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Message: [QUOTE="RichZ, post: 3050489, member: 534"] [LIST=1] [*]SMU Coach looks like a detective junior grade on the bunko squad. [*]4 of 5 shots to start the game went in and out. Bad break or omen? [*]9:55 in first half, Polley got hammered on a putback attempt. No call. [*]Cobb may be the worst defensive center in the history of Husky hoops, so the only rationale for playing him [I](other than Carlton being in foul trouble)[/I] is his supposed offensive skills. Given that line of thought, it sure would be nice if he would jump higher than 3 inches on layup attempts. He seems to jump reasonably high on rebounds and when attempting that half-hook 8 foot shot he likes. But put him under the boards and pass him the ball, or let him get an offensive rebound under the rim, and instead of powering up and dunking it, goes up so weak and stays so close to the floor that he might as well be a 5-10 guard. I wouldn't be surprised if half of SMU's 8 blocks were blocks of Cobb shots from 2 feet away. [*]Alterique was playing soft and deferring at first. To be expected, given the injury and layoff. But when he finally took and made a shot[I] (It didn't count because of a whistle for a non shooting foul on his drive),[/I] Hurley took him out before the ball was inbounded. I thought that was a big mistake. He'd finally felt comfortable enough to drive to the hoop and saw the ball go in. Confidence booster! I thought he was ready to go off at that point. Can't go off from the bench, and there's no guarantee that he'll still have that confidence when you put him back in however much later. As it turned out, when he got back in, he was back in passive mode, and when he missed a couple, he started to disappear. [*]I was so disgusted by it, I didn't make note of whether it was CV or Terrance Myth, but at about 6:13 left in the 2nd half, one of them made the worst pass of the season. Maybe the worst pass of the decade. 4 defenders between the ball and the lone Husky in the paint. Guard with ball throws such a weak- pass that the defenders had time to do a rock/paper/scissors round robin to see which one of them was going to intercept it. I had to get some sleep, so I figured I would check the replay to see who it actually was when I got home today, before posting this. Evidently, the game was so awful that ESPN didn't bother to put up a replay of a game on their own damned network. [*]Mid-second half, on I think 4 of 5 consecutive SMU possessions, I saw some of the worst defense I can remember a UConn team playing. Just too many bad things happened in that stretch to even think about. Came very close to turning the game the hell off. [*]The way they fell apart the last 5 minutes, I wish I had turned it off. [*]We outrebounded SMU 18 to 5 on the offensive boards! Of course that number is fueled by the 49 opportunities for offensive boards that our 30% field goal accuracy produced. We [B]missed [/B]as many shots as SMU [B]took[/B]! [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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