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Secret Scrimmage #2

auror said:
When we win these, it's because our team is great and exactly as advertised. When we lose, it's because they're more like glorified practices and we're running vanilla sets.
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Seth Meyers Lol GIF by Late Night with Seth Meyers
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
The Steve Pikiell lovers on this board can’t find a score?
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Best I can find is that reddit post that says RU won by 8-9 points.
 
My buddy is well connected in the RU booster circle. What he heard is it was a very boring scrimmage and that Connecticut plays tough D but really, really struggles to score in half court, which sounds about right. Minus adama, do we have someone who can put up points on a top 25 D.
 
smoothcriminal said:
My buddy is well connected in the RU booster circle. What he heard is it was a very boring scrimmage and that Connecticut plays tough D but really, really struggles to score in half court, which sounds about right. Minus adama, do we have someone who can put up points on a top 25 D.
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Would have to imagine their big guards shut down RJ which does not bode well for us. Really need (and want because he’s a terrific kid) RJ to be that go to guy but I’ll always be nervous when he goes up top notch defenders…
 
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ThabeetDown said:
Would have to imagine their big guards shut down RJ which does not bode well for us. Really need (and want because he’s a terrific kid) RJ to be that go to guy but I’ll always be nervous when he goes up top notch defenders…
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Confirmed. This is a game we could lose even with Bouk, so no real surprises there. Prying for more info on specific players and will report back.
 
smoothcriminal said:
My buddy is well connected in the RU booster circle. What he heard is it was a very boring scrimmage and that Connecticut plays tough D but really, really struggles to score in half court, which sounds about right. Minus adama, do we have someone who can put up points on a top 25 D.
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It's no secret perimeter scoring/shooting is our achilles heel. I wonder if our guards are good enough in general to be a top team this year. This is not based off this meaningless scrimmage. Wondered it all last year as well.
 
UCfor3 said:
It's no secret perimeter scoring/shooting is our achilles heel. I wonder if our guards are good enough in general to be a top team this year. This is not based off this meaningless scrimmage. Wondered it all last year as well.
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Really hoping Jordan Hawkins can alleviate some of the half court dysfunction. Having two snipers running off screens will open up a lot of backdoor rolls to our bigs.

Set the tone on defense, score in transition & make guarding our wings a nightmare with all the chasing/fighting through screens. Calhoun’s bread & butter - worked out pretty well I’d say.
 
When you hear reports like this combined with Dan Hurley asserting a ‘21 offense will run through the block, we should all be concerned.
 
ThabeetDown said:
Would have to imagine their big guards shut down RJ which does not bode well for us. Really need (and want because he’s a terrific kid) RJ to be that go to guy but I’ll always be nervous when he goes up top notch defenders…
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he’s not going to be a go-to scorer against top competition, due to his size/athleticism limitations. he’ll be fine against weaker teams, but we will need someone else to step into that role on the perimeter for this team to reach it’s full potential.

hawkins is the obvious candidate, but probably a year too soon for him. jackson would be another, if he somehow made major strides on his jumpshot. or gaffney if he completes his narrative arc as the cowardly lion and gains some courage.

due to the lack of any proven perimeter playmakers, i expect that our best offense will come from playing inside/out and surrounding adama with shooters, or getting out on the break.
 
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Balker said:
It’s absolutely insane that people are making assumptions about players and the season as a whole based on a secret scrimmage game they know literally nothing about.
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Twice removed from a Rutgers booster's not good enough? Was the booster there, or what was his source if not? And did he really say "really" twice? The season hangs in the balance...
 
Balker said:
It’s absolutely insane that people are making assumptions about players and the season as a whole based on a secret scrimmage game they know literally nothing about.
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This scrimmage is meaningless and no conclusions should be drawn from it....but, we have eyes and we watched the games last year. We struggled with shot creating and shot making in the half court WITH Bouk last year. It's pretty reasonable to assume that this has the potential to be an issue again this year. Frontcourt looks good. The backcourt is the concern. Pretty common knowledge. It showed up against better teams with good perimeter players last year. Nothing to do with today. Just a general statement that if anything holds us back it will be this.
 
UCfor3 said:
This scrimmage is meaningless and no conclusions should be drawn from it....but, we have eyes and we watched the games last year. We struggled with shot creating and shot making in the half court WITH Bouk last year. It's pretty reasonable to assume that this has the potential to be an issue again this year. Frontcourt looks good. The backcourt is the concern. Pretty common knowledge. It showed up against better teams with good perimeter players last year. Nothing to do with today. Just a general statement that if anything holds us back it will be this.
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Relax, the sky isn't always falling
 
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kobebeanbryant said:
he’s not going to be a go-to scorer against top competition, due to his size/athleticism limitations. he’ll be fine against weaker teams, but we will need someone else to step into that role on the perimeter for this team to reach it’s full potential.

hawkins is the obvious candidate, but probably a year too soon for him. jackson would be another, if he somehow made major strides on his jumpshot. or gaffney if he completes his narrative arc as the cowardly lion and gains some courage.

due to the lack of any proven perimeter playmakers, i expect that our best offense will come from playing inside/out and surrounding adama with shooters, or getting out on the break.
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Need Jackson to take a huge step and/or Hawk to put up frosh Bouk numbers. Both are in the realm of possibility and fortunately with the veteran presence to ease the pressure in the hiccups that will come should make things easier for them.
 
NJviaCONN said:
Just a heads up. UCONN is scrimmaging Rutgers at 11AM in Storrs. Hopefully some good info comes out. Looking forward to the Sanogo-Omoruyi matchup.

This will be a much better test than Harvard as, according to RU beat writers, RU handled Nova in a scrimmage a couple weekends ago. Ron Harper Junior was the top scorer and Omoruyi was “unstoppable”
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Also @mods can we have an autocorrect for UCONN —> UConn like we do for A.D.D.B.? We have the technology might as well use it.
 
Balker said:
It’s absolutely insane that people are making assumptions about players and the season as a whole based on a secret scrimmage game they know literally nothing about.
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Insane, and yet not surprising.

Keep in mind that these secrets scrimmages are basically glorified playground games. Hurley has been clear that he isn’t running his offense in them. So it is size against size, skill against skill, athleticism against athleticism. We’ve got a lot of each but so does Rutgers. I’m not quite ready to burn my UConn gear quite yet. We will be fine.
 
kobebeanbryant said:
he’s not going to be a go-to scorer against top competition, due to his size/athleticism limitations. he’ll be fine against weaker teams, but we will need someone else to step into that role on the perimeter for this team to reach it’s full potential.

hawkins is the obvious candidate, but probably a year too soon for him. jackson would be another, if he somehow made major strides on his jumpshot. or gaffney if he completes his narrative arc as the cowardly lion and gains some courage.

due to the lack of any proven perimeter playmakers, i expect that our best offense will come from playing inside/out and surrounding adama with shooters, or getting out on the break.
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I’d love to be proven wrong, but it’s crazy to me that anyone mentions Jackson as a potential go to scorer on this year’s team. The kid’s got athleticism but hasn’t shown ANY ability to put the ball in the basket (yet). Really hoping there are great things to come for him down the road - but on this year’s team, RJ will be a significantly better scorer.
 
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If this board is to be believed Steve Pikiell is just short of Jesus so just being in the arena has us blessed with naturally occurring god of hoops ess
 
CL82 said:
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Man, I really hope you’re right on this. Last year, he couldn’t beat defenders off the dribble and he didn’t have a short-range jumper. What I saw was pretty form on free throws, elite athleticism - but that’s opportunistic scoring, not scoring in the flow of an offense. I realize that the injury set back his development last year. But I’m being cautious about expectations for his offense this season.
 
I honestly could not care less about some scrimmage. Its just a bunch of guys farting around getting in some work. Means nothing whether we win or lose.
 
Stinger92860 said:
If we cannot score in the half court set and our strength is front court, where do the points come from? Without effective perimeter options teams will sag or play a tight zone. Perimeter shooting will determine the level of our success.
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R-E-L-A-X

you’re getting agitated about us not being able to score in the half court set based on some anonymous poster’s account from their cousin’s friend who is a Rutgers booster who claims that UConn had trouble scoring in the half court set.

What do you think a Rutgers booster is gonna say?

Also, Coach Hurley has said on multiple occasions that he does not run any real offensive sets in these scrimmages.

We’ll have a better 1st hand idea of how our offense looks in less than 10 days!
 
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