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navery12 said:
Alex and Solo will rightfully get a ton of props for stepping up from a bad night to close out a win, and rightfully so. But Jaylin Stewart coming in and knocking down a 3 and playing good defense right after Solo picked up his 3rd foul was massive, that had the potential to go off the rails quick
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Agreed. He got a cardio workout in the first half but was much more effective in the 2nd half.
 
I said it in the chat during the game but with the way Liam is hijacking things I would like to see Solo and Jaylin get a bit more opportunity to ball create. Solo can get into the lane for a midrange pull-up, I don't want Jaylin starting at the 3 point line but get him on the move or in the midpost area and he can get to 2 dribbles and get crafty near the basket. If Liam goes haywire again against UF that game will be done by the half.
 
uconnfan68 said:
Someone had to do it. Just a total rock fight. Just happy we got #13 to tie duke. F them.
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It’s Dook we tied….they get zero respect on this board….them and that generational player and accomplished troller they have playing for them this year can kiss my you know what. Don’t like them never have never will.
 
HooperScooper said:
Is there something wrong with McNeeley? Was the 38 point win at Creighton the last good game he had? That was over a month ago. He's been especially brutal from three. We need him to break out of this on Sunday in a big way.
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I think he is still not 100% healthy. High ankle sprains sometimes take a long time to fully heal.
 
All gravy from here

McNeeley is probably the 6th best player on the team right now, which is fine because freshmen have these stretches, but he’s playing like he’s the only option. Time (really past time) to reel it and and defer to his teammates
 
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Hunt for 7 said:
It’s Dook we tied….they get zero respect on this board….them and that generational player and accomplished troller they have playing for them this year can kiss my you know what. Don’t like them never have never will.
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Another thing is stopping the haters from saying ,oh well Hurley hasn't won a tournament game for UConn outside of the back to back championships, that's one thing to knock off his list he's 3-2 in 1st rd games for UConn instead of 2-3, the haters would surely bring that up had we lost and some of them exist on this board.
 
aceboon said:
I said it in the chat during the game but with the way Liam is hijacking things I would like to see Solo and Jaylin get a bit more opportunity to ball create. Solo can get into the lane for a midrange pull-up, I don't want Jaylin starting at the 3 point line but get him on the move or in the midpost area and he can get to 2 dribbles and get crafty near the basket. If Liam goes haywire again against UF that game will be done by the half.
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Yea, need to pull the green light from Liam and spread that around a bit. He needs to find his floater.

There were a few possessions where the offense completely stalled out and we played 1 vs 5.

Hoping we can put this game behind us quickly.
 
RipCity said:
All gravy from here

McNeeley is probably the 6th best player on the team right now, which is fine because freshmen have these stretches, but he’s playing like he’s the only option. Time (really past time) to reel it and and defer to his teammates
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At one point he was 2-11 from the field and nobody else had more than 5 shots. Oklahoma couldn't stop Reed down low but he only had 5 shots. I'm hoping McNeeley breaks out in a big way on Sunday. He's due.
 
Way far off our usual game. I look for assists, and we had precious few tonight.

Still enough points on the board to win, and I'll settle for that although I might not sleep for another hour or so.
 
I think the team defers too much to Liam at times. Several times you could see them stand around and wait for him to try and make a play which resulted in a late clock bad shot. OU's defense wasn't suffocating so much as guys were just no executing.

I don't think it was a coincidence that when Hurley took out Liam after that dumbest foul and put jstew in things looked a little better.

We also forgot about Tarris basically the entire second half when he was in the game.
 
We know what we're up against Sunday who cares let's enjoy a tournament win let's live in the moment. You know social media and mainstream media was gonna be all giddy seeing Hurley lose tonight, and celebrate Fears.

I can handle losing to a better team but I'll be damned if we had let those smiling floopers beat us, we out toughed them.
 
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We need our players to play with confidence. No hesitation.

What the team should learn from this is: as long as your defense is good you can miss shots and still win. As long as they are in rhythm, take the shot, especially under 10 seconds.
 
HooperScooper said:
At one point he was 2-11 from the field and nobody else had more than 5 shots. Oklahoma couldn't stop Reed down low but he only had 5 shots. I'm hoping McNeeley breaks out in a big way on Sunday. He's due.
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Stewart has a legitimate gripe. He’s shooting 16% better than Liam from the field but getting 75% fewer shots.
 
Then the other big prospect in this night session was McNeeley. Finishing is obviously an issue. Didn't make shots tonight. He gets a ton of grenades where he has to fire up late shots in the clock. Some things to work through for him for sure, wish we'd see him with a great PG.
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Love Diarra, but would've love to see Newton or Castle with 3 shooters like Ball, McNeeley and Karaban. I think each one them would've shot well over 40% from three.
 
JustbrewitMan said:
Good news is we played about our C minus game and won

Tells you about the overall quality of the SEC mid teams.

Let’s play our A game the rest of the tourney…

5* Liam…we’re waiting for you…
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OU shot 32% from the floor or the 18% from 3. And UConn is not exactly the toughest defense in the country.

I somehow suspect this wasn't their A game either.
 
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HooperScooper said:
At one point he was 2-11 from the field and nobody else had more than 5 shots. Oklahoma couldn't stop Reed down low but he only had 5 shots. I'm hoping McNeeley breaks out in a big way on Sunday. He's due.
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We had that two week stretch where he was being relied on for everything and he settled into that chucking role when it isn’t necessary anymore.

I’m not trying to dump on the kid because he busts his @ss and clearly cares so much, but he is a black hole offensively right now. It doesn’t help that Karaban has struggled with confidence/consistency and Ball despite being the best shooter on the team by a mile at this point is extremely passive.

At the end of the day UConn’s two most efficient offensive players are the centers and they barely touch the ball. The offense should be running through Reed when he’s in but it never does.
 
Shine21 said:
Then the other big prospect in this night session was McNeeley. Finishing is obviously an issue. Didn't make shots tonight. He gets a ton of grenades where he has to fire up late shots in the clock. Some things to work through for him for sure, wish we'd see him with a great PG.
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Love Diarra, but would've love to see Newton or Castle with 3 shooters like Ball, McNeeley and Karaban. I think each one them would've shot well over 40% from three.
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Yeah too bad Newton or even Spencer(who was trying to) didn't have eligibility. Newton would of helped on both sides of the ball and Cam Spencer was a great rebounder to go with his clutch scoring.
 
JustbrewitMan said:
Good news is we played about our C minus game and won

5* Liam…we’re waiting for you…
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Yep. Also, UConn does not need the 38 point performer every time he steps on the court. There is a lot he is good at besides scoring. He must help the team in other ways. The shot will come. He is an excellent shooter, and needs to shoot in rhythm.
 
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Played disjointed all night on offense. Didn't take advantage to build a large lead. Almost squander it until Diarra, Ball, and Karaban stepped up to secure the victory.

Oklahoma had some good players but their best player is young and it showed in crunch time.

Thank goodness for those UConn champs carrying us at least into the Round of 32. Now we play with house money and see what happens.
 
UConn won a championship after winning the 1st game in overtime. Compared to that, this was a breeze. Wasn't Florida a top team and in our way that year also? If Ollie could do it, surely Hurley can too.
 
This is really all it's about. Live to play another game
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Hunt for 7 said:
I think he is still not 100% healthy. High ankle sprains sometimes take a long time to fully heal.
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Not sure it’s the same ankle but ailment seems to be bothering him for past few weeks.
 
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