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Good effort tonight. DePaul is awful, but they had no problem beating Louisville (Laughs).
 
Slow start, nice end to the first half, 2nd half really uneven - fouling and defense was a bit surprising (ie. bad), but what a nice game from Diarra.

Also great to see Karaban get his scoring touch back.

And can't complain about Castle shooting 6-7 with 7 assists. He really does a lot out there... Seems to have found his way all the way back from his injury.

Cam did Cam things, and nice to see Ball finding his rhythym off the bench.

Would have liked a larger MOV, but giving up 37 in the 2nd half to a pretty bad team will do that to you...
 
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Diarra is so improved this year.

Karaban came back in a big way.

Castle makes the game look so easy.

Solo looked as confident as I’ve seen so far this year tonight. Don’t even mind the missed layups. Love the fact that he was aggressive. Played like he belonged.
 
My complaint for today, just Stewart still. Even when he was out there it seemed like the older guys were not looking his way at all when he was open. Not sure why.

Also not sure why this game wasn’t used as a way to get Singare up to speed if we feel like we’re going to need him against better teams.
 
For how bad the first few minutes were…their biggest lead was 2-0. They had 2 HEAVILY contested layups that were borderline circus shots. They had 2 threes by sub-25% shooters. That was 4 of their 8 first half FGs and 10 of their 19 points

Other than foul trouble, Samson was EXCELLENT defensively. Good hedges, timely recoveries, good post defense, outstanding help defense.

Karaban! The three was falling which opened up the drive. The team did a great job helping him defensively and rotating properly

Great energy from Diarra in our first half run. Ended with 15/5/5. Amazing game

Cam with a quiet 20

Stewart had a rough first 2 stints but did well in his third. Got a strip, dove on the ball and beat 2 DePaul guys to it. Spot on cross court pass for a Karaban 3. A bully ball iso layup

I don’t like halfcourt Castle but I LOVE fast break Castle. 14/7/3 on 6-7 shooting. Unfortunately that 1 miss was a wide open corner 3 that airballed

We had 11 first half assists. They had 8 total

Only 1 thing to complain about. Up 30 with 5 minutes to go, get Singare in there!
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
My complaint for today, just Stewart still. Even when he was out there it seemed like the older guys were not looking his way at all when he was open. Not sure why.

Also not sure why this game wasn’t used as a way to get Singare up to speed if we feel like we’re going to need him against better teams.
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Can we not do this after every game? He played over 10 minutes.

Did you see Singare? He’s not ready .

What more could you have possibly wanted?
 
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10 minutes kicking off the rust, 30 minutes kicking ass.

Mission accomplished.

Castle with a lot of run and a good game statistically. Karaban and Spencer had their shots falling. Newton was bored. Diarra big game shooting- enough to make opponents respect his shot??
Stewart with plenty of run.

Going forward I'd like to see Johnson not fouling so much.
 
Nice to see Castle and Karaban looking more comfortable with Karaban playing an all around good game and showing more intensity on defense.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
My complaint for today, just Stewart still. Even when he was out there it seemed like the older guys were not looking his way at all when he was open. Not sure why.

Also not sure why this game wasn’t used as a way to get Singare up to speed if we feel like we’re going to need him against better teams.
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Seems like you have a complaint everyday. And technically that’s two complaints in that post.

Lighten up we are #4 in the country and are doing pretty good with our stud center on the bench.

Dans molding the kids into UConn players. They wil get there.

Stop being a UConn basketball Karen.
 
This game was just what the Doctor ordered. Coming off a long break, no Donovan, Danny talking about changes on both sides of the ball, DePaul was about the best matchup we could have asked for considering the circumstances.

We are definitely looking to play faster - it didn’t always look pretty (looking at you, first 5 mins…) but by the end that added pace looked really good. The half court offense also looked better - harder and more frequent cutting, lots of off ball movement, also loved that OOB play lob for Samson. Can’t recall seeing that for him or Don before.

I know…. It’s DePaul… but I liked what I saw from our core 7 (starters + Diarra and Ball) and you could tell they made some slight tweaks/ have some new points of emphasis to help lessen the gut punch of playing without Donovan. On to the next test - a hostile environment against a retooled Butler.
 
Looked rusty to start. Karaban getting his touch back is key, but I especially loved the way he attacked the rim off the bounce. Castle looked solid all around. Does a lot of good things. Cam was great on one end, not so great on the other. Johnson was ok, needs to rebound better. Diarra was really good. This shooting touch changes him.

Newton looked like he wanted to be playing video games. He seems to not get up for bad teams. Didn‘t hurt tonight, but it can.
 
First game back and a rusty start. Thought Tristen never got excited for it and that’s fine but has to bring it Friday, which I’m sure he will. Rec league kid went off again and Castles D is special. He also played a good interior game. AK was great. SJ can’t foul as much. HD is the unsung hero with great O and D tonight. Great energy from him. Loved the high assist ratio again.
 
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EricLA said:
Would have liked a larger MOV, but giving up 37 in the 2nd half to a pretty bad team will do that to you...
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I mean, we covered the spread for almost the entire second half -- what more do you want?
 
It is DePaul, playing us at GP. But… BUT we had two of our main starters not score, one cause he was in street clothes and the other… well. And we still won by a bit, assists to made FG was nuts. Not putting a lot of weight on this, but after 10 days off and only 3 regular started scoring.. I’ll start the new year that way.
 
We won by 29 with our leading scorer having 0 points and our most dominant player on the bench injured. Given it was DePaul but we have complaints. It started ugly but they figured it out. Castle is coming along, if he hits a few threes he will be more of a match up problem than he already is. I think we will keep getting better because he is going to be much better in a month. Take your time DC come back healthy AK, TN, Cam and the crew has your back!
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
My complaint for today, just Stewart still. Even when he was out there it seemed like the older guys were not looking his way at all when he was open. Not sure why.

Also not sure why this game wasn’t used as a way to get Singare up to speed if we feel like we’re going to need him against better teams.
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I can see what you are saying about Stewart but he played really well for the time he was in. Defensively he was solid and he moved the ball well, making good reads. Honestly even including the early games where he scored more he looked more comfortable just playing UConn ball.

Diarra is now up to 7-22 from three on the season, or about 32%. He is making open threes this year at a really high clip.

Solo up to 29% even after his atrocious start to the season (9/23 in the last seven starting at KU game, 6/29 in first seven).

Samson had an interesting game but he did show a few shots that still remind me offensively of Oso. Defensively though he still gets pushed around some. If these games can open up Samson's offense a bit more then when DC gets back it should be really fun.
 
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Can we just work out something where DePaul just leaves the NEWBIE and goes to any low mid-major of its choice. It has been 20 years since they last made the NCAA tournament. They can’t even make the NIT. Last trip there was 2007. Playing in a low mid-major conference would benefit them because they could be competitive. And us because we never have to play them again.
 
Captbluefin said:
Seems like you have a complaint everyday. And technically that’s two complaints in that post.

Lighten up we are #4 in the country and are doing pretty good with our stud center on the bench.

Dans molding the kids into UConn players. They wil get there.

Stop being a UConn basketball Karen.
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I mean it’s DePaul. They lost to Nova by 40. Wasn’t expecting anything less than a blowout and that’s what we did. Was looking at it more of a development game.

I can probably go back and pick out 3 or 4 times an older guy just refused to look Stewart’s way when he was open and probably had a turnover because of it. I found that weird. If we’re expecting to use Singare in real games I have no idea why he wouldnt play regular minutes against a low risk opponent.
 
AntG168 said:
Did you see Singare? He’s not ready .

What more could you have possibly wanted?
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You can't get a job without experience. You can't get experience without a job.

Chicken and egg. He will never get be ready if you can't give him minutes up 32 points. If you want him to be a contribute this year, he will need to be force fed some minutes. Hurley probably wants something from him in practice. Don't know what it is.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
I mean it’s DePaul. They lost to Nova by 40. Wasn’t expecting anything less than a blowout and that’s what we did. Was looking at it more of a development game.

I can probably go back and pick out 3 or 4 times an older guy just refused to look Stewart’s way when he was open and probably had a turnover because of it. I found that weird. If we’re expecting to use Singare in real games I have no idea why he wouldnt play regular minutes against a low risk opponent.
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We’re not expecting to use Singare in real games..

The team is not refusing to pass Stewart the ball.
 
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