Lesson Learned From Providence Game
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Agree that it's lack of teaching or lack of understanding offense. Ollie couldn't put the ball in the ocean when he played but was smart enough to get it to the person(s) that could shoot.
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Haha. So I decided to stop watching once PC was up by about 20 early in the second half. Not because I was frustrated with Uconn's lackluster mistakes, but just because I only wanted a small taste of what the individual players looked like and just got bored watching a blowout exhibition that holds very little importance.
With that said I'm not at all surprised with the play I did see. Terry had an abysmal game, but did show flashes of what we should expect from him once he's in mid-season form. Not surprising the ill-advised shots and bonehead turnovers he made with the amount of in-game experience he's had the past few years; think we can all agree with that. But I feel the majority of shots he did take and missed he'll ultimately make down the road, and the amount of shots he took was by design to get his confidence and rhythm back up to snuff. He will be a volume shooter for us and we're going to need him to make any noise in the AAC, so better to have him get a feel for that volume, make them or not, in a meaningless exhibition.
The first half, which I watched entirely, I honestly thought we looked pretty good given the circumstances. Gotta give it to Providence they made some tough shots, and we missed some bunnies.
Cobb has a lot to learn but if he works hard and puts it together he could be a player for us. Also really like Carlton, Jalen was Jalen, Alterique showed glimpses of what he can be down the road, and I liked Anderson's on ball defense.
Overall it has to be accepted that it wasn't a game Ollie put much importance on winning, which obviously is a big reason for exhibitions in the first place. He subbed a lot to get a feel for different lineups and spread the in game experience.
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I feel like I shouldn't watch this.......
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The point flew right over your head. I was saying, sometimes massive #s of newcomers results in them never gelling, sometimes they do gel. No one said these kids are going to be national champions.
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These announcers are useless. Just constant blabber while the game is going by. Just announce the friggin game idiots.
Polley went 1/3 for 6 points
Larrier went 3/14 for 7 points.
Larrier looked horrible out there. I expect he'll improve. But if he doesn't get much better, there's no reason not to give Polley more minutes to see if he performs. More minutes could mean Larrier go from 30 to 25 and Polley from 15-20. It could mean more or less, but nobody said Polley should replace him. And I don't care that it was an exhibition, Larrier was terrible. Larrier deserves slack because he's only had a few games in the last 3 seasons. But he has to play better. He was not only shooting poorly, he was taking bad shots and forcing things.
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Clearly Ollie has given Larrier the green light shoot whenever he wants. He got the ball he shot, covered or not.
Maybe KO should rethink that approach.
We want him to be aggressive, but not settling for long jumpers off the dribble while defended. We have to be patient, he's got talent, and we know he can play better than that because he has already.
Bad shooting nights happen. When you're shooting poorly, and making bad decisions, that's when Ollie has to get him settled down. These guys will learn to play as a team. (hopefully)
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I was hoping that the "first thread" this year would be chatting all about positive first impressions, new look, that guy looks ready to rumble, energy, commitment to D. I'm now hoping that the "second thread" this year ends up with at least one of those.
Huskies - not to be too selfish here, but I need this.
Huskies - not to be too selfish here, but I need this.
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Larrier will get better not sure his shot selection will. The three games he played last year his shot selection was not very good but he made some of them so no one remembers.
I did like his reverse layup he made and then he missed a layup he should have dunked and threw some bad passes at on a couple of fast break opportunities we had. The long jumper with just inside the three point line which he took 5 times has got to stop.
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Wouldn't the most recent and relative data be that he tore his ACL 11 months ago? I wasn't his biggest fan either and tried to caution folks that his absence alone didn't explain what happened last year, but people are seriously going to need to be patient. I know science and medicine are a lot better, but that's still a monumental injury and just because some guys have come back from it doesn't mean it isn't still a toss-up in a lot of scenarios.
He was bad at VCU because most freshman are bad (yes even ones as highly regarded as him, seriously look it up). Last year in the three games he played before injury he averaged 17 ppg on 48% shooting, which is again more recent and relevant data than what you're referring to. It's even hard to make the "transfers are transfers for a reason" argument when his coach left for Texas. People are making real leaps here.
I thought he was having his best of the three games when he went down last year, but I could certainly be wrong