Providence Post Game Thread

[RuffRuff]

 

[GoUconn7961]

Gampel seemed quiet and it looked like there were a lot of empty seats for what should be a massive game

We saw your post the first time and you couldn't be more wrong. There's a whole thread about it if you care to read it.
I watched it on TV and it was loud.

 

[cellocgg]

We saw your post the first time and you couldn't be more wrong. There's a whole thread about it if you care to read it.
I watched it on TV and it was loud.

I did and I will happily eat my words

 

[jostar1]

 

[ctchamps]

Don't know what NBC did differently but this was the first broadcast that I heard the noise from the fans. With a lot of the Fox broadcasts it seems they mute the background fan noise to minimize the impact on the announcers. Just an electric tv experience.

 

[Excalibur]

The 133 teams with better DRtg's than UConn's have somehow figured out how to guard the 3 and the 2 better than UConn does.

Well, the one thing we do well is limit 3 point attempts, and that seems to be the goal. I question whether it should be, but it's clearly how we're playing with the guys we have.

We allow one of the highest 3 point % in the country on the second fewest attempts. We're 15th in 2 point % against, but we foul so much that it doesn't matter. The fouls come from tons of penetration, and the penetration comes from selling out to limit 3 point attempts. The numbers match what we see on the floor. We can't stop the dribble, at all.

 

[cp176]

No doubt did I say anything to the contrary? He was awful in the first half and like it or not it’s the truth. He had a great 2nd half but was also a big part of the bad first half by all. He was as rattled as the rest of the team and it can’t happen at the point.

No I guess not really to answer your question. I would not say that Diarra played awful in the first half I guess. I will add through that as much as I appreciate and like the way that Reed played as well as Mahaney’s contributions, the most important player on this team right now is Diarra. He does what I guess no one else can do for us. Not only does he facilitate but he attacks his defender in a straight line to get the ball up the floor and initiate the offense. Obviously i don’t think that we are nearly as good as we are McNeeley is on the floor but without Diarra doing his point guard stuff we got a ship with a lot of big holes in it.

 

[AntG168]

Why do you keep posting their stuff?

 

[Palatine]

Well, the one thing we do well is limit 3 point attempts, and that seems to be the goal. I question whether it should be, but it's clearly how we're playing with the guys we have.

We allow one of the highest 3 point % in the country on the second fewest attempts. We're 15th in 2 point % against, but we foul so much that it doesn't matter. The fouls come from tons of penetration, and the penetration comes from selling out to limit 3 point attempts. The numbers match what we see on the floor. We can't stop the dribble, at all.

As of today, we make and give up 3-point shots at 37%. The difference is we take 9.7 and give up 6.3 attempts per game.

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[RuffRuff]

Why do you keep posting their stuff?

Why not?

 

[alphasigko]

You just keep beating your dead horses, my man…even if they are not true in the specific games you’re referring to.

I suggest that you count the # of total points that have been scored since the start of the season because he could not stop his man from driving to the hoop.

 

[AntG168]

Why not?

They publicly personally attacked one of our guys. F em.

 

[jostar1]