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Tarris Reed - 31 and 27. WOW

superjohn said:
He needs his own thread. That was a loss without his beastly performance. Would've had 40 and 30 if they knew how to get him the ball and didn't jack up so many threes.

One of the all-time Husky performances.
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The jacked 3s were a direct impact to his rebounding
 
Was particularly impressed with his intention and focus. Pedal to the metal for the whole game. Can't believe that he only shot 9 FTs- He was getting hammered/held all game long. Wasn't going to let us lose last night. Iconic- epic-dominant game.
 
Tarris was on. His limitation has been missing too many easy ones. If this gives him the confidence to be a star going forward, we might have something here as long as the shooters can snap out of it.
 
Leebo said:
It always felt like Reed should be capable of something like this, so I'm really happy for him to do it on this stage when we really needed it.
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I think this is what the staff always saw in him. I always say, he’s extremely talented. I expected much more out of him this season. He just misses too many bunnies and some games he doesn’t really come to play. This was the Tarris that Dan Hurley expected. For him to do it without Silas and with Solo and Braylon playing absolutely awful was a gift from God.
 
Unbelievable game by Tarris. The coaches have known this was in him and have been trying to coax it out of him all year. Long live the grizzly bear.
 
WeAreUCONN said:
Was this the single most dominant performance ever in the NCAA tourney for UConn?

31 points 27 rebounds

Who else compares?
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Kemba had his 36 point game in a win against Kawhi Leonard and SDSU in 2011.
But Tarris’ performance last night stands alone as the best ever.
 
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Mister P said:
Kemba had his 36 point game in a win against Kawhi Leonard and SDSU in 2011.
But Tarris’ performance last night stands alone as the best ever.
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Not sure about that. Quality of opponent has to factor in to the numbers. And I’m not sure how you compare a point guard to a center for dominance, as the ways in which they dominate are totally different.

None of that subtracts from what was an utterly historically dominant performance last night.
 
Toby Kimball, hands down the toughest player in UConn history, had 29:rebounds in a first round loss to St Joe’s also in Philly. One headline story thevnext day in Philly was all about Kimball despite the loss. That team also had Bialosuknia. Very good team with an awful draw vs St Joes in a virtual home game for them and their AA point guard Matt Goukas who in those days was a freakish 6’6” point guard.
 
Need Tarris and AK to lead this team as seniors in this tourney. It’s their team,
 
RuffRuff said:
Need Tarris and AK to lead this team as seniors in this tourney. It’s their team,
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What happened in 48 hours?

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businesslawyer said:
Haven’t leaders been saying sometimes the Mojo finds itself? Do we have to work some variation of “bear” into all posts? I can bare-ly imagine that not working.
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Actually the mojo finds us. I'm not sure that it has found us yet this year.
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businesslawyer said:
Not sure about that. Quality of opponent has to factor in to the numbers. And I’m not sure how you compare a point guard to a center for dominance, as the ways in which they dominate are totally different.

None of that subtracts from what was an utterly historically dominant performance last night.
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It was an alltime performance. I remember Elvin Hayes from his NBA days and know full well how incredible he was as a college player. Doing something that hadn't been done since Elvin in the late 1960's is incredible.
 
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formerlurker said:
Can't find any of the "100 players" who could do what Alex does, huh?

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How is that relevant? This roster is not 23 or 24. We just scrambled by a 15 seed, where our two volume guys went 1-14 from three. If we go down want to go down with the seniors driving the bus. We brought him back for a reason.
 
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Obviously he was a beast with positioning and hustle, and would have had an impressive rebounding number regardless, but it was comical how many of those rebounds were just straight up drawn to him like a magnet.
 
RuffRuff said:
How is that relevant? This roster is not 23 or 24. We just scrambled by a 15 seed, where our two volume guys went 1-14 from three. If we go down want to go down with the seniors driving the bus.
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But Alex isn't capable of driving championships, he was easily replaceable by 100 players when we won the last two, no? Your words, not mine. Hardest part about being a bullshter is forgetting the bullsht you've already said.
 
businesslawyer said:
Haven’t leaders been saying sometimes the Mojo finds itself? Do we have to work some variation of “bear” into all posts? I can bare-ly imagine that not working.
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Oh, it's happening. Our first opponent was a fur man and our next opponent is the Bruins. Reed is showing himself to be the top bear.
 
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Hoophound said:
Tarris was on. His limitation has been missing too many easy ones. If this gives him the confidence to be a star going forward, we might have something here as long as the shooters can snap out of it.
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Really haven't seen him miss many easy ones. He has one of the best touches for a big man since Emeka. Great footwork around the basket.

And he out-rebounded the entire Furman team 27-21.
 
Last night showed how important Demary is to us.

Smith played admirably but also dribbled us into shot clock issues a few time and I really like Millender but watching him look over at Hurley for like 5 seconds each possession while being actively guarded was infuriating.
 
We've got our team to win it all just like in 23, Reed should be a bucket like Sanogo, Alex is Alex, Mullins needs to get hot like Hawkins did and Demery is alot like Newton. Now Solo is the guy I think can make a difference here as in title or not. I think Hurley is thinking Ross can be AJ like, not really but you know where I'm going and together him and Solo can make up what AJ brought. Then we need Stewart and Smith to bring that Calcaterra effect. I don't think it's a stretch, possible for sure.
 
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