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Things are looking really similar to last year in terms of how good we looked before we lost and then Purdue losing soon after.
 
uconngb said:
How do I dislike this?? Cam was awful tonight and never should have been the one taking the last shot. Tristen needed to create there.
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Agreed you have to let TN take that last shot. Just don’t get the last play. I ok with it if Spencer had been hitting any of his threes but he had no legs in his shot tonight. So I really don’t get that last play. Not with how Cam was shooting. Clearly he was playing through some pain. He could not jump.
 
Connecticut13 said:
We should’ve won. But I thought to myself right before Cam missed the potential game winner, “man, this is fun.” Just an awesome game to watch and it feels great that we get to experience these types of games.

Not worried in the least. We’ll be the better team come March. And the guys showed real heart and grit tonight. Proud of em.
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You want to lose now to a top 5 team.
 
Boost'ED said:
The numbers look decent, but it was very inefficient.

AK coming off a very good freshman season, I think all of us expect more.
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He was fine before the last 2 games. Some people always overreact to the very recent game or games. I'm confident he will get it back together shortly.

His game by game stats. He was pretty good the first 6 games.
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Do the women and men have the same trainer? Maybe that is our biggest concern. We seem to be pretty damn good, when healthy.
 
AntG168 said:
If we lose that game this place will be an insane asylum. I don’t care what yall say. We need to win that game.
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This place being an insane asylum, and the team "needing" to win that game don't even touch on a venn diagram.

As pointed out, UNC just put up 100 v Tennessee
 
Excalibur said:
They ran two guys at him. Let’s try to work in reality.
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That didn’t stop him all game….,the REALITY is that Tristen made shots all game and Cam didn’t. So you want the guy shooting that DIDNT make them?

Smart
 
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UConnSwag11 said:
People’s expectations on Clingan should’ve been tempered prior to the season
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I thought he did fine given there is no way he is 100%. By the end of the year he is going to be a beast. Kansas did not win because of HD. It was as we thought. McCullers was a match up nightmare without SC. And Adams was athletic enough and big enough to give AK issues. Cam hurting his foot contributed.
 
ADK46er said:
Let's not forget Samson getting tackled and the ref not calling a foul.

But we can blame the refs all we want, our leading scorer didn't deliver, we missed free throws and one of our starters followed out, I think it's safe to say that UConn lost this game but knowing Hurley he will take everything about this loss and fix it
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Didn’t deliver do to what is at least a sprain, if not a fracture in his foot… so if your the guy that yells at little leaguers to play harder . I see your point.
 
Dogdeacon said:
Incredible fight from Huskies & grat road game learning experience for this team. Will pay huge dividends over time.
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I don’t get this argument, how does losing a big game on the road pay off over time? Did losing at creighton or at Marquette prepare us for the tournament last year? We won cuz we got on a roll and got out of the BE BS
 
Drame said:
Kansas is not that good.. Maybe top 10.. We're at about top 5. We should not get too ahead of ourselves. Playing at the Phog was the best expreience, but we have a long way to go.
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But we did lose.
 
Realistically speaking, the team is not nearly as athletic as last year and a step slower. It’s shows against a top quality opponent. Not much to like beyond Newton playing lights out. Offense was atrocious with little ball movement or player cutting. The D was poor the first half, but the effort picked up in the 2nd and they competed. AK, Clingan, Spencer, Samson did little to help us out. Long season ahead to hopefully improve but I don’t think we have the horses to carry us to another title unless Castle gets going and Ball come along and develops into a much more dynamic player.
 
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Huskyforlife said:
I’m sad we wasted the best game of Newtons life for us. He deserved better from his teammates.
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I'll bet that's not how TN looks at it. But thanks Eeyore
 
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JohnnyJr said:
I don’t get this argument, how does losing a big game on the road pay off over time? Did losing at creighton or at Marquette prepare us for the tournament last year? We won cuz we got on a roll and got out of the BE BS
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Because you learn from your mistakes. You work on your exposed weaknesses. And you build on the positives.
 
Hate the loss, kind of love the game. This was always penciled in as a loss for me. We were impacted by the hostile environment from the jump. We settled in and almost took a stranglehold on that game in the second half. Kudos to Kansas, they hit a bunch of big shots the whole game and when it mattered.

I've honestly never felt so great about a loss. I watched it with one Kanas fan in the group and he was like yeah, I don't want to face you again.

My other Kansas buddy I didn't watch with basically said UConn will run them out of the building if they meet again.

We're really good and gonna get a whole lot better.
 
JohnnyJr said:
I don’t get this argument, how does losing a big game on the road pay off over time? Did losing at creighton or at Marquette prepare us for the tournament last year? We won cuz we got on a roll and got out of the BE BS
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You get shown your weaknesses in real live game action. You put that material on film. And guess what, our world class coaching staff makes our guys better.

Did Johnny Sr. ever help you learn from your mistakes?
 
I thought Hurley coached a pretty good game. We were clearly out of sorts from the start and his timeouts in the first half seemed to settle us a bit until we let the crowd get into our heads again.

We looked much better in the 2nd half and as a former member of the "Hurley can't win a close game" crowd, I thought the last few minutes were great. We got the shot to win the game and we didn't hit it. I don't love Spencer taking it because he's clearly very hurt but if we get the same look in March I bet he hits it.

You can live with coming out of Allen with a loss that comes down to the last shot, but leaving with the injuries could spell trouble. Our bench is not ready.
 
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90BSEE said:
Because you learn from your mistakes. You work on your exposed weaknesses. And you build on the positives.
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You also get exposure to playing in one of the most hostile environments in college basketball. I don't think any Big East arena can come close to Phog. UConn got punched in the face in the first 10 minutes. They got their feet back in the next 10 minutes. They played well for the next 18.5 minutes.
 
Our front court will have to figure it out. We need 25-30+ from it. Hurley and Karaban will need to figure out how to defend the four going forward. It was an issue last year and continues to be this year.

We can’t have Newton being our best rebounder.
 
boog204 said:
For sure... Don't think we had any TOs and TN found an open guy. Just wish there was a way to get Tristan a look as Cam had no shot at hitting that with his foot. He was short on everything all game.
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Cam took the shot with 5.5 seconds left. When TN passed him the ball there was plenty of time for Cam to fire a pass back to Newton who was totally unguarded at the time.

But, still amazing that UConn had a chance to win with the ball in the hands of our leading three point shooter. The foot hampered his shot all game.
 
Ball is giving us very little. I'd have lijed to have seen them at least try to bring in someone off the bench with Spencer hobbling and nearly everyone ourside of Newton playing horribly
 
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