Seton Hall Post Game Thread

[Gutter King]

I love the Big East and I don't like complaining about the refs but I hate this. We're the best team in the country, other conferences protect their golden goose. Our conference lets lesser teams grab us constantly and the mugging turned into straight up tackling in the second half tonight. It's honestly embarrassing for the conference and it's going to get someone hurt.

Tarris was a beast out there despite the terrible ft shooting. Silas and Mullins are money players. We all know about AK and he was more than solid.

I love Solo but he needs to regain his form. He had a good first half but he was horrendous in the second half. Hurley made a big mistake leaving him out there that long, Solo can't handle full court pressure at all and his three point shot has never come back. He turned one down to walk into a turnover.

Andy Katz is a bozo. I love how Hurley handled him.

That one fan is insane.

Kansas is whooping on Iowa State.

A great night for UConn basketball despite the frustration with the conference/refs.

Exactly. The conference should be helping us maintain our position as one of the faces of CBB. We don't need any favoritism, they just need to eliminate all shades of what we saw tonight. We are constantly behind the FTs.

Good thing is, once the tourney rolls around....the offense flows much better by default.

 

[Chin Diesel]

A win is a win is a win. A win on the road is even better. A win at a place you have lost four straight times, and each time as a favorite, is icing on the cake.

That being said, someone stuffed a turd in that cake.

The team showed grit, and while wobbled, they never got knocked down.

Credit to SHU for fighting all 40 minutes. Their grit guaranteed us fans couldn't blame the second and third units for blowing the spread in the last two minutes. No, the starters did that by themselves.

Karaban makes some real boneheaded plays inbounding the ball when the other team presses. UConn's guards also make boneheaded moves when catching the boneheaded pass. Needs work.

Reed was a beast and the reason why UConn won. His FT shooting is why UConn didn't cover.

These BE games are showing the limitations of Smith, who continues to just pound the ball in to the court way too often, and Riebe, who needs to adapt to the physicality of the BE.

Whatever. I'm sure everything I'm saying has already been mentioned but I'm not going through every post written so far. I'll save that for work tomorrow.

On to Gtown on Saturday. G'night.

 

[Husky Alien]

I am not trashing Reed, but he needs to shoot better at the line (5-13). We as a team shot 63% and Reed was the main culprit of that percentage. Do we play smaller twords the end of the game when it's tight with better free throw shooters or put in Reibe?

 

[blkknight1]

Proud of ALL five starters. Stewart gave us some good minutes off the bench, but Hurley must have lost trust in the rest of the bench. What a way to gut out a tough win. Reed was gassed and likely contributed to his free throw woes. Love how these guys refuse to lose.

Reibe was in foul trouble and tarris was dominating
Silas was reliable with the ball and so bringing in malachi made no sense.
Ross was still a step slow coming off the injury and for some reason was overplaying the passing lanes and gambling way too much on defense.

 

[thekollieman]

1. I hate SHU’s style of “dare them to call every foul”. Awful basketball to watch.
2. That type of game helps prep this team for March.
3. SHU will be the latest BE rock fight team that finds out how much tighter tourney refs call games.
4. Val should be embarrassed that the league allows that kind of product. What a hideous game to watch. No other league allows that.
5. Say what you will about Hurley, no other coach goes apoplectic about the most blatantly obvious fouls quite like Shaheen.
6. I want to launch that guy sitting behind the announcers into the Hudson River.

Re: 6. Maybe an unpopular opinion here but I thought that guy was hilarious.

 

[Palatine]

On defense are you allowed to lower your shoulder and smash the defender backward? That happened to Mullins on numerous occasions. I thought you were entitled to the space you occupy.

 

[Marat]

17% made threes tonight. Is that a season low?

 

[geordi]

I am not trashing Reed, but he needs to shoot better at the line (5-13). We as a team shot 63% and Reed was the main culprit of that percentage. Do we play smaller twords the end of the game when it's tight with better free throw shooters or put in Reibe in?

Reibe is a worse foul shooter than Reed. 46.2% vs 57.6%

 

[navery12]

Seton Hall wants to win ugly because that's all they have, we didn't let them

 

[Padutch5]

Refs?

What refs? We have seen the white haired ref far to offen. At least at Peoples , he is more interested in telling players to tuck in their shirts than he is interested in calling fouls on football like dipping shoulders into stationary defenders.

 

[Trudy Gay]

Maybe we’ll cover one day

 

[lonsharkin51]

Rock fight win. Good.

People down on Solo Ball are not real fans. There, I said it. It's a confidence thing with him right now, but he is a sorely needed ingredient on this team, as a creator, as a passer, a facilitator, and soon a 3 point bomber.

Trust me. There’s nothing I want more than for Solo to return to form. And I believe he will. But right now … I actually thought he was good on the defensive glass tonight.

 

[dennismenace]

Good news: it's a win

Bad news: post game coach (and other) interviews ... trying too hard to set/control a narrative much?

Kind of a stupid thing to harp on all game long. Surprised they had to be corrected by Dan Hurley about the win. Katz bringing that up
again after pulling out a tough win on the road is what was inappropriate to me.

 

[Eric K]

3/17 from 3 is no way to help the offensive rating in the eyes of Mr Kenneth Pomeroy, folks.

 

[storrsroars]

I think I might try to watch the next game w/o also being on chat. I have to think it's a far better experience. Half the people on chat don't deserve this team.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Still not sure this is a championship level offense. Maybe in the tournament they’ll start calling holds off ball, but we don’t have the shot creators of years past to make up for when our actions get “clogged” up.

I could be wrong but I think our championship teams lost this game so I’m not sure this is the right takeaway.

 

[Inyatkin]

Combined 4-33 from 3. I blame the arena.

 

[WeAreUCONN]

Reibe was in foul trouble and tarris was dominating
Silas was reliable with the ball and so bringing in malachi made no sense.
Ross was still a step slow coming off the injury and for some reason was overplaying the passing lanes and gambling way too much on defense.

Hurley is playing his best players as much as possible in tight games. With the all the timeouts, it’s not really an issue.

 

[CTBasketball]

Hurley’s got to tread lightly with Solo in my opinion. He’s an emotional player and any strike to his confidence might tailspin him.

Solo’s defense then turnovers helped kickstart the elimination of the 16 pt lead, got benched, and we brought it back to 10. Hurley went with him one more time and his play got worse, more turnovers and missed assignments, and the lead evaporated.

He’s got to figure it out if we’re going to have any success in March. Malachi can’t take his minutes

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

I think I might try to watch the next game w/o also being on chat. I have to think it's a far better experience. Half the people on chat don't deserve this team.

New Zealand by the way.

 

[Huskyforlife]

On the bright side, if Kansas holds on, we’re a win at Georgetown away from number 2! Might as well keep winning.

 

[upstater]

That Seton Hall Heckler is gonna take a cold shower sitting down holding his knees.

I liked when he was heckling them for calling a foul when Demary scored the basket and the basket was disallowed.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Hurley’s got to tread lightly with Solo in my opinion. He’s an emotional player and any strike to his confidence might tailspin him.

Solo’s defense then turnovers helped kickstart the elimination of the 16 pt lead, got benched, and we brought it back to 10. Hurley went with him one more time and his play got worse, more turnovers and missed assignments, and the lead evaporated.

He’s got to figure it out if we’re going to have any success in March. Malachi can’t take his minutes

That’s the problem. There’s nobody to take Solos minutes, Stewart wasn’t good today either, Ross was a fouling machine on defense, we’re gonna need Solo to figure it out by March.

 

[Leebo]

97 (out of 100) game score on torvik

We won, and it was an on-target analytical performance

I'm pretty happy

 

[HooperScooper]

I give them all the credit they deserve for winning. But free throw misses will doom this team if they don’t improve.

Well in fairness it was one player who had 8 of the 10 misses. But he was the guy who had the best matchups to score so it wasn't a bad strategy to get the ball into him. The guys we wanted at the line late buried all of them.

 

[firstnline]

No miracle finish for Seton Foul tonight.

 

[3rdbass]

Rock fight win. Good.

People down on Solo Ball are not real fans. There, I said it. It's a confidence thing with him right now, but he is a sorely needed ingredient on this team, as a creator, as a passer, a facilitator, and soon a 3 point bomber.

I just think Mullins looks better than him at the 2. I would love for him to shoot well again but maybe he needs to come off the bench for a few games to get his game back.

 

[InKembaITrust]

My God, that one screaming SH fan by the announcing booth was insufferable to listen to all game.

I hope no one on this board gets to that level. Ruins the game for everyone in the vicinity of your mindless word-vomit.

 

[upstater]

First win in Newark since 2013. Great win in that sense. I don't respect Seton Hall's playstyle but I do respect them having a record good enough to make the tournament, which I think they probably will have.

Not according to Hurley. He said they won there in 2020

 

[upstater]

I just think Mullins looks better than him at the 2. I would love for him to shoot well again but maybe he needs to come off the bench for a few games to get his game back.

We're at our best with both of them on the court together. He'll work through this