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UConn vs Michigan (Championship)

Lafayette said:
Indeed pace will be key. Run them through the offensive sets and get us some open 3s on double pin downs etc.

They have one PG in Cadeau and he wasn’t amazing at UNC and can be limited by Silas. If Cadeau gets winded or into foul trouble they have no PG.

Mara plays like a 42 year old Edey. He can get winded just hustling down court. Slower reflexes mean foul trouble.

Targeting Cadeau and Mara will be key. That and pace. Good matchups.
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Cadeau is listed at 6’1…which means he’s prob 5’11+. Mal should be able to play him even and Silas should have a significant size advantage. Can he back him down
 
Ripper32 said:
St John's dominated us with the two games at MSG. Even with Hurley's brilliance, he can only do so much. Sometimes match-ups prevail.
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We also beat them by 30 once - one game formats, anything can happen.

Win or lose, very proud of what this team accomplished and excited to see what Hurley spins up for Monday. I'm sure it will be good, and the better team that day prevails. Hurley has a chance to become legend with a win.
 
Can an out of conference team defend what we do for 40 minutes while retaining legs sufficient to make jumpers late in the second half? I think not.
Arizona had a dumb plan last night. They thought they could outscore Michigan. They could not. And neither can we. But Danny Hurley would never try that. We are running our sets for 40 minutes. We are making 23 have to run after Alex with an injured leg. And we are not going to allow the crazy number of open 3’s that zona allowed last night. I think we win this game, with a full roster. I just saw that Solo is questionable, we need everybody!!!
 
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RuffRuff said:
This place is hysterical - yes, in hindsight he is. I'm going to leave this one alone - it's reaching a point of total silliness.
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Then what in the world are you saying? We're talking about the quality of players on the team. That UConn team was more loaded than the current Michigan team. It's hard to figure out what you're trying to say.
 
Ripper32 said:
St John's dominated us with the two games at MSG. Even with Hurley's brilliance, he can only do so much. Sometimes match-ups prevail.
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People always conveniently forget that UConn's win over ST J's this year was by more points than ST J's wins combined over UConn.

The one game which called a domination, well St Js had a 2 point lead with 3 minutes left and a 4 point lead at the 1:43 minute mark. Not exactly a domination.
 
upstater said:
Then what in the world are you saying? We're talking about the quality of players on the team. That UConn team was more loaded than the current Michigan team. It's hard to figure out what you're trying to say.
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I have people here saying Castle with his 2024 body of work would have gone top 5 in this draft - he wouldn't, and he might not go top 10 or lottery given his shooting concerns. He went behind Reed Sheppard and Risacher in that draft - those two guys might not even go first round in this draft. You can't evaluate him on his 2 NBA years now. We don't know what Yaxel will be in the NBA, or Mara, or Johnson. Or McKinney. What we know is that this years draft is materially better than a really awful 2024 draft where Ron Holland went 5th. As a front line, those three guys are really good, unique. I'd argue all 3 of them would have went lottery in 2024 based on their body of work today. Devin Carter went lottery.

Point is, this Michigan team has some really unique and very good talent on it, that while not 2024 UConn, has similar advantages. Someone was trying to downplay the talent on this Michigan team based on the fact they don't have as many "premium" prospects in this year's draft, widley considered the best pool in 30 years.
 
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upstater said:
Then what in the world are you saying? We're talking about the quality of players on the team. That UConn team was more loaded than the current Michigan team. It's hard to figure out what you're trying to say.
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It has to be an act.
 
The top guys are still great prospects, but the second tier freshmen have taken a hit this tournament. Some no shows
 
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For some strange reason, nobody looks as good against us as they do the rest of the world (outside of the Big East anyhow)

Can it be coaching? Game planning? An underrated defense? Our sophisticated offense? All of the above?

We'll be fine

I believe that we will win
 
FfldCntyFan said:
It has to be an act.
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He’s spending a weekend where we’re at the center of the college basketball universe coming up with new ways to say our team and players aren’t that good, all in the name of “perspective.” It’s insane behavior
 
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