Pretty impressive win

[sledog]

what time is game Fri?

 

[willie99]

Oregon is unranked but they are integrating a lot of talented players and Altman is a good coach. Nice win regardless but this has a good chance at looking like a great win come March.

all of this, plus we played them in their back yard and nobody outside of Vegas seemed to give us much chance

 

[HawkHusky]

Oregon was picked to finish 4th in the PAC. They will improve as the year progresses. Definitely a statement win. Possibly a signature win.

 

[UconnFanDC]

Bring on DePaul and Dave lol

 

[alexd]

Turkey sandwich anyone???

 

[4in16]

what time is game Fri?

9:30p According to the graphic they showed.

 

[BleedHuskyBlu]

This made me chuckle from the Oregon board

"Ollie is such a filthy ref baiter, and his team play like a bunch of scumbags. Their goal was to put it in the refs' hands from the opening tip, and it worked. Teams like that always give us trouble, and always will because Altman doesn't speak up. He's the best coach in the conference, but trashy coaches like Ollie always manage to turn everything into a game of who can get more calls. It's infuriating to watch.

I have zero respect for UConn. They're a really trashy team (with an extremely trashy coach) that I don't expect to do anything this year. They won't look as good when they play teams that have coaches that push back on refs for making terrible calls.

We played terribly, but we were clearly taken out of our rhythm early by the refs and all the fouls and free throws."

 

[willie99]

Like the AAC tournament game last, that was the worst officiated game I’ve witnessed live.

nothing was as bad as that ACC semi-final game vs Cinci, that game was over the top and one sided

the crew today just made a bunch of calls, and we got our share

 

[sportsart]

This made me chuckle from the Oregon board

"Ollie is such a filthy ref baiter, and his team play like a bunch of scumbags. Their goal was to put it in the refs' hands from the opening tip, and it worked. Teams like that always give us trouble, and always will because Altman doesn't speak up. He's the best coach in the conference, but trashy coaches like Ollie always manage to turn everything into a game of who can get more calls. It's infuriating to watch.

I have zero respect for UConn. They're a really trashy team (with an extremely trashy coach) that I don't expect to do anything this year. They won't look as good when they play teams that have coaches that push back on refs for making terrible calls.

We played terribly, but we were clearly taken out of our rhythm early by the refs and all the fouls and free throws."

That's some funny sheet.

 

[sportsart]

Can't wait for our 5 guard line up.

 

[HooperScooper]

This made me chuckle from the Oregon board

"Ollie is such a filthy ref baiter, and his team play like a bunch of scumbags. Their goal was to put it in the refs' hands from the opening tip, and it worked. Teams like that always give us trouble, and always will because Altman doesn't speak up. He's the best coach in the conference, but trashy coaches like Ollie always manage to turn everything into a game of who can get more calls. It's infuriating to watch.

I have zero respect for UConn. They're a really trashy team (with an extremely trashy coach) that I don't expect to do anything this year. They won't look as good when they play teams that have coaches that push back on refs for making terrible calls.

We played terribly, but we were clearly taken out of our rhythm early by the refs and all the fouls and free throws."

That's pretty funny. I guess they haven't seen many UConn games.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

This made me chuckle from the Oregon board

"Ollie is such a filthy ref baiter, and his team play like a bunch of scumbags. Their goal was to put it in the refs' hands from the opening tip, and it worked. Teams like that always give us trouble, and always will because Altman doesn't speak up. He's the best coach in the conference, but trashy coaches like Ollie always manage to turn everything into a game of who can get more calls. It's infuriating to watch.

I have zero respect for UConn. They're a really trashy team (with an extremely trashy coach) that I don't expect to do anything this year. They won't look as good when they play teams that have coaches that push back on refs for making terrible calls.

We played terribly, but we were clearly taken out of our rhythm early by the refs and all the fouls and free throws."

Ollie the ref baiter. Got us dun figured out

 

[8893]

This made me chuckle from the Oregon board

"Ollie is such a filthy ref baiter, and his team play like a bunch of scumbags. Their goal was to put it in the refs' hands from the opening tip, and it worked. Teams like that always give us trouble, and always will because Altman doesn't speak up. He's the best coach in the conference, but trashy coaches like Ollie always manage to turn everything into a game of who can get more calls. It's infuriating to watch.

I have zero respect for UConn. They're a really trashy team (with an extremely trashy coach) that I don't expect to do anything this year. They won't look as good when they play teams that have coaches that push back on refs for making terrible calls.

We played terribly, but we were clearly taken out of our rhythm early by the refs and all the fouls and free throws."

Sweet melt

 

[SouthBayHusky]

I feel like I just won the lottery. So stoked for our Huskies. That left we with heart palpitations. If we hadn’t missed so many layups/bunnies, we would’ve dominated tonight. The effort and energy was off the charts. So relieved !!!

 

[KodiacKemba]

SMU gotta win vs Arizona ..! AAC looking like a tough Conference..!

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

This made me chuckle from the Oregon board

"Ollie is such a filthy ref baiter, and his team play like a bunch of scumbags. Their goal was to put it in the refs' hands from the opening tip, and it worked. Teams like that always give us trouble, and always will because Altman doesn't speak up. He's the best coach in the conference, but trashy coaches like Ollie always manage to turn everything into a game of who can get more calls. It's infuriating to watch.

I have zero respect for UConn. They're a really trashy team (with an extremely trashy coach) that I don't expect to do anything this year. They won't look as good when they play teams that have coaches that push back on refs for making terrible calls.

We played terribly, but we were clearly taken out of our rhythm early by the refs and all the fouls and free throws."

Thanks for posting this.
Fun to read, tough to recognize us in there.
Seems more like us vis-a-vis Pitt in OBE.

 

[Walker11]

This made me chuckle from the Oregon board

"Ollie is such a filthy ref baiter, and his team play like a bunch of scumbags. Their goal was to put it in the refs' hands from the opening tip, and it worked. Teams like that always give us trouble, and always will because Altman doesn't speak up. He's the best coach in the conference, but trashy coaches like Ollie always manage to turn everything into a game of who can get more calls. It's infuriating to watch.

I have zero respect for UConn. They're a really trashy team (with an extremely trashy coach) that I don't expect to do anything this year. They won't look as good when they play teams that have coaches that push back on refs for making terrible calls.

We played terribly, but we were clearly taken out of our rhythm early by the refs and all the fouls and free throws."

Oregon also got into the bonus before the 2nd TV timeout in the 2nd half. A lot of weak calls both ways, especially bailouts on drives. But that doesn't fit the narrative.

 

[UconnFanDC]

AAC 2-0 vs Pac 12

 

[80shusky]

Nice to get a good win non-conference. Or any win for that matter. Seemed like down the stretch the team did everything it could do to lose, the missed free throws, turnovers etc. but they didn't give up. They played tough, ugly basketball and pulled it out. Ten steals and forcing 17 turnovers did it. 3-17 from three point range is very disturbing but they were 5-24. Four assists pretty weak. Nice that they toughed one out though and showed some character.

 

[UconnFanDC]

SMU gotta win vs Arizona ..! AAC looking like a tough Conference..!

They won so AAC 2-0 vs Pac 12

 

[aceboon]

This made me chuckle from the Oregon board

"Ollie is such a filthy ref baiter, and his team play like a bunch of scumbags. Their goal was to put it in the refs' hands from the opening tip, and it worked. Teams like that always give us trouble, and always will because Altman doesn't speak up. He's the best coach in the conference, but trashy coaches like Ollie always manage to turn everything into a game of who can get more calls. It's infuriating to watch.

I have zero respect for UConn. They're a really trashy team (with an extremely trashy coach) that I don't expect to do anything this year. They won't look as good when they play teams that have coaches that push back on refs for making terrible calls.

We played terribly, but we were clearly taken out of our rhythm early by the refs and all the fouls and free throws."

This is comedy considering this board bashes KO for not getting on refs enough

 

[EROCK CONN]

This made me chuckle from the Oregon board

"Ollie is such a filthy ref baiter, and his team play like a bunch of scumbags. Their goal was to put it in the refs' hands from the opening tip, and it worked. Teams like that always give us trouble, and always will because Altman doesn't speak up. He's the best coach in the conference, but trashy coaches like Ollie always manage to turn everything into a game of who can get more calls. It's infuriating to watch.

I have zero respect for UConn. They're a really trashy team (with an extremely trashy coach) that I don't expect to do anything this year. They won't look as good when they play teams that have coaches that push back on refs for making terrible calls.

We played terribly, but we were clearly taken out of our rhythm early by the refs and all the fouls and free throws."

Yikes. I’d say this guy is my cousin in law that no one likes talking too......but I know that it’s not him because I had dinner with him earlier today and he’s not a ducks fan.

 

[Confident Carl]

I think we all know who our best big man is now..!

Yup!

 

[Devland]

This made me chuckle from the Oregon board

"Ollie is such a filthy ref baiter, and his team play like a bunch of scumbags. Their goal was to put it in the refs' hands from the opening tip, and it worked. Teams like that always give us trouble, and always will because Altman doesn't speak up. He's the best coach in the conference, but trashy coaches like Ollie always manage to turn everything into a game of who can get more calls. It's infuriating to watch.

I have zero respect for UConn. They're a really trashy team (with an extremely trashy coach) that I don't expect to do anything this year. They won't look as good when they play teams that have coaches that push back on refs for making terrible calls.

We played terribly, but we were clearly taken out of our rhythm early by the refs and all the fouls and free throws."

Imagine what they would have said if JC was still coaching UConn. They better not play St Joe's (of CT)'

 

[Goat]

Our family alternative bird day dinner was duck breast. Delicious.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

SMU gotta win vs Arizona ..! AAC looking like a tough Conference..!

Atones somewhat for SMU losing Wednesday, and Wichita not holding off Note Dame.
I'm astonished that on consecutive nights I've watched two ESPN streams with AAC teams playing.
Playing good competition will do that. Winning g makes it better.

 

[B1GEast]

Regarding KO, pragmatism can be both good and bad, I get that you go with what's working, but it seemed as though he was happy with letting the guards just drive to the hoop. I would have liked to have seen plays develop, but they couldn't guard us man to man.

We are going to get better, there seems to be a higher ceiling for this team.

 

[Towney007]

Yeah I mean - this was a big reason for Sok many reasons. My takeaways:

- This is a LEGIT defensive team. Really legit. Especially the perimeter defense. Officiating didn’t help but I’d like to see us not have to rack up so many fouls with our bigs.

- Ollie kinda went with what was working but I’d agee - we’re gonna have to diversify the offense and bit more. Better teams will adjust and we just don’t have the talent to hack. Gonna have to play a step ahead tactically.

- We really lack a shooter. It’s the one glaring flaw on this team so far. I feel like even one even mostly good shooter would make this a slam dunk top 25 team. Again though it’s early. We’ll see who emerges.

- Finishing around the rim would be nice. Totally not going the glass half empty route here, but they hit half of their layups and this is a 14/15 point snoozer.

- The energy/toughness of this team is just staggering compared to last years. Everyone’s a noisy, kind of flawed player who will find a way to do something really big for you every game. You’ll just win a lot of games with those kinds of guys.

- 1st half was the best half of UConn basketball I’ve seen since 2014. Second half not so much but I’m glad they got punched in the mouth by a good team and responded.

- Very eager to see how competitive they are with Michigan State. That’ll be a great gage of how good they really are right now.

Lots more to add, but so excited and positive about this group. They’ll beat the teams they should and compete against the heavyweights and for a reset year that’s all you can ask.

 

[Guapo]

Yeah I mean - this was a big reason for Sok many reasons. My takeaways:

- This is a LEGIT defensive team. Really legit. Especially the perimeter defense. Officiating didn’t help but I’d like to see us not have to rack up so many fouls with our bigs.

- Ollie kinda went with what was working but I’d agee - we’re gonna have to diversify the offense and bit more. Better teams will adjust and we just don’t have the talent to hack. Gonna have to play a step ahead tactically.

- We really lack a shooter. It’s the one glaring flaw on this team so far. I feel like even one even mostly good shooter would make this a slam dunk top 25 team. Again though it’s early. We’ll see who emerges.

- Finishing around the rim would be nice. Totally not going the glass half empty route here, but they hit half of their layups and this is a 14/15 point snoozer.

- The energy/toughness of this team is just staggering compared to last years. Everyone’s a noisy, kind of flawed player who will find a way to do something really big for you every game. You’ll just win a lot of games with those kinds of guys.

- 1st half was the best half of UConn basketball I’ve seen since 2014. Second half not so much but I’m glad they got punched in the mouth by a good team and responded.

- Very eager to see how competitive they are with Michigan State. That’ll be a great gage of how good they really are right now.

Lots more to add, but so excited and positive about this group. They’ll beat the teams they should and compete against the heavyweights and for a reset year that’s all you can ask.

We have multiple people who can competently play basketball.

That is a definite plus.

 

[Tyler2Rings]

I'm just glad we got the win because otherwise people would look at my dumb*** username and mistake me for a trolling Oregon fan.

 

[Towney007]

We have multiple people who can competently play basketball.

That is a definite plus.

Well yeah and look - I’m really not usually a “omg team chemistry” guy as I’ve seen as many teams who hate each other’s guts/have a bad attitude be good as i’ve seen been bad, but....

It’s really clear that there were some bad elements on that team and they lacked leadership and toughness. And chemistry, really. That’s not the case with this team. Energy, effort and toughness is there with this team. They’re not the most talented group we’ve had but they’ve got all the signs of a team that’s got a shot to play above it’s own head - and again in a reset/rebuilding year - that’s all you can ask.