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ec33 said:
It is more about his role within a well-functioning offense. I think Malachi is more aggressive and creating on his own so there is less of an adjustment for him. But you want the change of style from Silas allowing the offense to run through the wings (especially once we get Ball and Mullins at the same time)
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Couldn't have said it better.
 
I also want to give props to Ball. He lead the team in scoring with 19 and hit 3 of his 8 shots. He also continues to drive o thee basket and score. He is still a WIP on D but he is great player for us.
 
TheChamps990411 said:
I remember clearly. You seem to forget its two different players. When TN was here we simply didnt have a better option so he was thrown to the wolves and had to take his lumps. Dan Hurley has the option of taking some of the pressure off and let him come off the bench and work things out and get himself back into the starting spot.
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They’re running through an OOC gauntlet while working out the kinks - they have played very few games with a full compliment and they have areas to improve all over the court. Winning a bunch of quality games while you’re doing that is pretty much a best case scenario for the long run. There is zero reason to bench Demery.

Great distinction on Newton by the way. This whole time I just thought he changed his name to Silas. No idea they were two different people.
 
I watched the game without sound. It looked like a great game between two good teams with a lot of back and forth runs, but I was perplexed by a lot of the foul calls and non calls. I don’t think it was biased in any way I just thought there were a lot of offensive fouls that didn’t need to be called, and a lot of hacks on drives that were not called. There were many times when play stopped and I am like what happened? it was a physical game with lots of contact, but anytime Mullins or Boogie Flam made contact it was a foul. Seemed like Reed and Condon also played under a stricter set of rules than everyone else. I will give it another watch with sound, but seemed like very inconsistent refs.
 
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TheChamps990411 said:
Floridas big weakness is their backcourt. Fland is not a good PG. Maybe its because hes a freshmen and needs time to grow and who knows he may grow into the position and be really good as the season wears on but if he doesnt step up theyre not going to be a serious threat to make the F4 nevermind repeat. Lee although he had a great night only averages 8 per game and thats simply not going to get it done at the 2. You need a guy that can get buckets consistently. Their frontline is absolutely awesome. Among the best in the country. If they had our backcourt itd be lights out. Repeat would be likely.
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Boogie is a Sophomore... He did his Frosh year w/The Squid last year in Arkansas.
 
KingAG said:
Might be tough getting teams to play us in MSG in the future. It’s literally a home game. What’s are MSG record the last 4 years?
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Huge payday for whatever program accepts the invitation and it's prestigious to come to NY and play there.

And UConn fans fill the seats, putting money in the owner's pockets. It's not going to stop any time soon.
 
TheChamps990411 said:
I remember clearly. You seem to forget its two different players. When TN was here we simply didnt have a better option so he was thrown to the wolves and had to take his lumps. Dan Hurley has the option of taking some of the pressure off and let him come off the bench and work things out and get himself back into the starting spot.
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Being benched 10 games into his first year isn't going to take the pressure off of him, you're just adding to it.
 
KingAG said:
Might be tough getting teams to play us in MSG in the future. It’s literally a home game. What’s are MSG record the last 4 years?
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Does that mean teams won’t sign up to play in the SentinelOne Showdown or Jimmy V Classic, which are usually played at MSG, if we are one of the participating teams?
 
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Silas is one of the last players I’m worried about.

At minimum he’s running the offense, giving us the size advantage we want, and defense.

We may not even need him at full capacity to win a championship with how deep we are. But wouldn’t be surprised if he could be an AA next year. Still think when it clicks he’ll be better than Newton.
 
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.
 
KingAG said:
Might be tough getting teams to play us in MSG in the future. It’s literally a home game. What’s are MSG record the last 4 years?
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Seems like we have a thing going with the neutral advantage tradeoff type of thing (e.g., UConn vs. Illinois in Chicago next year, and I think did this with Gonzaga at MSG and in Seattle in years prior).
 
RuffRuff said:
Got to give Florida credit, they played really, really hard. Golden gets those bigs active and tenacious. As poor as their backcourt has looked, that 3 man combo down low is elite and makes them a very good team.

Stew played his best minutes of the year in the first half, as was a great matchup for him defending Haugh. Not sure why his minutes got slashed in the second half.

Starting to become a little concerned with Silas. I know we always compare him to TNewt in figuring this out, but for the moment, he's look startingly bad. Poor decision making is the main concern. Malachi has fully outplayed him against good competition. Thank goodness for the depth on this team. It's 100% our strength.

I know it was his first game back, but after the first few minutes, Tarris played like he was drunk. I don't get it with him sometimes. His inability to maintain consistency & intensity is always puzzling. Especially when Florida has three bigs that can.

We should now get to that 5-1 mark we were aiming for, likely would have been 6-0 if at full strength. Now we can take that into the BE to figure out how the rotations should look with Mullins being more deeply integrated.
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I think for Tarris, it may be a conditioning issue. He has been out a while.
 
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upstater said:
Mullins seems to get the fouls they never call on other teams. Cheap stuff. For instance, Lee pushes Solo Ball in the back on a late shot that rolled out (floater). If that were Mullins, the foul gets called.
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Yeah. Noticed a lot of shirt tugging by Florida that didn’t get called.
Calls seemed to be more even later in game, which helped Uconn get to the line finally.
 
Something about MSG brings out the magic in Malachi Smith. That cross-court Euro poured the juice into UConn’s favor and he was so key tonight as a facilitator with Demary having an off night.

I freakin’ love the ceiling of this team with a healthy Reed and Mullins. Mullins is giving me Hawkins vibes a bit.
 
Karaban is having a hell of a season so far. Between the big drives, huge shots he’s been hitting in these games, as well as his overall defense- he’s been guarding quick guards off switches & doing an outstanding job & also taking on bigs much bigger & stronger than him & making it tough for them- another phenomenal performance by Alex!!!
 
upstater said:
Mullins seems to get the fouls they never call on other teams. Cheap stuff. For instance, Lee pushes Solo Ball in the back on a late shot that rolled out (floater). If that were Mullins, the foul gets called.
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Yeah I keep seeing people saying “5 dumb fouls” but I still have no idea what his 2nd and 3rd fouls were for, after rewinding several times. For being in the general vicinity of a Florida player? In a game this physical?

His 4th was entirely Reed’s fault and even so Mullins looked pretty straight up and down to me.

For the record, Fland seemed to get some ticky tack fouls too.
 
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uconnblueinky said:
*UConn losing by 1 point to a very good team with 10 minutes left

The Boneyard -" This team isn't great , our offense sucks , this isn't a championship team , we're soft " ..etc etc
Spoiled
This team is very , very good
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The very reason I no longer visit the chat room during games, negativity feeds negativity.
 
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ju6381 said:
For some reason Karaban alwasys throws the ball to the ref when we face pressure, it allows the defense to get touch tight and it is then much harder to get it in. Notice the easiest inbound was the one time he didn't do it and Ball was able to get open.
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They are coached to do that because it takes an extra few seconds off the clock before the 5 second inbound/shot clock start
 
navery12 said:
They are coached to do that because it takes an extra few seconds off the clock before the 5 second inbound/shot clock start
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End of game situations the clock stops on made baskets so it doesn’t impact that. I’m sure it’s intentional, I’m just not sure why. It did feel a few times like they could have gotten it in quicker before the press set and missed the chance.
 
WhereistheDove? said:
End of game situations the clock stops on made baskets so it doesn’t impact that. I’m sure it’s intentional, I’m just not sure why. It did feel a few times like they could have gotten it in quicker before the press set and missed the chance.
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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
 
Scottobot said:
It sounded like it was 80 percent UConn, but the camera made it look different, but zooming in on the Florida fans every time they made a play.
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Watching end of Clemson-BYU, you could definitely hear the UConn faithful.
 
Tarris grinded out a gritty performance. vs a tough/energetic/physical front court.. Even at 75% he's a load. Good to see him bangin' on the boards and D. Looks like he's trending towards 100% as we exit our OOC schedule.

Florida's front court is/was formidable-A great test for our Bigs. Elite Eight/FF level competition.
 
One thing seemingly lost in the discussion about Silas’ adjustment is the defensive end. I believe he came in with the reputation as a good, if not elite, defensive player. There have been multiple instances where he gets himself behind the play. Frequent foul trouble may be indicative of a player who is not yet processing the D as quickly as he should, and hopefully will. No doubt he has the game to adapt to the complexities at both ends. I can’t wait to see it!
 
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