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Basically the same as last year. Missed open threes, multiple bunny layups. Bad defense and out of sync on offense.

Let's hope Reed and Mullins make a big difference.

Karaban DID look very good and he didnt seem to force as much as last season.
 
Well.......I'm glad they have 2 more games against cupcakes before playing BYU.

I figured it would take some time to gel with so many new pieces. Demary looks confused what he's supposed to do as the PG.

What was with the defense? Looked like they couldn't really stay in front of people.

There's work to do.
 
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Gutter King said:
Perimeter defense iffy. Solo same passer and same 80% speed cutter. We remain a team that weirdly struggles at close range. Those lead my concerns.

Positive Smith looks like he has penetration skills, Silas looks like he's got a bit of a bag, and...well...I guess that's it. Will reserve judgement until we have 5 or 6 games under our belt with Reed.
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Wish Smith had finishing skillz to match his penetration skills.
 
husky429 said:
Reibe has gotta rebound.
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He played smaller than he is tonight, but he gets to benefit from the film more than anyone. Also missed a dunk on a pass from AK because he wasn't ready. I think he's got good feet to show a lot of growth thia year.
 
I thought Karaban, Demary, Stewart and Ball were good, and everyone else was painful to watch tonight.
 
LetsGoUC said:
Basically the same as last year. Missed open threes, multiple bunny layups. Bad defense and out of sync on offense.

Let's hope Reed and Mullins make a big difference.

Karaban DID look very good and he didnt see to force as much as last season.
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We do have more penetrators on offense with Demary, Smith, Stewart and Ball. Though Ball was near the basket.
 
Demary really impressed me seeing him for the first time other than highlights. Ran the offense with efficiency and is a lot quicker than I envisioned him to be. Blew past defenders with ease.

The out of bounds baseline play for Solo’s made corner 3 with a minute left in the half was run a handful of times last year with the same result. Keep running it all year.
 
This season is gonna boil down to Tarris staying healthy it seems. Neither big was good against a very small team playing their first D1 game ever. Guessing that’s why we’re practicing insane levels of caution by not playing him today.

On the bright side, this is probably a 40+ point win with Reed and Mullins healthy. Gotta remember we’re down two starters.
 
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The offense uses up entirely too much clock to have guys consistently brick wide open 3s and shoot at the rim like a WNBA team, that is why you have a 15 point lead instead of a 30-35 point lead vs a low-major, and will play tight games vs high level high major teams. Reed will certainly help finishing at the rim and hopefully Mullins can hit open 3s, but alot of the issues we saw tonight were more of the same of what we saw last year.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Wish Smith had finishing skillz to match his penetration skills.
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No doubt, we'll see if he actually has strength at the rim as they settle in. No one finished tonight unfortunately. I do like him as a depth piece...I would already take him over Aidan, for instance.
 
Really Liked what JStew and JRoss gave us over the whole game.

Reibe looked good in first few minutes then got sloppy.

Really would have expected better perimeter D from Demary and Smith based on what they showed in the first 2 exhibitions.

Karaban is never going to be a reliable drive/finish guy for us. We just need to accept it and I hope the coaches do the same and don’t force it. It will be a detriment to our overall offense in the way it was last year too.

Getting Koroma was a steal for us.

I’m going to cross my fingers that Reed comes back soon and stays healthy. Same for Mullins. I think they mitigate a lot of the fretting that’s going on with the BY faithful.
 
FightOnCT said:
Glad we won but there’s a LOT of work to do, hope that Reed fixes a lot of that vs Lowell
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Reed would of dominated inside against this small New Haven team. He definitely wouldnt of gotten pushed around and would allow us to get some easy baskets inside which we need on offense.
 
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Hurry back Reed & Mullins, is all I can say. That was another one that was hard to watch. This season feels like it's going to be a deeper work in progress as opposed to having any early advantages due to continuity like we anticipated. After watching Arizona and Florida just now, I'm much less confident in our early season outcomes. Peat & Bradley may run through us. 3-3 is the goal.
 
21 players on the New Haven roster !
How is that possible ?
 
uconnever said:
Well finishing up Arizona taking out Florida and they both look deeper than us. We better step our game up in a hurry because I’m not sure we beat either one playing the way we have. Both big and deep up front especially.
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100% agreed. Those teams looked far more cohesive and athletic. I dropped the last 3 minutes of that awful game to cleanse my eyes with some good hoops.
 
3rdbass said:
Ross great first half on D and then was getting manhandled on drives in the 2nd half.
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To be fair, the one that he got manhandled the most was where the NH guy cleared him out with a blatant elbow clearout that went uncalled.
 
DRBackup said:
I don't know. They made a LOT of tough shots. The Pasha dude alone made like 7 fadeaway jumpers over Reibe
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Yeah I didn’t think Reibes defense on him was bad, that dude had some shooting luck today. Doubt that was a repeatable performance
 
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Karaban seemed to quietly go for 19 and 11. Stewart was solid with 11 and 8. Nobody jumped out as having a particularly great game though. Our guards/wings were almost completely unable to stop one-on-one dribble drives and there was little effective help defense. Someone commented that Ross was a dog on defense; I didn't see that. He did stop his guy a couple times but also got taken at least a few times. He was no "stopper". Reed's presence in the middle should help a fair bit. Koroma was a very good last minute pickup as emergency center. As some have mentioned, he looked better out there than Reibe.
 
RuffRuff said:
100% agreed. Those teams looked far more cohesive and athletic. I dropped the last 3 minutes of that awful game to cleanse my eyes with some good hoops.
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A top 5 team and championship contender should be dominating and overwhelming a team like New Haven. This team need to find their inner Dawg and start acting like fearless champions and not scared kitty cats who doubt themselves when they make a mistake. They need some swagger.
 
uconnever said:
Well finishing up Arizona taking out Florida and they both look deeper than us. We better step our game up in a hurry because I’m not sure we beat either one playing the way we have. Both big and deep up front especially.
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Yeah we would get spanked if we played like tonight.
 
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