Northwestern Post Game Thread

[BugsyCT]

Give me 4 more great 1st halves and meh 2nd halves - as long as we win.

Survive and advance.

 

[navery12]

I kind of like that we had that second half so Hurley and staff can rip them a bit and focus them up.

I do not envy the players dealing with Hurley for the next 93 hours

 

[IndyLives]

three big east teams in the sweet sixteen!!

Committee should be embarrassed!

 

[warbler1055]

Karaban needs to work on his offense and his 3 pts shots.

 

[James]

Clingan trying to be the number 1 pick with how he’s playing.
Castle just nasty defense

only thing holding him back is his physicals. Who knows what a doctor will say about his body, but he is an absurd talent. Camby esque

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Clingan trying to be the number 1 pick with how he’s playing.
Castle just nasty defense

If anyone is still unclear on why these two are going in the lottery this year after watching that, they are beyond help.

 

[Kolumbo]

Nothing that happens in the 2nd half matters when the game is over at the half.

 

[brihman]

Like rollover minutes on Cingular Wireless

Turn on Houston v Texas A&M for a normal 1 game vs a 9 seed

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

UConn was up 57-27 with 13:28 remaining.

They were outscored 31-18 from there on out.

That should be what Hurley uses to motivate this team to finish off games.

They didn’t shoot the ball well today, I get it. But this stuff seems weird to me. When they have a 30 point lead with less than 15 minutes left a 15 point win accomplishes the same thing as a 50 point win.

For the people who want every game to be a 40 point mopping the goal is to be ahead when the clock hits 0:00 no matter how you get there. They had a ton of open shots down the stretch. They just missed them. And still were never in danger of losing that game.

 

[HailUConn]

Cling Kong is in an elite company!

 

[WhereistheDove?]

They didn’t shoot the ball well today, I get it. But this stuff seems weird to me. When they have a 30 point lead with less than 15 minutes left a 15 point win accomplishes the same thing as a 50 point win.

For the people who want every game to be a 40 point mopping the goal is to be ahead when the clock hits 0:00 no matter how you get there. They had a ton of open shots down the stretch. They just missed them. And still were never in danger of losing that game.

Especially in the tournament. There are at least “style points” in some of the regular season metrics. It’s all meaningless now. Win or lose. Those are the two outcomes.

 

[bendm]

So strange how fired up people get bc we let our lead get down to 16.

cbs forced Purdues 40 point win on us like we were all Malcolm McDowell in a clockwork orange. It’s conditioning

 

[storrsroars]

They didn’t shoot the ball well today, I get it. But this stuff seems weird to me. When they have a 30 point lead with less than 15 minutes left a 15 point win accomplishes the same thing as a 50 point win.

For the people who want every game to be a 40 point mopping the goal is to be ahead when the clock hits 0:00 no matter how you get there. They had a ton of open shots down the stretch. They just missed them. And still were never in danger of losing that game.

I suppose to me the difference is that Purdue increased their lead in 2nd half and started subbing with 7 minutes left. Would've been nice to get the bench more minutes. Just sayin'

 

[temery]

Cling Kong is in an elite company!

he was robbed of the triple double

 

[nelsonmuntz]

They didn’t shoot the ball well today, I get it. But this stuff seems weird to me. When they have a 30 point lead with less than 15 minutes left a 15 point win accomplishes the same thing as a 50 point win.

For the people who want every game to be a 40 point mopping the goal is to be ahead when the clock hits 0:00 no matter how you get there. They had a ton of open shots down the stretch. They just missed them. And still were never in danger of losing that game.

A decent coach can burn the clock up 20+ points in the second half, and that is exactly what most decent coaches do. Hurley ran the game right in the second half.

 

[IndyLives]

near a 100% win percent by the 10-minute mark in each game. DOMINANCE.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Not the kind of 2nd half you want, but it didn’t matter. The 3 shooting was universally terrible, by everyone. That’s not likely to happen again, but something to focus on. The games only get tougher from here.

Dominating the paint against Northwestern wasn’t difficult, it’ll be harder against most of the potential future matchups, and we’ll need those 3’s.

 

[slepers]

The second half was completely irrelevant. The game was over 5 minutes into the second half and Hurley put UConn in cruise control.

Northwestern really sucked, and it was a travesty that they got a bid with two key players injured while other more deserving teams stayed home.

So fau didn’t belong either?…

 

[Devland]

So strange how fired up people get bc we let our lead get down to 16.

I wasn't worried about the game. I was a little worried about the spread.

 

[phillionaire]

If we had hit 3 more garbage three pointers and won by 26 would people still be bellyaching? (Yes)

 

[EnochRoot]

They didn’t shoot the ball well today, I get it. But this stuff seems weird to me. When they have a 30 point lead with less than 15 minutes left a 15 point win accomplishes the same thing as a 50 point win.

For the people who want every game to be a 40 point mopping the goal is to be ahead when the clock hits 0:00 no matter how you get there. They had a ton of open shots down the stretch. They just missed them. And still were never in danger of losing that game.

I'm not saying they should've won by 50 points. My point is the team was outscored by 13 points over the final 13 minutes. I get that its a game of ebbs and flows, but had UConn matched Northwestern down til under the 8 minute mark, then you start thinking about pulling your starters around the 6. That wasn't at all possible tonight.

 

[temery]

A decent coach can burn the clock up 20+ points in the second half, and that is exactly what most decent coaches do. Hurley ran the game right in the second half.

Apparently he told them to start missing shots.

 

[Edward Sargent]

This is a 30 point win if we even only shoot slightly below average .

Y'all need to chill in the chat about stall ball. We missed some shots but executed pretty well. It is supposed to be ugly.

Actually we started taking random threes in the first half and continued throughout the game. 3 pt shooting was a hot mess

 

[tzznandrew]

They didn’t shoot the ball well today, I get it. But this stuff seems weird to me. When they have a 30 point lead with less than 15 minutes left a 15 point win accomplishes the same thing as a 50 point win.

For the people who want every game to be a 40 point mopping the goal is to be ahead when the clock hits 0:00 no matter how you get there. They had a ton of open shots down the stretch. They just missed them. And still were never in danger of losing that game.

It was a well-played game by us. We were up the whole time, never in danger. No one got hurt.

If we made 3s at a normal clip, the score would have been uglier.

 

[WhereistheDove?]