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UConn vs Miami Final Four

We just have to focus on each possession and take care of the ball. Don't get jumpy on defense and stay on the floor till they jump. Getting hyper and trying for the big play can lead to fouls. This game is more about mental strength as we have a full crew of great players.
 
Huskyforlife said:
In our losses at Xavier and Providence we were unfairly reffed. It’s just fact it’s the one easy way to slow us down. Even Goodman basically reported they were getting back at Hurley.
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This deranged conspiracy theory is treated as fact here in the BY. But out in the real world nobody agrees that it is a fact. There are a lot of rabid UConn fans here. That describes just about all of us. But to any true basketball fan who knows the game, this stuff is like fingernails on a chalk board. I hate when I go to a game and have to listen to the home fans complain about the refs. It happens at every game, in every sport. It’s embarrassing.
 
Billy Jack said:
This deranged conspiracy theory is treated as fact here in the BY. But out in the real world nobody agrees that it is a fact. There are a lot of rabid UConn fans here. That describes just about all of us. But to any true basketball fan who knows the game, this stuff is like fingernails on a chalk board. I hate when I go to a game and have to listen to the home fans complain about the refs. It happens at every game, in every sport. It’s embarrassing.
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It’s not conspiracy. BE refs were terrible this season and had a beef with Hurley. It was alluded to by more than one reporter that the refs didn’t like Hurley. It’s not coincidence UConn is undefeated in the OOC but looks like a completely different team with BE refs
 
AntG168 said:
It’s not conspiracy. BE refs were terrible this season and had a beef with Hurley. It was alluded to by more than one reporter that the refs didn’t like Hurley. It’s not coincidence UConn is undefeated in the OOC but looks like a completely different team with BE refs
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The word "conspiracy" was introduced by the poster to support his point, and is a false narrative. The BE officiating, at a minimum is "different", and at most, "awful". There is nothing embarrassing about calling it out the refs, because we are fans and they are awful. Two truths.
 
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BiggieSmall said:
Yea but that’s the only center they have. We have two. Sanogo footwork is much better that his. I’m not worried. They need to keep him out of foul trouble.

Their guards are tough but Newton and just as big and strong as Wong. Pack has to chase Hawk around. Both great shooters.

They have no bench. They have a better coach, I like Hurley but this dude is a very good coach.
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Yes Laranaga is damn good... He figured out... Well you know... Better than Coach Dan right now? I am not so sure.... Coach is conapriring w/his Assts, his dad and Bobby how to counter Laranaga AND Miami.... I think he has this....
 
Marat said:
"...Nobody in the ACC is as big and physical as UConn.” - another anonymous coach vs UM
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I would say they played a few teams that have similar height to UConn in UNC and Duke. They did get PC also.

Duke's length gave them fits in two games (one where Omier was absent for 39 minutes due to his ankle tweak). UNC played them hard but it was UNC this year.

I am not sure they have played a team with similar strength to Omier this year and he bullied players in the ACC. I know their listed weights are similar but I would be shocked if Sanogo isn't 10-15 lbs heavier.

HurikaneMar said:
We're really not ISO focused at all. We can just go to that if we need to. We generally do action off ball screens. Norchad swallows guards leaving a big man to cover our guards from about mid top.

Our guards will try and get you in foul trouble. They aren't the biggest but they're 3 years into the weight program and have played physical teams all year. They will attack through contact, even if your guys are bigger. If your defense is sound and you don't foul, our guards will have to make really tough shots.

Wong makes tough shots.
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Yeah, Miami does do a lot of on ball screening. Very two man game. They look for favorable switches for their guards to exploit. Or they look to exploit the hedge/double. Miami isn't a bad passing team but there is a lot less off ball action and ball movement than UConn uses usually. Miami is how Arkansas wants to play.

The only real off ball movement Miami makes is some hard cuts when the defense is focused on the dribble penetrator.
 
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Billy Jack said:
This deranged conspiracy theory is treated as fact here in the BY. But out in the real world nobody agrees that it is a fact. There are a lot of rabid UConn fans here. That describes just about all of us. But to any true basketball fan who knows the game, this stuff is like fingernails on a chalk board. I hate when I go to a game and have to listen to the home fans complain about the refs. It happens at every game, in every sport. It’s embarrassing.
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Then why was Dan spending so much time on the phone with the head of officials in January? Asking for coaching advice?

This is a classic example of trying too hard to present as unbiased. There’s more than enough evidence to suggest those games were impacted by biased officiating. The free throw disparity, Goodmans report, Hurleys phone calls. Stick your head in the sand if you want, the full season foul stats don’t tell the real story whatsoever.
 
housekeys said:
During the 6 game BE skid, the FTA was 109-157 in favor of the opposition.

In the words of Bill Murray, "That's the fact Jack".
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AZHuskiePop said:
In our losses which is the only pertinent fact we shot
73 FT to our opponents 140
i don’t know about a conspiracy but FT differential was a big factor in 5 of those losses .
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You guys are wasting your breath arguing with that dude. He has already been told, but he continues to cherry-pick the numbers and make his toddler-level arguments.

Most here have figured out that Billy Jack is a closet PC fan. Let him spout his nonsense if it makes him feeel better.
 
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Billy Jack said:
This deranged conspiracy theory is treated as fact here in the BY. But out in the real world nobody agrees that it is a fact. There are a lot of rabid UConn fans here. That describes just about all of us. But to any true basketball fan who knows the game, this stuff is like fingernails on a chalk board. I hate when I go to a game and have to listen to the home fans complain about the refs. It happens at every game, in every sport. It’s embarrassing.
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True basketball fan! You and Chief have similar credentials
 
uconnfan68 said:
If the NCAA allowed BE refs to do a BE team that would be criminal.
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I mean they gave Gaffney, a northeastern guy who does a lot of Big East games that we’ve seen 3-5 times every year for the last decade+, our Elite Eight game in Vegas. So anything’s possible. Just comes down to whatever method the NCAA uses to assign officials for these national tournaments. We may have Anderson, we may not. Probably should be pretty far down our list of concerns for Saturday night. Even if he’s there, it’s only 1 of 3.
 
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The Yakk said:
You guys are wasting your breath arguing with that dude. He has already been told, but he continues to cherry-pick the numbers and make his toddler-level arguments.

Most here have figured out that Billy Jack is a closet PC fan. Let him spout his nonsense if it makes him feeel better.
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So, because I don’t buy into the conspiracy theory that the refs colluded to favor Providence in our loss to them, that makes me a a Providence fan? LOL. You’re an idiot.

Only here on the BY do basketball fans accept this nonsense as undisputed fact. It’s one thing to be rabid for your team, it’s something else to be delusional. If you hadn’t noticed, this year’s team had a problem of fouling too much. At one point it was in the top 50 in the country in fouls committed - out of 362 teams. That’s improved, but they’re still in the top 100. We’ve averaged 18 fouls per game whereas schools like Creighton are averaging only 13 and the national leaders are averaging 12+.

But go ahead and blame the refs. Good thing the coaches haven’t accepted that strategy. The fact that the team has improved shows that it was recognized as a problem and that it’s something they’ve worked on. Obviously the BY is the wrong place to try to be objective.
 
The Yakk said:
You guys are wasting your breath arguing with that dude. He has already been told, but he continues to cherry-pick the numbers and make his toddler-level arguments.

Most here have figured out that Billy Jack is a closet PC fan. Let him spout his nonsense if it makes him feeel better.
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I thought Billy Jack was Tom Laughlin. One of greatest actors of all time.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
It's not the fouls called on us, it's the fouls they don't call on them.
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We’ve been called for 18 fouls per game. Our opponents for 17 fouls per game. The average team in the country is called fir 16.8 fouls per game.

And your conclusion is that the refs aren’t calling fouls on our opponents?
 
Part of the coaching staff's job and the player's responsibility -in a game of this magnitude-- is to read how the refs are going to call the game and adjust/adapt if or when needed. Scouting the refs and their tendencies is part of that once we know which crew is reffing our game.

I am confident that we will have the ability to make in-game adjustments by the time of the first media timeout. We have the bench that no one in the FF has-- to exhaust our allotment of fouls strategically. Game on.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
What makes me nervous is they haven't had an obvious matchup advantage against a #4, #1, and #2 seed, and beat all of them.

The matchup is fine. They have something intangible going that we're going to have to match (which, granted, we have done through 4 games so far).
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We have many intangibles. One being TX and FF being our other home away from home.


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SilentDog said:
2006 loss to George Mason is a concern from a karma standpoint. How much were we favored by in that game. I could not watch that one was on a golfing junket in AL. But all the people on the trip gave me updates even though I was avoiding them by shutting off my phone. Laranaga did it to us before but I do think the first round and elite 8 games at least for me carry more pressure.
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That team was looking past the whole tournament to the draft. Not bad kids. My fave team ever. Until now. This team is connected. Focused and realizes the bigger picture for our program
 
HurikaneMar said:
We don't really need a narrative. We beat the last Kenpom #1, we beat Kenpoms #5 both we're rated higher than us offensively and defensively and both went home. So whats's your narrative? You guys are the new #1? ok

Our shooting percentage has gone up in every game against Kenpoms #1 defense so we don't need to fool ourselves into thinking this team is peaking at the right time. We are.

But so is UConn. Your team, looks great!
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It’s nice to be able to rely on our offensive or defensive side. With one clicking we are 5 pt favorites. With both 15.
 
I've been lurking on the Miami board and they all seem to be so hung up on Omier vs Adama rebounding matchup. They keep saying how much better of a rebounder Omier is strickly because of his RPG stats and how that will give the huskies an issue....Little do they know we have 6 guys that average 4+ rebounds a game, they have 3. Can't wait for this game!!!
 
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