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St. John's Post Game Thread

ATLDYKA said:
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.
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The answer is 0. I guess if you want to argue he played noteworthy minutes against Kansas it's 1 but Koroma has been non-existent against the top teams

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Donyell 360 said:
17 points on 7-10 shooting and 3-4 behind the arc. AK was great. Not perfect. His frustration foul that sent SJU to the line late was dumb. But overall typical solid and reliable effort. No complaints from me.

Demary was both great and frustrating. He played with a lot of heart but 9 turnovers? And two of them resulted in fast break buckets. And his missed FT's late, including the front end of a 1-1 that cost us a chance for 2 pts? Ugh!
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Great points and I appreciate the objective stats. But I’m more referencing the intangibles! The fire! The fight!! When’s the last time you’ve seen AK dunk on a player and chirp and pump up his teammates. He’s a nice dog but sometimes his team needs him to be junkyard dog. That’s all I’m saying.
 
UC4L said:
I haven’t seen a worst officiated game in college hoops this year. Can’t win missing free throws and turning the ball over if the other team is allowed to hold and grab and you can’t touch them. Tonight doesn’t change anything about this team being a contender. At John’s did nothing but add to their resume.
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Holding and grabbing has been happening all year. This is the first game this year that I've seen a jersey pull on a screen called. Worst game called all year? Not sure you've watched many games.
 
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I'd be open to playing a smaller lineup against SJU given how aggressive they flash out to ball screens on the perimeter.
 
Hey moron who argued that missing FT’s wasn’t a big deal, where are you now???? This was a tied game after a terrible first half, and this team came back flat as S—. Well now they know better. My guess is we beat this team by 10 plus next time. A few more points:
—Mullins is not ready to leave. He can’t get his own shot. I hope his family knows better than Liam’s.
—our bench needs to be more assertive. Malachi did nothing. Reibe looked overmatched. Not a single bench player did a thing offensively.
—we got punked on the boards. And to you nerds, I haven’t seen the stats, but i saw the game, and they got every damn board that mattered. And if you have seen my posts, missing layups, missing FT’s and getting outhussled are my triggers. F—— I am going to bed mad tonight.
—and despite all of that, this loss may be our last. I get that sense that this team will use this as fuel the way that the 1985 team Bears lost on week 13. The key will be getting more shots for Mullins, who is obviously out best player. Good night…s———-!!!!’
 
KingAG said:
We didn’t lose the 1 seed by losing to a 4 seed on the road. Unless you think the others are going undefeated the rest of the way?
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No but we may need to run the table, anything more than 1 more loss will likely end our bid for a 1 seed.
 
navery12 said:
The answer is 0. I guess if you want to argue he played noteworthy minutes against Kansas it's 1 but Koroma has been non-existent against the top teams

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You beat me to it... He literally did not play a meaningful minute in any of our big wins. Man, this place just gets worse and worse.
 
Not a resume ruining loss, but it could cost a #1 seed with the Big East being weak and the race for a #1 seed being so loaded.
 
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Conquistador said:
Great points and I appreciate the objective stats. But I’m more referencing the intangibles! The fire! The fight!! When’s the last time you’ve seen AK dunk on a player and chirp and pump up his teammates. He’s a nice dog but sometimes his team needs him to be junkyard dog. That’s all I’m saying.
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WGAF if he chirps. Silas and Red did and still got beat
 
superjohn said:
No but we may need to run the table, anything more than 1 more loss will likely end our bid for a 1 seed.
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Possibly. I think I’d rather be the top 2 seed than the worst 1 seed anyway. Give me a 2 seed in the east with Duke over a 1 seed in the south against Houston.
 
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blkknight1 said:
Duke and Michigan play eachother in a couple of weeks

Michigan also plays Illinois and Nebraska again

So a 1 seed is still very much in play.
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Michigan could lose to Duke and Illinois and still be a 1 ahead of us. Zona too could afford to lose to Kansas and ISU. We put ourselves on the 1 seed bubble but of course it depends on other teams now.

42% from the FT line is going to keep me up tonight. Tarris is just too big a liability at the line.
 
blkknight1 said:
The best Malachi has looked the past month or so was when he and Silas played together. His constant ball pounding until then clock is under 8 seconds drives me crazy. It’s like he feels if he gives it up the ball he won’t get it back.
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It doesn't look like he knows what to do. He is afraid of ball pressure so he dribbles backward, 40 feet from the basket.

Demary realized the Defense was taking away the lob to the big so he started driving all the way to the rim. Smith really struggles to finish around the basket. He is way too small. He has a higher shooting percentage from 3 than he does from 2, because he only takes 3's when he is wide open. He shoots from his chest, leaning forward similar to Andre Jackson's form. Unfortunately he is a foot shorter than AJ and no where near the athlete.
 
KingAG said:
We didn’t lose the 1 seed by losing to a 4 seed on the road. Unless you think the others are going undefeated the rest of the way?
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Others have way more opportunities to improve/solidify themselves. We don't.
 
87Xfer said:
Hurley got out coached
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I don’t agree with this. You can’t control your players turning the ball over stupidly or making free throws. If they are better protecting the ball, especially in the first half and 80% FT Silas hits FTs you’d never have posted that.
 
Shabazzkets said:
Michigan could lose to Duke and Illinois and still be a 1 ahead of us. Zona too could afford to lose to Kansas and ISU. We put ourselves on the 1 seed bubble but of course it depends on other teams now.

42% from the FT line is going to keep me up tonight. Tarris is just too big a liability at the line.
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If UConn goes into selection Sunday with 2 losses they are a 1 seed.
 
We can talk about the 1 seed as the season goes on, but there are so many teams that have to play each other that are either on the 1 line, or knocking on the 1 line. Someone has to lose those games. I don't think a loss to a top 15-20 on the road knocks us off the 1 line.
 
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campcalhoun2009 said:
Do you not look at box scores of BE games vs tournament games?

It’s absolutely a thing with the refs in this conference. St John’s doesn’t defend with their hands?????

Idk if it’s just a boomer thing to never blame the refs or what but 31-12 FTs is a problem with the refs. It’s also consistent in this league vs when we play non league games in the last 3-4 years.
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The refs were abyssal and St Johns hand checked the shit out of them tonight. That’s not “defending with their hands”
Give me a break.

The fouls they called on UConn were fouls. It was the lack of calls the other way that was disgusting
 
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