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Props to Tyler Polley

I only see greatness from him the rest of the year. He had a lot on his shoulders the past few years as all of us expected him to be the only shooter on a team that couldn't shoot. Now with other guys taking the heat off he can relax and not force things. The best Uconn win in the last 7 years. If he can do that against a great defensive team, that is who he is.
 
Huge effort by Tyler. What's happens when you don't ask guys to do things they aren't good at. If he, Hawkins, RJ, Martin and Gaff can hit from outside we're tough.

Can't expect to shoot 50% from three but I also don't expect 20 TO's either.
 
Mazhude said:
Compare that to Whaley's line tonight...
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Seven rebounds, 4 blocks and 4 assists from Whaley. I'll take that. Plus he made Smith work his tail off on offense and Whaley did it without help defense. As of now it's obvious Whaley won't be scoring much this year. I think it's a fair prop bet to say he averages more rebounds than points this season.
 
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Cole, Polley, Martin, Whaley = experience and Hurley will ride them as far as he can.
 
Polley is really hard to defend from outside because his release point is so high that he isn't really defended even when he looks like he is defended. Like Cole, he is much better shooting off the catch than the bounce.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Polley came in to the game 5-18 from 3 for a 27.7%. He went 6-9 today so he's 11-27 for the season, 40.7%. Just don't expect a steady line from him every game.
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Like in baseball that's why it's an average. Some games will be above 40% and some below. But I expect he'll be a low 40s from 3 shooter for the year.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Polley came in to the game 5-18 from 3 for a 27.7%. He went 6-9 today so he's 11-27 for the season, 40.7%. Just don't expect a steady line from him every game.
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Yup there will be plenty of games where Jackson or Akok have 20+ and Tyler has a goose egg. Nice to have to depth and not rely on 2 people to score all your points.
 
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navery12 said:
Was never worth overreacting to the bad games, we all knew he was capable of getting hot and doing this. He stepped up when we needed it, and did plenty of little things other than his 3's too
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Yup. And Jackson could have a great game tomorrow and Polley not so much. We are really deep so not everyone is going to be able to put up the numbers we expect of them each game.
 
Good things happens when he shows up. He got to his spots and he didn't force things off the dribble.

This is why he came back to Storrs this year. All good
 
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Mazhude said:
Compare that to Whaley's line tonight...
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I can only hope you have zero complaints with how Whaley played. Minus his last 2 ill advised errors (stupid foul and not running the baseline on the in bounds) he was an absolute warrior in this game. The stat sheet won’t do him any justice but if you know basketball he was real good!
 
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@tcf15 credit the Polley train moniker at least?
 

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August_West said:
It’s not even close Tyler won this game down 21-10 and until the end
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He hit every big shot and even got a hard nosed rebound down the stretch and got it back for another dagger. Also got a tough traffic rebound and sank the 2 ft's. He's flat out won several games for us in his UConn career, a lot of solid players have come through here who can't say the same.

He'll give you a lot of nothing statlines but when he's on he's a game changer.
 
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superjohn said:
He hit every big shot and even got a hard nosed rebound down the stretch and got it back for another dagger. Also got a tough traffic rebound and sank the 2 ft's. He's flat out won several games for us in his UConn career, a lot of solid players have come through here who can't say the same.

He'll give you a lot of nothing statlines but when he's on he's a game changer.
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I love that he didn’t play scared. He absolutely set the tone for this team early in first half with those couple threes before Hawkins took over for a few. And then more or less benched until late ( while Hurley tried to play prevent defense) and simply stepped up again.
 
You know you can shoot when even your misses look like they are going in. He had one that was almost down and another that was on target but just a hair long.
 
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