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How about when he didn’t leave the floor in the shot came and then stepped forward shoulder first into the defender and got the xall
 
Lucelab113 said:
What's adding up is the fact Hurley can't keep his players healthy.

Remember Akok a week ago sparking the Xavier win? A week later and he can't give us a thing?

Remember the first 10 mins of this game when Bouk was the best player in the country? He gets hurt again and is giving us nothing.

Total joke. Nothing else matters if the players aren't durable.
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How does hurley keep a guy from getting bumped and falling? Not sure what any coach can do for bouk in that situation.
 
MervthePurvis said:
But the 50/50, nickel dimers, and non calls are stacking up. I think they call that home court advantage. Wish we could see that someday. Free throws sure. But the stripes are getting involved now. Can’t say that nova is playing harder.
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I normally don't join in on the "it's the ref's" thread but can't help this one. Was it 6-7 minutes into the second half and Nova had 6 fouls and the good guys 1. I couldn't believe it. They called 3 quick fouls on the good guys inside of a minute. And they were BS calls.
 
Hankster said:
I normally don't join in on the "it's the ref's" thread but can't help this one. Was it 6-7 minutes into the second half and Nova had 6 fouls and the good guys 1. I couldn't believe it. They called 3 quick fouls on the good guys inside of a minute. And they were BS calls.
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During that stretch there were 3 loose balls out of bounds that I think all went the wrong way. I don’t think Whaley tipped the first ball out. Gilespie definitely tipped the ball after rj picked it on the sideline. And Jackson has a nova player come through him on the third. That plus the double possession and I’m convinced there was 4 possessions that should have changed hands.

Wouldn’t have changed the outcome in my opinion. Gillespie would have hit two more daggers. He wasn’t letting nova lose today.
 
August_West said:
This game was tailor made for Akok at the 5 . He got a minute in first half tgat was it
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Akok is coming back from a career threatening injury. I’ve heard medical people say playing him that long against Xavier was coaching malpractice. If he becomes a big time player it will be in 2021-22.
 
RJ Cole went 2-10 from the field. He couldn’t handle Gillespie man to man. This was the guy who had 25 vs Xavier. Guess Hurley told him to miss those shots.

The offense though has turned back into give the ball to Bouknight and stand around while he plays hero ball. It worked in the first half but as he got beat up, and Villanova adjusted not so much.
 
XLCenterFan said:
@StllH8L8ner Whaley is an offensive liability. And the refs blew the whistle so late on like 4 suspect fouls.
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Yeah I don't disagree. It's just a little disappointing bc I've seen Whaley hit those little medium range jumpers but he just seems to have zero confidence in anything outside of the wide open dunk lately.
 
uconnfan68 said:
Did you forget how much better we looked when we played faster?
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Of course not, my point is until proven otherwise that game should be treated as an anomaly because we haven't played fast much of the year. Even with the games we played "fast" we're one of the slowest teams in the country

Edit: To expound on this, and my math may be off here, but I believe we averaged 64.2 possessions a game before Xavier/Providence. We had 70 and 73 possessions in those 2 (raising the average to 65.2), and then had 67 possessions today. Not sure if there's anywhere that tracks possessions to confirm, had to piece that together by searching KenPom in the wayback machine. So I wouldn't say we played particularly slow today
 
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So we took the lead at 40-39 near 15:00 left. There were 3-4 really bizarre calls that went to Nova in a 1 minute span. We never recovered.
 

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