Post game press conference-PC

[Donyell 360]

There's a reason why he was open to shoot. Those attempts needed to go to other players. The game wouldn't have been close if he wasn't gunning with the bball IQ of a 3rd grade rec player.

I'd guess 9 of his attempts were early shot clock, contested, etc. He needs to only shoot the ball when he is open catch and shoot or if he can drive it.

Who do you want to shoot the ball if not Ball? AK? MS? Silas can't just take more shots to solve the problem. If Ball starts passing up shots, it will just stagnate the offense and force us into tougher shots. Most of his early clock shots were inside the 3-point line. Unfortunately he has been less efficient with those shots lately. But my point is, we don't have a lot of better options. I'll ride with Solo and hope for the best. I'm not saying I want him to shoot even more. A little less might be better, but we to maintain a balance or we become too predicable to defend.

 

[husky429]

Who do you want to shoot the ball if not Ball? AK? MS? Silas can't just take more shots to solve the problem. If Ball starts passing up shots, it will just stagnate the offense and force us into tougher shots. Most of his early clock shots were inside the 3-point line. Unfortunately he has been less efficient with those shots lately. But my point is, we don't have a lot of better options. I'll ride with Solo and hope for the best. I'm not saying I want him to shoot even more. A little less might be better, but we to maintain a balance or we become too predicable to defend.

Stewart, Smith, Ross, AK, Demary, Mullins.

 

[Donyell 360]

Stewart, Smith, Ross, AK, Demary, Mullins.

Well, when Mullins comes back, that will certainly help. But do you actually have more confidence in Stewart, Smith and Ross to create shots for themselves the way Ball can? Ball is our best player for creating a shot for himself off the bounce. He's better at that than Mullins or AK or Demary. Mullins is the only one of those 3 who has a midrange game, and it is not as advanced as Ball. Maybe Mullins will progress to where he is not only shooting 3's better than Ball (which he already is) but also better at creating midrange shots off the bounce. Until then, like it or not, we need Ball to keep creating and shooting. Stew and Ross can be 3&D guys but they need to assert themselves more. I trust Ball more to go get a bucket when the offense breaks down and we need someone to make a play.

 

[BGesus4]

Tarris has been given lots of minutes this year. He’s going to default into numbers as a starting 5. Again refer to the original poster for many of the reasons. No, I wouldn’t tell him that to his face. He’s enormous. I find him to be a really soft basketball player. Unfocused, disinterested, low urgency. He strikes me as a kid that doesn’t love basketball.

“Default into numbers” is an all time hilarious quote. For the sake of society, I hope you meant it as a joke

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

“Default into numbers” is an all time hilarious quote. For the sake of society, I hope you meant it as a joke

We've had some prominent Boneyard whipping boys recently that we would have loved to "default into numbers."

 

[Icehawk]

Some of the posters here not only post a lot but post a lot of horse excrement.

 

[ucp990411]

If he could play with the fire he showed in the 2nd half and stay out of foul trouble we would all be happy

 

[Donyell 360]

Tarris has been given lots of minutes this year. He’s going to default into numbers as a starting 5. Again refer to the original poster for many of the reasons. No, I wouldn’t tell him that to his face. He’s enormous. I find him to be a really soft basketball player. Unfocused, disinterested, low urgency. He strikes me as a kid that doesn’t love basketball.

I was saying the same thing about Tristan Newton in his first year, and that worked out pretty good. When players don't display the type of emotion that we personally relate to, it is easy to misjudge them. There is more than one way to be successful. Rather than ask Reed to be something he is not, let's encourage him to take advantage of his personality. This team in general lacks a killer instinct. But what they lack in aggression they make up for in poise. Being too emotional can be a bad thing. Well will see whether this year's team personality is the right mix to win it all. Maybe not, but you can't make someone be other than they are. You can use who they are to maximize potential. Hopefully Hurley and Co. are figuring that out. Based on the progress we have seen in Reed's game since he arrived, I think the staff deserves a lot of credit and benefit of the doubt. One thing is for sure, the potential is tantalizing and the drama for us fans is real. Hang on tight because it could be a wild ride!

 

[DRBackup]

I think, unfortunately, that my FT take may age well. The ceiling on this team is natty. The floor may be New Mexico. Watching Nebraska vs Michigan, watching Arizona vs BYU….these dudes are playing at a different level. But we have a month to get our s—- together.

You do realize UConn already played Arizona, without Reed or Mullins and had the lead with under 2 minutes to go. AZ also just beat BYU by a whopping 3 points - a team UConn led by 20 at one point. The idea that AZ is "playing at a different level" is delusional

 

[DRBackup]

There was a moment in the game last night that perfectly summed up the problem with Ross/Stewart.

I forget which one it was, but they got the ball in the paint and had no one within a few feet of them and they had no instinct to actually shoot it. They kept looking around for someone to pass to and after a few seconds finally had the realization that they were wide open they put up a weak shot and missed.

just shows how these guys are not in attack mode by default. they are 100% deferential on offense and so they pose no threat at all to the other team.

The best offenses have all five guys posing some type of threat to put maximum stress on the defense at all times.

when guarding us now teams know they need to just collapse on Reed and then isolate a few key shooters on the perimeter.

Pretty sure that was Ross. To compound things, he then committed a stupid foul on the guy bringing the ball up at half court.

 

[DRBackup]

I may have been dreaming this, but I though I saw something about Dan saying that the offensive philosophy (high quality shots, lower quantity) doesn’t fit the personnel and that we’d be better off with higher quantity of shots due to streaky shooters/scorers. He also mentioned that it’s pretty late in the season to be changing the strategy.

I’m sure he didn’t count on Solo regressing as a sniper or Braylon being out, but his description clicks for me in a “that’s what I’m seeing/feeling in all of these rock fight games.”

I think it’s going to take a real coaching effort to make meaningful adjustments to have the offense be better - I’m resigned to “our personnel is what it is at this point” and there’s not going to be some “click” that makes it a suddenly high-efficient offense.

Looking forward to seeing the staff earn its $$$$$

I guess I don't understand how running offensive sets to get guys wide open / easy shots "doesn't fit the personnel"

 

[DRBackup]

There's a reason why he was open to shoot. Those attempts needed to go to other players. The game wouldn't have been close if he wasn't gunning with the bball IQ of a 3rd grade rec player.

I'd guess 9 of his attempts were early shot clock, contested, etc. He needs to only shoot the ball when he is open catch and shoot or if he can drive it.

So the league has decided to ignore his 40+ percentage from last season and dare him to shoot it ? Good lord. Where do you people come up with this crap ??

 

[DRBackup]

Tarris is becoming a problem. I hope last nights performance gives Hurley the confidence to play Reibe more. Reed likes killer instinct, urgency, ability to realize that he CANNOT DRIBBLE, and his foul shooting is essentially a turnover.

I don’t know why but he seems to be loafing through what could have been a career making season for him. It’s very odd.

Right. KenPom's MVP for the game "is a problem". Absolutely incredible

 

[DRBackup]

Tarris shot terribly from the ft line but he had 19 points, 8-9 fg's, 6 rebs, 4 blocks, 1 turnover and huge plays down the stretch.

This place is ridiculous.

"Ridiculous" is being quite generous

 

[aceboon]

You do realize UConn already played Arizona, without Reed or Mullins and had the lead with under 2 minutes to go. AZ also just beat BYU by a whopping 3 points - a team UConn led by 20 at one point. The idea that AZ is "playing at a different level" is delusional

Did you actually watch the Arizona/BYU game or did you just look at the final score? The game looked like and played out very similar to UConn vs BYU except on BYU's homecourt.

 

[Iluvsuebird]

You do realize UConn already played Arizona, without Reed or Mullins and had the lead with under 2 minutes to go. AZ also just beat BYU by a whopping 3 points - a team UConn led by 20 at one point. The idea that AZ is "playing at a different level" is delusional

We beat BYU by 2 on a neutral site. They beat BYU on the road. BYI is the #13 ranked team in the country. These are their margins of victory in their last 11 games: 97-68 against the 20th ranked team; 96-75 against the 12th ranked team; 96-62, 99-71, 97-78, 101-76, 89-82, 84-77, 77-51, 88-53 and 86-83. I am not sure the stats back you up my friend. And yes, I was aware that we almost beat the #1 team in the country without two of our starters. I watch all the games too!

 

[husky429]

So the league has decided to ignore his 40+ percentage from last season and dare him to shoot it ? Good lord. Where do you people come up with this crap ??

Yes, this is happening every single game. Literally. He's open because in a 21 game sample, he's proven to be a 28% 3-point shooter. This isn't that complicated.

His wrist is hurt. He can't shoot. He needs to change his mentality surrounding his shooting ability if this team is going to reach its ceiling. Over 1/4 of our shots coming from a high volume, low % gunner is not winning basketball. Period.

 

[DRBackup]

Did you actually watch the Arizona/BYU game or did you just look at the final score? The game looked like and played out very similar to UConn vs BYU except on BYU's homecourt.

Ah, so now Arizona and BYU magically played worse against UConn and I guess UConn had nothing to do with that or something. Whatever.

 

[DRBackup]

Yes, this is happening every single game. Literally. He's open because in a 21 game sample, he's proven to be a 28% 3-point shooter. This isn't that complicated.

His wrist is hurt. He can't shoot. He needs to change his mentality surrounding his shooting ability if this team is going to reach its ceiling. Over 1/4 of our shots coming from a high volume, low % gunner is not winning basketball. Period.

LOL! Sure. SURE

 

[aceboon]

Ah, so now Arizona and BYU magically played worse against UConn and I guess UConn had nothing to do with that or something. Whatever.

You're completely missing the point but this it the boneyeard so no surprise, you brought up UConn leading by 20 half vs BYU in the 2nd half but don't mention that Arizona lead by 19 in the 2nd half. You made it seem like UConn had a far easier time vs BYU when both UConn vs BYU and Arizona vs BYU damn near played out exactly the same. Both Arizona and UConn had big leads before BYU made late rallies that came up short.

 

[jojipoji]

Also telling is his Eric needs to play more. As the guys on spaces correctly nailed last night, I don’t care what Reed’s stat line says (it usually looks good). He leaves a lot of “meat on the bone” with missed defensive assignments, non rebounding, missed free throws, and bad decisions (picking up an early 3rd foul).

100% disagree. Reibe is a worse foul shooter, worse defender and worse rebounder. Stats don’t lie. I’m okay with the current rotation.

 

[husky429]

LOL! Sure. SURE

Great retort buddy.

 

[boog204]

I would love to see Jaylin Stewart take over a game one of these days. He had 1 game last year where he went nuclear.

Nuclear? He had 16 in a loss to Memphis, 16 against a cupcake, and 15 against DePaul, and 14 each in losses to Nova and GTown. So basically, when he had big scoring games, we lost. I like Stew, but this board's view of him as some sort of restrained offensive weapon is just bizarre.

 

[Mets1432]

Nuclear? He had 16 in a loss to Memphis, 16 against a cupcake, and 15 against DePaul, and 14 each in losses to Nova and GTown. So basically, when he had big scoring games, we lost. I like Stew, but this board's view of him as some sort of restrained offensive weapon is just bizarre.

It might of been some slight revisionist history. It was the game against Depaul that i was thinking of after looking it up.

To be fair, when your averaging 5 pts per game, dropping 16 is going nuclear imo lol.

 

[gsmooth]

Nuclear? He had 16 in a loss to Memphis, 16 against a cupcake, and 15 against DePaul, and 14 each in losses to Nova and GTown. So basically, when he had big scoring games, we lost. I like Stew, but this board's view of him as some sort of restrained offensive weapon is just bizarre.

Yeah, Stewart is good role player that works best when the others around him are great like the 2024 team. I was hoping he would become a similar type of player to Dailyn Swain on Texas (on Xavier the prior 2 years), but I don't see that happening. He has some good plays here and there and some games where he plays well, but it's not consistent and really cannot be relied upon.