Creighton Post Game Thread

[SwingDog]

That could happen in the BE Tournament too. They can shoot. Anything can happen at tourney time.

Raining 3s.
Creighton home court curse

It seemed like we dared Creighton to make open 3's and boy did they. Many of them were uncontested. I'm sure it wasn't a defensive strategy for the Huskies, but it was a disaster nonetheless. Our perimeter defense was really poor tonight but give Creighton credit for making shots.

 

[Rich]

Hurley is gonna hammer them at practice this week

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

What nonsense: there is no such thing a “mojo.” Bad play created the loss, not whacky superstitious rubbish.

"Everything you know is wrong."
Try poking your third eye.
That'd be great mojo.

 

[zls44]

Losing the #1 BE regular season title and #1 seed in the BE Tournament has now become a real possibility. I thought we'd win a close game tonight, (although I was very nervous after the amazing win vs Marquette and national adulation that came) and thought our one remaining loss would be at Marquette in a revenge game. Now Marquette could be a loss and we'll need a win at.....gulp.....Providence....to lock up the Big East regular season title and top seed in the BE Tournament. Lots of work left to do....

The math on this is ridiculously wrong.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

You know you’re back as a program when a ranked team is storming the court after beating you.

True that.
Who's your favorite team?

 

[Ripper32]

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

"...a bad too far..." is the come on in the tweet you posted without any further comment or context.

If one reads the few dozen Replies, the final one markets the Only Fans page for one of the people chastising Hurley. Makes for an interesting BJ fan, eh?

Who's your audience here?
What are you trying to to stir up?
You really think there's anything here?

 

[TheChamps990411]

Nm

Some bs fouls called on us and some non calls on them early on absolutely killed our momentum early and Ashford went nuts from 3 because Spencer had an absolutely horrendous game defensively and then the heat check became contageous and it was nighty night.

 

[Demo Square]

Hey Guys,

Whaddaya think about this: When college & pro teams travel so far from home, they often come out flat. Long plane rides DO sap your legs & thus your outside shooting too. And apparently, Hurley's mood too.

I think the distance from Omaha, NB to Storrs, CT had something to do with tonight's lacklustre Huskies' away game, as was easily seen with our 3-16 three's stat.

If you want more evidence, check out how badly Creighton & other far away teams have done in Storrs or Hartford. It's revealing. As will all the expanded flat games that will by played in the expanded Big Ten when former Pac-12 teams criss-cross the country.

The University of Hawai sports teams travel father than any other team by far. Their all-time away record no matter their league or the sport, (except volleyball where they always dominate the nationals) is just a 30% winning percentage. At home in Honolulu, they win at least 62% of the time,

So Hawaii knows the huge performance impact that long distance can make on their teams. And they usually go out in early rounds of league or NCAA tournament playoffs because of it.

I think that had a lot to do with tonight's Creighton loss - & well-coached, well stocked, & rested Creighton played really well at home against our travel-fatigued Huskies.

What do you think about this hypothesis?

Father Demo

PS: When I played DIV.1 college ball at NYU in the early 60's, we never won much when we had to go on the road past one or two time zones. Even Coach Lou Rossini didn't torture us much for those long-distance losses. - Father Demo

 

[gsmooth]

Some people thought we were unbeatable. Tonight just proved no team is unbeatable in the game of basketball.

I am overseas 10.5 hours away so I didn't see the game. I am glad I missed it and I won't watch it on replay.

I thought the posts asking if this team is better than last year were ridiculous. That's a question to ask after the NCAAT. Whether we wanted this loss or not, this is humbling and it will be interesting to see how UConn responds.

 

[Travelman6]

I am overseas 10.5 hours away so I didn't see the game. I am glad I missed it and I won't watch it on replay.

Ya this game didn't start until nearly 3 am where I am. In hindsight one of those times I'm happy I picked sleep. Anyway, Hurley will study film like a madman, probably even had stuff to look at on the plane ride back. He even said coaches did a poor job coaching (players did a poor job playing) so no doubt Hurley and staff will have the kids prepped and ready for Nova on Saturday. This was a tough turn around game from Marquette, but there are a few days before Nova.

 

[ThetaZoo]

"Everything you know is wrong."
Try poking your third eye.
That'd be great mojo.

A haiku is five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.

 

[REB1094]

Credit Creighton for going 500-500 on their threes. And they played defense like we did in CT. Super active and energetic. Can’t do anything except tip your hat to Creighton for playing an A+ game and move on

 

[Hey Adrien!]

They went 14-28 from 3. We went 3-16. End of story.

Yep. Hard to win any game when the opponent shoots 60+% from 2 and 50% from 3, but it’s especially hard when that team also has a top-25 defense.

Simply put, it was Creighton’s night.

 

[willie99]

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

Last year's team lost a lot more games, lost at home, entered the tournament a four seed. And I absolutely loved them, like I love this year's team.

I'm not knocking, I'm not even trying to compare the two because they're both great albeit different. I'm just mocking a silly analogy

 

[FreeKlaiber]

Just like in kansas loss, not alot of inside/out game. Karaban & spencer didnt get any looks. Need to adjust to put clingan on block to post more, or more drive & dish. Mcdermott got a great d effort and strong game plan. If kalkenbtenner is gonna play 1 man zone in drop coverage, Dan Hurley gotta adjust. Creighton put andre Jackson into offensive funk last yr w same one man zone

 

[mauconnfan]

To be fair, Ashworth was in Cam's short the whole game and Cam could not get an open look. Whoever guarded AK did the same thing. Advantage Creighton on those two.

To be fair both Ashworth and Miller were almost actually in Spencer and AKs shirts at times grasping and holding like crazy. They got their butts kicked so won’t go into it but the myth that Creighton doesn’t foul continues. They called fouls on them but they had to, they were fouling and it was part of the plan it worked. Not a reason they lost but just pointing out the facts. Neither Ashworth or Miller can guard a chair without doing so!

 

[FreeKlaiber]

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

When you run a high hedge, it creates defensive scramble, mcdermott planned for it, moved ball to open man in corner consistently for 3.

 

[uconnyankee]

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.

I might have missed something’s given the score, but I didn’t think this was Castles best game. Didn’t shoot well, had a shot blocked, and then had some mental lapses in 2nd half with turnover and poor fouls.
Only bright spot last night was the fight this team had to cut it to 10 with about 4 minutes to go. Unfortunately that effort expended to much energy and Creighton finished with a strong response.
UConn is the bette team, but last night Creighton had more on the line, was faster to the ball, and shot lights out from 3. Don’t know what they finished at but late they were 60% from 3.

 

[OceanDoggie]

To be fair both Ashworth and Miller were almost actually in Spencer and AKs shirts at times grasping and holding like crazy. They got their butts kicked so won’t go into it but the myth that Creighton doesn’t foul continues. They called fouls on them but they had to, they were fouling and it was part of the plan it worked. Not a reason they lost but just pointing out the facts. Neither Ashworth or Miller can guard a chair without doing so!

You have to do it back to them off of their screens! These dudes were wide open. It would have helped. I'm surprised Dan didn't start the press 8 minutes earlier, or run a transition offense with Diarra and Newton when he sat Cam for a few minutes. It's almost like Dan wanted and needed the loss.

 

[OceanDoggie]

When you run a high hedge, it creates defensive scramble, mcdermott planned for it, moved ball to open man in corner consistently for 3.

Samson looked lost on the recovery.

 

[Kitaman]

Or what about the one that asked who could possibly beat the Huskies? That one should be met with a hanging.

We forget that Creighton is the only team who knows they can beat us. We pistol whipped them at our house, punched them in the mouth after the tip last night, and they still kicked our arse. Funny but I suspect our players thought this was going to be another blowout in the early minutes (I know I did). Like last year, they are the only team we need to avoid in the NCAA, at least until the title game.

Until we win in their house, they are our kryptonite, and they know it. Its good for UConn basketball to always have a tough challenger in Conference.

No fear, just respect.

 

[my2cents]

Their strategy was simple. Jam us on the perimeter and stay with your man, no threes.
It allowed us to penetrate at will. But like us, with having a 7 footer at the rim, we had to make the open 6-7 footers. We missed way too many of those, or turned it over making a pass.
We learn, and move on.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Solo doesn’t have the confidence to drive the ball. He woulda played just like Cam and AK tonight.

He’s quicker. That was the point. He might get his shot off. This game showed where we miss Hawkins. He would have gotten his shot off.

 

[Hamms30]

I think Cam or Alex should have taken one or two of those contested threes and tried to draw contact. Their grabbing went on all game unchecked because we never forced the issue. Not a knock on Creighton.. they did what they wanted. Also.. if Kalbrenner is gonna chain his nuts right under the hoop, use him as a screening post and send as much activity around him as you can. Dude does not look like a human that is comfortable moving his feet.

 

[Captbluefin]

We don’t have that one guy who we can give it to and get a bucket like Adama. No run stopper to stop the bleeding.

 

[mauconnfan]

You have to do it back to them off of their screens! These dudes were wide open. It would have helped. I'm surprised Dan didn't start the press 8 minutes earlier, or run a transition offense with Diarra and Newton when he sat Cam for a few minutes. It's almost like Dan wanted and needed the loss.

No doubt Creighton had some issues with a soft press I am sure that will go into the future notebook for MSG if needed. They weren’t comfortable at all, agree.

 

[Drame]

I knew we were going to lose when people on the Boneyard yesterday were talking about a three peat.

 

[AdamaNation]

Humbling, but gettin it to 10 showed fight

That was the only 20 minutes we played hard. It was a scrimmage last night

 

[Excalibur]

Their strategy was simple. Jam us on the perimeter and stay with your man, no threes.
It allowed us to penetrate at will. But like us, with having a 7 footer at the rim, we had to make the open 6-7 footers. We missed way too many of those, or turned it over making a pass.
We learn, and move on.

We get a lot of our 3 attempts off of screening action. We're not great at kicking to the perimeter off of penetration, and Creighton played us well to expose that weakness.