Florida post game thread

[Devland]

Only silver lining is Portnoy losing money.

Who?

 

[specialisthusky]

I thought that we played one of our best games of the season. Game plan and execution was wonderful until we tried to speed it up for no reason late in the game leading to the Ball turnover on the tough call out of bounds.

Shooting wasn’t great but defense and intensity was. Not our year but what a 3 year run it’s been. Let’s get ourselves a portal PG and get to work for 25-26.

Florida is a very good team. Best of luck to the gators the rest of the way.

 

[NHUConnfan]

If they played that way against Seton Hall we would never had to play this game. That makes them all important.

I think it's dumb to speculate if one game would have changed our seeding because this committee was all out of whack with its seeding. I'm almost positive we still would have been an 8.

 

[WrenchFan69]

Really lucky to catch Florida on an off day for 38 minutes. Still sad to see such low basketball IQ plays cost us a chance at a win. Nice to see McNeeley pad some stats in garbage time after not hitting a meaningful shot since Creighton. Hope that drags some of his draft stock back. Huge credit to Diarra and Johnson for playing so damn hard; would not have been close without those two. Now let's go grab some transfers so we can compete next year

 

[2014DualCs]

Haven’t read the thread yet but what a damn good fight UConn put up today. Shots just didn’t fall for us.

Will Clayton Jr. is going to be in the NBA without a shred of doubt. Tough to take an L today but if this is our floor? My god I will be on the frontlines for Hurley until he exits the program, however that may be.

 

[Dibbie]

Played with a heart of champion, just needed one guy to be solid from 3, but all three of our guys struggled. Shout out to Samson and Diarra, awesome games

 

[maple]

Man, this loss really sucks. It was right there for the taking. Really disappointing. Not saying we could have really won it all again but it would have been nice to pull off the upset.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

Our most complete game of the year.

Too bad we couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn.

Proud of the fight. We definitely punched up today.

WHAT!?! UConn shot terrible. Especially from 3.

 

[IndyLives]

Story of our season...Gave away way too many games down the stretch. The missed AK layup with 3 minutes left was the absolute killer. Changed the entire momentum of the game after that. Thats who he is unfortunately. Just not clutch. Very disappointed with the game & the season.

 

[ec33]

that was an extremely winnable game. don’t understand all these moral victory comments. this is UConn, not a mid-major that is happy to be there.

What would you like us to do? Send threatening letter to the players and coaches? Burn the school to the ground?

The game was winnable if we made shots. Exactly who was recently shooting so well that you are surprised at their inability to make open shots? AK, McNeeley, and Ball had been cold for a good long stretch.

 

[lonsharkin51]

I’m gutted right now, but I loved seeing Samson play one of his best games to go out. Sadly it wasn’t the missed 3s that killed us. It was the missed layups. C’est la vie, I guess.

 

[BlueWolf25]

if you think Samson didn't play well today, well then Idk what to tell you.

Him and Diarra showed out Uconn toughness

Samson was a warrior today. He ended the season on a high note, I’m going to miss him

 

[dennismenace]

A very tough loss. We had this game. Had it. But Liam happened at a critical point and Hurley stayed with him.

And Florida had Clayton.

Yup. All American in the close out for sure.

 

[JungleLobo]

Would have rather lost by 20 than blown the lead like that. We will be thinking what if for a while with this team.

That’s on you

 

[Scoe]

It’s not like we had to have some unbelievable game to win , like in any game against a 1 seed you will have your opportunities but you need to capitalize on them. We had our opportunities up 4 multiple times, then up 6. Give Florida credit they capitalized off our mistakes.

We fought our hearts out, sad for our guys especially our seniors, but keep your heads up everyone, we’ll be back hungrier then ever.

 

[Dibbie]

Who?

Must be a big rock you live under, but, yes, f Portnoy

 

[UCfor3]

The chat got a bit scary there for a bit. Please please please don't be dumb and send hate messages to the players. While it's disappointing, the run had to eventually end...and they put up a great fight against a team that absolutely could be the champs at the end of the day.

Proud of the boys...let's go UConn!

I was in and out of chat. There were hate messages?? Some of our fans are the worst.

 

[JoeyBuckets]

Good Game. Thank you seniors! We”ll be back next year. No need to blame anyone for the loss. Kids played tough and the coaches were Elite.

 

[HooperScooper]

Heartbreaking after doing what you had to do for 38 minutes of the game.

Well everything except make shots. Just a bad shooting game instead of really bad and they win by double digits.

Proud of the effort but it hurts to come up a little short after being right there with a few minutes left.

 

[TheRealKBuks]

All we had to do was shoot decent and we win comfortably. Frustrating end to a frustrating season. Excited to see what the current and future newcomers can do next year.

Thought Hurley coached a good game but wish we did something different during that five minute scoring drought down the stretch.

Not even decent, if you upgraded our shooting to terrible we would've won a blow out.

 

[B1GEast]

I keep reading posts about people being upset. No one likes to lose but if you're not happy that we won back to back titles, you're not paying attention.

It sucks, yeah, but UConn will be back. We've got a great class coming in and there's still the transfer portal.

You can't win em all, but truthfully, we've won more than our fair share.

I will feel bad for the Gators if they don't win a title.

We have a great program and Hurley will do his thing to get us back to the top.

Now I can be more productive at work.

 

[stpeteuc]

Thought Diarra was excellent, good mins from Aiden as well. It’s tough to win if you can’t make open shots and this team seemed to miss a lot of open shots and layups all year, last years team never really missed an easy bucket. LM is not ready for the NBA.

 

[upstater]

This is what I saw:

1. 2 evenly matched teams
2. UConn playing better than Florida and controlling the game
3. Florida heaving off balance 3s 6 for 9 for clayton
4. With a minute and 30 seconds left, Karajan drove one in one and was fouled hard, but there was no call, ensuing 3 pointer from Florida and fouls called had UConn chasing the lead desperately

Whatever you say, game changed in the non call to an obvious foul on Karabans drive

 

[Spaceman213J]

Wish it was going to be more, but glad to see Johnson & Diarra play well in their last UConn games.
Now to my anyone but 'Duke' mindset. I'll throw in Arkansas too, but I can't stand Calipari.
Hope there's a chance that AK comes back, but if he doesn't... thanks AK, Hassan and SJ for leaving all out on the floor.

 

[Milo65]

Proud of the fight! The team put it all out there. Some lapses down the stretch. Not sure why we didn't take it to their center (foul trouble). All I wanted was effort, they gave it all.