it was really other guys making mistakes not him. He had 7 points and as a shooting guard with McNeeley and Karaban out there we could be really hard to defend on the 3 line with Diarra running the show and Reed giving us a post threat.

Rebounding and assists advantages, which usually indicate a UConn win, were not significant. But, a very good road win in a tough building.

Great analysis as usual.. As I used to tell my players "Be prepared to play against 7 men at any time"

 

[Waquoit]

This team’s maximum potential will be obtained with an improved Mahaney getting more minutes than Ball.

Some recency bias, maybe?

 

[RuffRuff]

 

[Fan1978]

Some recency bias, maybe?

How about with both playing well