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Temple’s guards shot 21-35
UConn’s shot 19-58

That is the reason we lose most close games. They’re guards go strong to the rim and either draw fouls or convert. There was a stat about 5 mins into the second half Temple was 0-1 because they had drawn fouls on shot attempts. CV and Brendan Adams are built like bulls but settle for threes far too often. AG just cannot finish at the rim if his life depended on it. Bouk and Gaff don’t like to take contact, hopefully they’ll learn as they progress.

Also, we are beat on the dribble drive far too often. Besides CV, who played tremendous D on Rose. Gaff, Bouk and Adams couldn’t stay in front of their men, especially Bouk. He was a revolving door on defense tonight.
 
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Terrible shooting. 1-7 on the road. SHOULD HAVE WON THIS GAME IN OT. Not gonna day too much more but we need to win out for NIT to be in the picture. We are a terrible road team, mostly due to our 6’11” starting center never showing up for the games
 
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That and we have NOBODY at the 4 or 5 spot besides Whaley. Sid is a 3 and JC is unplayable it appears. So we have 3 guards and Whaley that are usually good now & AG, BA, JC and Sid are usually no shows.

Even with our anemic roster we should have beat Temple though.
 
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How about Gaffney electing to pass most of the time instead of shooting the open shot. What was he thinking on that alley oop? What was he thinking when he was open in the lane and tried to throw it cv causing a backcourt! He needs to stop being timid and just shoot
 

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Bad sequence where we took some bad shots and made some bad turnovers. Then compounded it with a bad foul. We were gassed so mishaps were due to happen.
 
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That and we have NOBODY at the 4 or 5 spot besides Whaley. Sid is a 3 and JC is unplayable it appears. So we have 5 guards and Whaley.
Yeah, feels like we should've dominated the paint, but JC couldn't sty on the court and was too soft again. Whaley was amazing. Expected more from Sid in this.

Kudos to Gaff for 9 assists, but had some freshman-on-the-road-deer-in-headlights moments.
 
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How about Gaffney electing to pass most of the time instead of shooting the open shot. What was he thinking on that alley oop? What was he thinking when he was open in the lane and tried to throw it cv causing a backcourt! He needs to stop being timid and just shoot
That alley-oop was on Gilbert. It was 3 on 1, literally do anything other than throw an alley oop to a guard who plays below the rim and its 2 points.
 
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How about Gaffney electing to pass most of the time instead of shooting the open shot. What was he thinking on that alley oop? What was he thinking when he was open in the lane and tried to throw it cv causing a backcourt! He needs to stop being timid and just shoot
I thought it was a bad pass by Gilbert. He put it up there like he was lobbing it to Sid.
Gilbert should have hit the trailer ( I think IW ) for the slam. Wasted a 3 on 1 there.
 
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That alley-oop was on Gilbert. It was 3 on 1, literally do anything other than throw an alley oop to a guard who plays below the rim and its 2 points.
Are you kidding he had an easy lay up?
 
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I expect a verbal and written apology from Adams for his play tonight. 1-8, 4 points. Half his bricked 3s led to fast breaks and his foul and lack of situational awareness in overtime will haunt my dreams tonight

Way harsh. Kid knows how he played and certainly doesnt need you spouting sh!te
 
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Re; Gilbert alley-oop. It was a 3 on 1. Get ball to the middle. Why did he dribble it all the way down the side himself?

It's moot anyways because Bouk got an And-1 on that possession.
 
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Not sure if they beat us or we beat ourselves. Whaley left his player hedging and they make an easy layup. Shooting 3 point bombs late in the game and overtime with the scored tie or having the lead, when 2 points would have sufficed. Oh we weren't hot from 3 either.

Some very sloppy passes, Gaff's brain farts with leaving his feet or passing to ghosts. How many bunnies did we miss? Bouk made some poor decisions, so he's not immune.

Frustrating because Temple was giving us the win with all of their brain farts as well.

Too many miscues to name, but hell out team fought hard and I'm very proud of them.
 
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Re; Gilbert alley-oop. It was a 3 on 1. Get ball to the middle. Why did he dribble it all the way down the side himself?

It's moot anyways because Bouk got an And-1 on that possession.
This isn’t my point though. Far to often Gaffney defers from shooting when he is wide open. You can’t keep saying freshman mistakes. He’s logged enough minutes so far this season to know what he is doing.
 

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