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HooperScooper said:
The offense still looks a little rough.
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They ran pretty good offense, just missed a lot of wide open (wide wide open) threes, missed alot of FTs, missed a bunch of point blank shots too. Basically just couldn’t make a shot.

Ball, Demary, and Stewart, Reibe played well today. Karaban played well, but couldn’t make open shots from anywhere on the court.

Rough game for Mullins, and rough 1st half for Smith. Reed was OK but should have dominated Marquette fromt line.

Officiating was decent, glad we didn’t get the Seton Hall / Creighton crew today because those guys were awful.
 
If Silas can consistently hit threes when defenders go under screens, watch out. Less hesitation which led to a great scoring game. imo his 3rd and 4th fouls were both bogus so I’m not putting much thought into the foul trouble

JAYLIN STEWART! Engaged on both ends of the ball, throwing down dunks, swatting shots, grabbing boards, dropping dimes..fantastic game

Another game Solo can’t make a three but still is the biggest scoring threat on the floor. Did his damage at the rim today, he’s become a really versatile scorer

I don’t know why Malachi can’t make FTs, he shot 70+% for three years at Dayton. Reibe struggled too at 1-3. Otherwise FT shooting was fine. Solo 80%, Silas and Tarris 75%

The basketball gods saw us rip Xavier for 13 threes so made sure we missed them all today. I thought it was funny Braylon missed 6 wide open ones then the 1 that he hit was a contested sidestep pull-up

Marquette is…..bad. Very undisciplined, very out of control, very selfish. What is Shaka doing??? Even when they do manage to get a good look, they can’t make it. Brutal
 
Umami Zen said:
Positives I saw were Stewie's impact/energy in the paint-Had some excellent entry/dump passes to the Bigs and played tough D. Thought Solo did a nice job on the boards for a guard. Good to see.

I'm sure Danny will have them focused vs Friars. Gotts bring the energy Wed.
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PC could be interesting, coming in with some confidence and into their Super Bowl.
 
REB1094 said:
I thought it was funny Braylon missed 6 wide open ones then the 1 that he hit was a contested sidestep pull-up
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I'd have to watch again but it didn't feel like Braylon's 6 misses were wide open. At least a couple seemed forced and the one from the logo was open for a reason since defenders don't typically pick up their man out at that distance.
 
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Anyone know anything about Reibe’s fingers? Looked like he had tape on one or two of them. It might have been there last game in all honesty. I don’t recall tho.
 
Slow start, good flow for ten minutes in first half. Dud of a finish to the first half.
First 6 minutes of second half was watching a lead grownand paint dry. Last 15 minutes was a snooze fest.


Marquette is a bad team and a terrible shooting team.


Positives- They won. Solo is becoming a scorer and not just a shooter. Theyneon easily with Kelraban and Mullins non-factors offensively. Stewart was aggressive and stuffed the stat sheet. Just need Stewart or Ross to be effective each game. Riebe is a great back up center. A luxury all but a few teams have at their disposal.

Negatives- Silas fouls too much and we are seeing Smith's ceiling and limitations. Horrible ahoot8ng from AK and Mullins.

Roles are being defined. Offense runs much better wit Demary in the line up but he takes himself out with fouling. Smith has to get his FT touch back. EveryFT attempt by Smith looks horrible. It's a mental block 2
which shows with his form. Dude could Schhitt out a diamond with the way he is pressing.

It is almost reasonable to see if Millneder can handle back up PG duties.

LOL'd at anyone who took UConn with the points.
 
i get our fans weren't loud but these last few games have been very meh to get the crowd going anyway
 
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superjohn said:
Because he's a practice level player and we have two point guards who are way better than him.
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Is Smith way better than Millender?

Smith doesn’t facilitate the offense. He bogs it down where we have to throw up a last second shot. He drives to the hoop and gets blocked consistently. He can’t make free throws. Occasionally he’ll make a good assist for a bucket but he doesn’t focus on doing that. He’s a decent shooter at the point guard position. But as for running UConn’s offense, it’s obvious he doesn’t actually have a clue of
how to do it.

I like the energy he brings, I like the competitiveness he brings, I like his shooting, I don’t like that he doesn’t facilitate the offense. And the coaching staff either realizes that he doesn’t have the capability to run the offense, or for some reason they simply don’t care to coach him up to play point guard the way it should be played.
 
RuffRuff said:
LOL. Yeah, Malachi is a ball pounder. He's more of the old school PG.
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Might help Smith to vary his pace, seems to always play to a long shot clock, but the coaches seem OK with this pace.
 
KingAG said:
Did you miss the Xavier game?
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Ok. 1 game. Did y miss the rest of the games?? I think against non cupcakes they’ve had 2 games over 40%. And 1 game under 30 %.

Our backup C is 3rd in 3pt % and our sharpshooter is under 30%. We have 1 high volume shooter over 40%. In These don’t sound like numbers for a good 3pt shooting team imo. Being #102 in 3 pt % for a team that was supposed to be 4 out isn’t very good.
 
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NJHusky said:
Ok. 1 game. Did y miss the rest of the games?? I think against non cupcakes they’ve had 2 games over 40%. And 1 game under 30 %.

Our backup C is 3rd in 3pt % and our sharpshooter is under 30%. We have 1 high volume shooter over 40%. In These don’t sound like numbers for a good 3pt shooting team imo. Being #102 in 3 pt % for a team that was supposed to be 4 out isn’t very good.
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You said “sometimes” and I showed you evidence of sometimes. That by definition makes them streaky. Silas, AK, Mullins, and Ball are all good 3 point shooters by skill set. I don’t need a 12 game sample size of numbers to tell me that.
 
KingAG said:
You said “sometimes” and I showed you evidence of sometimes. That by definition makes them streaky. Silas, AK, Mullins, and Ball are all good 3 point shooters by skill set. I don’t need a 12 game sample size of numbers to tell me that.
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Actually 1 game is an anomaly. Streaky is 1/2 up 1/2 down. They have been mostly poor. If they were streaky they wouldn’t be sub 100 3pt %.
 
NJHusky said:
Actually 1 game is an anomaly. Streaky is 1/2 up 1/2 down. They have been mostly poor. If they were streaky they wouldn’t be sub 100 3pt %.
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Okay so you are arguing they’ve only shot good in one game. Got it.

They shot 8-18 against BYU
10-28 against illinois
8-18 against florida
6-16 again texas
7-20 against butler
13-28 against Xavier


I excluded all cupcakes. They’ve shot over 35% from 3 as a team in 6 out of 10 power 5 games. More than 1/2.

I would actually argue they don’t take enough.
 
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UConnTrumbull said:
Hurley essentially said as much. My theory - the summer reshuffle of the “forever seats” brought more of a wine and cheese crowd to the front.
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I was there. Not close to a wine and cheese guy in the 200's. The game had no flow. Refs called over 20 fouls in the first half. There were no runs and very little competitiveness in the second half. Not a high energy game at all.
 
boog204 said:
He has not played a meaningful minute in a UConn uniform. All cupcakes or end of blowouts. What is it you all think he will bring to the table at the obvious expense of vastly superior players? Make it make sense.
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Another capable ball-handler, looks like a decent defender, good FT shooter, and 5 fouls to give!
 
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Donyell 360 said:
I thought Solo had a great game but I'm starting to think he is just never going to be an efficient 3 point shooter this year. I love his ability to drive the ball, midrange and floater and usually make free throws. His defense has improved as well. He looks like our best player most nights. If he was shooting 40% from 3 he would be an All-American and in discussion for POY. But I won't be greedy. Take what I can get with Solo. Glad he's a Husky!
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Honestly, I'll take a Solo who is a mid-30's shooter from 3 if it means all other facets of his game are improved over a 1-dimensional 41% 3-pt shooter.
 
MuchoDogYears said:
Is Smith way better than Millender?

Smith doesn’t facilitate the offense. He bogs it down where we have to throw up a last second shot. He drives to the hoop and gets blocked consistently. He can’t make free throws. Occasionally he’ll make a good assist for a bucket but he doesn’t focus on doing that. He’s a decent shooter at the point guard position. But as for running UConn’s offense, it’s obvious he doesn’t actually have a clue of
how to do it.

I like the energy he brings, I like the competitiveness he brings, I like his shooting, I don’t like that he doesn’t facilitate the offense. And the coaching staff either realizes that he doesn’t have the capability to run the offense, or for some reason they simply don’t care to coach him up to play point guard the way it should be played.
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Do people already forget the beginning of the season?
 
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