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St. John's Post Game Thread

giddyup said:
This team is not a top 10 squad. Sad to see it’s developed nothing since January. Ross is the only kid that had actually blossomed. Many have regressed. Hurley was touting this as a Championship quality team. So far when it matters they have come empty. I can’t blame college kids. I can blame the clown making 60 million for a pile BS. Less books, podcasts and a little more coaching Dan. You didn’t develop this team at all.
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Crazy.
 
zls44 said:
Just an insane statement.
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Not that insane. Overly reliant on system-based efficiency which constrains us if shots don’t fall.

@RuffRuff mentioned Nate Oats’ robotic style of pure shooting play and I’m afraid this team doesn’t look too far off that, just add a reliable center to the mix.
 
This years team is a "Jekyll and Hyde" act and so are the fans. One day people are pumped for regaining a one seed and hours later we suck again. Hurley is clueless and all our players are soft and non athletic. We'll see what the coming NCAA's reveal. I'm just glad to be playing other than in the Big East for a few games.
 
Scrutineer said:
TR had zero assists. Who would imagine the passing skill he recently showcased would be missing from the game plan?

The team had its best games on offense lately when he was passing out of the double teams.
But, of course, for there to be assists the shooters need to move to open spots where he can find them and then make the shot.
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Credit their defense.
 
giddyup said:
This team is not a top 10 squad. Sad to see it’s developed nothing since January. Ross is the only kid that had actually blossomed. Many have regressed. Hurley was touting this as a Championship quality team. So far when it matters they have come empty. I can’t blame college kids. I can blame the clown making 60 million for a pile BS. Less books, podcasts and a little more coaching Dan. You didn’t develop this team at all.
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Easy to complain. Dan is not perfect. You have to take the good with the bad. You prefer Kevin Ollie?
 
Drfla said:
Reed played really well. But his 2 missed shots on our first 2 possessions were costly. zuby made a 2, Tarris missed, Sellers made a 3, Tarris missed, Ball fouled Sellers on a 3, Sellers makes all 3 foul shots and within 2 minutes we are down 8-0.

Never seemed to recover. Tarris played great in the 2nd half and got us back in the game at 49-42. But no one else picked up the slack. As others said the possession when we had 4 shots and could not score, including a wide open, unguarded 3 for Ball was kind of the nail in the coffin.

I think getting away from the Big East style of reffing will help in the Big Dance. Still think we are one of the best 8 teams and we can surprise the fair weather fans on this site.
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Tarris missing was costly because nobody else could generate anything.
 
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JBK said:
Well -they just beat us.
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So this one game result says we will play this way, always? We beat them a few weeks back. So what is your prediction of how far SJ will go?
 
FightOnCT said:
Not that insane. Overly reliant on system-based efficiency which constrains us if shots don’t fall.

@RuffRuff mentioned Nate Oats’ robotic style of pure shooting play and I’m afraid this team doesn’t look too far off that, just add a reliable center to the mix.
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Oates and Hurley are pretty close I think.

It's just a flawed roster - amongst other things, it's missing a ton of BBIQ. If you look at that 2024 team, they had 4 high level IQ players on the floor, and then a smart role player in Alex. Even if this team is running the "system", it's robotic and lacks instincts and improv. Nothing looks smooth or anticipated.

Even with some players having talent on this team, the IQ is so low - Tarris, Solo, even Demary are not high level IQ athletes. Mullins is a kid and we have him sitting in the primary scorer role. Alex is the same guy, but he's such a complimentary wallflower at times - I honestly don't know why Hurley has been so compelled to run him back twice.

Maybe the non BE refs thing turns into something. If not, this will be two years running where Hurley has basically made the same mistakes with the roster. The only starting spots next year that should be locked are Silas and maybe Reibe. Silas is not a good enough natural PG to play next to Solo, who has zero on ball creating skills. We roll that back out there, it's not going to look much different. Building a roster around Solo creates major limitations.
 
St. John's opened the game with a 10-0 run and closed it with a 13-2 run. Huskies had ZERO field goals over the final 8 minutes. 😳
 
What was the secret ingredient in the effort vs SJU @ Hartford that was missing tonight?
 
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TheHorde said:
Reed plays very hard. But how is it that’s he’s much bigger than Sanogo but a much less effective rebounder? His positioning and rebounding angles arent great. We got destroyed by offensive rebounds and second chance points among other things.
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SJU only had 8 offensive rebounds. Huskies had 17. So I'm not sure that was a big issue.
 
RitzLuce1 said:
On a night when our team was dominated physically and mentally, our coach spoke most passionately in the postgame about the need for our players to stay off social media.
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On a really crappy night I’ve gotten a lot of enjoyment out of your posts. You should post on nights when they don’t lose. You should also get some fresh air.
 
HuskyinWRNY said:
I said this previously - Get ready, every team we face now will constantly pressure us and force us away from the basket. We might not get out of the first weekend.
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NOTHING can be taken for granted. We lost to Creighton and Marquette and won a bunch of games to lesser opponents by narrow margins. We are vulnerable.

But we also beat ST. JOHN'S, BYU, Florida, Kansas, Texas, and Illinois- and came within 4 points of beating Arizona.

Because this team has been so inconsistent, you don't know what you're going to get. That said, you never know how far they can go which is what makes this time of year so exciting.
 
I just got through about half this thread. Some of the takes here are......smh.

Get some sleep and let's regroup about 7:00 tomorrow. I don't think this is a national championship team but they're not as bad as they showed tonight or as bad as some on here are saying. Let's calm down.
 
Leebo said:
I know this sucks, but it's literally the same team that boatraced SJU a few games ago, it's not the team construction.
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I love all the newbies on Here that have extreme bipolar takes on this team week to week. We literally got what we dished last month. Pitino built this team to beat us. AK was getting torched by everyone at the start but no one.not one player could match up. My bigger concern is ball’s lack of confidence and forced hero ball and Silas’ ball security and now his health. There was a lid on the basket but let’s remember, preseason had us 4 and St. John’s 5. We are like both very dangerous 3 seeds. If we lose in a. Lose game we stay in the 2 line but that didn’t happen. And as far as not being ready. Hurley chilled in his hard tactics with his team for good reason and I promise, they were prepared. Pitino was prepared too. I’m not thrilled by no means. But I will always remember Louisville in 14. Just wish we had a dog like boat or bazz. Thought Silas was that guy. Maybe next year. He will be preseason fave for POY. Let’s get 6 wins.
 
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3rdbass said:
Yeah, and for everyone besides Reed to not show up for a big game is a head scratcher. Where are those "Ball is NBA player" posters now?
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If kill to have vital or even the forgotten jalen Adams on this team. Especially in lieu of ball. Jalen knew how to hero ball.
 
iluvedwards said:
With that big east championship performance, thoughts on declining an invite all together instead of taking an even more humiliating loss to a 15 seed? Especially with Silas potentially out. Just go back to the drawing board and come back better next year.
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Ok add this post to the list of ridiculous takes in this thread. This is sarcastic, right?
 
RashadRay11 said:
Very similar to this team yah?
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I guess it needs to be said that they were not similar to this team for one reason.

The 11 and 14 teams had quick, tough, skilled guards. The 26 team doesn't have what Kemba, Shabazz and Boat brought to the court night in and night out.

I don't recall horrible shooting nights those years like we had in multiple games this year and those little guards could create their own shots, drive at will, and shut down opposing offenses with big, highly touted guards.

Dan Hurley is obsessed with size (please, no off color remarks here) and took the Ross brothers the last three years from the same team Marquette recruited this year's freshman of the year. They had to have seen him many times. Is James Hurley's Ryan Gomes or was he not recruited because he was too small? He's at least the size of KW, SN and RB and is quicker, gets by defenders and is more aggressive than any of our guards. We'll know in a year or two, but he looks like someone who would have helped this year's team.
 
Ripper32 said:
Game was over the first 5 minutes. Rick knows we don't have the skill, muscle or footspeed to run our half court sets against them consistently, so he just turned up the pressure.
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What happened with Rick in hartford
 
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RuffRuff said:
Proof in the pudding that the BE is gifting AK awards for lifetime achievement - he made the all BET team, lol. Like his first team BE vote. He was awful tonight and in the semis. Really waters these things to meaningless.

I'm honestly really disappointed in him and he just looks tired being in college. Guy has looked lifeless in his last BE reg season game, reg BET game. Can he bring it in the tourney?

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How does the most outstanding player not make the top five?
 
HooperScooper said:
So it was a serious post? Yikes. That poster should lose posting privileges for a few months.
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There's close to 20 people in this thread calling players hot garbage, transfer bait, etc. This kid isn't even close to being banned. His post was at least good for a laugh.

In 2022 he absolutely guaranteed that Hurley was leaving UConn for Florida. At the time many people here would've volunteered to pack Hurley's bags.
 
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