Guard Shooting

[CardiacAndre7]

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.

 

[Scoe]

Adams untimely foul and missing his fts.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

CV tries his damnedest but can’t a call at the rim

 

[ucawn]

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

 

[Hi-Low]

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.

 

[DaveHuskiesFan]

Are you not counting Rose as a guard? Cause he is.

 

[Mike1984]

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

 

[CTBasketball]

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.

 

[Jay-Bone]

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.

 

[uconntoatl]

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

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Gilbert with a bad alley on a 3-1 break in OT. How can your upperclassmen PG do that crap over and over?

 

[CardiacAndre7]

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.

 

[Jay-Bone]

Gilbert with a bad alley on a 3-1 break in OT. How can your upperclassmen PG do that crap over and over?

He's a confidence broken player. Didn't we hit the ft's anyway though?

 

[Mister P]

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.

 

[Mike1984]

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?

 

[NEforceUConn]

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

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

He's a broken player. Didn't we hit the ft's anyway though?

Jump ball that I think eventually led to FTs

 

[WrenchFan69]

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

I'll let him know

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Are you kidding he had an easy lay up?

Well I assume that Gaff didn’t expect an alley-oop pass

 

[auror]

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.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

He's a confidence broken player. Didn't we hit the ft's anyway though?

I think that was Whaley’s 4th foul trying to get the rebound. Making it worse.

 

[Kitaman]

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.

 

[Mike1984]

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.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

I think that was Whaley’s 4th foul trying to get the rebound. Making it worse.

It was UConn ball baseline out of bounds. Bouknight scored on the inbounds play.

 

[Tuna]

Gilbert with a bad alley on a 3-1 break in OT. How can your upperclassmen PG do that crap over and over?

He got the steal that led the break and then bouk converted a 3 point play out of the inbounds from the botched alley oop.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

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.

I understand this “Proud of this team” stuff, and I am proud of what they have overcome, but we beat a significantly better team on Sunday with the same personnel. Being 1-4 in OT games isn’t an accident. It’s the usual suspects who make the same mistakes, we’ve gotten better in some aspects but i’d argue we’ve gotten worse in overall defense. Too many easy buckets, too many open threes, and losing 50/50 balls to the point where its almost 80/20 against us. End of game execution has to improve for next season. Temple ended OT on a 13-5 run because they didn’t make mistakes and we did.

 

[Huskyforlife]

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.

I love Gaffneys decision making most of the time, but sometimes he kills us with how much he wants to defer. The offense is way better with him out there, but he's gotta take more shots than Gilbert and Adams. That backcourt violation being the perfect example, if he had committed to the drive there was a solid chance he makes the layup.

He's gonna be really good for us in due time.

 

[selles]

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.

He passed up a couple shots he should have taken but Gaffney was very good tonight. 12 points and 9 assists (and it seemed like more). I thought it was his best game.

 

[superjohn]

Will be sad to see Vital go but our backcourt is going to be so much better next season. Gaff is already clearly our best passer and field general, money from the line. Once he tightens things up in the offseason we'll see a lot more of the athleticism and playmaking/scoring will blossom. Bouk we all know is just scratching the surface and the reports are great on how Cole is practicing. Adams will make another jump and should be pretty damn good as a 4th guard.

 

[Mike1984]

He passed up a couple shots he should have taken but Gaffney was very good tonight. 12 points and 9 assists (and it seemed like more). I thought it was his best game.

Not saying he didn’t play well tonight but at times his play hurt us. Everyone would be all over AG if he did the same things. I much rather have Gaffney shoot and miss than commit turnovers by trying to pass because he is timid.