- Joined
- Sep 22, 2011
- Messages
- 2,965
- Reaction Score
- 15,094
All those stats and strategy, if UConn doesnt get murdered at the Free Throw line, -10 or worse, I think they win this game comfortably.
Oklahoma Scouting Report
- Thread starter Hey Adrien!
- Start date
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2011
- Messages
- 2,965
- Reaction Score
- 15,094
High hedge is to jam he ball defender and drive him back and prevent penetration. Drop coverage works well when you have a bit who can drop and guard both roll man and dribbler.
If the dribbler can shoot, if you go drop, you better make sure that on ball defender is goifnnocer the top to prevent easy 3s.
I don't like either Johnson or Reed in drop evey time. They have to mix it up depending on situation.
Uh oh.
If we need to compete head-to-head with dressing all matchy-matchy, we’re down to rolling out the bananas.
HuskyHawk
The triumphant return of the Blues Brothers.
- Joined
- Sep 12, 2011
- Messages
- 34,259
- Reaction Score
- 90,622
Simply suggesting if the impression of OU fans is very fat guys in shorts, well, that hasn't been my observation at all. We do have blue/white and stripe games now.
One of the highlights of the 2004 final was the fact that blonde and orange go very well together. I was really rooting for Oklahoma St to defeat Georgia Tech to improve viewing options in the championship game
Very rarely. So rarely that it may be done by accident.
You are probably correct. Thanks for changing my mind. Especially since they appear to not have a pick and roll option
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2011
- Messages
- 4,522
- Reaction Score
- 17,411
Will be interesting to see if Hurley rolls out more Samson in the HH for defense or to take advantage of their interior on offense with Reed. Can likely go either way.
To also be considered is that OUs go to guy is a freshman. And there are rumors swirling of their coach on the look out to get out of dodge.
Last edited:
CL82
NCAA Woman's Basketball National Champions
- Joined
- Aug 24, 2011
- Messages
- 61,536
- Reaction Score
- 235,104
Yet unsurprising
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2011
- Messages
- 1,816
- Reaction Score
- 4,408
I just want to know which of their role players is going to go off for 30 pts against us.
Jalon Moore isn't a role player, but he'll probably hit 3 corner threes plus a bunch of drives against Karaban.
FfldCntyFan
Texas: Property of UConn Men's Basketball program
- Joined
- Aug 25, 2011
- Messages
- 14,368
- Reaction Score
- 54,157
The best advice I can give to the Sooners:
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 9,515
- Reaction Score
- 24,102
While the FT/3PT rates provided by the OP and others ITT do accurately portray OU's personnel, I want to emphasize, having watched this team a few times, that some of it is a function of play style. This team is fiercely committed to playing a four or five out type game and rarely deviates from it even when things start to spiral. All five guys on the floor, save for maybe the center depending on who's out there, can put the ball on the floor, pass, and finish. The level of skill and shot making offered by the likes of Kobe Elvis and Brycen Goodine is hardly on par with the Celtics, but it is enough to worry a team like UConn that's struggled guarding in space. I actually think the Fears kid might be a tad overrated given how much he benefits from that system.
I also can't be the only one wondering if the injury to Godwin might've paved the way for a better player - or maybe better fit - to get some minutes. Wague's at 19 MPG in his last four, which happens to coincide with their best stretch of play since December. He's a surprisingly adept passer who offers more playmaking on the short roll than their other bigs, and defensively he at least appears to move more crisply than Godwin. But coaches usually know more with these things, and I'd imagine their rebounding craters when he's on the floor.
What a weird team though. Four of the guys in their top nine have played for at least three different schools, and seven of their top eight are in their final year of eligibility. Save for Fears, their best six players have played in a combined 29 college seasons. That's insane. It's such a weird mish mosh of castoffs that you kind of want to root for them despite being horrified at what's happened to the sport you grew up with.
You'd think with that much experience it would be a grizzled, blue collar team that wants to muscle you and drag younger teams around in their chamber of hell, but they really don't play that way. It's more a finesse group of slightly undersized, slightly lacking athletically 3 & D wannabes that lacks in bulk and occasionally discipline. I think putting them through the meat grinder that is UConn's web of backscreens split actions could leave them exposed on the backline and outnumbered on the boards.
On paper, this is a game UConn would have been favored to win by double digits, at least, prior to the season, and in some ways, it seems like they still should now. It's a friendly draw, IMO, for UConn. This team is probably slightly overseeded and might not be in the tournament at all in a year with a stronger bubble. They have almost certainly overachieved by making the dance at all, and you have to trust that the coach knows that. Has he been spending his week crunching UConn film or filling out job applications? Because I can assure you his job at OU isn't going to get any easier next year when his top eight players are gone.
But is it a friendly draw for OU as well? Hurley's UConn teams have bowed out to weak opponents in the first round in both tournament appearances that didn't end with a title. They've lost this season to Colorado, Dayton, and Seton Hall among others.
You have to wonder, about where these teams are psychologically. Oklahoma blitzed through the nonconference schedule to a 13-0 record, defeating teams like Arizona, Louisville, and Michigan in the process (by the way, if you're doubting whether the SEC really is that good this season, do yourself a favor and look at OU's results - it is) and climbing as high as 12th in the polls. The NCAA Tournament was supposed to be a breath of fresh air, a liberation from the gauntlet of SEC play.
Instead, it's staring at Florida, a team that dominated them in their lone match-up this season and capped a five game stretch that saw the Sooners outscored by an astounding 95 points, even if it can survive the 2x defending champs. Do they have the bandwidth for that? Does UConn?
All I can say is nothing would surprise me about this one.
I also can't be the only one wondering if the injury to Godwin might've paved the way for a better player - or maybe better fit - to get some minutes. Wague's at 19 MPG in his last four, which happens to coincide with their best stretch of play since December. He's a surprisingly adept passer who offers more playmaking on the short roll than their other bigs, and defensively he at least appears to move more crisply than Godwin. But coaches usually know more with these things, and I'd imagine their rebounding craters when he's on the floor.
What a weird team though. Four of the guys in their top nine have played for at least three different schools, and seven of their top eight are in their final year of eligibility. Save for Fears, their best six players have played in a combined 29 college seasons. That's insane. It's such a weird mish mosh of castoffs that you kind of want to root for them despite being horrified at what's happened to the sport you grew up with.
You'd think with that much experience it would be a grizzled, blue collar team that wants to muscle you and drag younger teams around in their chamber of hell, but they really don't play that way. It's more a finesse group of slightly undersized, slightly lacking athletically 3 & D wannabes that lacks in bulk and occasionally discipline. I think putting them through the meat grinder that is UConn's web of backscreens split actions could leave them exposed on the backline and outnumbered on the boards.
On paper, this is a game UConn would have been favored to win by double digits, at least, prior to the season, and in some ways, it seems like they still should now. It's a friendly draw, IMO, for UConn. This team is probably slightly overseeded and might not be in the tournament at all in a year with a stronger bubble. They have almost certainly overachieved by making the dance at all, and you have to trust that the coach knows that. Has he been spending his week crunching UConn film or filling out job applications? Because I can assure you his job at OU isn't going to get any easier next year when his top eight players are gone.
But is it a friendly draw for OU as well? Hurley's UConn teams have bowed out to weak opponents in the first round in both tournament appearances that didn't end with a title. They've lost this season to Colorado, Dayton, and Seton Hall among others.
You have to wonder, about where these teams are psychologically. Oklahoma blitzed through the nonconference schedule to a 13-0 record, defeating teams like Arizona, Louisville, and Michigan in the process (by the way, if you're doubting whether the SEC really is that good this season, do yourself a favor and look at OU's results - it is) and climbing as high as 12th in the polls. The NCAA Tournament was supposed to be a breath of fresh air, a liberation from the gauntlet of SEC play.
Instead, it's staring at Florida, a team that dominated them in their lone match-up this season and capped a five game stretch that saw the Sooners outscored by an astounding 95 points, even if it can survive the 2x defending champs. Do they have the bandwidth for that? Does UConn?
All I can say is nothing would surprise me about this one.
D
Deleted at users request
This sounds like a game Reed looks like a future All-American in.
The real fun fact is the March Madness brain trust, picked Oklahoma over UConn. I don’t know if it’s ignorance, hate, or just plain stupidity.
As to point 2, OU turns it over a good amount, actually more than UConn does. That said, they do have a pretty high steal percentage.
They have had focus issues throughout the season. They often get lost on defense with simple off ball action, or don't rotate off a quick swing pass, or two. They also lose focus on offense and just throw the ball away.
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2011
- Messages
- 4,522
- Reaction Score
- 17,411
UConn does feel like a trendy pick to go down in this one, the trendiness likely based on the SEC vs a team that has played as flat and inconsistent against expectations as anyone out there this year not named Kansas/Baylor.
If you look at the matchup we should win but we’ve seen that before and lost.
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2017
- Messages
- 3,731
- Reaction Score
- 21,552
Why does that bother you? It doesn’t matter until the game is over.
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2016
- Messages
- 2,251
- Reaction Score
- 12,949
I think we will smoke them. Did they not lose 12 of their last 18 games or something like that. The story of the game, at least one big part, is rebounding both offensively and defensively, thank you @Hey Adrien! , and we are rebounding well late in the season here. If we limit our turnovers as well, we should be in good shape. Fears may be a one man wrecking crew, and I remember Glen Taylor from St. John's as a good player too. Just the same and I never mess with scores, I think we win by 8+
Last edited:
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2016
- Messages
- 2,251
- Reaction Score
- 12,949
Cool. Another good coach to The BIG EAST!
Any advantage this UConn team can get will be welcomed because they need it.
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2011
- Messages
- 4,522
- Reaction Score
- 17,411
Looks like Moser is Jay Wright's choice, hmmm. So OU is walking in with a coach that may have one foot out, lead by a freshman who is definitely gone - sounds like a favorable combo for us. An interesting twist indeed.
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2011
- Messages
- 16,606
- Reaction Score
- 37,692
It's also that, as a consequence, non-BE opponents aren't "socialized," in the same way that BE teams are, to know that they can get away with clutching and grabbing off the ball. So we're not likely to face as much resistance, regardless of the officiating.
(To be clear, this is also a blemish on BE officials, even if not a direct effect.)
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2011
- Messages
- 16,606
- Reaction Score
- 37,692
Backwards hats do it for you?
