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mauconnfan said:
Its all about the guards, no more AG going to deep and getting his shot blocked 3-4 times a game. ey played and still had a shot with 14 seconds left.
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Well, you're gonna have to get used to that one. Happened with almost all our quick guards early in their careers. Most notably Kemba.
 
intlzncster said:
Well, you're gonna have to get used to that one. Happened with almost all our quick guards early in their careers. Most notably Kemba.
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I agree no doubt and think AG will learn no doubt. Then what's up with JA and CV (he's been good until today)? Need them to change their ways and habits, JA is too nonchalant still for my taste and he's way too talented to not get it.
 
intlzncster said:
Good post. I don't agree with the NCAA projection, but this was a good take nonetheless.
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We could be a really low seed... if we learn a lot from these games we could go into the AAC and play well. I’m not ruling it out yet.
 
mauconnfan said:
I agree no doubt and think AG will learn no doubt. Then what's up with JA and CV (he's been good until today)? Need them to change their ways and habits, JA is too nonchalant still for my taste and he's way too talented to not get it.
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They are too quick to celebrate when things are going well but neither seem to really have the toughness to take over a game completely.
 
freescooter said:
Need a shooter with ice in his veins. I counted 5 Timeswhen we came down with a chance to take the lead or tie with a trey an misses all 5. Wi Jalen doesn’t have it. Polley isn’t close.
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And wide open shots too. Not even a hand in the face. We should knock down those shots.
 
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Frustrating game for sure in the sense that we didn't play too well but the game was still right there in front of us for the taking. Being in the student section was pure awesomeness and I don't know if I've ever personally heard XL that loud. This game is just one step in the process and there's no doubt in my mind this program is going to get back to where it belongs.
 
intlzncster said:
Well, you're gonna have to get used to that one. Happened with almost all our quick guards early in their careers. Most notably Kemba.
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He needs to use his tear drop. Its a good one. Great point. People forget how frustrating it was to watch young Kemba. I think this is the one area where the rust is most evident.
 
Ricker said:
For me it was the turnovers, a few shots that were so bad that they were turnovers, and Gilbert taking the ball into players that are too tall. We are competitive. With all the bad, it still came down to Smith's foul on a 30ft desperation shot, and 2 missed foul shots by Gilbert & Adams. Sid with a 2, a 3, and taking a charge in the first half on a big stage was very encouraging. Playing Yakwe makes no sense to me, defensive lapse, turnover, I have yet to see a flash of anything that should keep other players on the bench. Giving away a basket or 2 in the middle of the game still hurts the team. I'll take my chances with other guys until they have 4 fouls each.
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All true. This was a disappointment in that we didn't play smart, but there's enough talent to win some of these games right now. Our guards need to figure out that when they drive they need to have their heads up right up to the point of releasing the shot. Kick it out? Lay it off to a big? Pull up with a floater? Finish the drive? All are options, except 90% of the time they choose #4. Yakwe should be a foul trouble fill in, unless the opponent is playing a post-up 4 man. And then maybe, it should be Whaley, who is longer.
 
superjohn said:
Don't know what expectations you're referring to but we should absolutely expect to beat that Zona team in our building.
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Reminder: UConn was 14-18 last year and brought in one recruit of note.

I'm as excited as everyone else for the turnaround but let's have a LITTLE perspective. Even for the boneyard.
 
zls44 said:
Reminder: UConn was 14-18 last year and brought in one recruit of note.

I'm as excited as everyone else for the turnaround but let's have a LITTLE perspective. Even for the boneyard.
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What is lacking in perspective? You expected us to lose to that team at home?
 
superjohn said:
Jalen is a senior and the team leader, most of our fans consider him a star player. He's obviously held to a different standard than the rest of the players.
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Exactly, he put up some numbers but he was on 18 for a long time. I don't blame him in the least for the loss but he had a chance to win the game and put himself in UConn lore and it didn't happen. Too bad.
 
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superjohn said:
What is lacking in perspective? You expected us to lose to that team at home?
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Absolutely.

Last year, they get blown out.

Yeah, JA is our star, so he gets a lot of the focus (only when things go bad though..) but a little perspective here. The last three years he has had to do absolutely everything for this team. He’s spend summers recovering physically, and was never coached out of his bad habits.

It’s obvious he’s coachable, so hopefully we see some major growth this year.
 
Main takeaways-

1. Say what you want about the FBI investigation, but Sean Miller is a great coach. He got a down-year Zona team to win a tough game on the other side of the country in a tough environment. More notably, he called a few excellent timeouts when we were on mini runs. He circled our bigs and killed us on high pick and rolls. The pressure on the guards was really good and his team is ice at the line.

2. This was the first time my dad and I made it to Hartford for a game since a loss to Pitt in 2010. The crowd was awesome and really felt like the OBE. Too bad we only get one of those types of games this season against a big basketball brand at home.

3. The loss was disappointing, but we had chances to win. This team will get better throughout the season, and it feels so good to have a competitive basketball program again.
 
Need to add one thing here before bed. Do we really need that DJ yelling to wave towels? Makes me cringe and brings back bad memories of DJ Joey who was an embarrassment. At one point the guy was about to say something into his microphone until big red UConn chant overpowered it. The on court guy was good and funny, but let’s please stop with the DJ’s getting on the mic please.
 
Disappointing result, but I actually came away quite optimistic about our future. Gilbert had a rough afternoon, but at this point in his career, I'm not surprised. He'll grow from this no doubt. He seems like the type of kid who will use that game as motivation going forward. That was the type of game where we could have used a gritty, smart, intense senior. A Jevon Carter type dude.
 
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blackbird said:
Absolutely.

Last year, they get blown out.

Yeah, JA is our star, so he gets a lot of the focus (only when things go bad though..) but a little perspective here. The last three years he has had to do absolutely everything for this team. He’s spend summers recovering physically, and was never coached out of his bad habits.

It’s obvious he’s coachable, so hopefully we see some major growth this year.
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What makes you think he’s coachable? Bad habits are his no one else’s fault on his habits time for him to make less mistakes if he wants to be as good as he thinks he is. The only ones to blame for 12 TOs for he and CV are them.
 
Excalibur said:
It was a toss-up game. We missed opportunities. If you think we had "no business" losing that game you're delusional. Full stop.
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As evidenced by the spread hovering between Arizona -1 and UConn -1.5. Essentially a toss-up.
 
Four weeks ago - anyone who looked at our schedule and saw that game and thought this was a 'toss up' is a total LIAR.

I'm happy we didn't lose by 15-20 based off of what i've seen out of this team the last few years and having been launched out of a cannon last year by the same team. They're literally a tough match-up across the board for us. I was a little more optimistic heading into this week - but c'mon guys.

It's OK to be disappointed that we didn't win given how things shook out on the court today, but I can't even fathom a world where this is a let down like we lost to a team that was inferior to us. That's straight out silly.
 
we should not have lost that game, however it seems as though Hurley is trying to figure out his rotation people played minutes who should not have and some of the lines up didn't make sense. Yakwe and Sid should really never play together ever.
 
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Towney007 said:
Four weeks ago - anyone who looked at our schedule and saw that game and thought this was a 'toss up' is a total LIAR.

I'm happy we didn't lose by 15-20 based off of what i've seen out of this team the last few years and having been launched out of a cannon last year by the same team. They're literally a tough match-up across the board for us. I was a little more optimistic heading into this week - but c'mon guys.

It's OK to be disappointed that we didn't win given how things shook out on the court today, but I can't even fathom a world where this is a let down like we lost to a team that was inferior to us. That's straight out silly.
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Sure but people need to stop comparing us to last year, we absolutely blew last year and we don't anymore. They should have an advantage down low and we should have an advantage at guard. The game was at home between two equal teams, we don't constantly shoot ourselves in the foot and it's a W.

Anyone with a pulse blew us out last year so we can stop comparing us to them. We know how much better we are now.
 
I know the improvements are easily recognizeable. And i'm buying on this team now. Especially after today.

But we've played 3 P5 schools and we're 1-2 and we've beaten up on a lot of bunnies. We're better, but how much better is a big question mark because there's literally no way a program our size could possibly be any worse than it was last year. And I'm sorry but anyone thinking we're that much better than Arizona that we should be angry about this loss because we beat up UMass-Lowell is... sorry. Not buying it.

We hung with a very good team today and lost. Largely because they're just better. And why they're better was on display in a lot of places - as they pretty much took all our weaknesses out and showed them to us over and over again.

I can get being diappointed by not winning because we didn't do things in the game we should have been able to do and execute. I don't get how someone can look at this whole thing as if we lost to lowely Arizona or something. When I looked at the schedule - this and Nova were the two that jumped right off the page at me as tough games.
 
zls44 said:
The AAC stinks, but its still a 3-4 bid league. No reason UConn shouldn't be able to be one of the 3 or 4.
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AAC is lacking elite teams this year. It's proving to actually be somewhat deep so far this year, though. 7 teams in the top 90 in KenPom, which is only the 2nd time that's happened (2016 the other). Only 5 in top 100 of NET though. We'll likely have 3-4 teams in the bubble hunt, but I don't think we get 4 unless a few teams separate themselves. Most likely is 2.
 
Towney007 said:
I know the improvements are easily recognizeable. And i'm buying on this team now. Especially after today.

But we've played 3 P5 schools and we're 1-2 and we've beaten up on a lot of bunnies. We're better, but how much better is a big question mark because there's literally no way a program our size could possibly be any worse than it was last year. And I'm sorry but anyone thinking we're that much better than Arizona that we should be angry about this loss because we beat up UMass-Lowell is... sorry. Not buying it.

We hung with a very good team today and lost. Largely because they're just better. And why they're better was on display in a lot of places - as they pretty much took all our weaknesses out and showed them to us over and over again.

I can get being diappointed by not winning because we didn't do things in the game we should have been able to do and execute. I don't get how someone can look at this whole thing as if we lost to lowely Arizona or something. When I looked at the schedule - this and Nova were the two that jumped right off the page at me as tough games.
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That's just bull IMO, we lost because we didn't play well. It took a lot of things going really wrong for us to lose and all those things happened. This is not a very good Arizona team, they aren't more talented than us, and the game was at home. We should have won.

The loss isn't the end of the world but I strongly disagree with the picture you are painting. This was also the most winnable game out of the FSU, Nova, Zona games IMO. We can still win 1 of those but this was the easier of the three.
 
superjohn said:
That's just bull IMO, we lost because we didn't play well. It took a lot of things going really wrong for us to lose and all those things happened. This is not a very good Arizona team, they aren't more talented than us, and the game was at home. We should have won.

The loss isn't the end of the world but I strongly disagree with the picture you are painting. This was also the most winnable game out of the FSU, Nova, Zona games IMO. We can still win 1 of those but this was the easier of the three.
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Well, we'll just agree to disagee. I think they're better and I think that played out a lot today. We did plenty to shoot out own foot off. The way it was played we had our chances to win the game, too. But they forced Gilbert and Adams into those situations. They slagged our bigs all night. They made guys like Vital do what they don't do well.

I just wasn't looking at this as a must-win is all. I would be happy with our proving that we belonged and we really did that today, so i'm still pretty sunny side up at this point - even moreso than before the game. That's all.
 
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