Dom Amore Sunday's Hartford Courant postgame UConn/St. John's | The Boneyard

Dom Amore Sunday's Hartford Courant postgame UConn/St. John's

Great job Dom. Ya gotta play the games!! Our performance and ways to improve it have been analyzed to death by the Yard. I am also interested in what our collective genius took away regarding St Johns. Put the standard comments of "they won't get out of the first weekend" ,and "the refs won't let them play their game" aside. Should St Johns play up to their potential, can they be an elite eight team?
 
One takeaway is that SJU losses were early, giving Pitino a longer opportunity to work out the problems. Teams like us playing great ball all season, when exposed in Feb. have a shorter time period to make corrections, adjustments or improvements.

Just saying Pitino may have has figured it out. Hurley/Team now knows what needs fixing and how to fix it. To me there are no major fixes necessary and he has the resources (players and coaches) to make improvement .

Hopefully the team now realizes that they are not as good/dominant as they may have thought they were and now move towards perfection including 100% effort and all times.
 
Interesting comments from Pitino about how the pressure applied to the inbound passes only resulted in 2 turnovers but the cumulative result was more missed rebounds and passes. I know some think this issue about inbounding the ball is overstated but Pitino disagrees. I loved watching the 89-90 Huskies apply their full court press and drive other teams crazy. It is a lot less fun when it is happening to you.
 
Kitaman said:
One takeaway is that SJU losses were early, giving Pitino a longer opportunity to work out the problems. Teams like us playing great ball all season, when exposed in Feb. have a shorter time period to make corrections, adjustments or improvements.

Just saying Pitino may have has figured it out. Hurley/Team now knows what needs fixing and how to fix it. To me there are no major fixes necessary and he has the resources (players and coaches) to make improvement .

Hopefully the team now realizes that they are not as good/dominant as they may have thought they were and now move towards perfection including 100% effort and all times.
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it’s not as binary as you describe.

we don’t magically learn more in a 1 point loss vs. a 1 point win.

all of the issues that contributed to our loss vs St Johns are themes which have existed all year.

astute coaches/players would have already recognized them and taken steps to address them.
 
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Donyell 360 said:
Interesting comments from Pitino about how the pressure applied to the inbound passes only resulted in 2 turnovers but the cumulative result was more missed rebounds and passes. I know some think this issue about inbounding the ball is overstated but Pitino disagrees. I loved watching the 89-90 Huskies apply their full court press and drive other teams crazy. It is a lot less fun when it is happening to you.
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You can definitely hypothesize and believe that those are some of the cumulative results as the winning coach. And there may indeed have been some element of that, but even Pitino can't say all that with 100% certainty.

Did having to spend a couple extra seconds and expending a little more energy on an inbounds directly result in an elitely-conditioned athlete throwing an ill-advised alley-oop to a center who has proven to be generally more earthbound all year? I'm skeptical.

Did the same concept result in a guy slipping on a floor that seemed to be a little slippery in spots, resulting in a precision pass (to the spot where he was heading to) going out of bounds?
 
I can say for sure that I think UConn got away with a few 5 second inbounding calls. You can't trust the crowd, but it got to the point where I was counting down myself because it was taking so long to get the ball in.
 
Donyell 360 said:
Interesting comments from Pitino about how the pressure applied to the inbound passes only resulted in 2 turnovers but the cumulative result was more missed rebounds and passes. I know some think this issue about inbounding the ball is overstated but Pitino disagrees. I loved watching the 89-90 Huskies apply their full court press and drive other teams crazy. It is a lot less fun when it is happening to you.
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We have tried to wear out teams with our offense but the better teams and some not so better have taken to tightening up their defenses against this and "mucking it up". This seems more prevalent as time goes on because of Big East reffing. I liked the pressing game as well but will have to see how this plays out over the years. Dan Hurley has consistently criticized the lack of toughness. Maybe time to reassess recruiting 6-8 skinny guys and get some beef. You have to control the boards. When in Rome....................
 
dennismenace said:
We have tried to wear out teams with our offense but the better teams and some not so better have taken to tightening up their defenses against this and "mucking it up". This seems more prevalent as time goes on because of Big East reffing. I liked the pressing game as well but will have to see how this plays out over the years. Dan Hurley has consistently criticized the lack of toughness. Maybe time to reassess recruiting 6-8 skinny guys and get some beef. You have to control the boards. When in Rome....................
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I'd rather lose the Big East championship and win the NCAA championship. Whatever Hurley is doing is working.
 
Donyell 360 said:
Interesting comments from Pitino about how the pressure applied to the inbound passes only resulted in 2 turnovers but the cumulative result was more missed rebounds and passes. I know some think this issue about inbounding the ball is overstated but Pitino disagrees. I loved watching the 89-90 Huskies apply their full court press and drive other teams crazy. It is a lot less fun when it is happening to you.
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Of course it does... We pressed with JC for years, running a passive 2-2-1 to disrupt the other team's flow. Make them use 8 seconds to get it over, and then have to adjust. We hardly ever turned people over after 89-90. Every near-5-second call makes the players feel additional pressure, literally and figuratively. It's a cumulative effect. Any turnovers that result are just the cherry on top.
 
Huskie5life said:
I can say for sure that I think UConn got away with a few 5 second inbounding calls. You can't trust the crowd, but it got to the point where I was counting down myself because it was taking so long to get the ball in.
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I was there and watched the ref's arm point and count down - a couple were simultaneous point and pass so tie goes to the runner.
 
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The other thing I have kinda an issue with is this assertion that St. John's frontcourt is so much more experienced. I'll give you the tougher, more athletic angle, but geez, we start two seniors - one of whom has been a four-year starter and bring a junior off the bench as well. If AK, Tarris, or Stew were intimidated or something than that is a much bigger issue.

Lastly, this is the second straight year Hurley has alluded to us being outtoughed and outphysicaled and pretty much overmatched in those areas. Maybe try to recruit a little differently, then? We can still bring in our heady shooters and IQ guys, but there's no reason you can't filter in some athletes as well. He seemed to make it a priority last offseason, and we didn't really do much in the portal to improve it.
 
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