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DePaul post game thread.

It was nice to see Stewart take and make some 3s. Had some nice rebounds as well. Confidence + Dan Hurley having confidence in him really helps our depth. I do not like seeing Castle at the 4. Donovan was pretty good. Newton continues to save his best for better opponents. Karaban was on fire. Castle another solid all around game. Diarra really good in extended minutes.

It was honestly boring, so at half I put the game on my iPad and watched Welcome to Wrexham. I'm pumped for a true challenge on Saturday.
 
husky429 said:
I don't think it's a complete coincidence that Castle and Stewart are improving at the same time. They're both freshman and expected to improve, but I think it's also partly because they have quite complimentary skillsets.
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Agreed. One thing I didn't really expect from recruiting information, and we've seen only flashes of it, but Ross plays a lot like Castle. I expected him to be more true forward than guard, but he's really a hybrid big guard with a strong handle who can attack off the bounce. That will really be quite complementary next year.
 
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auror said:
Hold them to less points per possession? Our offense went up though.
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While I am definitely a stats and numbers guy and believe KenPom metrics & similar ones do a pretty good job of objectively sorting out teams, sometimes these flukey things pop up that don't correlate with the "eye test"

Anyone who watched that game would come away saying "Dang UConn plays stifling Defense...one of the best in the country"
 
This team doesn't seem to worry much about who they're playing, they play their A game and A effort most nights. That's a testament to the coaching staff.

Not often do you feel real confidence in laying 25 points to a team, and it's all due to the effort you expect for 40 minutes.
 
I missed this - was Jayden Ross sick?

Edit - nvm, he was.
 
Not much to say here in this kind of blowout.

Solo can be so good next year though. His jumper and pull up game looks so pure.
 
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HuskyWarrior611 said:
Not much to say here in this kind of blowout.

Solo can be so good next year though. His jumper and pull up game looks so pure.
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Don't look now, but Solo shooting 45% from 3pt in Big East play. Turns out Hurley wasn't blowing smoke at us & knows what he's doing (again).

Had some really nice cuts and his jumper from just inside the foul line was great to see last night. It's so great to see this staff develop talent. Sometimes we need to be more patient but the payoffs have been delightful to see.
 
JustbrewitMan said:
Don't look now, but Solo shooting 45% from 3pt in Big East play. Turns out Hurley wasn't blowing smoke at us & knows what he's doing (again).

Had some really nice cuts and his jumper from just inside the foul line was great to see last night. It's so great to see this staff develop talent. Sometimes we need to be more patient but the payoffs have been delightful to see.
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Let’s just enjoy the win man. I don’t have much time to be a red pill today.

I’m very happy the young guys got some much needed extended minutes and usage for this blowout.
 
ibleedhuskyblue said:
Nice to see Stew and Solo knock down some shots. We'll need them.
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Yes indeed. The announcers pointed out more than once that Hurley said (pre game) he wants to have an 8-9 man rotation for the end of the season.
 
I was looking for the Dan Hurley post-game presser, didn't find it, but did find Matt Brady's.

This was maybe the most honest and brutal assessment of a team I can recall. Starts around 2:31. I wish someone asked him about Abass, who was maybe the only guy who looked decent. But I came away with the thought that maybe Brady should be the guy going forward (had success as HC at Wagner and JMU). Alternatively, might be the type of coach who's so critical his players tune him out. Don't really know.

 
dennismenace said:
Yes indeed. The announcers pointed out more than once that Hurley said (pre game) he wants to have an 8-9 man rotation for the end of the season.
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Hurley's been saying that for months.
 
He was honest and teams need that. This team checked out long before Stubblefield got his exit package.

For Brady, he's a veteran who will be somewhere else next season. Unfortunately this may be his one chance as a HC and this season won't do anything for his resume.
 
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HuskyWarrior611 said:
Let’s just enjoy the win man. I don’t have much time to be a red pill today.

I’m very happy the young guys got some much needed extended minutes and usage for this blowout.
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Sorry, wasn't intending to be coming at you wit this post. Going back and re-reading, can see how it could be interpreted that way.
 
I thought the play-by-play guy was a bit odd with his pronouncements that UConn always keeps the starters in. They didn't in that Xavier blowout. The starters were out the last 10 minutes. I think Hurley tried to do the same last night but the bench got sloppy in consectuitive trips so he put the starters back in. Too bad DePaul hat guy had a problem with it.
 
RichCTBB said:
We actually dropped in Kenpom defense after that. What didn’t we do to avoid a drop there?
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Nothing you can do. The geeks gonna geek. And imagine if DePaul wasn’t in the NEWBIE. They’d be ranked like 500. Playing UConn and Marquette improves their SOS.
 
freescooter said:
Nothing you can do. The geeks gonna geek. And imagine if DePaul wasn’t in the NEWBIE. They’d be ranked like 500. Playing UConn and Marquette improves their SOS.
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People are going to emphasize the numbers when Purdue is named the number 1 overall seed (in the preview on Saturday), but the biggest determiner is going to be Purdue is in the B1G and the NCAA caters to them.
 
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REB1094 said:
Watched some highlights on YouTube. That was an effortless windmill too. Jogged right into it and 0 reaction after. This guy is colddddd
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It was the slowest, most casual, and almost lazy (not in a bad way) windmill I've seen. He's a total iceman, you rarely see too much reaction either way until the game is over but he had a huge smile when time ran out! I think he's going to be everything he's been hyped to be in the NBA.
 
ec33 said:
People are going to emphasize the numbers when Purdue is named the number 1 overall seed (in the preview on Saturday), but the biggest determiner is going to be Purdue is in the B1G and the NCAA caters to them.
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I sort of agree with part of this. But the Big is just deeper, too, though. It is partly a function of having more teams. There are no outright awful teams. The NEWBIE has UConn and Marquette. Then a fairly big fall off. And the bottom of the league is simply dreadful. And we have to play 4 games against them. That’s basically like playing Mississippi Valley, Stonehill, UNH and Arkansas Pine Bluffs again. Look at it this way -20% of our conference budget is mid-major quality. There are a few Big 10 teams that aren’t that good. But none are as bad as Georgetown and DePaul. So when you do the geek thing, Purdue might come out a bit higher. Having said all that, there is a tendency to give Big 10 teams the benefit of the doubt in a way that doesn’t apply to other leagues. Purdue will likely benefit from that.
 
Icehawk said:
It was the slowest, most casual, and almost lazy (not in a bad way) windmill I've seen. He's a total iceman, you rarely see too much reaction either way until the game is over but he had a huge smile when time ran out! I think he's going to be everything he's been hyped to be in the NBA.
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Castle is a super efficient and effortless athlete. His movement is Jeremy Lamb kind of effortless.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
Castle is a super efficient and effortless athlete. His movement is Jeremy Lamb kind of effortless.
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His defense is so tremendously good. He moves laterally as quickly as anyone I can remember, and he plays his man tight because he can recover even if they get past him initially. And if someone scores over him, he never gets petulant or surly- he just gets ready for the next play.
 
Waquoit said:
Hurley's been saying that for months.
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Really? I don't recall seeing that and there were quite a few folks who took issue with this and thought he was going back to the old 7-man rotation despite having used a deep bench down the stretch last year. This (deeper rotation) is based on the performance of Ball and Stewart of course. These two guys are the future for us next year so it helps in that respect as well. I think if you look back at the minutes these two were getting not long ago their (announcers) comments might make more sense.
 
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dennismenace said:
Really? I don't recall seeing that and there was quite a few folks who took issue with this and thought he was going back to the old 7 man rotation despite having used a deep bench down the stretch last year. This (deeper rotation) is based on the performance of Ball and Stewart of course. These two guys are the future for us next year so it helps in that respect as well.
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Yeah he's been saying it all season that he wants to find minutes for Ball and Stewart. When they play like they did last night that's an easy thing to do
 
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