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CTFAN4LIFE said:
Disagree - we stopped running our regular motion oriented sets. Actually we did the same thing against Stetson. I think they don't want to aid in future opponents scouting us. In Hurley I trust.
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That’s a great take. Why run plays so the next team can’t scout
 
EnochRoot said:
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.
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And then what? We don’t play again until Thursday night. No one is going to be more tired on Thursday because they played an extra 5 minutes on Sunday.
 
I don't know about you guys... But a blowout on TV and a blowout in person feel completely different.

I don't mind when I'm watching a blowout on TV.

But damn, I was mostly bored tonight at Barclays. Both games were complete blowouts (esp the Duke game). My wife was actually surprised when I was enthusiastic that Northwestern made it a bit of game on the 2nd Half. I know it sounds kinda odd. But I needed something to make it exciting. At the end of the day I knew the game was over. UConn dominated from the tip...

Anyway, Win and Advance! Lets keep this going folks! I won't be at Boston but I will sure as hell be at Legends NYC (hoping for a good crowd there)
 
businesslawyer said:
And then what? We don’t play again until Thursday night. No one is going to be more tired on Thursday because they played an extra 5 minutes on Sunday.
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The idea of pulling your starters early when the game is out of reach for the opponent isn't just for their rest. It's also to avoid injury.

Come on, a good lawyer doesn't ask the question he doesn't already know the answer to, right?
 
ecasadoSBU said:
I don't know about you guys... But a blowout on TV and a blowout in person feel completely different.

I don't mind when I'm watching a blowout on TV.

But damn, I was mostly bored tonight at Barclays. Both games were complete blowouts (esp the Duke game). My wife was actually surprised when I was enthusiastic that Northwestern made it a bit of game on the 2nd Half. I know it sounds kinda odd. But I needed something to make it exciting. At the end of the day I knew the game was over. UConn dominated from the tip...

Anyway, Win and Advance! Lets keep this going folks! I won't be at Boston but I will sure as hell be at Legends NYC (hoping for a good crowd there)
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Barclays is also not a great arena IMO
 
Was at Barclays tonight and I’d say there may have been just as many, if not more spillover Duke fans there than UConn fans, and they were all booing us, def not a very friendly environment for us tonight.

also I find it incredibly corny to stay and boo a team that your team is not playing. Although I’m sure a lot of UConn fans do that.
 
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Mookson said:
Was at Barclays tonight and I’d say there may have been just as many, if not more spillover Duke fans there than UConn fans, and they were all booing us, def not a very friendly environment for us tonight.

also I find it incredibly corny to stay and boo a team that your team is not playing. Although I’m sure a lot of UConn fans do that.
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If dook fans are anything, it's corny. they really are an odd lot. think about this. UNC-dook is, allegedly, one of the greatest rivalries in college sports. And dook boos UConn. the bluest of the blues.
 
tzznandrew said:
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.
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It would have been like the Xavier game in Hartford
 
I will say it is good UConn is winning games without shooting well (poorly even) because we all know shooting usually goes down in the final four stadium. Not being reliant on the three is not a bad thing.
 
StllH8L8ner said:
“Best player on the floor” couldn’t throw it in the ocean. Nitwit podcasters.

A little lackluster in the second half and need to find the three point range, but still not worried.
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Hurley confident. We. Are. Good.
 
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tzznandrew said:
@Hans Sprungfeld : time to eat.
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You really misread me

tzznandrew said:
@Hans Sprungfeld : time to eat.
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You either haven't comprehended me initially or in my explanation, OR you just mistrust me. If you understood or believed me, you'd clearly know there's no reason to "eat," or even bring the error up.

From what I see, you're on your second additional post since you first told me that you don't care. I don't believe you.

You have much to offer this forum, when you concentrate on your strengths. Why engage me as someone other than a rooting-interest teammate aligned with you in larger interest?

EDIT: Figured I'd give you 2 versions
 
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Excellent first half without shooting well from deep. 2nd half not enough passion and should’ve been throwing it into the interior much more instead of forcing shots. Also took the air out of the ball way too early it seemed.

Oh well 2 good meh wins….next! Shots are gonna fall!!
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Pretty much any other bubble team once I found out about their key injury. Giving a Big 10 team with mediocre metrics a bid because of one great win, even though that team would be missing a key player for the tournament was conference welfare.
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They beat the number 8 team in the 1st round.
 
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JustbrewitMan said:
I understand that a win is a win at this point, but you need to have every edge that you can get to win it all...

We've shown upcoming better teams twice now that we're capable of letting our foot off the gas with a lead in the 2nd half. And also that we can go dead-arse ice cold for long stretches.

That's hope for a team that may be desperately trying to come back from a big deficit. We want teams to be deflated and hopeless when we stretch the lead to 15-20 pts.

Nitpicky rant, but need to strive for 40min of perfection. Tough to get it, but need to try!
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We played 2 games that were completely over by halftime. Both felt over by the first under 12 timeout. The last thing these games provided other teams is hope
 
husky429 said:
Bouie finished 2/15 from the field being guarded by a freshman in his final collegiate game. Castle is the best perimeter defender in America.
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agreed...thats coaching and player buy-in. I believe, unless I'm wrong, I read in your HS scouting report last yr of Castle that he couldn't guard opposing PG, so that's real praise a year later
 
FreeKlaiber said:
agreed...thats coaching and player buy-in. I believe, unless I'm wrong, I read in your HS scouting report last yr of Castle that he couldn't guard opposing PG, so that's real praise a year later
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Many HS recruits are pretty bad defenders. Andre was too. The coaches don't demand it because they carry such a load on offense.
 
HuskyFich said:
Shout out to Andre Johnson for securing the spread. Hopefully you don’t get reamed out by coach too bad.

Husky Nation salutes you!
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I had UConn -13.5 + UConn over 74.5.

Andres first points of the year clicked it to 75 for me. LOL. Thank you sir!
 
Kolumbo said:
Everyone watching the game is thinking, "only 8 blocks? wth was I watching?!"
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They don’t have instant replay for blocks. There was at least one replay that show DCs fingertips deflecting the shot and it wasn’t counted as a blick
 
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The combination of Clingan controlling the paint (and not getting into foul trouble) and Castle's total commitment to shut down/limit opponent's top scoring threat is just awesome to watch. Game over.

Not as worried about three point shooting as some. Law of averages dictates occasional cold shooting nights. The shots were there in the flow of the offense. They were good shots that were mostly uncontested. And we usually make them. Our 2 point shooting average was off the charts.

Reload/refocus/ and move on to Thursday.

EDIT: BTW..The coaches didn't instruct them to stop shooting the three ball
 
Castle: What a great young man. He was admittedly not great on D until Hurley and the coaching staff worked with him. He is a willing, motivated learner who wants to improve and it shows.

3's: No doubt the 3's have to get a lot better in the upcoming rounds. But let's give Northwestern credit for their defense on the perimeter. Both Karaban and Spencer were continually searching for open shots but there was always someone in their face or preventing them from getting the ball. So it was obvious that NW's defensive strategy was to stop the 3 and slack off near the rim. That is why going into the paint was available the entire first half.

Second Half: Hurley has to be very concerned. Uconn was completely taken out of the game and Northwestern outscored them with great shooting but mostly poor switching and lackadaisical defense. Is this the result of building a big lead and then mentally slacking off? Whatever it is I am sure Hurley is worried about what it means for the next rounds.

I know there will be those that will say, "Hey,relax. The MOV was 23 ,so what's the big deal?" I get it. But I am certain Hurley isn't all that pleased. There are several days to work on what the problems were in the second half so let us hope that they are taken care of by Thursday vs San Diego St.
 
Palatine said:
We did NOT stop running the offense. We went cold. We turned the ball over. And they got hot. Hell, Newton even missed the front end of a one and one.

On to Boston.
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They stopped running offense and Newton started dribbling up high while guys stood around. It's a bad idea because our normal offense wastes a ton of clock anyway.
 
mauconnfan said:
Excellent first half without shooting well from deep. 2nd half not enough passion and should’ve been throwing it into the interior much more instead of forcing shots. Also took the air out of the ball way too early it seemed.

Oh well 2 good meh wins….next! Shots are gonna fall!!
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To be fair, if you look at the entire season. How many stretches have we really looked sloppy, unfocused, not passionate enough?

You can probably count them on one hand. Being up 25+ for the first game and a half this week probably just let them slip for a few minutes. Not worried.
 
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