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Kenny11 said:
Maybe this should be its own thread, but how could it have gotten so bad? It makes no sense. He’s a junior with a lot of experience.
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People here have stopped cheering for him. If you think that cheering helps the team, then cheer for him.
 
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shizzle787 said:
Like I said previously: we are a bad matchup for Marquette. Unfortunately, Creighton and Villanova are bad matchups for us.
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Nova is definitely a horrible matchup for us. Creighton isn't, we just played like dog poop against them.

Marquette has no answer for Sanogo.
 
auror said:
He has solved this dilemma by just playing Gaff less than 5 minutes a game.
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Not possible in a game where Cole gets in foul trouble.

I think at this point we're probably stuck with Gaff. I'm sure if he could redo the season Hurley would try to prepare Diggins more for the backup role
 
Great win. UConn needed that one. Sanogo and Rese with a great game. Lets get the next one Huskies!
 
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JMick said:
i didn't say they avoided a brutal loss. I said they refused to allow themselves to lose.
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A rare instance of something like this being pointed out and me seeing that I'd read it wrong.
 
We’ve only seen Rahsool play with Hurley Jr and co. Not a fair comparison. We need a competent backup and I hope it’s him, being a freshman assuming more upside
 
I thought we played great defense on Lewis most of the night and had Morsell out of rhythm. The guy who impressed me the most from Marquette was Prosper. 7-8 for 18 points. Tripled his season average. I could see him being a handful consistently in a year or two.
 
karstenkibbe said:
I thought we played great defense on Lewis most of the night and had Morsell out of rhythm. The guy who impressed me the most from Marquette was Prosper. 7-8 for 18 points. Tripled his season average. I could see him being a handful consistently in a year or two.
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All-time great name, too. Both his full name and nickname are spectacular.
 
UcannUconn said:
Yea we are. Most teams have to double Lewis and Morsell we have the athletes and the size to play them straight up. They also can’t defend bigs and we have sanogo
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100% true, but even worse for them is they give up a ton of offensive rebounds and we are the best offensive rebounding team in the league. Marquette for the season is 353rd (!!!) in the country in Offensive Rebounds allowed per game. We are 7th in the country in Offensive Rebounds per game. Nightmare for them. Almost doubled them up on the glass tonight.
 
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Jluc said:
Pretty sure there was a point tonight where both gaffney and Cole were on the bench for the first time all season. Gaffney came in to give RJ a rest and immediately turned it over and Jackson played point guard for the next few possessions. He sadly literally became unplayable.
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That's correct (outside random Diggins minutes vs. LIU).
 
Jluc said:
Pretty sure there was a point tonight where both gaffney and Cole were on the bench for the first time all season. Gaffney came in to give RJ a rest and immediately turned it over and Jackson played point guard for the next few possessions. He sadly literally became unplayable.
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I came here to call this out as well.

I really liked this move by Hurley. Gave Cole a breather and trusted AJ and Tyrese to run the ship and it worked.

If Gaffney is able to give more than 4 min, great, but this is a good alternative that should be deployed going forward.

Cole still had to play 34 minutes, which is a lot.

I feel for Gaff, I have no idea what that was out there tonight. Probably entirely mental at this point. Hopefully he figures it out because he is a fun player when he is playing his game.
 
wheelerdog said:
I'm sure the Hurley haters will find something to criticize.
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Got to give props. His best job yet IMO. Under control, had the team run, and when they started stalling took good TOs and put in some schemes to keep the ball and players rotating, and crashed the boards and stuck with it at the end. Got burned once but that paid off big time. So, let’s hope he keeps reflecting and learning. Night and day versus Nova where he was out foxed out of the gate, and Wright was 2 steps ahead of him all day.
 
Not much to complain about with this one, had an answer for everything Marquette threw at us. Timeouts, the subs, the energy were all great. Let's do it again Thursday

Would be nice to have a backup PG, hopefully the few minutes of PG Andre convinced Danny to run it out there for 5-10 minutes a game
 
I refuse to believe that Lewis kid is a freshman. He is built/looks like a 35 year old. What was he ranked coming out of high school?

credit to Whaley for toughing it out - he looked really limited in the first half
 
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Ckulmer34 said:
I refuse to believe that Lewis kid is a freshman. He is built/looks like a 35 year old. What was he ranked coming out of high school?

credit to Whaley for toughing it out - he looked really limited in the first half
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He's a sophomore, played against us last year too. Was a backend of the top 100 4* recruit out of HS. UConn was one of the other finalists for him before he chose Marquette
 
navery12 said:
He's a sophomore, played against us last year too. Was a backend of the top 100 4* recruit out of HS. UConn was one of the other finalists for him before he chose Marquette
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Makes more sense
no freshman should be 6’7”, 245 and play like that
btw, when Sanogo was guarding him they looked to be similar heights. I’m assuming it is Sanogo being closer to 6’7” than the other way around
 
Great win, and I was really happy to see Hawkins have good minutes - pretty sure he had 2 blocks and his D overall just looked way better. Was a bit surprised he didn't get more time in the 2nd half (or Polley since he was hitting) but we won so no complaint.

As pointed out earlier it looked like Dan Hurley "played" better too today which is good to see.

Curious about the Xavier game as I they are the only BE team I haven't watched a game of but if tonight's Huskies show up... I think we'll chalk up a W.
 
Going to take credit for this win guys. Bet against us so of course they showed up and covered the spread playing their best game of the season probably.
 
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mauconnfan said:
He had them very ready tonight and it was fun to see them play offense like they did in the first half. 2nd half wasn’t pretty but not on coach either too many brain fart possessions which help keep them in the game. We are still not great with leads but no reason to whine tonight just enjoy!
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Seems back to back three's are killing us. We grab a nice lead and almost lose it.
 
Husky Alien said:
I'm just going to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this game from start to finish. Just had a certain feel to it and coach & team just seemed more composed than in resent games.
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Are you saying that you had zero anxiety when Marquette closed the lead down to 3 twice late in the 2nd half?
 
Waquoit said:
I'm not giving up on Gaff. He was at the scorers table around the 13 minute mark in the 2nd half. My eyes went back to the game and when the whistle blew he was gone.
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He wasn't out on the floor long. I didn't see do anything wrong. Okay Sonogo scored crazy, but I think he had or caused more turn overs than anybody.
 
Hankster said:
He wasn't out on the floor long. I didn't see do anything wrong. Okay Sonogo scored crazy, but I think he had or caused more turn overs than anybody.
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You didn’t see his egregious turnovers? Particularly the one in transition when he had a man advantage and he tried to force the corner pass?
 
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