Chief’s Briefs - Georgetown Edition

[Chief00]

We make baskets, they get foul shots - courtesy of the Big East.

Three point shooting was the difference today. We shot 60% to their 28%. Karaban and Spencer 3 balls were both on today and their teammates looked for them. In the first half they were a combined 7-8 and 11-14 for the game.

Karaban has his stroke back. Maybe the foul by his face against his opponents elbow last game got his grove back. Thank you Big East refs for supporting that.

While the number of fouls were similar today, the FT’s were once again vastly in our opponent’s favor by 32 to 23. Over 1/2 Georgetown’s first half points were foul shots. We scored 1/4 of our first half points from the foul line.

Chief’s official Big East UConn Officiating Handicap is 10 points per game. In the interest of fairness, to support Commissioner Val. Our defense was great today limiting their shooting to 33%.

 

[uconntoatl]

Fouling and lack of rebounding. Tough look

 

[HHusky]

Tremendous shooting today. Normally that differential would make it a 20 pt win. Stewart contributed some nice minutes. Karaban and Spencer were amazing.

 

[Kitaman]

Refs (i.e. fouls) are not the headliner to me. The story of the game is that we won without Clingan again. That should never be overlooked. This team may not have looked like a #4 (or #1) team, but without Clingan they sure are winning like it.

We won another Conference game, with all its glorious ugly splendor. That's headline #2.

I see a Championship caliber team.

 

[Chief00]

Final foul shots 38 to 25.

 

[GHSWolverines]

I wouldn't say our defense was great. GT missed a lot of bunnies.

 

[my2cents]

I need a new mute button as I wore mine out trying to silence those announcers.

 

[HHusky]

Keep in mind that the toughest part of our BE schedule is back end loaded. We shouldn't get too giddy about where we stand. There's a lot of brutal games towards seasons end.

 

[3rdbass]

I need a new mute button as I wore mine out trying to silence those announcers.

Donny can be annoying and his anti-uconn game play calls is sickening. Is he trying to prove he isn't favoring UCONN in these games. He is over doing it.

 

[Goldenflash]

Fouling and lack of rebounding. Tough look

I agree with both comments and yet when you look at box score we actually out rebounded them by one. However they got as many offensive rebounds as defensive boards.

 

[SallyH]

I thought the comment of the game was something to the effect of "You can't guard with your back".

 

[freshler40]

Keep in mind that the toughest part of our BE schedule is back end loaded. We shouldn't get too giddy about where we stand. There's a lot of brutal games towards seasons end.

At least we start that part of the schedule with money in the bank and look to have Clagnan back. Not a bad trade off!

 

[Chief00]

Refs (i.e. fouls) are not the headliner to me. The story of the game is that we won without Clingan again. That should never be overlooked. This team may not have looked like a #4 (or #1) team, but without Clingan they sure are winning like it.

We won another Conference game, with all its glorious ugly splendor. That's headline #2.

I see a Championship caliber team.

I try to be consistent about officiating and not have my outlook clouded by wins or loses. Big East UConn officiating is a chronic problem and needs to be fixed.

 

[Chief00]

I wouldn't say our defense was great. GT missed a lot of bunnies.

I said that in the context that we don’t have Donovan to clean things up and rebound.

 

[Edward Sargent]

I think we did the best we could bumping down low on their drives. There were a lot of bumps that weren't called.

 

[DRBackup]

Final foul shots 38 to 25.

For a team that averages 13 FT attempts a game

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I was looking forward to a comment on mattresses. Not sure why Chief missed that.

 

[CL82]

I was looking forward to a comment on mattresses. Not sure why Chief missed that.

"Had to hit the mattresses today to get a win against a motivated Georgetown and the normal big east ref anti-Connecticut virus."

 

[UCOnions]

Newton has an awful shooting day, but still went 9 pts, 8 assists and 7 boards.

 

[Glastonhusky]

Newton has an awful shooting day, but still went 9 pts, 8 assists and 7 boards.

I thought Newton played a little bit selfish today. Too much one on one stuff. At times when he had the ball, I thought I was watching the Seton Hall offense, drive it to the hoop, chuck it up and see what happens. Not worried though, he'll be fine when it matters.

 

[Fan1978]

We make baskets, they get foul shots - courtesy of the Big East.

Three point shooting was the difference today. We shot 60% to their 28%. Karaban and Spencer 3 balls were both on today and their teammates looked for them. In the first half they were a combined 7-8 and 11-14 for the game.

Karaban has his stroke back. Maybe the foul by his face against his opponents elbow last game got his grove back. Thank you Big East refs for supporting that.

While the number of fouls were similar today, the FT’s were once again vastly in our opponent’s favor by 32 to 23. Over 1/2 Georgetown’s first half points were foul shots. We scored 1/4 of our first half points from the foul line.

Chief’s official Big East UConn Officiating Handicap is 10 points per game. In the interest of fairness, to support Commissioner Val. Our defense was great today limiting their shooting to 33%.

Seriously one of the worst officiated games i have ever seen. Home against horrible team felt like duke at cameron. Thank goodness they shot the lights out.

 

[Chief00]

Seriously one of the worst officiated games i have ever seen. Home against horrible team felt like duke at cameron. Thank goodness they shot the lights out.

I know many are tired of me saying this but UConn games officiating in the Big East is beyond broken. Anyone who understands basketball knows that fact. And we have an inept Commissioner to fix this issue.

 

[Chief00]

Newton has an awful shooting day, but still went 9 pts, 8 assists and 7 boards.

Tristen fills up the boxscore.

 

[Fan1978]

I thought Newton played a little bit selfish today. Too much one on one stuff. At times when he had the ball, I thought I was watching the Seton Hall offense, drive it to the hoop, chuck it up and see what happens. Not worried though, he'll be fine when it matters.

I think he was trying to force the refs to call some fouls on Georgetown. Unfortunately many of their heavy fouls on him were neglected while touch or invisible fouls were the norm on the other end.

 

[Fan1978]

I know many are tired of me saying this but UConn games officiating in the Big East is beyond broken. Anyone who understands basketball knows that fact. And we have an inept Commissioner to fix this issue.

You are spot on chiief. If not for excellent shooting the refs could have manufactured a loss. A stretch at the end perhaps not in chronological order. Karaban clean block, foul shots. Castle clean block foul shots, tristan clean steal, foul shots, invisible foul on stewie, foul shots. Stewie looks up at replay perplexed. Diarra swipes off driver, ref gives Georgetown the ball. Georgtown center trips , uconn foul. It is clearly intentional. These idiot’s don’t realize the status of their job is dictated by the success of the league. Sabotaging the best team does not help their cause.

 

[Chief00]

I thought Newton played a little bit selfish today. Too much one on one stuff. At times when he had the ball, I thought I was watching the Seton Hall offense, drive it to the hoop, chuck it up and see what happens. Not worried though, he'll be fine when it matters.

He had 8 assists, 7 rebounds . His parents were there.

 

[Excalibur]

I thought Newton played a little bit selfish today. Too much one on one stuff. At times when he had the ball, I thought I was watching the Seton Hall offense, drive it to the hoop, chuck it up and see what happens. Not worried though, he'll be fine when it matters.

We assisted on 18 of 24 hoops. Georgetown was switching on everything and we got most of our easy looks off of penetration. Newton missed a ton of shots but created a lot of offense.

 

[Spaceman213J]

Diarra was pretty good again. He's turning into a pretty reliable piece for Hurley.

Spencer may never be a stud on defense, but he seems to have a knack for getting a rebound, loose ball or steal when the team needs it.

Castle was solid as well. I just want to see him getting better and better. I love the way he attacks the basket.

I would like to see more of and from Ball.

The rebounding needs to be better, but there were also a few weird play, but that's what happens when refs let a team muck it up.

On offense, the spacing was a little off at times, and I could be wrong, but it seemed like there were a couple of times where Castle had the ball with a mismatch, and wanted a clear-out, but screeners came anyways and let for an easy switch back. Especially in a game with the refs calling it like they did, I would like to see the clear out and Castle going 1 on 1 when the mismatch presented.

 

[HHusky]

That's an awesome assist to hoops ratio. (Even for our team). It causes the opponent a lot of anguish and frustration which showed during the game.
Scoring came easy to us, and was hard for them. Game over.

 

[husky8273]

I need a new mute button as I wore mine out trying to silence those announcers.

Can't listen to Donny anymore. No audio is needed.