I disagree. I like the players on Uconn vs players on St Johns. St. john’s team will not make it to elite 8, doubt they even make sweet 16. I can see this UConn team making final 4 or winning it if they clean up their game.
And they actually call holds.
They had the best defender in the BE playing him. That was not an easy matchup for Mullins.
Yep, he's transformed their team.
Zuby had a good game for sure but I thought Reed held his own. Early Reed was dominating, but late Zuby was better. Zuby also hit a 3 which is not in Reed's bag. Clearly Reed was more effective defending Zuby than Reibe. Reed still needs to do a better job not fouling and not hedging so far out. At least Reed didn't pick up any fouls away from the basket tonight.
You're going overboard. Silas won't turn it over another 10 times next game.
I noticed this last year against the Johnies, Rick abuses our bigs on their high hedges. Haven’t seen other coaches exploit it to the level that Slick Rick does.
I think they improved. One, I think they were playing Mitchell off the bench earlier in the year. They were forcing more Jackson/Sanon then too. The couple of months have given Pitino the opportunity to feel out his rotations, define roles. I like how he uses Darling, who is a gritty little dude.
All you need is one of these guys too, not a whole roster of them. Someone that can go out there, like AJx and Steph, and get loose balls, fly for rebounds, get a key steal. We have nothing in that department. Ross absolutely does not quality. If Mitchell and AJx are 10 athletes, Ross is about a 6 at best.
No, but we likely won't shoot 55% from the field either. You can play around with the box all you want. No one else on the team had more than 1 TO. StJ had a better assist to FG ratio than us tonight, which never happens.
I hope you are right about Smith playing better outside the BE. It does seem like he has regressed since the start of conference play. It looks to me like he is not having much fun. Look what happened to Aiden last year. What makes you think he can recover from this? Until I see him play with confidence, it is hard for me to have any confidence in him. If he can just tread water for a few minutes while Silas rests, that would be great. But our bench is digging holes for our starters right now. It is not just Smith but Smith is the most glaring problem because he is so small and ineffective scoring the ball (except when he is wide open for 3). But he is not playing SG. He is playing PG. He is too small to rebound the ball. He doesn't even keep guards in front of him. He is pesky. That is his best attribute. He brings energy on D. It's just not nearly enough.
Mullins was slipping too a lot.
They're a bad matchup for us but I think we'll win the next one.
It’s the first time he’s played in a game against an opponent this physical and intense.
It's honestly perplexing watching him out there dribble his face off in an offense that is totally not that. I'm not sure if he's simply not able to understand how to run sets and actions at this point. He came from a system that allowed for all of that dribbling.
Their not terrible - Sellers shoots it at 38%, the other three guys that take more of their points are between 35-37%. Not amazing but not bad.
He was impressive. So was Darling (despite limited minutes). Glad we have some real competition in this league. Looking forward to the rematch.
30 to 13 in free throws in a big east top 25 big east game. First game you seen all year a jersey hold call? and I’m the one who hasn’t seen many games lol?
One of those guys where even if he's not scoring, he's making the whole team better by doing all the other stuff (opposite of a guy like Solo), and very disruptive.
I was hoping this day would never come… it was a good run 80shusky. Time to start piling up the W’s again!
He's averaging 5 & 2 this year. Not exactly a home run, but yes he's been better than Smith for sure. At least he can shoot it.
Maybe? I can also see them losing in the first weekend again.
I think his season totals are weighted down by the fact he was barely used early. His averages are likely better than that now. He plays in more control and is an animal on defense at the POA. Smith is a total wild card, not even sure what he's going to do out there.
I would say overall they have improved, especially since the loss to Providence. Like UConn, they've had a number of close wins to inferior opponents but have had more wins by wider margins. To me, the thing that sets them apart is conditioning, not that they're in better physical shape than the Huskies. Hurley said in the post-game presser, when you play against St. John's, unlike lesser opponents, your passes need to be crisp and your ball handling solid otherwise they will turn you over and convert on the other end- and that's exactly what happened. They scored 20 points off TO's tonight. UConn has to be sharper and crisper on 2/25/26 if they want to get the win. Even you even cut that in half, the Huskies win by a point. It seems like they were caught off guard by the Red Storm's telegraphing of passes and also at times their quickness of the dribble in one-on-one situations. St. John's was clearly a cut above what the Huskies have been seeing over the past several weeks.
I don't think the poster was saying that - he was saying they're better built to make a run than last year. They are.
Based on what - do you hang out with Ted williams frozen head when you watch the games?