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Kansas Post Game Thread

UConnSwag11 said:
No way is it a must win lol. I expect to win but it’s not a must win
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No game is a must win for this team if your talking about making the tourney, seeding wise we need to beat big teams out of conference.
 
Happy to see Clingan playing with some heart against a potential All American. Neutral court we win 7 easily.
 
uconnfan68 said:
9/14 from 3. The guy that was 4-16 from the line goes 6-9. McCullar less than 30% from 3, hits 3-4. Dickinson hits 3-4 from 3.

Let me know when they do that again this year.
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I knew a response like this was coming. Their shots were in their offense, a lot of ours were bailouts. We shot 10% better from 3 than what we were coming in. But you, of course, omitted that fact. My point was that they run a nice offense to get open shots.

Either way, I am on board with the general takeaway....we are the better team without Castle. With him, we are probably the best in the country with one of the highest ceilings.

We have yet to really see Cam, Tristen, and AK all go off together in a meaningful game.
 
Take aways, hopefully Cam doesn't have a broken foot. Not a coincidence his threes came up short except the one he had forward momentum dribbling. Announcers said Clingan was grimacing at his foot too. Kansas shot 64% from deep and we had a shot to win the game or tie after Diarra got hosed on a foul call that they called a turnover away in a loud and raucous arena. Given the way things went in the first half, I think we showed a ton of resilience. We need the guys healthy for conference play, priority number 1.

I think we should have mixed in a bunch more zone to stutter their offense and switch back to man after a couple possessions.
 
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Huskymagic said:
Tristen Newton is our best player, that is abundantly clear. He is the only one who played well.

That was mistake by Hurley to have Cam take that potential game winning 3 at the end. Newton had the hot hand and it should have been Newton to take that shot.

Spencer, Karaban, and Clingan struggle against super athletic teams. We have a lack of athleticism and foot speed.

PS: We lost a lot of athleticism from last years team and it shows.
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The ball was in Newton’s hand and he passed it to Cam. How do you blame Hurley for that?
 
Punkbo said:
Tough loss but it’s December. We’re good and will get better. Tristen was unbelievable. On to the next one.
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No castle. Spencer hurt. Clingan hurt and gassed. I say this is wash. Only issue was 3 missed calls in a row at around 10 minutes in the second half.
 
Connecticut13 said:
Zero chance, huh? I’m fine with the shot. Might’ve preferred we try to attack the basket but Cam was open and it’s a shot he usually hits. He gritted his way through the game, would’ve loved to see him hit it.
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Yes, zero chance. That was not the play to run there. Cam had nothing tonight. Nothing against him but you cannot expect him to make that shot with the night he had.
 
HailUConn said:
The game felt like a win when it isn’t.
I’m proud of this team, it has heart of champion. We are right there to take it at the end in a hostile environment when Kansas shot out of their minds.

Tristen Newton is our best player.
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And not even a big east mention when right now he’d be poy.
 
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Ripper32 said:
Kansas was the better team. Newton was making some high difficulty shots to even keep them treading water in the first half. The defense did travel as usual. Just need more scoring from the younger guys.
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What?!!! Karaban, Clingan and Spencer went 10-31. Thats your game right there.
 
SilentDog said:
Everyone goes through shooting slumps. He will get it fixed. It looked to like he was aiming some of those open threes. He and Spencer both had a bad shooting night and we almost beat the pre season #1 in their house. Not talking morale victories but this loss does not hurt us. One game at a time. I was not sure in the first half but if anyone who watched that game thinks Kansas is better then they are clueless. I think if we play them full strength 100 times on a neutral court we beat the at least y out of ten. They had bad three point shooters making shots. They had bad free throw shooters making free throws and we had very good shooters missing open shot playing at 50% of their efficiency and we almost won the game. Let’s be patient we AK he will always struggle guarding anyone 6’8” and bigger who is athletic. Tonight that person happened to be a great defender and he gave AK problems. He has spoiled us but I know he will there later in the year when we need him.
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We won games earlier this year even with poor to mediocre three point shooting cuz we were feasting at the rim. We had a team that shut that down and had no answer for it. We can’t have two shooters off in a big game
 
CardiacAndre7 said:
Dickinson/Adams vs Clingan Karaban was the difference. Clingan needs to learn the low post, Karaban needs to learn more of a versatile game.
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Karaban just needs to either focus on getting stronger OR slicker and faster. The big tough 4s are his issue. He needs to pick his lane. I say the modern Mchale/worthy. Get slick.
 
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HuskyFich said:
Just hold the like button and make an angry face.

Tristen was doubled at the top of the key…would you have preferred a forced shot, or a pass to Diarra?
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I would have preferred a two man game w Newton and Clingan. And worst case, Tristen hit like 4 late clock 3s tonight. Would have even preferred that.
 
When you need start getting concerned is when bad habits start becoming trends or when there is no improvement throughout the year.

I think we’ll be good. Just need everyone to be healthy and then we can get this monkey off our back
 
Ripper32 said:
Kansas was the better team. Newton was making some high difficulty shots to even keep them treading water in the first half. The defense did travel as usual. Just need more scoring from the younger guys.
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Kansas was the better team tonight. But no way they are the better team. They won the game so they played better tonight slightly. But they had bad three point shooters making three pointers they had bad free throw shooters making free throws. Conversely we had very good shooters miss open shots (see AK and CS). We had great free throw shooters missing free throws (see TN and CS).
 
TheChamps990411 said:
I respectfully disagree. Clingan just looks sluggish and Karaban struggles with athletes and just wasnt aggressive offensively and add that his shot just looks off and no bueno. I do admit his shot did look a bit better. Didnt have that weird wind up.
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So you’re agreeing they underperformed? They can’t create their own offense against level competition is a concern to keep an eye on. I give credit to Clingan on defense, but we need more production from both on offense
 
AntG168 said:
“Very important win”. You okay now?
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UNC just dropped 100 points on Tennessee.

Huskies maybe get Castle back for limited minutes and we have no idea what's up with Cam. You'll be OK when you downgrade this early December non-con game to "nice 1 to get".
 
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Incredible fight from Huskies & grat road game learning experience for this team. Will pay huge dividends over time.
 
Can’t believe everyone is giving Spencer crap about the last shot when we had three guys take free throws. Three guys. And then missed a bunch. If we got more guys to the line, we win. If they threw that got there we win. That’s a concerning trend that needs to be addressed
 
uconngb said:
I would have preferred a two man game w Newton and Clingan. And worst case, Tristen hit like 4 late clock 3s tonight. Would have even preferred that.
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It looked like that’s what they tried to do. I agree, I wanted the PnR with DC as well, KU played it really well. they met him above the 3 point line, rather than waiting for the roll.
 
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