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?
I popped over there too. It's amazing when you go to the other board and it's as if we all watched 2 different games. No one is talking about the foul disparity over there as if it wasn't a factor. We are all degenerates, aftera all
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He was horrible tonight, no doubt. But it was just three games ago against PC where he was awesome and Danny said “Mali’s back” several times in the presser.
It's the first deliberate hold I've seen called on the opposing team when our guys have tried to curl around a screen.
The game is at home with a better UConn team this year. Road upsets happen, no big deal
Partially agree. They’re genuinely better, they wouldn’t have won otherwise, but their playstyle works into the Big East as a whole. The best version of those gritty, physical athletes and the only team better than them is also one of the few that’s not like that
St Johns is definitely more athletic than we are and every time they made a basket, the crowd was buzzing, absolutely going wild. The pace was hectic. I thought we were at least ok with inbounding. If you want to get on the coaching staff about something, how about we start with making the team take a million free throws each practice. I cannot comprehend how you can be this bad at free throw shooting at this level, particularly Reed.
4 starters' FT % is above 81%. then Reed at 56%, Riebe 50%.
Not a great coaching night. Starters averaged 34 minutes, and continued to shy away from the actual rim. It affected fouls drawn, rebounds, and baskets made. It forfeited the advantages of depth.
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So are the Johnnies
Not sure if this is coaching but Pitino's team implemented their game plan to perfection by getting us out of our halfcourt offense. Hurley's team did not implement their game plan by making them have to defend in the half court. - Make sense?
They're really not, he's averaging 7 and 2 in the Big East and the averages are the same in the last 5 and 10 game samples too
Kinda like Andrey Jackson?
Game just starting, you make one basket (his first ?) and proceed to publicly humiliate your opponent.
Right now, I'm happy if we get one point out of his free throw adventures, because he just can't find his stroke. Reed's charity stripe woes alone are probably costing us 6-8 points a game, including all the missed and-ones. I thought he'd corrected his form a few games ago, but it seems like it was just a brief blip. He's back to searching for the right muscle memory. This one thing is likely the difference between winning and losing for us, despite all the other problems we have (inbounding the ball, random turnovers, other guys also missing from the line).
