Seton Hall Post Game Thread

[firstnline]

Just about all the bunnies went in last night. What a difference that makes.

 

[Brochacho]

Probably wanted to get home before 1am

Yeah has to be the garage people - you couldn’t pay me to park in the garages it’s a casual move.

 

[drayenob]

The crowd was weak.

Substitute "crowd" for "leads"

 

[Tyler2Rings]

We don't have that player who can off for 10

I would argue Tyrese when he is on. But its not something the team can rely on

 

[Vancat]

Maybe CBS sports did a bad job showing how great the crowd (specifically student section) was but for a sold out crowd I was a little underwhelmed. Too many instances all I saw was the student section standing still barely making noise except for scoring plays and the only chant I heard was let’s go huskies. They were good but no where near what the student section used to be and unfortunately no where near some of the other schools we’ve seen this year. The excuse about not having anything to cheer for also doesn’t count this game but for a packed student section I was underwhelmed. The team pulled out the win and crowd was good but no where near where it should be for a sold out gampel. Just my opinion and not calling shots at anyone or group of people. I understand it’s different since I’ve been on campus between 09-12. Good win overall and let’s see the team win another one on Saturday at home!

Anyone who is saying the crowd was weak wasn’t there, or just a troll. It was super loud! Highly enjoyable, fun time! Great game.

 

[aburks41]

View attachment 73383Can someone explain who these people are? There were reality tv cameras shooting them and standing on my feet during stoppages , someone said tik tok something so I took and sent picture to my daughter and she freaked out. Why?

The guy was rooting like hell though. Liked it.

Their family has 300 million (!!) followers between their instagram and tiktok platforms. They’re from CT and the dad is an alumn and also a fellow die hard UConn basketball + football fan.

Very good to have them on our side, literally everyone in the high school / college generation knows who they are

 

[CL82]

Not a chance. This crowd sucked. Hartford was louder all year.

Bad sightlines would cost us 6-8 points.

 

[ucp990411]

Yep I’ve been on AJ admittedly for his lack of staying home on his guy. Well last night he was really good, made everyone he was guarding work their every dribble. He can be a special defensive player. Also RJ despite his lack of size worked his guy, including Richmond really hard. They did a nice job of running a double at him making him find open players. They were successful a couple times but he also struggled with the double teams as well. As I said overall one of their best team defensive efforts all year. Rhoden hardly got any easy looks.

Some guy on the chat last night said Hurley still can't figure out how to stop Richmond. What the heck game was he watching? Big adjustment by Dan Hurley last night to have RJ stop his dribble penetration and when Richmond had the ball in the block we doubled him. We could have had better rotations when we doubled him but it was sound strategy in my opinion. And AJ stayed on his feet much better last night. Rhoden is a terrific player and AJ did a great job on him.

 

[JustbrewitMan]

I would not put that one on the less than or equal to 5 points list. Technically yes, but that wasn't really a close game down the stretch that UConn closed out. A bunch of front end misses and then SH hits a shot at the buzzer to get it to 5. Felt more like a 10 point win that ended up being a 5 point win.

Do you realize you just proved my whole point? The malcontents are quick to bring up “look at our horrible record in games decided by 5 points or less! Hurley sucks! We suck! Blah Blah Blah”

Meanwhile, the game action behind the final result is the important context. Yes, they should have won last night by 10+ points. Does the fact that they missed the front ends of some 1-1s and SH getting a worthless basket, resulting in a 5pt win make the win somehow “better” because it was a “close game win” by the warped malcontent metrics? I think you’re smart enough to know the answer…

 

[JustbrewitMan]

Just went through box scores, Cole is shooting 26/30 from the FT line in the final 2 minutes of regulation and OT this season

Recency bias is the rule of the Boneyard.

 

[JCSuperstar]

Can anyone explain what happened with the Tyrese Martin out of bounds where he took the ball out and then passed it? Do you have to be standing fully out before you can touch the ball to pass it in?

 

[karstenkibbe]

View attachment 73383Can someone explain who these people are? There were reality tv cameras shooting them and standing on my feet during stoppages , someone said tik tok something so I took and sent picture to my daughter and she freaked out. Why?

The guy was rooting like hell though. Liked it.

They’re from Norwalk but bolted for L.A. when TikTok success arrived. Both girls attended King School here in Stamford. Dad had an unsuccessful run for CT state senate a few years back. I have heard he’s a good dude. We could do worse than having some young TikTok celebs hype the good guys.

 

[polycom]

I was there. The crowd sucked. It was full. But it was weak. Hartford blew it out of the water.

@CTMike this guy is saying you’re a liar.

 

[Mister P]

They're the D'Amelios. Think knockoff Kardashians. But he's giving UConn a ton of publicity with the TikTok generation so I shouldn't knock him

It would be nice to have Bill Murray at the game Saturday so he can watch us kick ass against the team he used to root for.

 

[polycom]

Can anyone explain what happened with the Tyrese Martin out of bounds where he took the ball out and then passed it? Do you have to be standing fully out before you can touch the ball to pass it in?

Yes you have to fully out of bounds to get a pass from out of bounds and it not be called a turn over.

 

[UofCT]

Can anyone explain what happened with the Tyrese Martin out of bounds where he took the ball out and then passed it? Do you have to be standing fully out before you can touch the ball to pass it in?

Pulled a Jeff adrien

 

[Umami Zen]

Nice team win-- Great to see Adama playing in first half without any foul concerns-- Thought Andre had a great floor game last night. Even IW is showing some skills passing the ball into the paint/guys cutting to the hoop.

Take care of biz with X and get ready for Jay on Tues.

Is it my imagination or is Coach Murray playing a bigger role on bench in recent games? Seems like Dan Hurley is seeking his input more in huddles, communication with players,etc.

 

[freescooter]

Seton Hall isn’t very good. Spare me the NCAA bid stuff. This was a game we needed to win,and should have won and did win. As I’ve said repeatedly, when teams can’t stop Sanogo, we are good. When they figure out how to do it, either with a sagging d or just have a big who can more or less neutralize him, we struggle. The Hall clearly had no answers.

As a side note, If I were the Hall, I’d be pretty concerned about my future, too. Rutgers resurgence under Pikeill is quite a thing. 4 straight over ranked teams…Seton Hall absolutely Needs to keep pace or it will sink to irrelevance in New Jersey. The past few decades, a slightly above average to slightly below average program was good enough when the major program in the state was embarrassingly awful. Now that Rutgers is heading in the right direction they could well become Seton Who? Let’s face it, except for a brief period 30 years ago, the Hall has never been much other than a W on the schedule. Certainly in Big East days, that was what they were. They had a brief revival of sorts in the NEWBIE when all the good programs left, but now seem to be returning to their natural spot in the second division. If Rutgers continues to perform they’ll be lucky to have their scores reported, never mind games being covered.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I’m officially old but maybe my daughter will come with me Xavier game now. That’s a good thing

Mine knew who they were instantly. TikTok millionaires those girls. Dad is just an accessory (if a solid UConn fan for sure).

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Oddly enough, Polley gives me more calm than any other Husky in last two minutes.

So true. Was watching with my wife (who knows nothing about hoops) and she says ‘wow these guys keep missing foul shots’. When Polley stepped up to the line I said ‘this guy will make them’. He has such a great release it’s a shame he has so many off nights shooting wise and well, can’t do much else when he’s off.

 

[aburks41]

Can anyone explain what happened with the Tyrese Martin out of bounds where he took the ball out and then passed it? Do you have to be standing fully out before you can touch the ball to pass it in?

Adama actually legally inbounded the ball and Tyrese thought that he was just giving it to him to inbound it. Then Tyrese stepped out of bounds. Didn't have anything to do with how Tyrese inbounded it, he just took a live ball, thinking it was still dead, and went out of bounds lol

 

[temery]

View attachment 73383Can someone explain who these people are? There were reality tv cameras shooting them and standing on my feet during stoppages , someone said tik tok something so I took and sent picture to my daughter and she freaked out. Why?

The guy was rooting like hell though. Liked it.

Then they need to mention the 'yard on their show. Hint if they're reading this. Hint. Hint.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Didn't post after the game. Morning thoughts.

• D was very good almost all night. Hawk has really stepped his up.
• Offensive movement in the first half was excellent. Got Hawk several wide open looks (he missed them all). Have to figure that two of those should have gone in.
• Sanogo facing a good shotblocker and didn't dance away, but instead went up quickly and strongly. He got some coaching after his poor showing last game. Catch, elevate, shoot or dunk. Avoided fouls.
• Some really nifty passes and more on cuts to the basket than I've seen out of a UConn team in years. If they can make that a regular part of the offense it changes things.
• Rebounding was dominant most of the time. Allowed too many O rebounds to Hall that they converted. Hawkins contributing there as well.
• FT shooting was abysmal. Especially the front ends and especially late game. Cole bricking critical FTs late concerns me. This game was only close because of our performance at the line.
• Jackson was pretty much under control. He got some coaching as well.
• Martin used his usual bull to the rim moves to good effect. Cole and others seem to realize he can shoot and they are looking for him now. Go watch early games, he'd be open and Cole would choose to attack against a crowd instead of passing to him.
• The whole team is starting to trust each other a bit more. Whaley passing on cuts. Martin passing to Sanogo. Cole passing to Martin. Kickouts to Hawkins. Jackson of course will pass anytime he's not in the process of dunking. I'm sure BigErn will recall my complaint when Akok was playing, he'd get open and never got the ball. It was way too much the Cole - Sanogo - Whaley show for awhile and except when Polley was in they didn't really look to help others score (Martin mostly did it on his own). Team basketball.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Can anyone explain what happened with the Tyrese Martin out of bounds where he took the ball out and then passed it? Do you have to be standing fully out before you can touch the ball to pass it in?

I think the ref considered Sanogo out of bounds throwing it to Martin to be the "inbounds pass". Then Martin, thinking the ball was still out, took it over the baseline out of bounds.

 

[storrsroars]

According to Forbes, Charli ($17.5 million) and Dixie ($10 million) were the top earners on TikTok in 2021. But the entire family has garnered attention and is the subject of a Hulu docuseries. “The D’Amelio Show.”

Do child labor laws come into play with this stuff?

 

[pepband99]

Maybe CBS sports did a bad job showing how great the crowd (specifically student section) was but for a sold out crowd I was a little underwhelmed.

It's CBS. Production quality is pretty bad.

The easiest way to tell - listen to the student section on the 2nd FT attempt after a missed 1st. Even a sparse student section will go nuts hoping for free food. If you can't hear that, the TV production isn't passing reality.

 

[Exodus]

Can anyone explain what happened with the Tyrese Martin out of bounds where he took the ball out and then passed it? Do you have to be standing fully out before you can touch the ball to pass it in?

Sanogo went to take the ball out of bounds and Tyrese called him away to inbound it himself. Adama casually tossed it to Tyrese to take it out and the ref inexplicably called a violation. Technically it was, but the intent was clear and no ref would regularly call that. It was right in front of me and it was a very weak call.
*edit - the crowd was absolutely electric last night. Anyone who was there can confirm that.

 

[storrsroars]

Jackson was pretty much under control. He got some coaching as well.

Low # of boards for him, but am really feeling confident now with him bringing the ball up with pace. Tied his career high in assists (6, last time was his 1st game as a Husky) and should've had 7 as Sanogo dropped an easy pass in the lane.

 

[KingAG]

Yeah has to be the garage people - you couldn’t pay me to park in the garages it’s a casual move.

It’s torture getting out of the garages at gampel after the game. Torture.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Do child labor laws come into play with this stuff?

They are above working age, but they also aren't working for anyone. The whole thing has been eye opening for me. If you don't have teenage kids, you may not realize they don't watch TV. At all. It's just YouTube, Twitch and TikTok. The stars of those platforms are what TV and movie stars are to you and me. And yet, most over 40 are oblivious.