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to all the haters you can at least be happy we got Silas instead of Boogie. my lord that was a ghastly performance. i thought karaban's pass to ross in the corner off the inbounds might have cost us the game but nope. boogie gives it right back with the 5 second violation, just like last week against duke when he dribbled it off his with 10 seconds left and a chance to tie.
 
bendm said:
to all the haters just be happy we got Silas instead of Boogie. my lord that was a ghastly performance. i thought karaban's pass to ross in the corner off the inbounds might have cost us the game but nope. boogie gives it right back with the 5 second violation, just like he dribbled it off his foot last week against duke when they had a chance to tie.
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He also had that tackle of Solo late in the game and argued with the ref about it. He is quick but Florida was much better with Lee on floor.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Reed looked good early then faded a bit. Florida’s 2-3 bigs took away a lot in the paint and I thought we wasted a lot of possessions challenging them. UConn wasn’t going to win this without knocking down jump shots. Don’t know if the game plan was bad or the decision making was bad, but we need to adjust better.
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in the first half UF was defending reed with chinyelu straight up and reed was cooking. in the second half they started doubling reed w/ another big. condon came from behind and blocked reed's shot at least 2-3x. reed needs to learn to find the open shooter out of a double team like sanogo and clingan did so well. maybe the final step in his evolution as an unstoppable post presence.
 
alexd said:
That's Oliver Rioux, 7'-9". He's played 4 minutes all year.
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He’s on FL roster, I think this poster means in the stands as a recruit?
 
RJScootin said:
A lot of this board sees Ross with very rose-colored glasses. He's ok on defense, a liability on offense. Would have much rather seen Stewart get more time in 2nd half.
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I don’t mind seeing Ross play 12 minutes or so but I really don’t like to see him not floor in close late game situations. Stewart seems to be improving everyday. They both are valuable.
 
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Excalibur said:
As is typical, he catches a lot of crap in the game chat, but outside of the Arizona game, he's been exactly what we need him to be -- not trying to do too much, hitting open shots, selectively driving and getting the offense organized, and making plays of all kinds down the stretch.
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He's crucial. In crunch time, he hit a huge 3, a tough runner, played excellent D, and made the perfect passes from the corner to spring Solo into the front court while under duress with the press at the end of the game. AK is not always hitting shots; we know he can struggle to finish against athleticism. He's an eh rebounder for a 4, but he makes winning plays that often go unnoticed. There's a reason Dan Hurley does not want to take him out of the game. There are so many intangible things that will be sorely missed next year.

bendm said:
in the first half UF was defending reed with chinyelu straight up and reed was cooking. in the second half they started doubling reed w/ another big. condon came from behind and blocked reed's shot at least 2-3x. reed needs to learn to find the open shooter out of a double team like sanogo and clingan did so well. maybe the final step in his evolution as an unstoppable post presence.
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We've also got to get him the ball in a position where he can just make a move. Wayyyy too often this year Tarris has had the ball unguarded and is putting it on the floor to get to the post. Teams are totally dropping off of him when we run sets with him up high. We've got to create a wrinkle to combat that.

nomar said:
A related personal favorite is the one from 2022 where half the board lost its mind because Gaffney transferred and we didn't have a PG. As if we weren't going to the portal to find someone much better than the guys who'd transferred because they had no future at UConn.
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I've posted it before, but my all-time favorite is the "Napier is the worst starting PG under JC" thread. A lot of bizarre takes in that one that did not age well, at all.
 
navery12 said:
End of game yes, but these press situations are starting with 3-4 minutes left and the clock doesn't stop until it's under 1 minute
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I'm not sure it's worth taking a few seconds off the clock with 3-4 minutes left in the game if it compromises your ability to get the ball inbounds without turning it over. I'd revisit that if I were the coaches. Under a minute probably worth it but as you pointed out under a minute left the clock stops anyway so no advantage to do it then.
 
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Karaban needs to be on the court. Maybe not 39, but he shouldn’t and won’t sit much.
I still think that Demary is going to be just fine. He is probably still getting a feel for what is expected of him.
Smith as someone already said is an old school point. He is going to constantly attack a defense and make plays. Tough tough kid.
I don’t have any problem at all with Mullins coming in off the bench. Stewart starting doesn’t hurt this team at all. I think that it is helping him. You can see that Mullins has a high basketball IQ,and likely will become a prolific scorer for UConn. I think that he has some growing to do physically. Looks to me like he gets knocked around a bit when he is out there.
 
HooperScooper said:
I'm not sure it's worth taking a few seconds off the clock with 3-4 minutes left in the game if it compromises your ability to get the ball inbounds without turning it over. I'd revisit that if I were the coaches. Under a minute probably worth it but as you pointed out under a minute left the clock stops anyway.
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My only counterargument is that for the most part they don't turn it over. It looks really ugly and appears to be on the verge of disaster at any second. But there's been very few actual turnovers and other than Seton Hall last year no blown leads
 
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navery12 said:
My only counterargument is that for the most part they don't turn it over. It looks really ugly and appears to be on the verge of disaster at any second. But there's been very few actual turnovers and other than Seton Hall last year no blown leads
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True... But it's like saying there's a known issue with your brakes. Sometimes they are not as responsive, but they usually always kick in at the last moment. We're going on year two of a complete circus trying to inbound the ball and press break. Even when it's done without error, it's an adventure.
 
A few comments on the final 45 seconds
  • We NEED to work on inbounding. Even that foul on Bland on Alex's inbound pass was almost a turnover as was the trap before Danny called timeout
  • We played with NO bigs on the floor for the final 45 seconds-presumably for FT shooting and inbounding (how'd that work out?) and without Tarris, Florida took only 5 seconds to score a simple layup. In fact, Bland went to the basket 3 times in the final 45 seconds resulting in 6 points. Tarris or Reibe woulda swatted those away. Also, I trust Tarris in the corner (if we're foolish enough to keep passing to the corner) to see over the trap and get rid of it way faster than Ross.
 
boog204 said:
I've posted it before, but my all-time favorite is the "Napier is the worst starting PG under JC" thread. A lot of bizarre takes in that one that did not age well, at all.
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I think he's calling you out, @zls44 . . .
 
Mr. French said:
My guy, not to be a total jerk but you’re snarky about people not knowing stuff and you spell Reed wrong and you make 2 bad points about Mullins.
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I only counted one bad point by Mullins. Where was the second one? I agree he plays pretty good defense.
 
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cp176 said:
Karaban needs to be on the court. Maybe not 39, but he shouldn’t and won’t sit much.
I still think that Demary is going to be just fine. He is probably still getting a feel for what is expected of him.
Smith as someone already said is an old school point. He is going to constantly attack a defense and make plays. Tough tough kid.
I don’t have any problem at all with Mullins coming in off the bench. Stewart starting doesn’t hurt this team at all. I think that it is helping him. You can see that Mullins has a high basketball IQ,and likely will become a prolific scorer for UConn. I think that he has some growing to do physically. Looks to me like he gets knocked around a bit when he is
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Someone said 35. I thought that was still too much, but I could agree to that.

I don’t mind even when he gets caught in no where land. He is making things happen and more times than not good things have happened.

Mullins definitely got kicked around last night amongst the trees and once he stops forcing shots he will shine. He is way ahead of where I thought he would be. He is what he is physically as this kid is one and done.
 
Spaceman213J said:
Florida's rebounding and the FT disparity is what kept them in the game.
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Florida had 16 offensive rebounds, to UConn's 7, but only 6 second chance points. I thought that was an interesting stat. So they really didn't take advantage of their huge rebounding edge. Florida had 24 defensive rebounds to UConn's 21.
 
Deepster said:
I apologize for not going through all 13 pages, but anyone who was there, did they show Coach Candle on the screen? He was supposed to be there.
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I don't know if anyone answered yet since I'm only on page 13 of the 17 total so far.

From the Register article on the game:

New UConn football coach Jason Candle was shown on the videoboard in the first half and drew an ovation from the largely pro-UConn crowd.
 
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DGRU said:
too bad he doesn't know any HOF coaches! (although Calhoun's teams often sucked at that too) Maybe Geno or Dad can draw something up.
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Not something Geno's teams have been particularly good at, either, though it rarely matters. You can go back to some of their lesser teams in the early 2000s, but 2 years ago, that was one of the things that did them in against Ohio State in the sweet 16,
 
HW611 said:
Personally, I explicitly saw this problem coming for Silas. He wasn’t much of a distributor at Georgia. He’s learning how to be that here. It doesn’t have much to do with the system as much as it’s a learning curve for his game in general knowing when to pick his spots.

He’ll be fine later in the year and takeoff year 2. But being a real PG is the hardest position on the court.
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I posted this exact thing after the East Texas A&M game. Gotta have some patience.

HooperScooper

Post in thread 'East Texas Post Game Thread'

REB1094 said:
Newton's first 9 games as a Husky: 11.4 PPG, 4.2 APG, 4.6 RPG, 2.4 turnovers shooting 37.5% from the field, 37.8% from three, 79.6% FT
Silas' first 9 games as a Husky: 10.4 PPG, 5.6 APG, 4.7 RPG, 1.8 turnovers shooting 51.5% from the field, 25.0% from three, 76.7% FT

Against real competition, Newton averaged 12/4.5/3.5/2.8 turnovers on 44% (Oregon/Alabama/Iowa St/OSU)
Against real competition, Silas is averaging 11/4/3.5/2 turnovers on 50% (BYU/Arizona/Illinois/Kansas)

We need to stop comparing 9-games-in Silas to 2-seasons-in Newton
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Thank you! As I was reading gtcam's post I was...
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Mr. French said:
My guy, not to be a total jerk but you’re snarky about people not knowing stuff and you spell Reed wrong and you make 2 bad points about Mullins.
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Which brings me to post about Reed's name. In the last week I've seen his name spelled Read and Reid a lot. His name is Reed. Like the stuff you make baskets out of. Seems really strange to me how many times we've seen him play with "Reed" on the back of his jersey and then spell his name wrong. He's become the new Tristen/Tristan. Mullins/Mullins is up there too.
 
DRBackup said:
Nope. Silas was a solid get for UConn, but not top ten overall. Probably in that next ten.
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I'm being slightly hyperbolic saying THE best, but espn and 247 sports had him as the 9th ranked guard transfer right behind Gilesspe. So Definitely firmly in the elite tier whereas TNew was right around 25-30.
 
SwingDog said:
A gritty, slugfest. Not pretty, but these are the games you have to be able to win. We were overmatched inside, and once again lost the battle of the boards, but what's encouraging is the team had great resolve and was determined to get the win. I love how unselfish this team is and how everyone stepped up in moments when they needed to. Defense was tenacious. With Hurley's culture, every minute a player plays counts- and I love that.

A side note- I find Todd Golden really grating and annoying. I thought he should have been whistled for a T after his tirade when Solo was clearly fouled by being grabbled around the waist. On the other hand, we have to be impressed at how Hurley has really practiced restraint for the most part thus far.
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In chat. I questioned where the T was on Golden. I guess the refs weren't calling a T at that late stage.
 
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