St. John's Post Game Thread

[Austin316]

Games like this happen. That’s why we have film. This one hurts but we still have a good team.

Recall getting blasted by Creighton in 23-24

Don’t kill me but it’s a good win/loss for the Big East… looking forward to redemption.

 

[navery12]

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.

Ball made a few bad plays down the stretch but Ross came in with us down 5 and left with us down 4 so it was hardly an egregious choice at the time

 

[Ripper32]

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 Mullins 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.

He was called for a couple ticky tack fouls where he was in position.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Hurley dropped the ball again at the backup PG spot. We were better off keeping the kid that left for Maryland, cause Smith ain't it. He doesn't even look like a rotation player.

Darius Adams was not coming here to play 10 minutes off the bench. He’s also been terrible at Maryland.

 

[Gutter King]

Games like this I wish we had Diarra. We asked an awful lot of Silas tonight not being able to count on MS. Diarra and Silas going to the rim on every play would have won this running away.

Tarris would help this offense so much more if he would roll to the basket with the guard, instead he does this weak shuffle that just clogs things up. And could he play any more under the rim? No lobs, and him not dunking and getting the and1 then missing 2 FTs was a harsh momentum swing.

Overall, we gave it away. But we really exposed our personel issues as well. This doesn't change our trajectory and I guess we are shooting for the 2 seed in the East now.

Zuby got away with murder. Unreal how favorable treatment he was granted.

 

[Conquistador]

AK had a better game than Silas.

Disagree. The dunk on Zuby and the talking after sealed it for me. What did AK do besides let Hopkins get in his head?

 

[Donyell 360]

SJU outscored UConn 13-1 during the 4 minutes that Malachi Smith played. Demary can't play 40 minutes and be effective late. We need someone to give him a rest.

 

[FreeDogs]

SJU outscored UConn 13-1 during the 4 minutes that Malachi Smith played. Demary can't play 40 minutes and be effective late. We need someone to give him a rest.

Malachi was less than a Dayton player tonight. No idea who that guy was that took the court.

 

[How Sway?!]

The fact that we don't have a reliable 6th man is also a problem. 6 points from the bench is atrocious. Need Stew and/or Ross to stop being passengers.

 

[UCan3]

Pitino has turned saint John’s around. These Madison square garden games used to feel like home games for UConn.

him and a billionaire 🤣

 

[Deepster]

Any buzz about Reibe getting more time hit a big speed bump tonight. He looked JV out there.

Credit to Pitino and St Johns. They punched us in the mouth. Now we need to respond.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

SJU outscored UConn 13-1 during the 4 minutes that Malachi Smith played. Demary can't play 40 minutes and be effective late. We need someone to give him a rest.

Unfortunately this is literally Malachi’s nightmare matchup. He just really struggles with this kind of pressure and physicality.

 

[Greg]

Well that sucked.

Some missed called by the refs at the end but that's not what lost us the game. We 100% lost this.

Here is to hoping we learn from this.

St John's is legit.

They have a coach who is very, very good.

 

[KingAG]

St John’s played their A game. Good guys played their B game. Not enough focus and violence. They’ll be better for it

 

[gsmooth]

Silas was both good and bad. Good resilience but too many turnovers and missed FTs. Too many issues getting the ball in against pressure. Great moment was AKs long three.

The problem is he can't rest because Malachi has turned into a pumpkin in Big East road games.

 

[FreeDogs]

Disagree. The dunk on Zuby and the talking after sealed it for me. What did AK do besides let Hopkins get in his head?

Silas = almost player of the game. Those lazy, not paying attention turnovers turned momentum so many times.

 

[UCan3]

The fact that we don't have a reliable 6th man is also a problem. 6 points from the bench is atrocious. Need Stew and/or Ross to stop being passengers.

ross had some game killing turnovers...

 

[Candyman]

With about a minute left, they had shot 15 more free throws than us, we had turned the ball over a ton, gotten out rebounded... And we still were right there. Some egregiously bad calls/no calls (the Silas push was the worst one IMO) but had we not played so sloppy we still win that game despite the officials.

As navery said this was a much needed wake up call. Confident we will rebound from this and be better in the long run.

The sloppiness was caused by St John’s ball pressure D. Everyone keeps saying in forced errors but for the most part Johnnie’s forced us to play faster and play more one on one which isn’t our game and it led to 15 turnovers.

 

[KingAG]

Malachi has been bad for a while now

 

[Aar684]

Smith is essentially unplayable against good competition.

 

[tjhusky]

+Reibe overmatched tonight. He has played better in big games but SJ was also prepared for our 2 centers. Played 5 min to Tarris’s 35.
Other starters all in 30’s. For minutes.

 

[connVA]

Silas had 9 turnovers....he was not amazing.

9 TOs. Holy #$%&. Just took a look at the box score.

 

[Donyell 360]

Mullins looked like a pro in the opening minutes, culminating with a step back 3 late clock. Pitino quickly called a time out and Mullins didn't score again until 2 minutes left in the game. Is that good game plan to take Mullins away or is it Mullins fault for not adjusting?

 

[TRest]

Hurley dropped the ball again at the backup PG spot. We were better off keeping the kid that left for Maryland, cause Smith ain't it. He doesn't even look like a rotation player.

That kid wasn’t coming here to backup Silas.

 

[ATLDYKA]

This is a game where we could have used Karoma. Did we forget that we beat a lot of very good teams without Reed using Karoma. Reed was awful tonight. He's a liability at the FT line, so many turnovers and how many times can you hedge out 40 feet and lose your man for an easy layup. I also wouldn't mind seeing Millander getting minutes from Smith. Smith dribbles way too much and never finishes at the basket but he keeps forcing.