Georgetown Post Game Thread

[FfldCntyFan]

This thread will be a litmus test to weed out the Samson despisers who can never give him props, he was great today and of note...

I'm not sure that I agree with the lower part of that graphic. From what I've seen, Syracuse doesn't have a best lineup.

 

[REB1094]

5D chess. Georgetown is 72 NET and a 20 point win would knock them below the Q1 threshold, but maybe an 8 point win keeps them top 75. Hurley clearly was just going for that

 

[huskyharry]

Don’t be misled by the last 10 minutes of the game. Hurley wanted the clock run down to nothing and cared only about leaving with a W. We didn’t run O with a purpose doing that. Combine that with refs making crazy calls and that’s what happened. But no danger in losing at any point second half once lead established.

There were several phantom fouls called on UConn in the last six minutes

 

[huskyharry]

I like Solo for a pull up 2 in that situation, even better than going to the rim, he a great shooter.

Solo is very pure…love the pull up shots. He should cut back on the drives to the hoop though…seems like he is shooting less than 10% on those lately

 

[aceboon]

did Donny say "bingo, bango, bongo"?

He was referencing one of his broadcast partner Tim Brando's signature sayings

 

[uconn_jack]

Kenpom up one spot, maybe 10 spots on D, down 2 on O. Need to sprinkle in a couple blowouts to be near that top 15 of Kenpom and also to pad the NET. That’s what 8 minutes of dribbling it out will do

That's exactly what I thought would happen after stopping our offense in the last 8 minutes.

 

[SportsFan88]

Very mature performance for the most part, strong win anytime you win on the road in conference, especially giving how we lost our last game

 

[uconn_jack]

Total and complete domination. This game was not competitive. It's a shame they let Georgetown let the final score look as if the Hoyas were in it, they weren't

But to those people who rely more on metrics than the eye test, the final score matters.

And unfortunately, that's the selection committee (at least after they have satisfied all of their pet objectives).

 

[Mike Honcho]

Solo is very pure…love the pull up shots. He should cut back on the drives to the hoop though…seems like he is shooting less than 10% on those lately

I disagree, I think he should keep driving to the rim. He's so much more dangerous if the defense has to respect the drive and the jumper. It's still early January in his sophomore season... Get those reps in.

 

[uconn_jack]

Solo is very pure…love the pull up shots. He should cut back on the drives to the hoop though…seems like he is shooting less than 10% on those lately

He's just not a very good finisher at the rim for some reason, surprising because he is long and strong. The only thing I can think of is he tries to avoid contact, not of the body as he's willing to mix that up, but he seems to try and avoid getting fouled on the arms and doesn't go stong AT the basket.

 

[AllHusky]

Opponents
Referees
selection committee

Every one of them has a bullseye on our back

 

[AllHusky]

He's just not a very good finisher at the rim for some reason, surprising because he is long and strong. The only thing I can think of is he tries to avoid contact, not of the body as he's willing to mix that up, but he seems to try and avoid getting fouled on the arms and doesn't go stong AT the basket.

Needs to hang with Castle

 

[uconn_jack]

He did at the end of the 2nd half but he is still our best PG going to the rim.

Nowell? What do you base that on?

 

[Palatine]

Just got back from Capital One Arena. Big crowd and very pumped. The G'town fans were a huge help to them at the beginning of the game. Good UConn crowd. Felt like 60-40. For the home team.

I don''t mind Hurley taking the air out of the ball.

I do mind getting sloppy and playing bad basketball. The offense stunk for the last eight minutes and got worse by the minute. And once again, we had trouble with getting the ball inbounds at the end of game. Run the offense get off a good shot. That's all.

We are showing the ability to completely outclass the opponent when we play well.

 

[DogMania]

Great spurt in the second half, but good grief, they should run their sets at the end. Pounding the ball on the hardwood and piling up shot clock violations leaves the team feeling yuck at the end instead of we just pounded you.

 

[ucp990411]

Until that hard fall in the lane, Ross showed why Hurley has been giving him minutes. Best game he’s had vs quality comp.

Only real bad thing he did was not doing a Sportscenter Top 10 dunk on that wide open lane to the basket play.

How about that 3 point miss with 15 seconds to go in the half? Lacking basketball IQ there. Even if it went in

 

[Waquoit]

Worrying about what happened in garbage time is wasted energy. 'Twas always so. It doesn't carry over. Bad, or good.

 

[F101Voodoo]

8 minute's of time to potentially work on and practice end of shot clock scenarios and they close out with that mess and people are like "we good". Can't just throw away real time scenario training like that. So yeah I'm pissed about the end. We ar are going to need that in more than a few games coming up.

Completely agree and I complained about that in the Chatting room.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Burn the last 8:22 of game tape.

Honestly I disagree strongly with the coaching strategy to take the air out of the ball the last 8min. Hurley has been whining all year that this team "doesn't have a killer instinct". So let them keep the darn foot on the gas the whole game then. Bury them by 40.

So they were up 23. 3's, turnovers and free throws and all of sudden it's 15 with 5:20 left. Karaban got the next hoop and that was huge. Another turnover and 3 and all of a sudden we have no momentum and GT thinks they have life down 10.

8+ minutes left is too soon to run clock. Hurley probably didn't tell them to take the shot clock down to desperation, but that's what happened. Up 23 at the under 4 timeout? Sure, play the clock. But you still want to get into offense with 10-12 seconds to go.

 

[JustbrewitMan]

Man if Hurley can find a way to have Jayden & Jaylin both play a good game together we might be able to realistically start thinking about 3Peat aspirations

 

[F101Voodoo]

Great win. This team has heart and a short memory. Nice rebound by AK. Still dont like the foul disparity. Teams are feasting on us at the line.

Yup, AK exorcized the evil ghosts from Wednesday last and I think 19 or 20 pts. The percentage of ade shots from 3 point rage was good …

 

[bendm]

Kenpom up one spot, maybe 10 spots on D, down 2 on O. Need to sprinkle in a couple blowouts to be near that top 15 of Kenpom and also to pad the NET. That’s what 8 minutes of dribbling it out will do

Dang really?? We ain’t cracking the top 100 for DRtg at this rate

 

[HuskyHawk]

Anytime you can win on the road in conference without (arguably) your best player, it’s a good win. All the sloppy crap, bad offense late, struggles with the press are all stuff Hurley will hammer on the film review. They will get better from this.

Nice to see Alex bounce back with a big game. Thought the defense was mostly good all around. High intensity game.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Good thing there’s a game clock, huh? It would be crazy if they just added a minute for the hell of it.

I get that people would rather see a 25 point win but this is what Hurley does. He literally said to Hass at one point “they’re never going to catch us.” I don’t get being all poopy pants about a dominating win for a team that needed one.

The spread of the win doesn't frost me. It's watching the team look inept at getting a decent shot while running out the clock with the lead. This is the opportunity that was missed. The chance to run some late game sets to get a shot late in the clock and see the ball go through the hoop. You've got to have some late game go-to plays when it's time to put it away.
Instead we got airballs and turnover city. Look like you should be winning the game, not like you're just trying to survive.

 

[UConn990411]

This thread will be a litmus test to weed out the Samson despisers who can never give him props, he was great today and of note...

I’ve been on the “Reed should start” train, but Samson’s been slowly getting better week after week. The box score doesn’t tell the story of how good he was today.