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Message: [QUOTE="RichZ, post: 2960082, member: 534"] [LIST=1] [*]I'm disappointed in the way we played. But I'm hoping it was a 1 game glitch coming off finals. But the disturbing aspect is that our supposed best player and leader was the worst of the bunch. He's the guy we rely on to rescue us from that kind of funk, and last night, he was leading the charge into mediocrity. The stats are bad: 2 boards, 2 assists and a steal to go with his 2 points and 4 TOs. But his body language was even more alarming. There's no question that his heart and his head were not into that basketball game. We won't win many games with Jalen's head wherever it was last night. We won last night because we were lucky enough to be paired against one of a handful of teams that on its best day is still worse than us at our worst. [*]1st half was not pretty basketball. 20 total turnovers. We had the same # of turnovers (8) as made baskets, while Manhattan had twice as many TOs as made baskets (12/6). [*]2nd half was better, but not a whole lot. [*]We ended up with assists on 2/3 of our made baskets, which is a decent, but not great percentage. Probably would have been higher if we either shot closer to a normal percentage from 3 or simply stopped attempting threes, because kickouts to open shooters beyond the line were mostly just wasted passes. [*]17.4% from 3? Starters were 4 of 17 (24%) which is bad enough -- but the bench was nada for 6. [*]Starters to bench comparisons were pretty bad on FT shooting, too. (14/18 vs 1/6) [*]Carlton was the only UConn player on the floor to shoot over 50% from the field. [*]Vital was by far our most productive player despite hitting only 4 of 10 from the field and 1 of 5 from 3. 8 boards and 7 steals was huge. And as much as he had the ball in his hands, 3 TOs ain't the end of the world. [*]12 steals and 9 blocks as a team is the most encouraging thing I can take out of this game. [*]The Incident at 9:04 -- [I]Hmmm... that reads like the title to a crime novel, but it would also be a good name for a rock band.[/I] -- No foul was called on the original contact [I](The short ugly white dude giving Vital a shoulder to the gonads then flipping him over)[/I] which is probably fine, as it would have negated the basket scored off the pass Vital threw an instant before being molested. But then the refs took over 5 minutes to review the ensuing brouhaha, and ended up giving meaningless, token offsetting techs to Sidney and Paulycrap. Meanwhile the Jaspers are down 15 points with 9 minutes to go, and they are dancing, laughing and partying in front of their bench. I'd like to believe that Hurley would have reamed their collective asses if our guys were behaving like that in that situation. [*]Jaspers might be the most embarrassing name for a sports team in history. Might as well call themselves the pansy-ass-wusses. When I hear the name Jasper, I think of the little old guy on the monopoly box. Either that of Bridgeport's 12 term Socialist mayor from the 30s and 40s, Jasper McLevy. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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