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Nothing from our bench?? We had two guys off the bench go for double doubles tonight!
Said "we have been getting nothing" as in not just tonight. Liam has been out and is a starter every game other than this one. As for tonight, we played 5 guys almost the entire 2nd half. Not sustainable. Looked tired.
 
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Said "we have been getting nothing" as in not just tonight. Liam has been out and is a starter every game other than this one. As for tonight, we played 5 guys almost the entire 2nd half. Not sustainable. Looked tired.
I don’t get why Stewart gets so few minutes in the second halves of these games. At all.
 
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The Alex Karaban 2024-2025 experience has not been a fun one, I'm off of it at this point
He’s a spot up shooter and a 4 th type option. Jaylin Stewart needs some of his minutes to keep him fresh
 

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Alex is like 4 years younger than me. Piss of lmfao. Honesty is love. Lying to make him feel better about it does nothing for no one. He knows he needs to be better
I can't even unpack that psychobabble. What does your age have to do with it. Did you watch the game? When we didn't score for 5 minutes did he take every shot? Did he turn the ball over 20 times? You all banging on Alex the way you used to with Ajax. He plays his ass off for our school that's all there is to it. Have another beer.
 
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I can't even unpack that that psychobabble. What does your age have to do with it. Did you watch the game? When we didn't score for 5 minutes did he take every shot? Did he turn the ball over 20 times? You all banging on Alex the way you used to with Ajax. He plays his ass off for our school that's all there is to it. Have another beer.
You said “grown men” like Alex isn’t a grown man who makes dang near a million dollars to play for this university. On your logic we should criticize no player in any sport so long as they play hard. It’s soft. Fan how you want. But don’t tell others how to fan.
 
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I don’t get why Stewart gets so few minutes in the second halves of these games. At all.
Agree. . He needs to play through a few mistakes and misses. Defense has to be better but point stands.
 

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All in all we split the 2 games we needed to. Let’s go on a run here with Liam Back. We need to steal on of Marquette, Creighton, St John’s on the road. The road to 23-8 and 15-5 is still obtainable
It took a miracle shooting performance to beat Marquette playing the way we are right now. Winning any of those games would be another miracle.
 
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Pitino's offense is not based on analytics. Luis can get open for a mid-range jumper seemingly whenever he wants. And he makes most of them. They're not settling for those shots. They're the intent.
That may be, but it’s an intent that I think will burn them more often than lead them the way it did today.

I guess the frustration stems from a thought process along the lines of “ok, we managed not to give up a layup or a wide open three. This is a chance to get a stop! Shot should clang away like 60% of the time! Fuuuuu”

I guess it’s a combo of me getting very used to analytics basketball under Hurley… and absolutely praying we can get stops on D and get the ball back in our hands, with how iffy we’ve been on that end this season.
 
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All in all we split the 2 games we needed to. Let’s go on a run here with Liam Back. We need to steal on of Marquette, Creighton, St John’s on the road. The road to 23-8 and 15-5 is still obtainable
We already beat Marquette on the road and We can beat SJU at MSG since that will be a neutral site game. Toughest game left in the schedule is at Creighton. We can win the rest.
 

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St Johns went from 4th KenPom D to 2nd after this game. Great D beat a good offense. And stating the obvious, Pitino is a dirtbag but a hell of a coach.
Give Rick his due, he outcoached Danny tonight. I had thought StJ wasn't a good perimeter defensive team, but forcing our guys out another couple of feet affected both 3 pt shooting and starting the offense.

The good thing is that we're only going to face a defense like that one more time (ok, two if we meet in the BET) between now and the second week of the tourney.
 
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20+ turnovers for the second game in a row.

Give StJohn’s credit. They caused many of those turnovers.

UConn had them down on the canvas in the first 7 minutes of the game and they played hard defense and won the game. StJohn’s is a very tough veteran opponent With an excellent coach.

This is the first of 3 times UConn will play StJohn’s.

I expect UConn to win the game at MSG.
 
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We already beat Marquette on the road and We can beat SJU at MSG since that will be a neutral site game. Toughest game left in the schedule is at Creighton. We can win the rest.
I meant at home. Good catch
 
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Give Rick his due, he outcoached Danny tonight. I had thought StJ wasn't a good perimeter defensive team, but forcing our guys out another couple of feet affected both 3 pt shooting and starting the offense.

The good thing is that we're only going to face a defense like that one more time (ok, two if we meet in the BET) between now and the second week of the tourney.
Why’d you think St John’s wasn’t a good perimeter defense team?
 
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Agree. . He needs to play through a few mistakes and misses. Defense has to be better but point stands.
His defense I feel like isn’t as bad as it’s made out to be. He had a block and some tough rebounds. And he’s a tough big body inside and in the midrange area. SJU doesn’t shoot and make a ton of 3s, which would serve to not expose that shortcoming in his defensive game.
 
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Karaban was 22 of 47 from 3 (about 47% against much weaker competition) up to the point he got a concussion. Since the concussion he has been 24 of 91 (about 26%). Last season his 3P% was 37.9. Currently, this season it is 37.6. What does it mean - I am not sure, but statistically he is about where he was last year. But, he started the season with what looked to be an improved 3P shot. After a concussion his 3P% plummeted by almost 50% or by 21 percentage points. Is it possible that he is still suffering effects of the concussion? Maybe some vision issues?
 

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Karaban is slumping. UConn needs someone to step up as the turnovers cannot continue. Mahaney needs to do better when in the game.
 

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