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Gonzaga Post Game Thread

nelsonmuntz said:
Remember when Providence fans thought their team was better than UConn this season? I do.
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Ya gotta admit, back in January we were in a serious funk. Close road losses to the Big East heavyweights, horrible losses to St John’s & Seton Hall. Fortunately we got our groove back and looked like the Nov-Dec Huskies again.

The March Huskies are looking pretty darn awesome. Peaking at just the right time.
 
kobebeanbryant said:
Yes Texas scares me. They have the talent level to match us. Nobody else really does.

And they would be playing essentially a home game. We saw how that went against MSU years ago.
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Did MSU win the title that year? That was also a home game for them, but they got crushed by UNC.

I am not at all afraid of Texas. Bring them on.
 
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gsmooth said:
Yeah UConn isn’t 32 points better than Gonzaga. No team is as bad as they are when they get blown out and no team is as good as they are when they blow out others.

having said all of that UConn deserves to relish in the glory. The players have put in so much hard work and fought through adversity.
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Oh well it’s none of our business what went on with Gonzaga, can only control what we do. We shouldn’t have any guilt for winning by as much as we did.
 
BugsyCT said:
Ya gotta admit, back in January we were in a serious funk. Close road losses to the Big East heavyweights, horrible losses to St John’s & Seton Hall. Fortunately we got our groove back and looked like the Nov-Dec Huskies again.

The March Huskies are looking pretty darn awesome. Peaking at just the right time.
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UConn was in the tough part of its schedule, and it lost a couple of stinkers to Seton Hall and St. Johns.

Providence, on the other hand, got completely exposed. There were multiple threads on this board where many posters pointed out the officiating issues at the Dunk as being the reason for Providence's "success". Put them on the road, and they suck. Now Providence went home early, Cooley is $2MM/year richer at a better program, and PC is on the fast track to irrelevancy where they belong.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
UConn was in the tough part of its schedule, and it lost a couple of stinkers to Seton Hall and St. Johns.

Providence, on the other hand, got completely exposed. There were multiple threads on this board where many posters pointed out the officiating issues at the Dunk as being the reason for Providence's "success". Put them on the road, and they suck. Now Providence went home early, Cooley is $2MM/year richer at a better program, and PC is on the fast track to irrelevancy where they belong.
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LOL, I like Providence as much as I like BC which is as much as getting a poke in the eye.
 
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Jimdish255 said:
I deserve to get it shoved in my face for doubting AJ when things were going bad. Guy really showed what he's made of. He's a baller.
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Andre told my 9 yo that all he's ever wanted to do is play basketball and that he knew he had to keep working harder so he could earn a living playing ball. That was perfect because I've never seen anyone work harder on the court. He then signed a ball for him, and gave him a huge bro hug. Unforgettable.
 
Palatine said:
We basically ripped out Gonzaga's heart. The game had ten minutes to go and they had nothing in the tank. Just complete annihnilation.
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Yes you could tell that by the 12 minute mark or so when I suspect reality was sinking in they started going through the motions. IMO….
 
Let’s go back to the end of the first have before we closed with Karaban’s 3. This was a tight game and we were shooting badly at 31% from 3 and about 40% overall. Sanogo had missed a ton of chippies from 2 feet. Had anything clicked we would have been up 15 in the first half but we were pleased and said we would shoot better. We did. Our defense spurred that barrage of 3’s and then game over.
 
EnochRoot said:
I think it was a nothing burger, cuz Timme wasn't really a factor at all. In fact, had he not been called for that foul, he'd have done something stupid a few minutes later to earn a 4th foul.
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Timme played over 30 minutes, it wasn't like he wasn't on the floor. Look what happened to Edwards sitting on the bench for all of the NCAA games. That was a real factor. Timme didn't match up well with our bigs. Case closed!
 
I have visions of Andre Jackson hoisting the championship trophy in a little over a week saying “this is what happens when you underseed us!”
 
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dennismenace said:
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Such an awesome f#$%ing miniseries (I own it on blue ray and watch at least once a year).

I am am cautiously optimistic about a few things but location of the finals is not a concern.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
UConn was in the tough part of its schedule, and it lost a couple of stinkers to Seton Hall and St. Johns.

Providence, on the other hand, got completely exposed. There were multiple threads on this board where many posters pointed out the officiating issues at the Dunk as being the reason for Providence's "success". Put them on the road, and they suck. Now Providence went home early, Cooley is $2MM/year richer at a better program, and PC is on the fast track to irrelevancy where they belong.
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UConn lost lots of BE games. Any truth to referees incompetent or bias behavior? UConn seems to perform well outside the BE.
 
freshler40 said:
Timme played over 30 minutes, it wasn't like he wasn't on the floor. Look what happened to Edwards sitting on the bench for all of the NCAA games. That was a real factor. Timme didn't match up well with our bigs. Case closed!
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This!!!!
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
UConn was in the tough part of its schedule, and it lost a couple of stinkers to Seton Hall and St. Johns.

Providence, on the other hand, got completely exposed. There were multiple threads on this board where many posters pointed out the officiating issues at the Dunk as being the reason for Providence's "success". Put them on the road, and they suck. Now Providence went home early, Cooley is $2MM/year richer at a better program, and PC is on the fast track to irrelevancy where they belong.
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When were they relevant? I must have missed that
 
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warbler13 said:
UConn lost lots of BE games. Any truth to referees incompetent or bias behavior? UConn seems to perform well outside the BE.
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Hurley went out of his way in the press conference to mention the Big East Refs and for good reason. There isn’t a single BE ref still officiating to my knowledge, but we’re still playing. I’ve heard that there are at least 2 or 3 BE officials that will not have contracts with our league next year. I agree with @Chief00 on this point that Val needs to address this. If UConn is going to carry the banner for this league in March/April and have Hurley up there telling everyone the BE is the best conference then you damn well better start taking the officiating in our league seriously. I’m not saying we deserve to get a favorable whistle, but we deserve evenly called games. We lost at least 3 league games solely due to biased officiating AND had to completely change our defensive pressure to avoid having our whole team foul out. That in a nutshell is what caused our slump.

Like I said in a previous thread our AD is addressing this officiating issue with the league office and they have plenty of stats to back up their case. If the Big East thinks they’re keeping UConn in the league they’ll make the necessary changes
 
The scary thing is that these guys seem to be just scratching the surface of their talents by their unity (unselfishness) and hard work. They are like interchangeable parts on a monster machine that just smashes down other teams. Jackson is truly unique and rare individual. He has these bursts of speed and leaping that almost makes it look like he is an eagle flying around doing things no one else can.
It's really very difficult to put into words. I just love to watch the substitutions to see which warriors are coming in next along with the look of desperation by the opponent as the games go on and the damage mounts.
 
80shusky said:
UConn is playing out of their minds now. The defensive effort to hold Gonzaga to 54 points is amazing. It doesn't even seem to be just straight up defense. It seems like when the UConn goes on those big runs and keeps the other team from scoring for long stretches they get their opponent so out of sync and screwed up they can't do anything right. Approaching the half when the game was still tight I told my wife they were going to blow the game open any minute because they were getting great looks the whole way but the shots weren't falling yet. Then the shots started falling.
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This
Our D was good, now it's downright great. Dre and AK are playing better at containment and there's help in the middle when they get beat.
A 5 point lead feels like a 10 point lead, and a 10 point lead is curtains. And now that Hawk and the outside game is clicking we're unstoppable. #OneForTheThumb
 
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