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I don’t know what to make of this one

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Is our D that good or is DePaul just atrocious?

For awhile the announcers were saying how DePaul couldn’t handle our D, yet they were still winning. Eventually we took the lead, so we didn’t fall victim to the announcer hex.

Either way, heck of a road win. We gutted that out. We can win ugly too.
 
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Take the win and move on but its hard not to think that the free throws and missed point blank shots at the rim will cost them some wins, especially the free throws. Gotta have guards that you can trust to knock down 2 free throws with pressure on the line, Bouk might be the only one.
 
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We just had to gut it out. It was ab ugly game. Tonight it was TM's turn. He played like a man possessed. I just wish he would finish better around the rim. Our foul shooting was terrible. IW played steady. His energy showed up in the second half. The for a break and get Bouk back healthy.
 
Our D is very good, despite some clear lapses tonight. Our FT were terrible. DePaul plays over aggressive D, and the only way to make them pay is to attack it and draw fouls. For too long we were passive. Then drew fouls, mostly Martin and Adams, but missed the FT. Made this game harder than it should have been.

Still gives Hurley some good tape for future improvement and we toughed out the win anyway.
 
Depaul did a good job shutting down Polley. We missed so many bunnies. We missed so many foul shots. We made way too many stupid passes and turnovers. We are missing the future POY in college basketball.

Yet we win.....

As bad as it was watching, this was the kind of game to snap their egos back in place and motivate them that no win is given.
 
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Second road game in three days, missing the best player on the team, playing with the added pressure/distraction of our first ranking in four years, played poorly, missed roughly 50% of our free throws but still won.

Just put it in the W column, and move on. This game was tougher in ways not apparent because of the opponent and they found a way to get it done. This bodes well for the future even though it was ugly.
 
XLCenterFan said:
Is our D that good or is DePaul just atrocious?

For awhile the announcers were saying how DePaul couldn’t handle our D, yet they were still winning. Eventually we took the lead, so we didn’t fall victim to the announcer hex.

Either way, heck of a road win. We gutted that out. We can win ugly too.
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DePaul is a bad team. UConn played poorly last 15 min of first half and first 10 min of second half.
 
I think the week off is actually good for us.

I mentioned this in a PM to some guys. We just won 3 road Big East games in 6 days with essentially nothing from Bouknight. If you can't be happy with that, I don't know what to say.

DePaul may suck, but I wouldn't want to play them in another month after they get more games under their belt.
 
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XLCenterFan said:
Is our D that good or is DePaul just atrocious?

For awhile the announcers were saying how DePaul couldn’t handle our D, yet they were still winning. Eventually we took the lead, so we didn’t fall victim to the announcer hex.

Either way, heck of a road win. We gutted that out. We can win ugly too.
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To your question, both.

DePaul is terrible and UConn has one of the best defenses in the country.
 
I'm just going to chalk this one up to those stinkers that come along once in a while. But the positive is they still won. Sign of a good team. Well as long as that was an outlier ugly performance.

And DePaul does stink. Peeuw! I think they'll be lucky to win more than 2 games in the Big East.
 
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