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UChusky916

UChusky916

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Akok was the only guy who came to play. Everyone else played awful. Bad shots. Tons of turnovers. Couldn't grab a rebound to save our lives. No offensive flow outside of a 2 min stretch early. No breaks from the zebras all night.

And yet we had a chance to win the game, somehow. That has to be a positive, right? Right?....
 
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We were in trouble when we were up 15-6 and had a chance to really put the foot down. We came up empty on 4 or 5 straight possessions. Unfortunately we are way further away than I initially thought. It will be 4 straight years of no NCAA which is almost hard to believe.
 
Griffman said:
Can’t take anything positive out of this game besides Akok. Indiana is not a good team. Very disappointed in our guard play and Hurley needs to work on our half court offense because it was putrid.
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Offensive sets were abandoned to early in many possessions , especially in the first half by the players. There were times when there was enough time on the shot clock to re set but instead bad outside shots were taken or forced turnovers happened.
 
No way we are winning the AAC with guards that shoot like this. And then there is the passing and dribbling part. Hurley needs to start eliminating the Josh winding up at the top of the key handing the ball off with 8 seconds to go on the shot clock offense.
 
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InKembaITrust said:
Irregardless the ref had to call it.

I'm all for UConn getting as many calls as possible but that one was pretty obvious.
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Ref had to call it on the floor, but then got to go to the monitor, realize the situation, and actually do his job. Alas here we are.

(also irregardless isn't a word, don't mean to be a dck about it tho)
 
Josh is our only serviceable big who can bang in the trenches, which I love. However, he misses some easy layups that cost us
 
KSC94 said:
Ref had to call it on the floor, but then got to go to the monitor, realize the situation, and actually do his job. Alas here we are.

(also irregardless isn't a word, don't mean to be a dck about it tho)
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I get you're heated.

Regardless, sleep on it and you'll realize it was a flagrant tomorrow morning.
 
jdb50 said:
No way we are winning the AAC with guards that shoot like this. And then there is the passing and dribbling part. Hurley needs to start eliminating the Josh winding up at the top of the key handing the ball off with 8 seconds to go on the shot clock offense.
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This. Josh with the screen and dive doesn't work bc we're not skilled enough to get him the ball consistently. Better to run that as a pick and pop with Polley.

My takeaway from tonight is that despite the errors and errors, we're a pretty good team and we should see a postseason tournament.
 
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Griffman said:
Can’t take anything positive out of this game besides Akok. Indiana is not a good team. Very disappointed in our guard play and Hurley needs to work on our half court offense because it was putrid.
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So you're basically saying UConn is an even worse team. They lost. They turned the ball over 22 times! 22! That's awful. That's bad basketball.
 
BNich said:
So you're basically saying UConn is an even worse team. They lost. They turned the ball over 22 times! 22! That's awful. That's bad basketball.
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We certainly were the worse team last night. We stunk the joint up against a mediocre team.
 
Sid brought alot of energy and we have to get Polley the ball in better catch and shoot plays
 
UChusky916 said:
Akok was the only guy who came to play. Everyone else played awful. Bad shots. Tons of turnovers. Couldn't grab a rebound to save our lives. No offensive flow outside of a 2 min stretch early. No breaks from the zebras all night.

And yet we had a chance to win the game, somehow. That has to be a positive, right? Right?....
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I thought Carlton played great. We were asking him to show up for big games. Now he isn't doing enough? People are too hard on this guy. He is becoming the rock of our offense. Unfortunately our guards decided to take the night off.
 
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Griffman said:
We certainly were the worse team last night. We stunk the joint up against a mediocre team.
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6-3 against 9-1. Ok. Clearly they were the lesser. They lost.
 
3rdbass said:
I thought Carlton played great. We were asking him to show up for big games. Now he isn't doing enough? People are too hard on this guy. He is becoming the rock of our offense. Unfortunately our guards decided to take the night off.
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He needs to finish around the basket with consistency and regularity. And AUTHORITY. He's too big a dude to miss countless layups and shots close to the basket. He's got no strength to finish among the other big bodies.
 
LIuconn said:
Josh is our only serviceable big who can bang in the trenches, which I love. However, he misses some easy layups that cost us
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Josh was not the problem. He made a number of aggressive baskets. This game was lost on lousy offensives performance by the veteran guards and on Hurley for not reading the riot act to them after two bad possessions in a row in the last 6 minutes of the first half, repeated toward the end of the game. Obviously Vital missed some big FT he doesn’t often miss, but that’s just one of those things that happens and had nothing to do with playing smart.
 
UChusky916 said:
Akok was the only guy who came to play. Everyone else played awful. Bad shots. Tons of turnovers. Couldn't grab a rebound to save our lives. No offensive flow outside of a 2 min stretch early. No breaks from the zebras all night.

And yet we had a chance to win the game, somehow. That has to be a positive, right? Right?....
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The rebounding was even: (offensive+defensive) 10+27 for Uconn, 11+23 for Indiana. It was the turnovers and shooting that cost us, nothing else.
 
BNich said:
He needs to finish around the basket with consistency and regularity. And AUTHORITY. He's too big a dude to miss countless layups and shots close to the basket. He's got no strength to finish among the other big bodies.
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Next on his list, then free throws.
Still growing.
 
BNich said:
He needs to finish around the basket with consistency and regularity. And AUTHORITY. He's too big a dude to miss countless layups and shots close to the basket. He's got no strength to finish among the other big bodies.
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Our starting four year guards are 17-82 shooting in our losses and you're going after our big for not finishing after he went 9-14 last night. Smdh
 
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