Give Nova's Strategy Some Credit

[Chief00]

Sometimes Jay Wright's negative recruiting against UConn doesn't make me a big fan of his. As UConn fans we look at what our team did wrong. But when you shut down both Bazz and Boat, regardless of how late they were out the night with the Chicago crew in town or whatever, you have to give the opponent's strategy and players credit. Both of our guards on top of shooting poorly had 5 turnovers - they looked confused and tentative. Wright's strategy mentioned below in the Hartford Courant worked:

"Doing the job on them was the key," Wright said. "We played them as a team. Sometimes we trapped them. Sometimes we denied them. Sometimes we switched screens. We just had to focus on those two."

 

[mauconnfan]

Bazz never looked "confused" by anything they threw at them. Boat only looked confused at the situation when Bazz was out and i will give Jay his due there. He definitely ran people at Bazz and made him pick up his dribble and impact the offense negatively.....the only ting confusing about Bazz was 2 early fouls and then short rimming shots he has been making - happens.

As great a job Jay Wright did if the bigs and wings get some loose balls Huskies still win. Nova should get some credit but the guards had looks and missed them - both were bad on the same day and that will hurt any team. happens!

 

[Palatine]

Sometimes Jay Wright's negative recruiting against UConn doesn't make me a big fan of his. As UConn fans we look at what our team did wrong. But when you shut down both Bazz and Boat, regardless of how late they were out the night with the Chicago crew in town or whatever, you have to give the opponent's strategy and players credit. Both of our guards on top of shooting poorly had 5 turnovers - they looked confused and tentative. Wright's strategy mentioned below in the Hartford Courant worked:

Every single team we play has exactly the same strategy. Jay Wright didn't didn't make some profound coaching move.

Bazz's head was not in the game from the opening tip off. The reach in foul 13 seconds into the game wasn't strategy.

Boatright couldn't hit the rim even when he was wide open. He knew it and was down on himself most of the game.

We played awful, but Wright had little to do with it. Unless you give him credit for getting them to play hard and hit the glass. They looked prepared to do that.

I'm starting to believe that Connecticut has the laziest sportswriters in the country.

 

[8893]

Definitely not a unique strategy. It worked--barely--yesterday because it resulted in so many turnovers, and because we got slaughtered on the boards, especially the offensive boards. Oh, and our defense sucked in the second half, too.

Nova played harder and smarter than us in every aspect and our two most key players had their worst games of their seasons (careers?) at the same time. I'm still amazed it was as close as it was.

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

Competition has a huge mental component to it.

Coming in aggressive and confident will make a mediocre player look great. On the flip side, coming in passive and unfocused can make a good player look terrible.

The first sentence was Syracuse; the second was Villanova.

One of the primary jobs in coaching is to train your players to play aggressive and confident every time they step on the court. Myriad outside influences make this a difficult and non-linear process. I am certain this team is on the right path in that regard, but if you want perfection, better not be a fan of any sport humans play.

 

[willie99]

Every single team we play has exactly the same strategy. Jay Wright didn't didn't make some profound coaching move.

I'm starting to believe that Connecticut has the laziest sportswriters in the country.

I've believed for the last 30 years that most of the media simply has an agenda and they type the words to obtain their desired result

lazy? maybe

I think they're simply not qualified to talk about the things they think they're experts in. Most of them think they can tell Calhoun how to mold NBA players, teach Belichick about football, tell the president how to fix all our problems and even advise Bill Gates on how to make money. I generally regard the media as a bunch of buffoons, bar none

 

[ctchamps]

Competition has a huge mental component to it.

Coming in aggressive and confident will make a mediocre player look great. On the flip side, coming in passive and unfocused can make a good player look terrible.

The first sentence was Syracuse; the second was Villanova.

One of the primary jobs in coaching is to train your players to play aggressive and confident every time they step on the court. Myriad outside influences make this a difficult and non-linear process. I am certain this team is on the right path in that regard, but if you want perfection, better not be a fan of any sport humans play.

I would have liked this a hundred times if I could have and would have liked reading this before struggling to post the same thing in three other posts I've made relating to this same point of view. Nicely done!

 

[CL82]

Most of them think they can tell Calhoun how to mold NBA players, teach Belichick about football, tell the president how to fix all our problems and even advise Bill Gates on how to make money.

I know, I get troubled by their arrogance and presumption. I mean, after all, those things are our jobs. If they want to do they should join the Boneyard

 

[mauconnfan]

Bazz never looked "confused" by anything they threw at them. Boat only looked confused at the situation when Bazz was out and i will give Jay his due there. He definitely ran people at Bazz and made him pick up his dribble and impact the offense negatively.....the only ting confusing about Bazz was 2 early fouls and then short rimming shots he has been making - happens.

As great a job Jay Wright did if the bigs and wings get some loose balls Huskies still win. Nova should get some credit but the guards had looks and missed them - both were bad on the same day and that will hurt any team. happens!

Oops "he definitely had people run at BOAT..." not Bazz.......my bad and too late to edit in post.

 

[BoatShow]

As much as I dislike him. Wright is a really good coach who almost always has his kids prepared.

 

[mauconnfan]

As much as I dislike him. Wright is a really good coach who almost always has his kids prepared.

There's a difference in getting them to play real hard which he does and being a good coach..........sorry but UConn was dreadful got beat in every which way but loose, and Ryan A had "one of those games he has every 3 or 4" and we still had a chance to win.........not sure what he did as a coach in this one. And I need to see the bog wins in his resume......sorry overrated from here!!