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I saw some alarming things, mainly Newton forced to be the primary catalyst, with all our shooters being blanketed off the screen action. We need Castle to be option 1A off the dribble.
 
No one helped Newton tonight. Just a pathetic effort on defense. Even though we already played each other it was like we never scouted them. Need to win one of the 2 remaining road games as all BE road wins so far have been against middle of the pack teams.
 
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auror said:
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.
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Castle has regressed the last 2 games. He is still hessitant on offense and deffering too much. He needs to take over like he did in the Providence game. Spencer and Karaban weren't scoring so he had to steup up. He is freshman so this type of regression is normal but sucks when it is in these big games.
 
McDermott is an incredible game planner and his team made shots. They chased our shooters off the 3-point line all night and made us try to beat them by going right at Kalkbrenner. Credit to them, they executed.

I hope Clingan's knee is all good.
 
3rdbass said:
Castle has regressed the last 2 games. He is still hessitant on offense and deffering too much. He needs to take over like he did in the Providence game. Spencer and Karaban weren't scoring so he had to steup up. He is Fresman so this type of regression is normal but sucks when it is in these big games.
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He doesn’t make his 3s when he thinks about them. He had been in a good rhythm before the last couple.
 
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CardiacAndre7 said:
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.
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The idea that any team is "matchup proof" was stupid two days ago when people seemed genuinely mystified at the idea of this team losing and it's going to still be stupid tomorrow. No one goes undefeated anymore.

And "back to the drawing board" is just laugh out loud ridiculous. Some of you give my 13 year old daughter a run for her money in the dramatics department. What are they, 24-3? At least throw in a "they just wanted it more."

I said the other day that I'd have been shocked if they won this game given the context and it played out about how I expected. In the grand scheme of things it means absolutely zero.
 
ucp990411 said:
I think he had his worst game in quite some time
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Yeah Castle wasn't good especially in the 2nd half when we needed him to step up and help Newton. He could take his man off the dribble whenever he wanted.
 
A team loss where no one played well except Tristen. And when Tristen thinks he has to do it all, not a good sign for Uconn.

Cam has his worst night in a Husky uniform and Karaban right behind him.

Poor Poor showing tonight.
 
Ripper32 said:
I saw some alarming things, mainly Newton forced to be the primary catalyst, with all our shooters being blanketed off the screen action. We need Castle to be option 1A off the dribble.
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Honestly, in this type of game you need Diarra in there. Castle doesn't have the court vision in isolation, and without a dependable shot, he becomes predictable and the perimeter defender leads him right into drop coverage and a Kalkbrenner special.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
The idea that any team is "matchup proof" was stupid two days ago when people seemed genuinely mystified at the idea of this team losing and it's going to still be stupid tomorrow. No one goes undefeated anymore.

And "back to the drawing board" is just laugh out loud ridiculous. Some of you give my 13 year old daughter a run for her money in the dramatics department. What are they, 24-3?
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Back to the drawing board was a compliment to the offense the staff has schemed. A team figured out how to defend it well, so now I have faith the staff will adjust accordingly. Wasn’t a dig.
 
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Embarrassing loss. A loss is fine but to be embarrassed sucks. Cam has to try to do more than shoot threes. Drive and dish. Lost his man on D like 5 times.

Clingan doesn’t get in foul trouble this is a closer game. They got a bunch of layups and then got comfortable. By the time he came back in lead was 16.
 
CardiacAndre7 said:
He doesn’t make his 3s when he thinks about them. He had been in a good rhythm before the last couple.
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Yeah he was thinking too much on offense the whole game and not just on 3s. Even on his driving he was hesitant. He needs to get more confident with being aggressive on offense.
 
All 5 of our starters are awesome but once again it was Tristen who showed up and did his best to will us to victory in a game where nobody else showed up. He again let us know why he's our best player.

My key to the game was to shut down Ashworth like we did Kolek and instead he went off. Clingan picked up 2 in the first 5 minutes and then Ashworth went crazy, that was basically the game...

Really happy for Ashworth, he was absolutely brutal for Creighton and it was killing their squad. He couldn't adjust to the speed and physicality of the Big East and his confidence was shot. Well, he's been damn good the last 11 games and they're a much different team with him playing like this. It's a nice story.

I think all our heads were getting a little too much in the clouds from the top on down to the fanbase. This should snap the team back to reality...

Not worried about us taking care of business in our two home games but at Marquette and at Providence was always going to be really difficult. It's going to be even more difficult after destroying Marquette on national TV and Providence will be playing for a tournament birth. I love us over everyone on a neutral court but those games have me a bit uneasy.
 
Really I think if Clingan does not pick up that second foul even if it was not a foul I think it’s a different game. He has to learn he is our most important player. He can have bad games that is ball. But when you see your sub at the scorers table the coach is telling you don’t pick up another foul. Maybe it makes no difference but the whole tone of the game changed at that point. I just think if we were able to keep it close they make fewer of those uncontested threes. But they have now held us in the mid 60’s twice so we better make some type of adjustment next time we play them. I might try some ISO sets and hope Castle and AK are having better games.
 
homunculus said:
Really? So when we got it down to 10, if they had 12 fewer points from 3 (meaning we took the lead), that wouldn’t have changed this game dramatically?
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That was all from Newton creating shots for himself and 1 for Clingan
 
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Mister P said:
Can we get the ‘Would another loss actually be a good thing ?’ thread permanently deleted from the Forum ?

Talking about losing is bad mojo. Exorcise it now.
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What nonsense: there is no such thing a “mojo.” Bad play created the loss, not whacky superstitious rubbish.
 
They overplayed on everyone except Castle on the perimeter & our only answer was Newton & Castle taking it into the paint. We’ve got find more ways to get Clingan touches in the post to free up shooters. Ball movement just wasn’t good tonight.
 
Besides the disparity in 3s and the disappearing act of Cam and AK what really stands out is the 8 assists on 28 baskets. We were completely taken out of our offense. That really hasn’t happened very often this year.
 
we were 3-16 from three.

they were 12 - 24.

They outscored us from the arc 36 to 9. For the math challenged that is 27 points
 
You're not always gonna get a clean look and there weren't many tonight, would have liked to see Cam try to dribble more and get to his spot in the midrange. Even Alex has show the ability to ball fake and get into the paint and shoot the floater off of 2 feet. When the looks are being taken away you gotta put the ball on the floor, Newton and Castle were the only ones willing to.
 
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