G'town Hoya ThoughtZ™

[RichZ]

1. Stunning play -- AK to Samson Johnson for the dunk on Uconn's first possession.
2. Reed in very quickly.
3. How the hell did Stewart blow that dunk?
4. Johnson back in on Tarris' foul.
5. G'town mixing hard drives and 3 point attempts. Luckily, they are not making their 3s.
6. A bit worried about the poor job we're doing in controlling the ball on contested rebounds or loose balls.
7. We put together a solid run to turn a 6 point hole at 12:13 into a 4 point lead at 9:08, and stretched it to 8 at 6:19.
8. This game on the verge of getting ugly and the refs are actually making it worse.
9. AK playing much better than the other night.
10. Half time -- 4 point lead.
11. Both teams shooting 42.9% from 3, but we've taken twice as many as G-town and made twice as many as well.
12. We're shooting almost 52% overall, to G-town's 44%. G-town 6 of 8 from the FT line, while we are 1 of 2. Stewart, Mahaney, Reed and Diarra with 2 fouls each. only 4 first half fouls total called on G-town.
13. Karaban with a three from half way between the 3 pt line and the half court line pushes our early 2nd half lead to 14.
14. We have shown a tendency at times to come out sluggish in the 2nd half. Not today.
15. Ihe officals doing their best to keep G-town in the game.
16. 2 consecutive Diarra steals lead to dunks and the lead swells to 19.
17. Mahaney impressing me with his defense. Never thought I'd say that!
18. Getting very sloppy and physical at about the 7 or 8 minute mark.
19. Diarra trying to do too much himself while we're burning clock late. 3 late shot clock air balls in a row.
20. That foul on Karaban under a minute left was a hideous call. Meaningless, but hideous nonetheless.
21. Our center tandem had 11 points, 5 blocks, 10 boards, an assist, a steal and only 2 turnovers today. DH swapped them so many times today that Donny missed a lot of the switches.
22. 8 steals and 9 blocks. That's the kind of UConn defense we like to see.
23. Called for 21 fouls to G-town's 12. Our guys were getting hammered in the paint, especially during G-town's late push, but we rarely got a call. Worst example of homecourt reffing I've seen in a while.
24. Nowell played a lot of minutes today, and likely earned extended minutes going forward.
25. Alex recovers from his worst game of the season (maybe of his career) with a game that really defined his skill and versatility. In addition to his 19 points of 70% shooting (66+ on threes) he grabbed 6 boards, had 4 assists, a steal and a block.
26. For UConn, 14 dimes on 26 baskets is a low percentage.

 

[Boost'ED]

3. Seemed like Stewart felt he was fouled on the dunk attempt. That miss foreshadowed his poor shooting today.
17. The most interesting part was Mahaney getting into some trash talking with a G'Town player resulting in a double technical. I've been critical of him, but he's clearly getting more comfortable and playing better.

 

[HooperScooper]

3. Seemed like Stewart felt he was fouled on the dunk attempt. That miss foreshadowed his poor shooting today.
17. The most interesting part was Mahaney getting into some trash talking with a G'Town player resulting in a double technical. I've been critical of him, but he's clearly getting more comfortable and playing better.

That was one of the worst technical calls I've seen. Neither player did anything. I think the ref was imaging things.