LIU Post Game Thread

[Chin Diesel]

Did anyone else notice that Adama’s steal/fullcourt drive for the layup came off the #highhedge ?

Anybody?

@Chief00

Adama had the coast to coast lay up after getting a rebound too. Probably nicest thing about the lay up was he came down the left side and when he got in to the lane, he smoothly switched hands and put it in for a right-handed lay up.

Also on the steal and drive I liked how he took the lay up instead of going for the dunk. Not sure how much jumping explosion he had in the tank after a couple of sprints down the court.

 

[Malamute]

I went to the game yesterday and was surprised to see the place wasn’t full. Then again it was LIU. Most impressive play of the game was the Jackson around the back dunk. There may be video footage on it. Steals the ball out runs his opponent while dribbling, fakes left, goes around his back (Maravich) style and rifles home a monster dunk with his right hand. AJ is the best athlete UCONN has ever put on the court and is a few feet away from breaking out as a dominant player. DK is a force. 21 points in 15 minutes? DK may be one of the best big men in the country right now at 265 pounds. We have the best one-two punch in the country. Can‘t wait if we play Purdue. Our guards are a little weak with the exception of California. Kid is a stud shooting over 50% from the three stripe. This team is truly our sports gift for the holidays.

Spot on here Wolf with most of your post with exception of our guard play. While our new players are struggling with O, they are more then competent on the other side of the ball which triggers other parts of our team game. Toss in our other guard, that young man named Hawkins and I think we will be just fine.

 

[bigknight3]

I went to the game yesterday and was surprised to see the place wasn’t full. Then again it was LIU. Most impressive play of the game was the Jackson around the back dunk. There may be video footage on it. Steals the ball out runs his opponent while dribbling, fakes left, goes around his back (Maravich) style and rifles home a monster dunk with his right hand. AJ is the best athlete UCONN has ever put on the court and is a few feet away from breaking out as a dominant player. DK is a force. 21 points in 15 minutes? DK may be one of the best big men in the country right now at 265 pounds. We have the best one-two punch in the country. Can‘t wait if we play Purdue. Our guards are a little weak with the exception of California. Kid is a stud shooting over 50% from the three stripe. This team is truly our sports gift for the holidays.

I'm sorry. This was a trainwreck of a odd post. Yes, of course, there's video everywhere of AJs play from almost 24hours ago, in multiple threads, and on ESPN. No need for the written description.

Then you abbreviated Donovan's name to DK instead of DC throughout the entire post. Hide last name is Clingan, not Clingan or Clingan...

 

[Icehawk]

Anyone got a count of how many dunks DC dropped? I think it might have been all but one of his FGs?

 

[JustbrewitMan]

Lol, you have to admit, he’s better at it this year. He reminds me of a very large Whaley the way he gets out holds it for a second and gets back quickly.

Chiefs point, if I recall correctly, was that over the course of a season it tired him out. Clingan’s play has mitigated that by virtue of the minutes he’s earned.

Still, I love the fact that this place, will ask you to defend comments from last season, or even the season before or before that. The Boneyard never forgets.

Yep, I do agree that Sanogo doing the high hedge regularly makes perfect sense this year since we now have Donovan to split minutes with him. He also has another year of practicing it and has become more effective & efficient at it.

If I see an opportunity to do some (good-natured) needling of Chief, I’m not gonna pass it up…

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I'm sorry. This was a trainwreck of a odd post. Yes, of course, there's video everywhere of AJs play from almost 24hours ago, in multiple threads, and on ESPN. No need for the written description.

Then you abbreviated Donovan's name to DK instead of DC throughout the entire post. Hide last name is Clingan, not Clingan or Clingan...

Yes, the AJax steal & slam was so good that even ESPN had to show the multiple times/multiple angles video, but I wondered what it must have felt like to see it in real-time with limited (if any) replays.

And factually, you are correct, that it's DC not DK, which I associative 'learned' to remember early on by thinking of our teenage giany as a DC Comics action hero.

So yeah, it was arguably an "odd post," but I took the time to immediately look a bit deeper, and I saw that it was the 6th post by someone who joined BY in November. In that context, I regarded the post as an expression of exuberant joy, and we can always use exuberant joyful fans, especially in the stands.

A final note: as happens with the best & most experienced here, you fell prey to the forces of autocorrect and had the word "his" changed to "hide." I've quite possibly erred in my own post here. It happens.

 

[superjohn]

I went to the game yesterday and was surprised to see the place wasn’t full. Then again it was LIU. Most impressive play of the game was the Jackson around the back dunk. There may be video footage on it. Steals the ball out runs his opponent while dribbling, fakes left, goes around his back (Maravich) style and rifles home a monster dunk with his right hand. AJ is the best athlete UCONN has ever put on the court and is a few feet away from breaking out as a dominant player. DK is a force. 21 points in 15 minutes? DK may be one of the best big men in the country right now at 265 pounds. We have the best one-two punch in the country. Can‘t wait if we play Purdue. Our guards are a little weak with the exception of California. Kid is a stud shooting over 50% from the three stripe. This team is truly our sports gift for the holidays.

Wolf, Hawkins is a guard. He's pretty damn good. Same with Jackson.

I agree with everything else and enjoy the holidays.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Deepster can you please answer these questions?

Deepster's forte is the polite request to remove a threads that center the Women's team to the WBB Board. Here, it's just a post that asked questions to raise consciousness, solicit empathy, and build perspective. On the WBB Board it would be unremarkable or intrusive. Here, it speaks to those here who may or may not have interest, and seems easy enough to ignore, even if it is lengthy.

We’re comparing Caroline Ducharme to Alex Karaban?

Interpreting your "we" as including you, I don't think it's a strong Yes, but both Ducharme and Karaban are shooting forwards from Massachusetts, and both were former Gatorade State Players of the Year, although Karaban was for New Hampshire where he prepped at New Hampton through his junior year. And yes, I know your question was rhetorical.

Girls are having bad luck feel for them let’s not compare what it would be like no reaaon

I get that many prefer apples-to-apples comps by sticking to MBB.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

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