My Not So Expert Reactions

[3rdbass]

Not sure why Hurley likes Yakwe so much. Feel like Whaley offers much more

Yeah, I was screaming at the TV to put him over Yakwe. I think he could do a better job with his added strength and his foot speed on Moore. Maybe his ankle is still troubling him. Yakwe reminds me of another transfer we had last year, DO.

 

[3rdbass]

Rique looked like our best guard. And he missed, what, 10 3s? I think that says something about how bad they were.

Get in the gym. Beat Cornell.

Rique looked like the worst guard to me that played significant minutes. Totally got engulfed by the bigger Iowa guards and over penetrated and turnover the ball too much. He is going to have to learn to recognize bigs collapsing on him sooner and pass the ball. Jalen redeem himself a little with his last 10 minutes of play. Unfortunately we expect a senior Jalen to give a good 30 plus minutes and not just 10.

 

[UConnDad]

My thoughts:

-Gilbert is still very rusty. Sometimes he stumbles or loses the ball for no reason or makes a move and seems surprised he didn’t blow by his guy and doesn’t know quite what to do. I’m not worried about this at all. If he stays healthy he is going to be great.

-yakwe sucks. Give Whaley those minutes.

-Iowa is a good team and a bad matchup for us. They used our aggressiveness against us and punished us for it. That’s an easy plan for a coach to try to implement but it’s very hard to execute...so much credit to them.

-We have a huge hole athletically at the 3/4 spot. Polley was getting bullied. We need Sid on this team. Sid is very slender too but he has athleticism that can make up for it in certain cases.

-I’m still feeling positive about this team.

Agree on most of this except Whaley is hurt. Shouldn't play until healthy. Can't even run down the court right now without limping.