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Creighton Post Game Thread

I’ve refrained from posting on the postgame threads because of the high level of angst, but I’ll weigh in tonight. This is a good team, but not a great team. Not even close. It has regressed as the season has progressed. No go to guy has emerged on offense, and the defense has gotten worse. The time to fix the problems is running out. They got punched in the mouth tonight and did not respond. Maybe a Sweet 16 team, but I’d be surprised if it goes deeper than that.
 
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The women and men both played equally bad today. Both teams saw about a 35 point swing since the last time they faced these teams. What the hell is going on???
 
This team is just not very good right now. Teams have figured out our defense. We foul non stop. AK is so easy to shut down.

Mullins shot good but they went on their run when Mullins was trying to take over and missed 4 straight. They scored everytime. We stopped running Demery and Reed then when we did it was too late and we missed everything.

I see a few more loses this season. At least 2 maybe 3. Probably a 3 seed.
 
None of this was surprising and that's what's upsetting. The team hasn't looked anything like it did in the out of conference schedule and each game is getting worse. The defense has fallen off a cliff.

Honestly, one of Hurley's worst coached games at UConn. He gives AK and Solo way too much rope. No adjustments. When we had the lead he let guys jack up terrible shots and we stopped going to Tarris.

We can forget all about seeding. Just have to hope the team figures things out and starts playing way better because the version we've seen lately can forget about any championships or going far in the tournament.
 
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Fishy said:
Not shocked. We've been waiting for this to happen for the entirety of the conference season and now it has.

We're really not very good.

But worse, we're not very good by design. Our best rotations are rotations that we avoid because we feel some kind of obligation to certain players.

Anyway, that's the one seed done.
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Which rotations? I'm curious what better analysts than me think...
 
This game was teetering for Creighton when we started executing our offense out of half time. We had two ill-advised early threes by AK and one by Braylon where we ran nothing beforehand. Killed momentum and prevented us from dealing a potential death blow.
The perils of giving up 45 first half points. You have zero room for error.
The Solo low floor absolutely kills this team.
Obviously we aren't winning when we get a huge negative from Karaban, on top of Solo.
We actually had good enough bench play today. But this team really feels like a mirror of last year, spurts of pretty good ball....but not really an identity.
 
stickybuddy said:
I’m not holding my breath on this
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Yeah, normally I would agree with the post you responded to, but our response should have happened after the St John’s loss. This was a poor Creighton team and the way we played tonight has been a trend lately.

We need to figure out something defensively and show more fight. How many times did they blow right by our defenders tonight? No strong presence defensively

Offensively we have resorted to a 3 point chucking team and are not aggressive driving the ball when things break down and we can’t seem to finish strong inside

That was tough to watch.

We have the shooting to go far, and I still believe Hurley can fix this defense again, so I remain hopeful
 
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WeAreUCONN said:
We aren’t the hunters anymore. We are the hunted. Wounded prey hiding for safety from the big bad wolves like Creighton and St. Johns. This team will be lucky to make the sweet 16. Our shot selection is putrid. Solo and Karaban just chuck shots and pray they go in. The only way we do anything in the tourney is if Mullins and Demary carry us on their backs. We don’t deserve to be anywhere close to the top 10. We just kissed any chance of a #1 seed, good bye.
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Being "hunted" by Creighton is like a Husky being hunted by a Chihuahua. This is a joke. Champions don't lose at home to a .500 team.
 
They deserved this loss. They've been playing with fire for so long and getting away with it. Atrocious defense. Were they even trying?

Hopefully a wake up call and they win the next 2.
 
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