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January - Other Big East Games

Billy Jack said:
Bad defense in the first half, yes. Great defense in the second half. When you beat a team by 12 points, as we did in the second half, the defense is not a problem. In fact, that defense was responsible for much of the the 50% FG% and 60% 3-point shooting in the 2nd half after shooting 32% and 8% in the 1st half.

You can’t judge the effectiveness of the defense just by opponents’ points scored. You have to give credit to the Xavier offense as well. When the UConn D pressured the ball very effectively, Xavier’s ball movement and passing to find the open man was very good. Our guys could learn from that. Nonetheless, our D was overall very effective in the 2nd half as it held them to 12 points fewer than our guys scored.
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Great defense in the second half?! I'm not sure I would call it that, lol. There were spurts of it but the bottom line is that we gave up 43 points in the second half (after giving up 39 in the first half). Xavier only put up 2 free throws in the last three minutes of the game so there was not a piling on of last minute points due to us fouling to stop the clock/hope they miss.

Our defense HAS to improve over the next two months our we'll peter out in conference play/BE tourney and will be limping into the big dance. Period.
 
navery12 said:
Which leaves out the other half of the equation, when we easily handled Creighton in the middle of this down stretch
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Shhh, what good could possibly come from such a comment? Are you a troublemaker or something?
 
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UCONN stays ahead of Nova for 6th place with 9 games to go

Nicole Scherzinger Television GIF
 
Crazy ending to Providence/Villanova.

CFJ got mauled by 3 people with no call. Croswell finds the loose ball and gets called for a charge after a clear flop by Armstrong.

Bynum dagger fadeaway with 25 seconds left to go up 3

Whitmore with 21/9 on on 50%. Great game

The difference proved to be a 50/50 ball on a wild chase that Providence got with just under 5 minutes left. Won the hustle play and got an open three from it

CFJ got major minutes for the second game in a row. 8 points on 3-5 and some great defense. Seemed like he was always making the right play (except that triple teamed layup at the end, but to be fair he got clobbered with no call)

That was fun!
 
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Billy Jack said:
Bad defense in the first half, yes. Great defense in the second half. When you beat a team by 12 points, as we did in the second half, the defense is not a problem. In fact, that defense was responsible for much of the the 50% FG% and 60% 3-point shooting in the 2nd half after shooting 32% and 8% in the 1st half.

You can’t judge the effectiveness of the defense just by opponents’ points scored. You have to give credit to the Xavier offense as well. When the UConn D pressured the ball very effectively, Xavier’s ball movement and passing to find the open man was very good. Our guys could learn from that. Nonetheless, our D was overall very effective in the 2nd half as it held them to 12 points fewer than our guys scored.
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Bless your heart
 
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August_West said:
Providence is the bizarro uconn when it comes to crunch time play. They don’t get rattled. Very nice road win. I guess good league teams CAN beat good league teams on the road.
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10-11 Nova is a good league team?
 
You know how when Sanogo gets doubled or trapped, he starts getting jittery and nervous and then throws up some garbage?

That's like Wahab, except every time he touches the ball. What happened to that guy? He was pretty good before he went to UMD
 
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Is Georgetown suddenly going to turn into a juggernaut? Up on Johnnies by 6 mid-2nd half (Posh is out).
 
It was great seeing Justin Moore back out on the court. Can only imagine where Villanova would be if he wasn’t injured. Unfortunately for Nova it was also great to see Jared Bynum. Both are fun to watch. Bynum has a little KEA to his game. One more point Devin Carter is a good defender
 
Wooowwww

GTown had the lead then a three from johnnies to take the lead
 
Freshman AJ Storr hits the GAME WINNING 3 with 4 seconds left!

Not sure what GTown was doing after the Storr shot. Mozone inbounded to Akok, who gave it back to Mozone, who launched it 50 feet to Riley (got knocked out of bounds from Curbelo). Spears and Murray had over half of the Hoyas' points today and nobody even looked in their direction. Then they had Spears inbound with 1.2 seconds left, and GTown didn't get a shot off because Mozone's shot was after the buzzer. Such a Georgetown ending.

Akok unfortunately 0 points on 0-3, but did have 5 blocks
Primo Spears is special. I just realized he's playing 37 minutes a game this year. 25 points tonight
 
UConnSwag11 said:
Wooowwww

GTown had the lead then a three from johnnies to take the lead
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When I saw Primo was going to inbound for that final shot with 1.2 left, I felt certain GTown was going to run the Laettner play that killed us in 91. They didn't, but even though Mozone had just hit a 3 (and rimmed out the final shot), I'd have rather had Primo with the ball.
 
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