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Furman Postgame Thread

TheShot1990 said:
The best play by Furman was when Solo waved his hand 5” from House and they called a three-point shooting foul. That was the worst phantom foul call I’ve seen all year.
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The refs will not grade out well for that game. Didn't hurt UConn, so I don't care but they messed up a decent number of calls.
 
Granted it was against Furman but honestly kinda encouraging that they were able to put up 40 & 42 each half missing the starting PG and with Solo and Braylon missing about a dozen wide open 3s combined. This discouraging part is I have no hope that Solo and Braylon are actually going to start making wide open 3s. Braylon has to keep shooting the wide open ones but he's also needs to force the issue and put the ball on the deck and get into his midrange pull ups and floaters, he's damn near automatic from there but the volume is so low.
 
Kemba15 said:
Thank god for Reed. That was not very fun. Need Silas Sunday.

At least certain posters can’t yap about how we are guaranteed to lose to a 15 😂
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The Big Bad Wolf aka Duke will be waiting for us soon. Need to play way better to stand a chance.
 
TheShot1990 said:
I screamed too.

How many of us screamed after that play?
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We’re going to remember that Reed performance for years to come. What a game!

Even before the Demary injury news, I was nervous about just getting the first win. I don’t expect an easy win over UCLA but I feel pretty good against a team that has little time to prep for us. Ball and Mullins will step up and make some shots, and a healthy Demary changes everything.
 
Gotta figure Dema
WestCoastHusky said:
I am hoping tonight was a hung over from the St John game. Never seen UConn team playing this poor defensively. It could be due to Silas being out. Mullins and Solo are defensive liabilities when they are making points. Mullins had a couple of key steals and made up for the poor shooting all night from the 3.

We need more from those 2 on Sunday. Thank God for Reed who was man among men. Karaban had a solid game but Reed was the man tonight.
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Horrible D until the last 5 minutes or so. Great down the stretch. The have the ability, gotta be consistent for the full 40 minutes. I think Ball can and will shoot his way out of his slump, but not Mullins. He has the yips from 3, but his mid range game is superb, especially the runners and floaters he is making…..which are more difficult than the 3’s he’s bricking.
So getting into a mid range rhythm early can maybe get him going, but can’t just keep jacking 3’s if it doesn’t.
 
BlueWolf25 said:
We’re going to remember that Reed performance for years to come. What a game!

Even before the Demary injury news, I was nervous about just getting the first win. I don’t expect an easy win over UCLA but I feel pretty good against a team that has little time to prep for us. Ball and Mullins will step up and make some shots, and a healthy Demary changes everything.
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I have a feeling that we'll start to gel against better teams.
 
Good point on Braylon brought up on field of 68 tonight. They were doubling off of him all night to guard Tarris and were basically daring him to shoot…which probably got in his head. His whole career up until now has been teams trying their hardest to not let him shoot. Not making excuses but it is a good point.
 
It’s a W. Without Tarris being a superhuman tonight and AK chipping in, it would have been a disaster. We need guys stepping up everywhere, playing with focused intensity and fearlessly. They can do it but need to start playing for each other instead of playing not to lose.
 
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HooperScooper said:
That was the dumbest play of the game. Coming out of a timeout up 7. Shot clock turned off. Braylon couldn't hit the broad side of a barn all first half. Reed couldn't be stopped. So what do they draw up? A Mullins three with 10 seconds left that leaves enough time for Furman to hit a three on the other end? I screamed so loud for 30 seconds I think I woke up the entire neighborhood. Just so stupid!

Someone needs to ask Hurley what the plan was there. Because it couldn't have been that.
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Furman came out in a 1-3-1, so whatever we had drawn up wasn’t going to work. But a well drilled team knows what to do in that situation. It’s not the first time a team has shown zone for that reason - and I bet if someone did that to the 2024 team, we’d have yelled out “Fire” or whatever the secret code word was and ended up with Newton lobbing it to Castle for a dunk or finding AK in the corner.

The look Mullins got would have been ideal 5 seconds later but he couldn’t resist putting on his Chucky costume.
 
Well, that went late.

Reed showing out, even though they stopped going to him for like a good 10mins. Glad AK was able to sniper some 3s because, wow, our shooting has sucked of late. Mullins doing Mullins things. He's like my dog I love him, he's a good boy, but also wtf?

Needless to say, I really hope Demary is available on Sunday and going forward, our backups did what they needed to do but I think if Demary was out there it wouldn't have been so rough.

LET'S GO!
 
At times I was wondering what’s coming first; a stroke or running to vomit.

1.). It’s obvi that Silas is a must. Could still survive Sunday w/o him - but a must play anything after that. Smith needs to be better.

2.) Mullins was sleeping on D so many times. His shot is such a struggle this month. He has to wake up … fast. No way is he NBA ready. Sucks that “experts” are going to put him near lottery pick. He’s 2nd round pick at this point in time.

3.). So surprised with Reibe regression. He handled Zona well and just seemed so lost for the last month.

4.) Need another 30% efficiency improvement from Ball.
 
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aceboon said:
Granted it was against Furman but honestly kinda encouraging that they were able to put up 40 & 42 each half missing the starting PG and with Solo and Braylon missing about a dozen wide open 3s combined. This discouraging part is I have no hope that Solo and Braylon are actually going to start making wide open 3s. Braylon has to keep shooting the wide open ones but he's also needs to force the issue and put the ball on the deck and get into his midrange pull ups and floaters, he's damn near automatic from there but the volume is so low.
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This is my overarching feeling.

The offense ran exactly like it was supposed to. They created a ton of wide open looks, they just didn’t go down.

If we shoot our normal percentage we put up 95 points, win by 25+ and no one is batting an eye.

The shots will fall. The fact Tarris didn’t get his first foul till the last minute of the game and our guards are moving without impediments off ball is really all we need.

And no Silas. I’m really not worried about Sunday.
 
Is it weird i feel more confident vs UCLA then i did Forman?

I just can't imagine Mullins and Ball continue to both struggle.
 
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WillMadsDad said:
At times I was wondering what’s coming first; a stroke or running to vomit.

1.). It’s obvi that Silas is a must. Could still survive Sunday w/o him - but a must play anything after that. Smith needs to be better.

2.) Mullins was sleeping on D so many times. His shot is such a struggle this month. He has to wake up … fast. No way is he NBA ready. Sucks that “experts” are going to put him near lottery pick. He’s 2nd round pick at this point in time.

3.). So surprised with Reibe regression. He handled Zona well and just seemed so lost for the last month.

4.) Need another 30% efficiency improvement from Ball.
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Zona, Illinois and Kansas, three teams with big and/or physical frontcourts. Now it seems like he crumbles vs any physicality and his body language has looked bad for awhile
 
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