Creighton Post Game Thread

[connVA]

Positive: thought Castle played well tonight other than when he hit the backboard to the side of the rim on a straight on jumper for the 2nd time this season.

Castle needs to stop being petrified of the three point line

 

[White Dwarf]

Well executed court storm. That crowd brought so much energy.

 

[DaveHuskiesFan]

Could be a blessing in disguise. I hope Karaban joins us for the rest of the season—he has gone quiet.

He scored 25 & 21 last week.

 

[Kitaman]

Many Yarders penciled this as a loss months ago. No surprise tonight even as number one.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

McDermott is a hell of a coach, Creighton shout out of their mind, and we got shook by Clingan’s foul trouble. This was always going to be a very tough game. I don’t think this is a bigger concern, sometimes you just run into a team firing on all cylinders.

 

[Stinger92860]

14 threes, many open, is tough to overcome. Next game.

 

[willie99]

Creighton was in a zone, we were not

On to Nova

 

[SportsFan88]

Humbling, but gettin it to 10 showed fight

 

[homunculus]

Uh oh, they exposed the formula to beat UConn. Just make all your shots. Simple, really. Hard to believe nobody thought of that before.

 

[Leebo]

Valiant effort by Newton.

 

[Ripper32]

Last year's team didn't get dusted there.

 

[GHSWolverines]

Time to rebound. Let's get NOVA

 

[BlueMAB]

Tough to win when you don't defend well. Tough to win when the other team is red hot. Impossible to win when both happen. This loss sucks more because we had the chance to break another record (big east win streak) and guarantee regular season big east championship.

None of our remaining games are layups

 

[Mister P]

Clingan picking up his second absolutely killed the momentum. Guards kept getting caught on screens or getting sucked into the paint freeing shooters.
Offensively, it reminded me of the Kansas game.

 

[Leebo]

Last year's team didn't get dusted there.

Hang it up, folks.

 

[Brochacho]

Can’t do much when a team shoots like that from 3. Spencer perimeter defense and our interior D without Clingan were brutal. If we lose in the NCAAs I think we will see 3 things:

• Clingan foul trouble
• Spencer net negative (points given up vs scored)
• Opposing team 3% greater than 40%

Don’t think we will struggle like that again this year but two of our five toughest Big East games are yet to be played.

 

[How Sway?!]

Once they came back to earth from 3, we got back in to the game. Unfortunately, the gap had grown too big. It is what it is.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Cam and AK gave us nothing on either end. Steph to a lesser extent. Now we know that we aren’t some juggernaut that is matchup proof. Cam has been absolutely incredible all year but was borderline unplayable tonight. I’ll wager a guess that probably won’t happen again.

Hurley has been saying we are arguably the best offensive and defensive team in the country since Clingan is back. Well we were pretty stagnant offensively, plus missed a ton we may usually make, and no one really had any type of good game defensively.

Back to the drawing board.

 

[JohnnyJr]

Formula to beat UConn: Match us on defense and shoot 50% from 3

If they shot 35 percent from 3 they were winning, we had no good looks

 

[navery12]

Last year's team didn't get dusted there.

Should we forfeit the rest of the season now?

 

[jorge34]

They shot the lights out….but they made the mostly wide open 3’s they were given all night. No real excuse for that defensive effort.

 

[HuskyFich]

Positive: thought Castle played well tonight other than when he hit the backboard to the side of the rim on a straight on jumper for the 2nd time this season.

This was his worst game as a Husky, bar none. He played good D on Schiermann for a half. He was not good.

Creighton brought the haymakers early and man oh man did they catch fire.

Expected a tough showing after all momentum, energy and effort poured into Marquette…but not this bad.They suffocated us on the three point line, the same thing SH did.

TNew had to pull a Jalen Adams tonight just to keep us actually getting shots up.

In a massive game with Clingan and Kalk, one gets the soft whistle and one gets the quick whistle. Odd choice by the zebras.

Either way, it gives Danny all the fuel we need.

Can’t wait to see us rebound for gameday on Saturday.

 

[jibsey]

One thing about their 3’s. They were all uncontested.

 

[DaMuttzNutt]

Learning experience. Schedule was easy early. It’s go time.

Was it easy when we destroyed them at home?

 

[OceanDoggie]

Confirmed, CHI Health Center is more hostile territory than The Phog.