Iona Post Game Thread

[Verne]

We have the goods to win it all.

Can we? I don't know.

But this team has all that you need to win a national championship and there's not a lot of them.

I've got nothing else to say. Take care of business vs St Mary's and keep going.

 

[BGesus4]

Take that monkey off your back coach!

 

[uconntoatl]

Jekyll & Hyde

 

[upstater]

I was playing a game app on my phone over halftime, and the last game ran into the start of the half, so of course after they started well I had to keep playing. Now I have to play on Sunday too. I don't even like the game!

 

[UConnSwag11]

Didn’t think he would play Clingan as much as he did in the first half but good thing he did. Hopefully that continues and into both halves. Whatever he said to them at halftime about the defense, it changed the game. Defense was horrible. Our offense wasn’t bad.

Also, Diarra can’t play in this tournament. We can’t afford him to wait and figure it out.

Crowd was great. Louder than MSG. Keep it up on Sunday. Sweet Sixteen is the floor. Then it’s off to the races

 

[CTBasketball]

Monkey was tossed off our backs. Albany is a dump how’d that place get to host a regional.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Btw, Cox is by far the worst cable service. The absolute worst

 

[AtlantaHusky]

Great 2nd half by the team. If we made a few layups that were missed, it would have been even worse.

I love that this is the opposite of the Providence game where we started hot, then went to crap. This game we ended with a lot of positives. Happy for coach and the kids (and us!)

 

[jdb50]

Mike Crispino just said in the postgame show how the UConn bench really came through in the first half and kept us in the game. This is why he thinks we could have a deep run. I agree. We got big production till our big dogs got going. It is different than the last 2 years.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Clingan has the Thabeet stat that doesn’t show up in the box score.

Alleyne and Joey big time off the bench

 

[Verne]

Clingan has the Thabeet stat that doesn’t show up on the box score

I'm not sure there was a shot taken in the paint by Iona that he didn't alter or block when he was in the game.

 

[Stinger92860]

I'm not sure there was a shot taken in the paint by Iona that he didn't alter or block when he was in the game.

I'm not sure there was a shot taken in the paint by Iona that he didn't alter or block when he was in the game.

Clingan was scored over at least two times, which surprised me

 

[wheelerdog]

I got the sense that Clingan's performance in the first half lit a fire in Sanogo, because holy crap he played out of his mind in the 2nd half.

Sanogo was the player of the game, but Clingan saved the game

 

[87Xfer]

They thought they had a chance to win. They did not.

 

[husky99]

Monkey is off Hurley back.... lets go march

 

[Mots010]

Clingan was scored over at least two times, which surprised me

Those two shots were pulled out of their ass. Iona had several more like that… the over the rim shot comes to mind.

 

[Kolumbo]

 

[willie99]

Simply Awesome

Close thread

 

[Tenspro2002]

Abysmal first half by players, coaches, managers, and the water boy.

Excellent adjustments (on defense especially) and Pitino and co. couldn't handle it. On to the next one.

Only by a few players, really.

The real story was they shot out of their minds (what else is new). They couldn't sustain it.

 

[nomar]

We have the goods to win it all.

Can we? I don't know.

But this team has all that you need to win a national championship and there's not a lot of them.

I've got nothing else to say. Take care of business vs St Mary's and keep going.

I’m concerned we don’t have the lead guard play we’ve always had. Our title teams have always had 2 guys who could handle and score. Don’t really have 1 on this team. OTOH we do have some things we’ve never had before…

 

[AntG168]

I don’t feel like we played bad in the first half. Iona just played WAY above their heads.

 

[nomar]

They thought they had a chance to win. They did not.

You know who didn’t? Pitino. That halftime interview told me he knew they’d thrown everything at UConn and couldn’t keep it up. He was rightfully proud of his team but didn’t expect to coach them again.

 

[huskyfever34]

Anyone else get a little nervous with that Diarra/Alleyne combo out there together? Alleyne has played well the last few weeks but this isn't the time to use Diarra this much imo unless we really really need ball handling

 

[jibsey]

We have the goods to win it all.

Can we? I don't know.

But this team has all that you need to win a national championship and there's not a lot of them.

I've got nothing else to say. Take care of business vs St Mary's and keep going.

I and most here believe this because of stretches we’ve witnessed. We have the ammunition that’s for sure. Will we ever have a center situation as good as this again? Sanogo has beautiful footwork around the baseline and rim and Clingan just makes your head explode the way he blocks shots and gets the rebound in one instant.

 

[caw]

Anyone else get a little nervous with that Diarra/Alleyne combo out there together? Alleyne has played well the last few weeks but this isn't the time to use Diarra this much imo unless we really really need ball handling

If he could finish he would be really good. He just can't.