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St. John's Post Game Thread

Danny has lost touch with what makes a great college hoops team. SJ absolutely outmuscled UConn today.
Too busy having stare-downs and face modeling with officials as if they were personally attacking him. Keep your eyes on the game, your players and opponents. The officials aren't intimidated and you look like an idiot on stage.
 
The dance is going to everything this year. Hurley does deeper than Pitino w/o the BE refs, he’ll have the last laugh. Hurley gets bumped early and his whole system built for OOC schtick starts going white noise.
 
I mean part of it is the team construction. We’re streaky because we rely so much on the outside shot and when it’s not falling, we have literally one player that can reliably put the ball on the floor and beat his man. I’m guessing if you got a really candid take from Hurley, he’d admit that he gambled a little too much on jumps in play making ability from a decent chunk of the team. I do not expect he will gamble again this offseason.
Agree. There was a time when there was "no shooting" to an overemphasis on shooting. Have to find the middle. Shoot, defend and take it to the rim.
 


What is happening to Dan - what a weird presser

Reality is happening. Watch Dan on the game camera. Is he trying to intimidate the officials? He and the AD need a long discussion about refocusing.
 
Too many shooters? 3-19 from three begs to differ.

You’re caught up in the hype. Mullins can’t hit a shot and shoots airballs every game
When the defense continues to overplay your three point line shooters you have to make them pay. You could see them actually being
forced further and further back each time. They obviously haven't practiced against overplay on the three point line. One dimensional and you can't keep "saming" and expect the outcome to change.
 
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Disappointing effort.
But, SJ has won 19 out of their last 20 and are a team to be reckoned with.
What is wrong with everyone on this board???? This team just absolutely destroyed St John’s by 32 points about a week ago. That’s 12 more points than we lost by tonight. It was total devastation, domination, UConn embarrassed them. Rick Pitino is a hall of fame coach. And has won every where he has coached. Danny coached his worst game tonight. Our backup point guard didn’t get into the game till about the 10 minute mark in the second half and our starting point guard was exhausted and useless in the second half. Terrible coaching job and Karajan was useless in this game and yet he played almost the entire game. Danny was simply out couched. Silas was exhausted in the second half. Coaching malpractice. He forgot to put in our backup point guard. JMHO. A few coach’s simply have totally out coached him this year. Shaka, Pitino, Seton Hall coach to name a few. And he’s back to being embarrassing with his temper tantrums. We’ll do better in the NCAA TOURNAMENT.
 
In my mind, Reed is the exception here. I think that he is better than he was last year.


Basically talk about how this team has regressed - Dauster way down on them.

Alright Dan, you media loving genius, here is your stage set tomorrow. Put up or shut up time with no hissy fits.
 
This obviously isnt even close to the worst team we've had under Hurley but I think it's the least enjoyable to watch. It's torture. Something is so off about them
We destroyed dominated embarrassed, ran St. John’s out of the building a week ago. They can get to the final 4 or lose in the first weekend. Fingers crossed.
 
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Pathetic performance. Period. The team wasnt competitive tonight at all. Not getting either the BET or regular season BE Title is an epic fail given the expectations.

This team peaked in December. Same issues on both ends (especially offense) has been repeated but no solution. I just think we are limited with our players - everything has to break right for this team to go far against top competition. As far as Danny, easily his worst coaching job in his UConn tenure. Players & the team never developed at all.
We destroyed St John’s by 32 points a week ago. They can beat almost any team in the tournament but not if Dan Hurley resorts to his coaching malpractice style ( stomping his feet and screaming all night. ) he played Silas alll game until the 10 minute mark of the second half and he was exhausted. Our 2 point guards are capable 3 point shooters and they didn’t get much help in getting open and our hall of fame captain was beyond useless in a frenetic fast paced physical game. Yet he played the entire game. Bad coaching just like having an entire week to prepare for the last place team for a chance to share the Big East regular season total and we lost to better coaching and better game planning.
 
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?
Pitino has won a few nattys and it may be different than history shows. They did lose last year to a good Arkansas team.
UConn is my team - ladies and men - but I will root for the Big East in the tourney.
I hope Villonova and St John’s do win a few games.
 
Again.

What does he do well?

Average ball handler, below average defender, not a plus-athlete. Not a particularly gifted passer. Physically, he’s more high school than college, let alone NBA - he’s just weak. He can’t get to the rim against decent defenders - guy has taken 25 free throws all season because he avoids contact like grim death.

He needs to come back in the worst way. Pocket a few million here next season and then go
But he made the most of his 25! Very surprised his development actually seemed to regress. I was hoping he was going to continue with his midrange game last night but he didn't.
 
Yeah, but like Lian before him he is gone. He is still getting drafted in the first round. Probably not a lottery pick though unless UConn goes far and he shoots lights out.
Not sure. The quote from his Dad saying something like I wouldnt be unhappy if he stayed leads me to believe he might stay in college
 
I remember another hot shooting Indiana schoolboy sniper, from another era. Rick Mount. Granted, short (6-1), but could fill it up. Never made the transition to NBA. What does this mean with Mullins? Probably not much, but Mount did play 4 years, while it's safe to say Mullins won't. As was posted it's an already done deal. Sad, cause he'll probably be another pro flash in the pan.
 
I remember another hot shooting Indiana schoolboy sniper, from another era. Rick Mount. Granted, short (6-1), but could fill it up. Never made the transition to NBA. What does this mean with Mullins? Probably not much, but Mount did play 4 years, while it's safe to say Mullins won't. As was posted it's an already done deal. Sad, cause he'll probably be another pro flash in the pan.

Rick Mount played college basketball 55 years ago. Me thinks comparing Mullins to him is apples to rhinoceros, no?
 
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When the defense continues to overplay your three point line shooters you have to make them pay. You could see them actually being
forced further and further back each time. They obviously haven't practiced against overplay on the three point line. One dimensional and you can't keep "saming" and expect the outcome to change.
Very surprising there wasn't adjustment to the midrange at halftime. We've seen that Braylon, Silas and Solo all have a good midrange shot but it was no where to be found last night
 
But he made the most of his 25! Very surprised his development actually seemed to regress. I was hoping he was going to continue with his midrange game last night but he didn't.

Not sure it regressed - it just didn’t happen.
 
Very surprising there wasn't adjustment to the midrange at halftime. We've seen that Braylon, Silas and Solo all have a good midrange shot but it was no where to be found last night
You need to be able to put the ball on the floor and create space for a middie. Against physical, good defenders, who can do that on this team with any regularity?
 
Can still go far in the tourney if matchups work our way, but roster construction philosophy needs to be changed. Need more players that can create/score off the dribble, overall athleticism, and rim protection.
Seems like most of our court play was well scripted. Our offense long clock with a targeted player or two getting open threes. How did that work out? When opponents pressed us that took time away from running our precision offense. Our guards were wired to dribble, even more so as the season wound down. The defense only had to worry about three (3) point shooters. Against most teams that was enough many nights (30 wins).

At this stage of the season, at least in the Big East, a second and third time playing, our offense is well known. This won't be the case in the NCAA's early rounds. Other teams have flaws or injuries. We are still a fine team and a difficult match-up most nights. Go Huskies.
 
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Couple of thoughts on this team:

First, it's been a solid year, but this team didn't seem to develop during the course of the season as well as many other teams did.

Second, I will be shocked if Mullins goes in the first round if he comes out. He's clearly a talent, but there is a lot of development to do, which is apart from his performance last night which was simply dreadful.

Oh, one last thing....the announcers and the visual on TV last night referred to the St. Johns program as a "franchise". Thought that was pretty telling as to where we are in college athletics.
 

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