Texas Post Game Thread

[Dove]

The Double Boo-Yaaaah!!

 

[Palatine]

There were years when Yale was a nail biter. Life is good now

Remember the New Haven game? Ahhh, the good ole days.

 

[Shine21]

We can not fall in the trap at end of game of running the shot clock down and hoping Karaban will bail us out. That is a recipe for disaster as we saw last year and in this game.

I cringe every time he put the ball on the floor, because I'm expecting a turnover.

 

[YearoftheHusky]

Did you watch Iowa v Iowa state game? Every great team is going to struggle with a not so great team at some point.

Neither of those teams are great.

 

[YearoftheHusky]

What egg did we lay?

Texas isn’t good.

 

[Dove]

Remember the New Haven game? Ahhh, the good ole days.

Did we lose to Wagner or something like them?

 

[Shine21]

I know the Yard has gotten on Stewart a lot, and at times I have joined in, but let's give him credit for playing a solid game and making the difference for the Huskies.

Break out season next year when he replacing Karaban. Love his game.

 

[dennismenace]

I didn't expect Texas defense to be so good. Or were we playing poor offense. Well, an ugly win is still a win.

They have decent talent but Miller is a very good coach and gets them to play as well as can be expected. It's never easy playing against his teams.

 

[KingAG]

Neither of those teams are great.

Duke was losing to Texas at half

 

[HooperScooper]

Their big should have fouled out in the first half.

@alexd gave him the Lithuanian hex

 

[KingAG]

Almost everyone said an 11.5 spread was too high. Now an 8 point win is an egg. Lmao

 

[dennismenace]

I think the commentators said texas had 25 fouls against Texas southern in their last game. Hard to believe their defense cleaned up their foul problems that quickly.

Miller is a good coach.

 

[towerman]

If we do not clean up our fouling chances are we will get burnt at some point in the tournament. Just sayin.

 

[JakeTheDog]

Texas isn’t good.

Texas isn’t a great team but they aren’t some mid-major either. We beat a solid team tonight and took care of business against a strong out of conference slate. Enjoy the win.

 

[Glenn]

Kenpom and Torvik have Texas in the 40-46 range---tournament bubble tean. They are good. We are really good and can play not our best and win ny 8. people on this board need to get a grip

 

[Inyatkin]

Seems weird to care more about aesthetics than W’s.

 

[KingAG]

If people think Texas stink wait until the see the BE teams. Texas might finish 2nd in the BE

 

[boba]

Kenpom and Torvik have Texas in the 40-46 range---tournament bubble tean. They are good. We are really good and can play not our best and win ny 8. people on this board need to get a grip

Ahem, this is The Boneyard, grips are subjective and sometimes involve liquids without containers. Be thankful for what you (we) have.

 

[Marat]

Seems weird to care more about aesthetics than W’s.

Yes, but meanwhile there is a team that's destroying good teams by 30 pts.

 

[KingAG]

Yes, but meanwhile there is a team that's destroying good teams by 30 pts.

We’ve beaten more good teams than Michigan

 

[HuskyFich]

Every single year people complain about the refs.

Every single year by March, the whistle has all but disappeared and we’re still one of the most aggressive teams in the country on defense. I will always take that, even if it costs us a game or two during the regular season.

Malachi was great distributing again, but our PGs had a lot of boneheaded plays today with awful ball security.

Reed looked better winded. Karaban had a smooth 18. Jaylin Stewart with one of his best games at UConn. Solo Ball with what seems to be the craziest shot made since the Jalen Adams heave?

Slopfest. But there was truly never a point we were ever at risk in this game. Nice to win handily with your B- game.

On to the next!

 

[MJKI]

Love the Stewie love from Hurley on the postgame. Stewie is all Husky. Absolute dawg and under appreciated. Love seeing Hurley acknowledge his improvement and how good of a person he is too

 

[KingAG]

Mind you this was our 4th game in 9 days. 3 of those games were Texas, Kansas, and Florida. The team was tired in the 2nd half

 

[Gurleyman]

Wasn’t a satisfying win since we built a double digit lead quickly and then just tread water the rest of the way. Our best spurt was a 40 foot bomb from Solo followed by a semi break resulting in a 3 from AK before Texas got matched up.

The only offensive sets we really scored on in the last 15 minutes were two self-created Malachi shots (a drive, and the midrange pull up late) and the Mullins 18 foot fadeaway. So it leaves a little bit of a bad taste. But the nice thing about have a lead is you have margin for error and can overcome droughts.

 

[IndyLives]

Cant give up 13 offensive rebounds to Texas. That & the refs kept an overmatched Texas team lingering around.

Once again, UConn shoots better from the field than the free throw line - need to focus!!

The PG play needs to pick-up in these ugly, physical half-court games. We need more consistent, "easy" scoring by having the PGs penetrate & dish/score and avoid the long droughts!

Tonight was a good game to prep us for the Big East games. Let's Go!!

 

[DRBackup]

"Call a foul"

Yeah, well I had to rewind one of their montages going to a break when Solo went to the basket. Hacked by TWO defenders, one on each side. No call. Horrific officiating. Worse offense, but good lord.

 

[DRBackup]

Two made threes in the second half but they couldn’t have come at a better time.

Free throws may bite us in the you know what in a tight game.

I love Malachi Smith.

Hurley ought to have them all make 300 FTs before they leave the arena tonight. Inexcusable

 

[Hunt for 7]

I really don’t know how you could have watched that game and came away feeling uneasy about our team. This team is like so close to putting 30-35 minutes of immaculate basketball together. The number of assists we had -er made basket and any eye test by someone who has watched enough hoops clearly tells you this team has special written all over it.

We are running at like 55-65% of what we will be and I think most of us are not giving Texas enough credit. Miller knows how to coach against Hurley teams. Thus Texas team has more talent than his Xavier teams and his is a very good head coach.

They took Mullins pretty much out of the game second half. Teams see right away if Mullins gets off this team will be impossible to beat. He is good enough to make everyone on the floor better. We just need to know how to use that better. His defender is not helping at all and in a few games if a team defends us like that we are going to have answers.

Ball has to shoot better but he is a way better rebounder this year and he goes to his midrange and the hoop way better. Just needs to be more consistent.

Stewart and Ross had impactful stretches.

My only concern in Malachi and foul shooting. He has to shoot better than 75% we need that because he is better with the ball than Demary right now.

We are a legit nine deep team.

But I am seeing a lot of first year Newton with Silas right now. He will get better.

 

[ucp990411]

We are every teams biggest game and every team we play is very well prepared. Teams have been denying the passes up top. The way you beat this is to beat them off the dribble which we did quite a bit tonight. Sean Miller has coached against us for years and is a good coach. He definitely had a plan

 

[EnochRoot]

Going into tonight’s action UCONN was ranked #200 out of 365 D1 teams in free throw shooting (71.0%).

They were 7-13 from the stripe tonight (54%).

^ That’s what stresses me out so far this season.

What makes me laugh is that Syracuse is currently in a three way tie for dead last (56.8%).