DePaul Post Game Thread

[Jhuskie89]

Solo is our go to guy. Excited to see him in some tournament play. Might show something special like past players

 

[superjohn]

horrible news...plane & copter collided in DC. awful

With a Black Hawk. I don't remember another commercial plane accidental crash in America since I was a kid.

 

[superjohn]

Don't care how they get em but they somehow need to scrape wins out all of the remaining Seton Hall/Georgetown/Villanova games and somehow get 2 wins out of the 5 games with St Johns/Marquette/Creighton. It would be alot more doable and expected with a healthy Liam.

As far as AK, does dude have depth perception issues or something? For all the talk on here about him not being a dribble drive guy he's getting to his spots, these are point blank floaters and push shots, you're a high level D1 guy you gotta make these.

Sadly, he's not ready for the NBA.

We better start playing a lot better or we really don't have a chance on the road against Marquette, Johnnies, and Creighton.

 

[jake14mw]

Wow. For the first time this year I'm left feeling that we won't be going anywhere in the tournament. Losing to Depaul for 3/4 of the game is just baffling. Depaul is a terrible team. Teams don't have to even run any offense against us. Just clear out and let your mediocre players beat our guys off the dribble. What has happened to Diara? He was decent defensively last year, and shot 36% from 3. At least on the bright side, we know AK is due for some good games, he just can't statistically continue to do what he has done lately, too talented.

 

[uconnfan68]

Sorry for how we played. I didn't realize I couldn't start the game late on peacock so only watched the 2nd half

Didn’t want to call you out, but please don’t pull that again!

 

[RuffRuff]

Just take the win.

I feel like this has been said a few too many times this season now. At some point you do want to show an ability to play a full 40, have a killer instinct and not constantly play down. Take the W for sure as we need every one we can get, but not what I would called a building block.

Only takeaway for me is that Reed gets better the longer he’s on the floor. Not sure he’s designed to come off the bench in smatterings. We don’t have a lot of plus physical talent on this team, he is one of the few places we do. This late in season I don’t expect much to change there, and we will keep rolling Samson Johnson out there in this mix and match thing.

Aidan was on cusp of having a really nice game but just couldn’t finish on a nice couple takes.

Not sure if anyone saw the Hurley interview with the peacock team, was asked about McNeeley. He danced around it every which way - I wouldn’t expect him back for Marquette.

 

[Bomber36]

The C word struggled at home against Xavier tonight. They ain’t great. We just missed our chance against them last time.

 

[Palatine]

Karaban is 3-21 (14%) in the last four games from the arc. That's not a game, it's a slump. We will need him on Saturday. Time to snap out of it.

Yep, he does a lot of other things. But we need him to put the ball in the net.

 

[aceboon]

The C word struggled at home against Xavier tonight. They ain’t great. We just missed our chance against them last time.

They're not great but Xavier had double digit 2nd half leads on the road vs both Marquette and St Johns in the past week and a half, they're not an easy out and I thought it was encouraging that UConn had a chance to win in their building without Liam before the step back tonight vs Depaul.

 

[Drfla]

Team had no energy first half. No fouling because they just didn’t play hard. Corrected that late, carried it on and put DePaul away. Ugly at times but a huge game from Reed, clutch moments from Ball. Stewart was huge in the first half. Diarra is not 100% but we don’t have Nowell. Gut check game for him. Alex just frigid but made some great passes.

On to Marquette and hopefully we have Liam and Alex finds his shot.

Great game from our two transfers, who have been much maligned on here. Aiden kept them in it in the first half and Tarris dominated the second half.

 

[Gurleyman]

For the old timers, this reminds a bit of a 2006 team game, where they stink it up for a big chunk of the game but if you look at the final score it seemed like a by-the-numbers cruise to a comfortable win.

The 2006 team came down to the wire all the time. They cruised like 4 times all year. Unless you are counting Albany. This was indeed very similar to Albany.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

One positive is that Solo and Alex seem to be recognizing when they have a path to the hoop, not just spotting up for 3. That recognition means the D can’t close so aggressively, which helps with just a hair more room to shoot.

When we run our motion there are a lot of off ball screens that get a cutter open underneath, and we don’t see it. Get it in there, it can lead to a bucket, a foul or a kickout 3. Instead the ball stays on the perimeter and we get overplayed.

Much better D in the second half from some guys who don’t play such good D usually. I think I started to see the kind of defensive rotations that were taken for granted last year.

On to Milwaukee.

 

[jake14mw]

The C word struggled at home against Xavier tonight. They ain’t great. We just missed our chance against them last time.

They led at half and beat a much better Xavier team by about the same margin as we beat lousy Depaul for their 7th? straight win, and "They ain't great"? Huh? What are we?

 

[Mets8692]

AK has the all time yips right now.

 

[superjohn]

The C word struggled at home against Xavier tonight. They ain’t great. We just missed our chance against them last time.

Hurley has never beaten them at their place and Creighton is better than us right now.

 

[uconngb]

For the old timers, this reminds a bit of a 2006 team game, where they stink it up for a big chunk of the game but if you look at the final score it seemed like a by-the-numbers cruise to a comfortable win.

See Albany, 1st round NCAA

 

[Waquoit]

Going to continue to push to give more responsibility to our more talented players. We turned it up a notch once we turned the game over to Solo, Stewart, and Reed in the second half.

Not that simple. Two of those guys sleepwalked through the first half.

 

[Bomber36]

Hurley has never beaten them at their place and Creighton is better than us right now.

I don’t doubt that. Just saying they are beatable.

 

[storrsroars]

Dropped one spot on offense in KP to 11, picked up 7 on D up to 125. But the win is really all that matters tonight. Probably worst half I recall since KO years. Even 2nd half wasn't pretty, but inside defense was much, much better, leading to 19 point swing.

 

[Palatine]

Stewart was very hot tonight. 15 points on 7 shots. Surprised they didn't go to him more.

 

[Waquoit]

For the old timers, this reminds a bit of a 2006 team game, where they stink it up for a big chunk of the game but if you look at the final score it seemed like a by-the-numbers cruise to a comfortable win.

Back in the Perno era, the good teams had many games like this against us an I got the feeling that they couldn't have given a crap.

 

[jake14mw]

I have to say that I'm sick of Danny talking about McNeeley being out as if that's a valid reason for the team playing how they have without him.

 

[Palatine]

Dropped one spot on offense in KP to 11, picked up 7 on D up to 125. But the win is really all that matters tonight. Probably worst half I recall since KO years. Even 2nd half wasn't pretty, but inside defense was much, much better, leading to 19 point swing.

We scored a point a minute for the first three quarters of the the first half. Still got out of the 60s (barely) for a change.

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

Not that simple. Two of those guys sleepwalked through the first half.

Well that’s because we usually lean on Diarra and Karaban.

We should go back to letting them being excellent role players and allow Solo and Stewart to be the stars with Liam out.