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Just hope team isn’t peaking too early

nomar said:
You could argue at any given moment that about 5 different guys are our second best player. That says it all.
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Same could be said for picking our first best player. It’s like picking your favorite child.
 
husky429 said:
Our 5s sucked today and we were missing maybe our 2nd best player. We ain't peaking, or close to it
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There is a kind of tightness (tight in a good way) to the group when they have to play limited. Not to say that we aren't better off with a fully functional 8 deep team- far from it, but you can see a similar phenomenon with some nba teams when their stars are out for a few games.
 
The scary thing is this team is far from peaking. Their ceiling, assuming everyone is at full health and playing well, is absurdly high. Think about it. We haven’t seen a game yet w everyone healthy, hitting threes, with a dominant Donovan and this version of Steph! Insane.
 
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I think Donovan can get better but we have so much quality on this team that the big challenge is just to keep everyone in one piece. Then we allow our top notch staff to scout and plan everyone else’s destruction as they play us. We have a good team and they have shown resilience when playing without key pieces. Can’t say more.
 
Xavier is probably as close to a perfect/peaked game we will have all year. But I don't think we've "peaked" at all

No AK tonight & quiet Clingan @ SJU
Ugly rock fight vs. PC with really bad shooting splits
Xavier - perfect game
@ Nova - Newton carried us, most guys had bad games
Creighton - 35% FG / 26% 3P, really bad offensive game but carried by a defensive masterclass
Georgetown is Georgetown
And then didn't have Clingan before that

Imagine a team with a confident Castle and Clingan not glued to the bench.

We have the tough part of the schedule coming up. vs. Marquette, @ Creighton, @ Marquette, @ Providence in the last 3 weeks of the season. I don't want too many bumps and bruises, but that will be the toughest stretch
 
NEforceUConn said:
Loved today’s game, firing on all cylinders. However lot of bb to be played. I wouldn’t mind a mid February stumble or two and then heat it up for the end of season, BET and the dance.

I’m thinking how the Kemba team and last year’s team hit the dance in peak performance. Fingers crossed.
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I actually think I'd rather dominate the regular season from start to finish than do the Kemba thing of getting badly exposed in February before righting the ship.
 
NEforceUConn said:
Loved today’s game, firing on all cylinders. However lot of bb to be played. I wouldn’t mind a mid February stumble or two and then heat it up for the end of season, BET and the dance.

I’m thinking how the Kemba team and last year’s team hit the dance in peak performance. Fingers crossed.
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They played poorly relatively speaking. There is another whole gear if Clingan can stay on the floor, AK is healthy, Cam being Cam, Newton settling down a bit, and Castle starting to really come into his own. Games like SJ remind them they need to still get tighter.
 
Have we even played 10 games with our full roster? We need to get Clingan some work in the post so he can attack these bigs back that are putting him in foul trouble every game. If they're gonna try and get a quick two fouls on him, we've got to be willing to attack back.
 
Clingan and Samson combined for 8 points

AK didn’t play

Yeah we may be peaking

And that means it must be downhill from here

Man what a silly OP
 
aceboon said:
I think some of y'all have let the lulls and struggles of past championship seasons convince y'all into thinking thats how the regular season should be, it's ok to be consistently good/great all year long
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Some of our fanbase seem to like us as the underdog/little engine that could, I'll never understand it. I want to be #1 all season.
 
superjohn said:
Some of our fanbase seem to like us as the underdog/little engine that could, I'll never understand it. I want to be #1 all season.
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Fear of expectations. It’s emotionally safer to feel like the overachieving underdog and therefore it’s emotionally safer if we don’t make a deep run

New Englanders are that kind of insecure
 
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To the OP, health is the key every season. We've had some amazing team's like Dyson's and Price's that were derailed by injuries. Key is to let guys heal and use our bench as much as possible. Don't wear guys out.
 
superjohn said:
Some of our fanbase seem to like us as the underdog/little engine that could, I'll never understand it. I want to be #1 all season.
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Amen, SJ. What is peaking? It’s some made up chicken little worry, right along with that doooomed nonsense.

The 99 team didn’t have a lull. Their 2 losses were very explainable, one with Rip being out…..and we’ve already played significant time against quad 1s without Donny, Steph and now AK. Puff your chest out and ride the wave, people.
 
Deepster said:
Amen, SJ. What is peaking? It’s some made up chicken little worry, right along with that doooomed nonsense.

The 99 team didn’t have a lull. Their 2 losses were very explainable, one with Rip being out…..and we’ve already played significant time against quad 1s without Donny, Steph and now AK. Puff your chest out and ride the wave, people.
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“Peaking” is for teams which are not elite, who rely on a kind of mojo/swagger on which they ride through a run.

That didn’t apply to 2023 and it doesn’t apply to this team. Again, the OP is silly
 
Screw that. I wanna win the BE regular season, the BET, and the NCAAs. That’s what the best teams do.
 
Deepster said:
Amen, SJ. What is peaking? It’s some made up chicken little worry, right along with that doooomed nonsense.

The 99 team didn’t have a lull. Their 2 losses were very explainable, one with Rip being out…..and we’ve already played significant time against quad 1s without Donny, Steph and now AK. Puff your chest out and ride the wave, people.
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This is how UConn fans should do.
 
NEforceUConn said:
Hooper expressed it better than I. If UConn Nation realizes we are not going undefeated from here on out, then I am OK with that. I want back to back.
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I'd be good with both.
Sassy Jimmy Fallon GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
 
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Deepster said:
What is peaking? It’s some made up chicken little worry, right along with that doooomed nonsense
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Remember when Deepster used to care about the mojo. I do. The funny part is vacillates between this and his "I will lead you" shtick.

Honestly, we're good Deep. Just limit yourself to your gambling advice. Nobody cares, but it's harmless.
 
Rocktheworld said:
Clingan and Samson combined for 8 points
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^Noted for perspective, not any criticism. All of your other points stand firmly.

OP can further consider that UConn got more points & rebounds from the 5 than St John's did, so not as bad as it might seem at first look.

Even with Clingan & Samson combining for 9 fouls, UConn was called for fewer fouls than St John's.

Stewart & Ball played in both halves, giving the more experienced & effective players some rest, with little lost ground in the first half and none in the second half.

St John's had as many assists as UConn, and 3 fewer turnovers. All other statistical categories favored UConn.

The game was neither beautiful nor ugly. It was a road win against a highly motivated team with a Hall of Fame coach, on a day that they honored a high-achieving team from a quarter century ago, including a former coach who had not been at a game since he was fired six games into his final season.

By those standards, it was a perfectly fine victory.
 
CL82 said:
Remember when Deepster used to care about the mojo. I do. The funny part is vacillates between this and his "I will lead you" shtick.

Honestly, we're good Deep. Just limit yourself to your gambling advice. Nobody cares, but it's harmless.
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So you have one bit of mojo 25 years ago and it has to still apply forever? Nonsense.

You flow like a stick on the arms of a mighty river. Barely anyone eats wings and drinks RRs anymore and EVERYONE here did that in 99.

If you stand still on the train tracks, you get run over or left behind. Grow up.
 
HooperScooper said:
Well they're not going undefeated the rest of the way so I'm not worried about that at all. Plus, does Hurley seem like the kind of coach to rest on his laurels? Karaban said after a recent win that in the next practice Hurley made them feel like it was a loss. Hurley will keep them focused and improving.

This team still has another level to get to.
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Yes. And it seems our centerpiece is now our biggest issue. DC can’t stay in the floor and it’s keeping him from getting his game legs back. No don not AK and a string win. We really good. And (fingers crossed) could go into the Marquette game with bc a stranglehold on the conference and the longest streak at number in the last few years( I would think).
 
We haven't clinched the Big East title yet and you're hoping we haven't peaked too soon?!?

UConn is on a 2-year run that you will rarely see in today's college game. Let it ride and enjoy it while it lasts.
 
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