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Polley Pitched A Shutout

I was wrong. Closest came against Creighton. Had 0 points, 0 assists and 1 rebound in 17 minutes. Pitched a shutout with 4 fouls against USC but that was in only 4 minutes.
 
HooperScooper said:
I was wrong. Closest came against Creighton. Had 0 points, 0 assists and 1 rebound in 17 minutes. Pitched a shutout with 4 fouls against USC but that was in only 4 minutes.
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Yes, so tonight is the high water mark.
 
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He’s a feast or famine kinda guy and tonight was definitely a famine. All good though... We won!
 
He is what he is at this point, his game isn't going to change. He's a (very) poor man's college version of Channing Frye. I would like to see us run some more action for Bouk opposite of Polley when he's running off screens, or even the bigs after screening for Polley because teams have been militant about trying to run him off the 3 point line since he went on his hot streak.
 
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UCFan1513 said:
0 fouls, 0 turnovers, 0 blocks as well. Bro just went out there and ran around
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No, I was actually txting my sister that he doesn't run around much, and definitely not enough to get himself free for uncontested shots. The only explanation/excuse I could come up was linger effect of the ACL tear.

I don't want to post negatively about him, but what I see is on a continuum that goes from puzzling to bothersome.
 
bmayuc said:
You would rather play a shorter player who shoots worse and also doesn't rebound or pass well and also turns the ball over all the time?

Don't ever coach, please.

Even when he pitches a 13 Trillion like tonight he is a threat and spaces the floor.
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I'm not going back and forth with the insults, but Polley literally can't do anything besides shoot. Adams is shorter but does everything else better than Polley including defend, rebound, pass and finishing. With Jackson in the fold I'm over the Polley experiment at this point in his career.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
No, I was actually txting my sister that he doesn't run around much, and definitely not enough to get himself free for uncontested shots. The only explanation/excuse I could come up was linger effect of the ACL tear.

I don't want to post negatively about him, but what I see is on a continuum that goes from puzzling to bothersome.
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When puzzling is your upside, that is not good
 
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Dove: "Polley wanna basket?"

Polley: "Yeah, no."
 
Defenses sag off of Whaley and Jackson making it more difficult for Sonogo, Cole and Bouknight to create. That is not the situation when Tyler is playing. There is a value to having Tyler on the floor for offense even if he doesn’t score.

I was happy he only had one play that his player slipped past him this game. However when he plays tight defense he is slow to react for rebounds.

Brendan is only a slightly better defender, definitely a better ball handler, not as good at causing defenses to blanket him the way they do Tyler and is a free throw liability relative to Tyler.
 
UConnStats said:
I love Polley and accept him for the role that he fills, but he is actually among the worst 6’7+ Rebounding players I can find in history using the player index.
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6’9”.....that makes it way worse
 
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Game changed in first half when Polley came in for Martin.

Martin was affirmatively awful for first 10 minutes. Polley was just invisible which made him much more effective than Martin tonight.
 
I think Hurley is the right guy and we can win a Natty with him as head coach but...
he definitely needs help on the offensive end. Polley needs to be parked somewhere on the 3 pt line and they need to run some action to free him up. He is running around the 3 pt line making rugby passes. Mindboggling. He needs to be a stationary shooter. It's not hard. Every NBA team has two. Also, our best player should NEVER get an offensive foul for setting a screen! And instead of going down 12-2 every game why don't we run some action for Bouk to get a shot early on? Calhoun would run double low screens on both sides of the floor until Rip got an open shot. Do the same for Bouk.
 
QDOG5 said:
I think Hurley is the right guy and we can win a Natty with him as head coach but...
he definitely needs help on the offensive end. Polley needs to be parked somewhere on the 3 pt line and they need to run some action to free him up. He is running around the 3 pt line making rugby passes. Mindboggling. He needs to be a stationary shooter. It's not hard. Every NBA team has two. Also, our best player should NEVER get an offensive foul for setting a screen! And instead of going down 12-2 every game why don't we run some action for Bouk to get a shot early on? Calhoun would run double low screens on both sides of the floor until Rip got an open shot. Do the same for Bouk.
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Cole is a much better shooter off the catch too.
 
AntG168 said:
Polley is a magnet on offense. He draws the defenses attention. For that reason alone he’s valuable
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Agreed. No reason to move him around. Let him float on the 3 pt line and force teams to dedicate a man to cover him. @nelsonmuntz Cole is a player and he's getting better by the game. I cringed when he tried to dribble through the quadrable team, lol, but his decision making has been impressive. I wouldn't have said this two weeks ago but this is a second weekend team. Huskies have been messing people up on D.
 
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