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St. John's Post Game Thread

Defense lost this game, and Silas has got to be more aggressive from the jump, he's our best player. Also, I was disappointed that Dan Hurley opted to close with Solo instead of JRoss when we were making a run with JRoss in the game.
 
Doesn’t help that the guy that gets to the line the most is a 56% FT shooter.

Don’t know what happened to the aggressive Stewart and Ross we saw the past couple of
Games they went back to being passive.

Silas was amazing tonight outside of a couple of lapses just got worn down. Smith needs to get it together to give Silas a blow.
 
Silas showed his nuts, except for all the missed FT's.
Alex showed up on O, but Hopkins owned him for the third straight year.
For some reason, UConn's guards think Reed can do the alley oop on dribble penetration against legit D1 teams.

Schschit happens.

Win out, as UConn should, and #1 East is still the reality. Lose games they shouldn't? Face the consequences.
 
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Free Throws matter a lot and missing them will hurt them in the tourney along with the turnovers.

Bottom line you have to make plays when it counts
 
Scottobot said:
Hopefully UConn learns the lesson if you miss FTs, have sloppy unforced TOs on offense , and have an unfavorable whistle you wont beat a good team. St Johns is not a great team, but they are solid and athletic and ST Johns will always have refs backing them in any Big East conference game. If UConn shoots 80% from FTs they probably pull this out. Demary was under pressure all night and it as really disappointing Smith couldn’t back him up today
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It was 31-12 attempts. Yes we missed them but that’s a lot to overcome
 
HuskyFich said:
We shot ourselves in the foot so many times tonight. so damn sloppy. Outright disgusting at times.

But, a team as physical as St Johns only gave up 12 FTs all night?

Felt like the refs were making some calls for the "benefit of the league" tonight.

I commend Hurley for his restraint....I'd have been going nuclear.
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I’m not putting anything on the refs this game. This is how the league is reffed. We know it going in and need to adjust to it. Yes Breeding sucks but this crew also missed plenty of calls that went our way tonight.

Do I think St. John’s is going to make an early tournament exit again because of it? Absolutely but that’s a different discussion.
 
blkknight1 said:
Doesn’t help that the guy that gets to the line the most is a 56% FT shooter.

Don’t know what happened to the aggressive Stewart and Ross we saw the past couple of
Games they went back to being passive.

Silas was amazing tonight outside of a couple of lapses just got worn down. Smith needs to get it together to give Silas a blow.
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Silas had 9 turnovers....he was not amazing.
 
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SJU was the better team tonight. They exposes our weaknesses (FT shooting, TO's and inbounding the ball).

AK had a good game. Silas was amazing and frustratingly careless with the ball. It's hard when we need him to play 40 minutes.

Ross and Stew were typical role players. Reibe was was largely ineffective. Ball played pretty well. Mullins disappeared for most of the game and missed some important 3's late.

In the end, SJU just was more aggressive, forcing our 5 starters to commit 18 fouls. And they made their FT's. And they collected an offensive rebound off a FT miss late. Killer.
 
Aside from the obvious turnovers and free throws…
  • Poor rotations from Hurley (pulling Reed in 1st half while Zuby stayed in game led to 7-0 run). Reed should have been on the floor every minute Zuby was.
  • Smith continues to be useless. This is becoming a big problem that will continue to get exposed.
  • We got away from Reed too much in 2nd half and became perimeter oriented. As opposed to St Johns that kept riding Zuby.
 
A road game vs a Quad 1 team.

Tarris Reed went from King Kong to Ding Dong.

Solo Ball and Braylon Mullins...what are we doing here? Hurley and Murray have to figure this combo out.

Silas and Alex are warriors.

UConn is a Title contender. Tonight was tough. Hurley was not at his best.
 
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We already know Big East refs are deficient, 5/12 FTP is ungodly.

SJU is a bad matchup for us, they rely on athleticism and speed to blitz opponents (better version of PC who gave us trouble).

We’ll be fine, but shooters need to get open, Reed needs to make his FTs and stop with the turnovers!
 
HuskyFich said:
We shot ourselves in the foot so many times tonight. so damn sloppy. Outright disgusting at times.

But, a team as physical as St Johns only gave up 12 FTs all night?

Felt like the refs were making some calls for the "benefit of the league" tonight.

I commend Hurley for his restraint....I'd have been going nuclear.
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Hurley will be mentioning that.
 
Silas had 9 turnovers. That will never happen again

If we make free throws, it's a totally different game down the stretch

And whenever James Breeding is working, we have to be at our best. Clearly we were not
 
If the little things don't get cleaned this is the result you will get. A long bus ride back to Storrs.
 
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