UNC Post Game Thread

[BigErnMcCracken]

11 assists from Cam and Newton. One turnover. That is incredible considering the pace.

I read last night that the starters, collectively, scored 70-something points against 3 total turnovers. If AK and Cam were knocking stuff down they normally do this would have been a 20+ margin.

 

[Brad Palmer]

Not sure if it’s been said yet, but started another non-conference win streak of 10+. Against a top 10 team also. Saturday should be #2 and on to Seattle.

They still have a streak of double digit wins against OOC opponents! Just not consecutive winning streak.

 

[Hamms30]

said this to my brother in law when we were at the Texas game. "Cam's got that Billy Hoyle jump shot"

 

[superjohn]

It blows my mind. He never ran anything like this at URI. Once he finally had a roster that was his last year, we ran the closest thing to NBA offense I've seen from a college team. This team's offense is slightly behind, but Clingan just isn't Sanogo and we've been missing Castle.

But that's why I cautioned patience with the freshmen. What we run is hard to pick up and master, on both ends of the ball.

I think the offense is better this year. Last year we were a well oiled machine at the end of the year but it wasn't like that for a significant portion of the season. Teams would pack the paint and dare Andre to shoot. At one point both Sanogo and Andre were struggling and the offense was pretty stagnant. We don't have the automatic bucket down low that Sanogo became but we move the ball even better this year, it's the best passing team we've ever had and we protect the ball even better this year. We haven't even seen us nearly at our best. Injuries are slowing us down. If we get healthy it's going to be really scary for everyone else.

 

[HuskyHawk]

The announcers talk all night about how it's a UConn crowd, the coach and players talk about how it's Storrs South, I hear it's 70% UConn from a non UConn fan, it absolutely sounds and looks like a UConn crowd on TV and I come in here and we're outnumbered again, 2 to 1 according to someone. Strange.

I swear people get deceived by color. Looking at the people cheering for UConn and screaming their heads off and they're wearing every different color. The Carolina fans are all in their baby blues. The only time UConn is ever in one color is if they do a white out at Gampel and give every fan a white shirt.

We are simply the worst fanbase about wearing our colors in the whole country. Grey, black, white, navy, red. If somebody wasn't in powder blue, they were likely a UConn fan.

Side note: you may be right on the offense, especially how limited Andre was until late in the season. Tristen is even better than he was. Cam passes better than Hawkins, which is valuable. Castle is an upgrade on Andre offensively. Clingan won't give us what Adama did offensively, but his rebounding creates a lot of offense.

 

[ctchamps]

havent seen anything but any news on Samson injury?

Bacot banged his knee. Stinger for a minute or so. Nothing to worry about.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

We are simply the worst fanbase about wearing our colors in the whole country. Grey, black, white, navy, red. If somebody wasn't in powder blue, they were likely a UConn fan.

Side note: you may be right on the offense, especially how limited Andre was until late in the season. Tristen is even better than he was. Cam passes better than Hawkins, which is valuable. Castle is an upgrade on Andre offensively. Clingan won't give us what Adama did offensively, but his rebounding creates a lot of offense.

Those... Are our colors?

Navy doesn't pop in an arena with stadium lightning.

Who gives an damn if one guy is wearing a great hoodie with 90s Jonathan and the other is a navy hoody with the wolf husky?

 

[Excalibur]

It blows my mind. He never ran anything like this at URI. Once he finally had a roster that was his last year, we ran the closest thing to NBA offense I've seen from a college team. This team's offense is slightly behind, but Clingan just isn't Sanogo and we've been missing Castle.

But that's why I cautioned patience with the freshmen. What we run is hard to pick up and master, on both ends of the ball.

Beyond that, college hoops is "older" this year with the last of the free covid year kids cycling through. Any freshman who is not a superstar is at a disadvantage.

 

[AllHusky]

I get the paying attention to it, but what he's running is essentially NBA offense. Modern NBA offense a few teams in the NBA wish they could run (stars like ISO). No ISO, tremendous passing, huge assist/FG ratio, open man shoots. Our shot chart is astonishing. So I don't know where he got that, but I suspect it came from Luke, which means Luke is going to be gone. Maybe to the NBA eventually.

Met Luke, he doesn’t feel like a collegiate head coach, could definitely see NBA like you said

 

[HuskyHawk]

Those... Are our colors?

Navy doesn't pop in an arena with stadium lightning.

Who gives an damn if one guy is wearing a great hoodie with 90s Jonathan and the other is a navy hoody with the wolf husky?

Against UNC it's a sea of powder blue. Tennessee is a sea of orange. Many schools do a better job of coordinating this. Just saying our crowd looks smaller because we've got guys showing up in rust colored sweaters to UConn games. It's a northeast thing. Patriots and Giants football games look like that too, a sea of mixed colors. Raiders, Saints, Packers, Vikings, Dolphins, it's way more uniform in the crowd.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

My only small critique is Donovan constantly brings the ball down when he gets fed in the post instead of just going right up with it.

 

[navery12]

The announcers talk all night about how it's a UConn crowd, the coach and players talk about how it's Storrs South, I hear it's 70% UConn from a non UConn fan, it absolutely sounds and looks like a UConn crowd on TV and I come in here and we're outnumbered again, 2 to 1 according to someone. Strange.

I swear people get deceived by color. Looking at the people cheering for UConn and screaming their heads off and they're wearing every different color. The Carolina fans are all in their baby blues. The only time UConn is ever in one color is if they do a white out at Gampel and give every fan a white shirt.

Have to consider the sources, it's all those posters can complain about after a double digit win over a top 10 team

 

[Excalibur]

I think the offense is better this year. Last year we were a well oiled machine at the end of the year but it wasn't like that for a significant portion of the season. Teams would pack the paint and dare Andre to shoot. At one point both Sanogo and Andre were struggling and the offense was pretty stagnant. We don't have the automatic bucket down low that Sanogo became but we move the ball even better this year, it's the best passing team we've ever had and we protect the ball even better this year. We haven't even seen us nearly at our best. Injuries are slowing us down. If we get healthy it's going to be really scary for everyone else.

My only criticism of the offense is that I feel like it takes us a bit too long to actually get into our sets. That should improve as the season goes on and the movement gets more instinctive for everyone.

Last year we had a ton of wrinkles designed to get Hawkins open looks that aren't there this year. The simplified sets should be easier to nail down.

 

[navery12]

Those... Are our colors?

Navy doesn't pop in an arena with stadium lightning.

Who gives an damn if one guy is wearing a great hoodie with 90s Jonathan and the other is a navy hoody with the wolf husky?

That's the point, we have a lot of colors so it's never going to stand out against a crowd where everyone is in one color like Carolina blue

 

[HuskyHawk]

My only small critique is Donovan constantly brings the ball down when he gets fed in the post instead of just going right up with it.

I think I know why. His touch is much better when he does. He has really poor touch when he keeps it high and tries to just put it back. Volleyball off the backboard. He shoots much better when he can bring it up in a natural shooting motion. He needs to find a middle ground where he brings it to shoulder height or so.

 

[husky429]

Met Luke, he doesn’t feel like a collegiate head coach, could definitely see NBA like you said

He hasn't coached a millisecond in the league. He's college through and through. Guys who want to coach in the league don't work their way up through college ranks any more

 

[Edward Sargent]

My only criticism of the offense is that I feel like it takes us a bit too long to actually get into our sets. That should improve as the season goes on and the movement gets more instinctive for everyone.

Last year we had a ton of wrinkles designed to get Hawkins open looks that aren't there this year. The simplified sets should be easier to nail down.

I think the sets are more complex than last year as we have more shooters

 

[Excalibur]

I think the sets are more complex than last year as we have more shooters

Do we? Last year we had Hawkins and Calcaterra, Karaban, Newton, and Alleyne -- all guys with either reputations as shooters or who turned out to be good shooters. Sanogo could step out and make one as well.

This year I see a lot more sets starting with a high ball screen designed to get Clingan or Johnson diving to the rim.

 

[superjohn]

That's the point, we have a lot of colors so it's never going to stand out against a crowd where everyone is in one color like Carolina blue

There's that but HuskyHawk is right, there's a lot of people who wear whatever to our games without even a thought as to our colors. You'll see people with random brown, rust color, grey, green, black...

 

[UconnU]

What metric gauges quality of shots taken? I’d be interested to see those numbers. I Felt like we were getting open high % looks all night, just not consistently converting, while they were taking difficult contested shots.

 

[1999GoodSon]

We played some beautiful basketball last night, with a little playoff hockey thrown in. I'm feeling it all coming together man.

 

[yungdowork]

Productive minutes for Diarra in hos homecoming. He's just too erratic for press breaking

Seems like so many of his turnovers are from trying to make a big play right after he does a nice job doing the little things. The more he keeps making the easy play, the more and more I love seeing him out there

 

[UCTitleTown]

My only real negative takeaway is 7'3" DC needs to get more than 4 or 5 rebounds a game. He should not get outrebounded by our guards and small forward every game. With that said, we're winning despite of this so it's a real small criticism. We'll only be more dominant once he rebounds better.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

There's that but HuskyHawk is right, there's a lot of people who wear whatever to our games without even a thought as to our colors. You'll see people with random brown, rust color, grey, green, black...

Our experiences must be different because I don't see many people at UConn games wearing plain green sweatshirts.

Our colors don't pop..it's simple as that.

 

[UCann]

I was at the Garden last night. What a blast! I’d say 60% UConn fans. Unfortunately got stuck in a mostly UNC section near their bench. We played very well, nothing else to add that hasn’t been said. Their bench did not have the same energy as ours and it showed. We kept dashing any hope they had to win.

 

[HCCForever]

I was just thinking of that sequence where Samson missed a dunk but then ran back on defense for a block. Good hustle and athleticism.

 

[Matias]

Dan again refuses to win a close game smh

It's mind boggling that we haven't won a close game since February of 2022 and in between that we won a Natty. NUTS!

 

[warbler1055]

NC is a great team but UConn is better!!!

 

[navery12]

My only real negative takeaway is 7'3" DC needs to get more than 4 or 5 rebounds a game. He should not get outrebounded by our guards and small forward every game. With that said, we're winning despite of this so it's a real small criticism. We'll only be more dominant once he rebounds better.

As long as he's getting outrebounded by our guards and not the other teams players I have no complaints. We're #9 in the country at getting offensive rebounds, and #8 in the country at not allowing our opponents to get offensive rebounds, so whatever we're doing is working

 

[warbler1055]

Lay off DC. He knows he is not doing well. His is not 100% yet but he will get better. His FTs will get better too!!!