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I truly believe we can win it all

kobebeanbryant said:
Those teams had the best player on the court every game, regardless of the opponent.

This team is lucky to have the 3rd best.
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Always with you what cannot be done. You must unlearn what you have learned.

 
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This team shouldn't win a championship, but I do wonder if there's a certain intimidation factor that comes with facing the back to backs champs and their psycho head coach in the most stressful environment possible that might hurt a feeble minded opponent.

Our biggest advantage should be the last two years. Hurley/Karaban/Ball/Diarra/Johnson/Stewart have stood on top of the mountain, they shouldn't have any fear. We see how tight teams get in March, walking into those gyms with that champions swagger could make a difference.

I'm really looking forward to how we look in the Big East Tournament.
 
WeAreUCONN said:
I’ve been rooting for Duke and The Johnnies. They are safe bets. If one of them win then the season wasn’t a total disaster. We don’t have a chance in …. But if we win a game or two, it was a good season.
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You're always going to be the guy who wanted Hurley fired during the 2023 tournament, no matter how long you drag this goofy, unfunny shtick out.
 
Scrappy3 said:
I feel we have much more than others think we have.
Defense and rebounding trending up
I believe our center position is top 5 of 68
We have 3 legit scorers
2 bench players I feel will have a more polished game than the reg season in Mahaney and Stewart
And a healthier Diarra
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2011 and 2014 showed me to never underestimate a Uconn team in March. Id also throw 2023 in that category but to a much lesser extent.
 
Huskyforlife said:
This team shouldn't win a championship, but I do wonder if there's a certain intimidation factor that comes with facing the back to backs champs and their psycho head coach in the most stressful environment possible that might hurt a feeble minded opponent.

Our biggest advantage should be the last two years. Hurley/Karaban/Ball/Diarra/Johnson/Stewart have stood on top of the mountain, they shouldn't have any fear. We see how tight teams get in March, walking into those gyms with that champions swagger could make a difference.

I'm really looking forward to how we look in the Big East Tournament.
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I agree.

And we faced our worst fears many times during the season. Some of those losses were like nightmares.

Now, the optimistic part of me, thinks good! Maybe like that UConn team that lost by 40 pts we can go on to win it all…. Maybe? Likely, no. highly unlikely? Yes but not impossible either.

How many #1 or #2 seeds haven’t had this experience yet, only to have this happen to them Well before the Final 4?

So, I take comfort in knowing that in the tourney this team has faced its demons, and no one - and I mean no one - will intimidate us or surprise us. Our team is ready to play and we’ll see what happens!
 
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BigErnMcCracken said:
You're always going to be the guy who wanted Hurley fired during the 2023 tournament, no matter how long you drag this goofy, unfunny shtick out.
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Between his posts and HansDungfield's constant verbal diarrhea we need our next game.
 
superjohn said:
Between his posts and HansDungfield's constant verbal diarrhea we need our next game.
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It's Handey Dungerfield to you! I'm still waiting for my decoder to come in the mail to understand what he's even saying. It's as if Yoda and JR Tolkien had a baby that couldn't stop talking.
 
WeAreUCONN said:
I’ve been rooting for Duke and The Johnnies. They are safe bets. If one of them win then the season wasn’t a total disaster. We don’t have a chance in …. But if we win a game or two, it was a good season.
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Boooooooooo!
 
Huskyforlife said:
This team shouldn't win a championship, but I do wonder if there's a certain intimidation factor that comes with facing the back to backs champs and their psycho head coach in the most stressful environment possible that might hurt a feeble minded opponent.

Our biggest advantage should be the last two years. Hurley/Karaban/Ball/Diarra/Johnson/Stewart have stood on top of the mountain, they shouldn't have any fear. We see how tight teams get in March, walking into those gyms with that champions swagger could make a difference.

I'm really looking forward to how we look in the Big East Tournament.
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You’ve got to be joking about an intimidation
Factor
 
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WeAreUCONN said:
I’ve been rooting for Duke and The Johnnies. They are safe bets. If one of them win then the season wasn’t a total disaster. We don’t have a chance in …. But if we win a game or two, it was a good season.
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Uh no. Hell no.
 
Let’s see what happens this weekend in NYC. The Big East Tournament success has always been and indicator of how well we are playing, and how well we will do in the NCAA. For example, every time we won the BET, we made it to the second weekend or more.
 
RuffRuff said:
This - who knows what can happen. We have 4 guys that we know are capable of monster games, get a couple of those clicking simultaneously and crazy things can happen. Doing it for 6 is unlikely but who knows.
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Don't need it for 6, just the right 3. Wait until the upsets start and cinderella wakes up and realizes what they just did while they are playing the Huskies. Remember Butler UConn final?
 
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Zonepress said:
You’ve got to be joking about an intimidation
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If anything, the moment is more likely to intimidate the opponent than UConn, if UConn can get far enough for that to matter.
 
Tyler2Rings said:
Take the best versions of our guys this year and put them together.

Solo shooting lights out. Tarris double-double machine. Hass steady with the ball and continuing his magic with Samson. McNeeley late shot clock heroics. JStew and Mahaney providing spark off the bench. And AK doing a bit of everything and hitting crunch time threes

I don't particularly care if it's not realistic. I'm not some ESPN talking head, I'm a UConn fan. I believe
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You’re not wrong, if everyone plays at their best. If we’re hitting on our 3s, especially AK then we can do well.
 
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Defense and turnovers. We’ll see if what Hurley has been preaching all year finally gets through.
 
kobebeanbryant said:
Those teams had the best player on the court every game, regardless of the opponent.

This team is lucky to have the 3rd best.
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Condolences, yet again. Maybe next year, maybe sometime in your lifetime

Of course nobody thought we had a chance in the Dance in 2023, Hurley can't even win a tournament game, 2014 or 2011. Nobody thought we had the best player on the court on March 13th in any of those years. I think it's funny to suggest we had the best player on any court in 2014. What we had in all those years was the best team.

As for a great player, a highly ranked recruit, a projected lottery pick, I present Liam McNeeley. More potential than you can even dream about. But it's the team and the coaching that makes us good. We have the opportunity and the potential, I'm good with that. Someday you may get to experience what that feels like. I hope you do, everyone should feel it sometime in their life.
 
Scrappy3 said:
I feel we have much more than others think we have.
Defense and rebounding trending up
I believe our center position is top 5 of 68
We have 3 legit scorers
2 bench players I feel will have a more polished game than the reg season in Mahaney and Stewart
And a healthier Diarra
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I am encourage by Karaban the past few games. He has his confidence back. He is the key in my opinion. When he is on the top of his game he makes everyone better. Diarra also will have to be the spine of this team. I hold we win it all but it will require toughness and strong defense. We have relied on this in past championships and it can work again. If we win it all I will be elated. If we don’t I will be devasted. Regardless, I will be so proud to be a fan of this team.
 
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DW1361 said:
I am encourage by Karaban the past few games. He has his confidence back. He is the key in my opinion. When he is on the top of his game he makes everyone better. Diarra also will have to be the spine of this team. I hold we win it all but it will require toughness and strong defense. We have relied on this in past championships and it can work again. If we win it all I will be elated. If we don’t I will be devasted. Regardless, I will be so proud to be a fan of this team.
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One thing I often consider with Alex and is that he’s played 2 looong seasons prior to this one. When you consider the combine, it’s been a long couple years for him. There may have been some simple mental exhaustion kicking in mid season, especially with all the early season drama. He’s not the kind of athlete that can have any fall off upstairs. I think he’ll spark back up and we’ll see more of the old version of him coming.
 
RuffRuff said:
One thing I often consider with Alex and is that he’s played 2 looong seasons prior to this one. When you consider the combine, it’s been a long couple years for him. There may have been some simple mental exhaustion kicking in mid season, especially with all the early season drama. He’s not the kind of athlete that can have any fall off upstairs. I think he’ll spark back up and we’ll see more of the old version of him coming.
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Eh, you're reaching here. How much longer did UConn play than teams that didn't make the post season? 3 weeks? It's not like the NHL and NBA playoffs which are about 2 months past the regular season if you win the championship. Plus the college basketball off season is much longer than professional sports, about 6 months long as opposed to 3-4 months.

Alex is fine mentally.
 
HooperScooper said:
Eh, you're reaching here. How much longer did UConn play than teams that didn't make the post season? 3 weeks? It's not like the NHL and NBA playoffs which are about 2 months past the regular season if you win the championship. Plus the college basketball off season is much longer than professional sports, about 6 months long as opposed to 3-4 months.

Alex is fine mentally.
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He rocked his final midterm last Thursday.
 
HooperScooper said:
Eh, you're reaching here. How much longer did UConn play than teams that didn't make the post season? 3 weeks? It's not like the NHL and NBA playoffs which are about 2 months past the regular season if you win the championship. Plus the college basketball off season is much longer than professional sports, about 6 months long as opposed to 3-4 months.

Alex is fine mentally.
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He wasn't fine mentally for a large chunk of the conference season. I'm a big believer in the psychology of sports - when we are talking 21 year old kids who play an extra three weeks two seasons in a row, test NBA waters and come back into a media frenzy with tons of hype, I think there can be a certain level of hangover that can hit. The kids been to the apex and back. Here's to hoping the tourneys resurrect the old Alex.
 
I may be wrong, but didn’t he slump about the same time last year before recovering? I think exhaustion and trying too hard catches up with him. I see a lineup where everyone is stepping up their game and taking that little bit of pressure off Karaban has made a difference.
 
RuffRuff said:
He wasn't fine mentally for a large chunk of the conference season. I'm a big believer in the psychology of sports - when we are talking 21 year old kids who play an extra three weeks two seasons in a row, test NBA waters and come back into a media frenzy with tons of hype, I think there can be a certain level of hangover that can hit. The kids been to the apex and back. Here's to hoping the tourneys resurrect the old Alex.
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So you're a psychologist who saw Alex? Lol

The speculation on this board makes me laugh sometimes. It's like when there are injuries. Hurley tells us what the doctors told him and then multiple posters on here give their own timelines with no medical information except that their cousin once did the same thing and was out x amount of time.
 
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