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Three Takeaways – Florida edition

Thank God Blackshear fouled out. I would have hated watching that final 30 seconds with him still in the game. I actually broke out every championship T-shirt we have and wore all four of them were the 2014 on top which was a medium I bought at the game when they were sold out a large. I told myself it was worth the discomfort and it was. Go Huskies
 
Akok is improving little by little. Blocking/altering shots, rebounding, active feet on defense. By the time his scoring comes, we will have a hellava player. What a recruiting gem!
 
superjohn said:
If they play intense D like that without fouling we can be a good team. I thought Whaley was pretty great and Akok is a beast around the rim on D. Christian didn't score a ton or rebound a ton but I thought it was probably his best floor game he's played for us, he really played within himself. Polley big in first half and Josh in the second.

If Alterique can find his shot and improve his overall game things will start looking pretty good, Bouknight is going to help a lot on offense.
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Really demonstrates the concept that when Vital is filling up the stat sheet we are not as good. He was much better today. I was impressed with his decision not to dunk the break away late and run out the clock. Before today he dunks that every time, sometimes missing and giving them the ball.

AG was an effective floor general and was tenacious on D. If his shots fall we win this going away.

Akok keeps getting better. He does the little things. Eventually he will do more.

Polley played confidently for a change. Major improvement.
 
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Matrim55 said:
No. 1: Enjoy this. Been a while.

No. 2: Don't get too low – there's enough talent on this team to beat the occasional top 20 opponent. Tyler & Josh stepping up like this was such a pleasant surprise.

No. 3: Don't get too high – there isn't enough talent to avoid the occasional humiliating loss to a mid-major.

Beyond everything else, this group has to win the effort battle first and foremost. They did today. If that's a sign of what's to come we'll have a pretty good year.
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Need to learn to guard the 3pt line. Good thing they missed 10 wide open ones.

I don't know how we clean this up, but it must be done. Been like 5years now
 
I’m feeling good.

Vital played a very smart game.

Akok is going to be so good and is already reliable. I feel confident when grabs a board or catches that he isn’t going to cough it up.

Don’t get down on Gilbert! He isn’t going to shoot this poorly all season. He will win us games this year.
 
Kitaman said:
Looks like Vital is our closer when game on the line. Put the ball in his hands. Those foul shots were onions!
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Going to have to be like '04 team where Ben does ball handling at end due to Taliek's poor FT shooting.
 
husky429 said:
I love what Akok is bringing. Even with 0 points his presence around the rim in D, and ability to defend the perimeter is HUGE. The offense will come.
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I said before the season we'd be worse offensively, but the addition of Akok would make us much better defensively. He's not just a good rim protector, he doesn't jump at ball fakes on the perimeter, and his length/quickfeet is bothersome out there as well. Once the offense comes around he's a potential lottery pick.
 
we won this game with defense...this was an all-out effort and an earned win for sure

this makes the rest of the season that much more enjoyable

if we win out 'til indiana and then get that W, LOOKOUT
 
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intlzncster said:
Need to learn to guard the 3pt line. Good thing they missed 10 wide open ones.

I don't know how we clean this up, but it must be done. Been like 5years now
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Mike White said he thought there were a couple they should have made but most of the credit goes to UConn making them uncomfortable.
 
superjohn said:
Mike White said he thought there were a couple they should have made but most of the credit goes to UConn making them uncomfortable.
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I think that's just him taking care of his young guys mentally. He's got good young shooters who are struggling. All they need is confidence. If they hit only two of those, they win.
 
superjohn said:
Mike White said he thought there were a couple they should have made but most of the credit goes to UConn making them uncomfortable.
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intlzncster said:
I think that's just him taking care of his young guys mentally. He's got good young shooters who are struggling. All they need is confidence. If they hit only two of those, they win.
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He might be onto something.

dude has a wide open 3 with like 8-10 seconds left and couldn’t pull the trigger. Instead he panicked and turned it over.
 
Missed game - wife's family event. But they won? Holycrapolo. Look forward to re-run, whcih is where?
 
They showed mental toughness today. The first 5 minutes it was all deer in headlights, scrambling around the perimeter and being totally shut down by Florida's defense. Instead of caving in, they buckled down, settled in, and dictated the pace for the majority of the game from that point on.
 
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intlzncster said:
I think that's just him taking care of his young guys mentally. He's got good young shooters who are struggling. All they need is confidence. If they hit only two of those, they win.
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If Gilbert makes anything we win going away. He said he was happy the reporter asked about UConn and said right away a lot of it was UConn, he was impressed with our length and speed.
 
Back to UConn tough Defense which is a nice after the last game which was just the opposite.
This helps the young guys out a lot but it also helps those who have been here through the lousy last couple of years of losing basketball.
 
superjohn said:
If Gilbert makes anything we win going away.
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If you're betting on Gilbert to out shoot the other team, you're generally going to lose that one. The difference is, those kids are good shooters. Just young.

It was clear what was available out there; they missed a ton of open threes. I was yelling at the TV for our guys to close out. It's the same shots St Joes's was getting (and making).

He said he was happy the reporter asked about UConn and said right away a lot of it was UConn, he was impressed with our length and speed.
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That's classic coach speak. Again, he's got a very young club. He's got to manage them mentally. It's a savvier version of Calipari's "there just freshman".
 
If Gilbert can shoot 35% on FGs and 85% FTs we should have 20 wins
 
intlzncster said:
If you're betting on Gilbert to out shoot the other team, you're generally going to lose that one. The difference is, those kids are good shooters. Just young.

It was clear what was available out there; they missed a ton of open threes. I was yelling at the TV for our guys to close out. It's the same shots St Joes's was getting (and making).



That's classic coach speak. Again, he's got a very young club. He's got to manage them mentally. It's a savvier version of Calipari's "there just freshman".
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Again, I disagree with you. Gilbert is shooting terribly but yes I don't expect him to go O-fer when they are wide open shots. Both teams shot terribly from three and missed some open ones they should make, we were a little worse than them and we shot lower than our typical percentage than they did. I thought we made them uncomfortable the entire game.
 
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superjohn said:
Again, I disagree with you. Gilbert is shooting terribly but yes I don't expect him to go O-fer when they are wide open shots. Both teams shot terribly from three and missed some open ones they should make, we were a little worse than them and we shot lower than our typical percentage than they did. I thought we made them uncomfortable the entire game.
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Ironic that Gilbert shot bad but when hit that horrible long fade away 2 with 90 seconds left.
 
intlzncster said:
If you're betting on Gilbert to out shoot the other team, you're generally going to lose that one. The difference is, those kids are good shooters. Just young.

It was clear what was available out there; they missed a ton of open threes. I was yelling at the TV for our guys to close out. It's the same shots St Joes's was getting (and making).
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They had open threes, mainly off of penetration and post ups when the defense collapsed. But they didn't have them early. We took it away in the first 6-8 minutes vs. letting SJU walk up and shoot uncontested 3's from the tip on Wednesday. There's a mental aspect to the game, and it's a lot tougher to get going when you miss your first couple of looks.
 
superjohn said:
Again, I disagree with you. Gilbert is shooting terribly but yes I don't expect him to go O-fer when they are wide open shots. Both teams shot terribly from three and missed some open ones they should make, we were a little worse than them and we shot lower than our typical percentage than they did. I thought we made them uncomfortable the entire game.
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If you were talking passing or dishing to cutters, I'd agree with you. The only shots they were getting was Blackshear, Nembhard taking it at us (he's gonna be good), and 3pters. Everybody in my group of 10 was commenting on the open threes.

The real clue tho is that Florida has shot poorly from 3 to start the season, so it's not just this game and our defense affecting them. It wasn't our defense causing certain players to shoot poorly from three their first few games either. I'm sure our d bothered them to some degree, but They don't have confidence yet.

Put it this way, if we give up these types of shots against a decent team, we are going to lose way more often than not.
 
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Well my big thing is... this win is such a breath of fresh air. Felt like real progress. Just the effort and energy up and down the lineup was great. I felt like they needed that 'proof that this is working' win and they got it. The crowd killed it today, too and it all added up to the best UConn day I can remember in years.

-I hear people's commentary on them leaving wide open threes and the potential to get burned by them again - but we also weren't shooting lights out either. Other teams won't miss that many buckets, but we won't either. I thought the *effort* on defense was outstanding and full of little things... Akok had so much presence down low - really impacted shots and it didn't show up in the stat line but he looked sensational today. Our press is legit and really plays into our strengths in a weird way. I hope Hurley keeps rolling it out.

-Ditto for Isaiah Whaley. Another quiet, impactful performance grabbing boards - and while he's no knock down shooter - he made every shot he needed to make. Some extra minutes from him would be a huge deal for this team this season.

-Gilbert's shooting was so bad. He's getting too many shots. I would expect that get scaled back w/ Bouknight in the fold, but woof.

-Bouknight is back this week and man - this team needs a shooter. If he's as advertised, we have a shot to be pretty decent.

-Someone shoot the Yard Goats hype guy into the sun. I'll slit my throat on camera if I ever hear someone say 'stomp stomp clap clap' ever again.

Overall though, a fantastic win. I'm interested to see what happens in Charleston this week.
 
Yea I cant wait to see the highlights since I couldn't watch the game!
 
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