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Talk About the First 10 Games

As with football, this year the season is a success if we have our act together enough to play games. I thought I would never say that, but I think that’s the reality of this season. I can’t tell you how hard the coaches and players had to work and sacrifice to make that happen.
Now granted once we have tip off Chief gets as competitive as ever to win a particular game.
 
They’re the only team in the conference not practicing right now and will be lucky to get in a handful of practices before the first game. No one is making excuses and certainly no one will feel sorry for them, but that’s the reality. I hope it’s understood just how ugly basketball is going to look across the country, especially at the start of the season, and the inevitable disruptions are going to be understanable but frustrating. The upperclassman and James are going to have to be close to perfect to get this thing started off right. This staff is great at preparing and their opponents, as much as possible, have been scouted thoroughly, but nothing replaces practice reps.
 
NJHoops said:
They’re the only team in the conference not practicing right now and will be lucky to get in a handful of practices before the first game. No one is making excuses and certainly no one will feel sorry for them, but that’s the reality. I hope it’s understood just how ugly basketball is going to look across the country, especially at the start of the season, and the inevitable disruptions are going to be understanable but frustrating. The upperclassman and James are going to have to be close to perfect to get this thing started off right. This staff is great at preparing and their opponents, as much as possible, have been scouted thoroughly, but nothing replaces practice reps.
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They also stared before everyone. Reps won’t be an issue
 
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bendm said:
CCSU- W
Hartford- W
Vanderbilt- W
USC- L
NC State- L
Sacred Heart?- W
SJU- W
Gtown- W
PC- L
Creighton-L
Depaul-W

7-4 and i'll be as happy about the team as i've been in 6 years
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What? Is this a "Doomed" post? I expect to win all those games. Maybe lose to Creighton.
 
husky429 said:
You don't think 2 weeks off right before the first game of the season is bad? What? The most meaningful reps are before big games... which we are missing.
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It’s not good. I just don’t think we are anymore worse off than everyone else. That’s a built in excuse
 
AntG168 said:
They also stared before everyone. Reps won’t be an issue
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What teams were permitted to do in the summer looks nothing at all like practices. It was conditioning work, primarily, with some specific skill work in groups of 2 and then 4. Guys were already doing that on their own across the country. They had finally just moved into 5 on 5 full court work and then had to stop. I think this team has to get something from Andre and Adama almost immediately to reach some of these expectations and the shutdown is a major obstacle for that. Freshmen are already struggling to get it all at this point. No one has to care- and it’s being presented to the players as a challenge, not an excuse- but it matters.
 
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bendm said:
intentionally conservative but of the 4 Ls i think PC and NC St are tossups. Creighton obviously a Final 4 contender but USC had the #7 recruiting class in 2019. While they lost okongwu they replaced him with evan mobley the #1 C in the country so they could/should improve on a 22-9 season
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I don't pay much attention to recruiting classes making a team an immediate success
Look at Memphis last year - while they loss their #1 recruit, their other 6 were all studs and look at their results. We've seen this with several teams in recent years
I agree Creighton, NCS and PeeCee will be our toughest match-ups with UConn winning 1 of these matchup's (and Creighton isn't one)
 
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gtcam said:
don't pay much attention to recruiting classes making a team an immediate success
Look at Memphis last year
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i agree but USC and Memphis are now both one year removed from their great classes so they arent relying on freshmen. i think memphis will also be better this year than last even without wiseman
 
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PChoops said:
You really giving Creighton too much respect, but I'm not buying because they can be beat (they beat pc by a buzzer beater and pc smoked them by 20 at home) TSA is a huge loss for them, he covered up alot of defensive flaws for Ballock and Zeg. Don't get me wrong they are good players but are liabilities on the defensive end. They have no one who can guard Bouk and if RJ is what you guys say he is, they can't guard him either.......also you should kill them on the boards.......FYI You should know within the first 5 mins of the game if you are going to beat Creighton or not........they will finish middle of the pack.
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This is a horrible take. Is UConn a good perimeter defense team? Because Creighton can shoot. Creighton won 13 games last year and has almost their entire team back including the best player in the conference and now you expect them to fall to middle of the pack?

PC led the league in defense and especially perimeter defense. That is why they had success against them. David Duke didn’t let Zegerowski breathe in the 2nd game.
 


Good news for UConn.

Why? McBride gives Vanderbilt much needed depth in the backcourt behind Pippin and Evans. This will give UConn more of a challenge than before and I really didn't want to play Vanderbilt in the first round, but I'll take any opportunity to increase the competition in that game.
 
FriarJ said:
This is a horrible take. Is UConn a good perimeter defense team? Because Creighton can shoot. Creighton won 13 games last year and has almost their entire team back including the best player in the conference and now you expect them to fall to middle of the pack?

PC led the league in defense and especially perimeter defense. That is why they had success against them. David Duke didn’t let Zegerowski breathe in the 2nd game.
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Horrible take.......how, it's my opinion. Both Ballock and Zeg(best players, add Mahaney) don't play D, yes they can shoot (belmont can shoot too) but who can they guard and who are they out-rebounding. TSA loss will hurt them.......if UConn can play perimeter D, they will smash Creighton.
 
PChoops said:
Horrible take.......how it's my opinion. Both Ballock and Zeg(best players, add Mahaney) don't play D, yes they can shoot (belmont can shoot too) but who can they guard and who are they out-rebounding. TSA loss will hurt them.......if UConn can play perimeter D, they will smash Creighton.
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Who could they guard last year when they finished 1st in the league?
 
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FriarJ said:
Who could they guard last year when they finished 1st in the league?
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No one, but TSA took out the best player from the other team, he is gone so it will look worst with a middle of the pack finish. I'm not high on Creighton, maybe because the last game PC killed them and they have no answers for them.
 
PChoops said:
No one, but TSA took out the best player from the other team, he is gone so it will look worst with a middle of the pack finish. I'm not high on Creighton, maybe because the last game PC killed them and they have no answers for them.
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Jefferson is going to slide right into that role. Creighton is a problem for the whole league, UConn and PC included. I admit that I have a man crush on Zegarowski, but I'm obviously not the only one that feels that way about him and their prospects for the season.
 
FriarJ said:
Jefferson is going to slide right into that role. Creighton is a problem for the whole league, UConn and PC included. I admit that I have a man crush on Zegarowski, but I'm obviously not the only one that feels that way about him and their prospects for the season.
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Alexander probably would've been preseason Big East POY, they obviously take a hit there.
 
FriarJ said:
Jefferson is going to slide right into that role. Creighton is a problem for the whole league, UConn and PC included. I admit that I have a man crush on Zegarowski, but I'm obviously not the only one that feels that way about him and their prospects for the season.
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The way pc played them last yr....2-0. What schools reached out to Zeg in highschool.
 
imno1 said:
Did I end up on the Providence board?
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I was gonna say? PC fans replying to each other on our board?

If it wasnt so sad it would be adorable.



Someone please try to find me an example of 2 UConn fans replying to each other on the PC board. I'll wait.


But you never will find it. Because no UConn fan even knows PC has a board, nevermind more than 3 fans. (who all post here, on the New Englands team board)
 
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August_West said:
I was gonna say? PC fans replying to each other on our board?

If it wasnt so sad it would be adorable.



Someone please try to find me an example of 2 UConn fans replying to each other on the PC board. I'll wait.


But you never will find it. Because no UConn fan even knows PC has a board, nevermind more than 3 fans. (who all post here, on the New Englands team board)
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August_West said:
I was gonna say? PC fans replying to each other on our board?

If it wasnt so sad it would be adorable.



Someone please try to find me an example of 2 UConn fans replying to each other on the PC board. I'll wait.


But you never will find it. Because no UConn fan even knows PC has a board, nevermind more than 3 fans. (who all post here, on the New Englands team board)
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Just responded to a reply, nothing adorable about that......would you rather have Tulsa,ECU,SF, Northwestern southern st(lol) fans talking hoops....I did notice some Creighton and nova fans on here as well
 
PChoops said:
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Just responded to a reply, nothing adorable about that......would you rather have Tulsa,ECU,SF, Northwestern southern st(lol) fans talking hoops....I did notice some Creighton and nova fans on here as well
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Nope.

Im overjoyed to be in the new Big East. Even with the cute providence fans and all.
 
FriarJ said:
Stay out of it. I'm trying to get a PC fan to stop saying stupid schit on this board. @CL82 asked me to.
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Hey have a very fond very soft spot for the Dunk (although I hate calling it that)


Remember back when it was carpeted?


I had some of the best times of my life in that place.

Like when Kevin Ollie went coast to coast for the win with a couple seconds left in 94. Was there.

or this night in 87' too. Also was there.

 
FriarJ said:
Stay out of it. I'm trying to get a PC fan to stop saying stupid schit on this board. @CL82 asked me to.
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Haha, it comes with territory of being our "designated Friar fan." ;)
 
August_West said:
Hey have a very fond very soft spot for the Dunk (although I hate calling it that)


Remember back when it was carpeted?


I had some of the best times of my life in that place.

Like when Kevin Ollie went coast to coast for the win with a couple seconds left in 94. Was there.

or this night in 87' too. Also was there.

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It's a great place with a lot of memories for a lot of people, from concerts to PC basketball but if you have to have a sponsor like that there are worse names it could be called. I've accepted it.
 
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