Creighton Post Game Thread

[RuffRuff]

This is bullcr@p, I've never talked about the over the top AK hype not matching his on court performance in the chat before last night. I do talk about him ghosting when he disappears for entire the entire first half of games and I talk about his great plays and his poor plays in the chat. I do that for every player.

It's like the Soshes vs the Greasers around AK.

He's a fine player, a nice functional system guy. No one is going to want to rewind and watch AK highlights. What does that look like - a bunch of threes and head down drives?

 

[RashadRay11]

It's like the Soshes vs the Greasers around AK.

He's a fine player, a nice functional system guy. No one is going to want to rewind and watch AK highlights. What does that look like - a bunch of threes and head down drives?

The mark of a great player is not what their highlight reel looks like. It’s individual production, contribution to team production, consistency, clutch reliability, and wins. All of which Alex has in droves.

 

[RuffRuff]

The mark of a great player is not what their highlight reel looks like. It’s individual production, contribution to team production, consistency, clutch reliability, and wins. All of which Alex has in droves.

True, Alex is a lot of those things. I look at Alex as a nobleman of UConn. High integrity, student athlete, winner, member of 2 NC's. He has been there through the highlight of the program. But I do recall two free throws against Villanova...........

 

[mauconnfan]

I get what you’re saying. I’m not an efficiency metric guy, but all year our 5-best lineups, offensively, have featured Reed, Karaban, Stewart or Ross, Silas, and one of Ball or Mullins. Not both SG’s.

I think offensive rebounding improves with a longer 3. Stew does the little things. Ross is starting to offensively. And if Ross can shoot 30% from 3 while Ball is at 30% from 3, I’ll take Ross all day because of his intangibles.

Fair point because while Ross scares me on every dribble, it’s not a lot better with Solo o mean he had zero assists last night. Solos inability to get better from last year is maybe the biggest issue we have.

 

[RuffRuff]

Fair point because while Ross scares me on every dribble, it’s not a lot better with Solo o mean he had zero assists last night. Solos inability to get better from last year is maybe the biggest issue we have.

What we are seeing now is Solo's ceiling. I'm starting to think the worst thing he could have done was work on this dribble game. I feel like he's the kind of kid that just needs to focus on a couple things. Threes and defense was enough.

 

[huskyharry]

So this was our WTF loss, right ?

Your mouth to God’s ears…praying!

 

[UCan3]

He had one turnover last night.

Then that one is on me I thought I saw him turn the ball over more than that. I definitely saw him. Catch the ball with nowhere to go and miss a lot of shots but either way he’s not the reason we lost.

 

[huskyharry]

Creightons a bubble team, we could still win the big east regular season and conference tournament, the sky isnt falling. At least not yet.

Bubble team for the NIT or the crown perhaps

 

[Rich]

One thing I wish Hurley would stop with is the incessant references to AJax, Clingan, Newton in the context of 'my players can't hold a candle to those guys.' It's starting to become a regular feature of his post-game pressers, win or lose and it needs to stop. Those guys are not walking through the door and he needs to focus on coaching what he has on the roster instead of pining for The Good 'Ol Days.