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HuskyWarrior611 said:
There’s no reason a 21% 3 point shooter who’s an elite athlete should take more 3s than 2s. He needs to be like Castle and only take a 3 if it’s his last option. But the first thought is always attack.

He should’ve been spending this game making sure he can attack. Because that’s the best bet at his success moving forward.

If you disagree then we’ll just disagree.
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You keep entirely missing my point or at least ignoring everything I say, so yes happy to disagree and move on here
 
JustbrewitMan said:
Donovan and Samson looked great!

Samson had some real big-boy rebounds and that block he had was incredible. Wish they had shown a replay

Refs completely killed game flow in the 2nd half

Poor Hass got a horrible whistle

Get some good practices in and let’s go beat Kansas!
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Samson is a literal pogo stick out there. The backdoor pass he made to Newton was great to see. He’s looking like a great asset and another change of pace big similar to last year.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
There’s no reason a 21% 3 point shooter who’s an elite athlete should take more 3s than 2s. He needs to be like Castle and only take a 3 if it’s his last option. But the first thought is always attack.

He should’ve been spending this game making sure he can attack. Because that’s the best bet at his success moving forward.

If you disagree then we’ll just disagree.
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To be fair, that 21% number is with a very small sample size. He’s ice cold right now. He’s not Andre Jackson — Solo can actually shoot it.
 
Solo Ball right now is a more athletic Hassan Diarra. Only starting because Castle is injured and we don't have someone better. The threes he had were wide open.

Newton would have had another triple double if not for the bad shooting from the perimeter today.

Not worried about Alex Karaban. He shows up in big games.

Cam Spencer had his usual steady good performance. Samson is showing himself to being a productive player.
 
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I forgot to add that I think that overall Karaban did a real nice job on D vs Daniels. The box score doesn’t make it seem like it, but Alex pretty much shut him down during all 1-on-1 situations
 
SilentDog said:
Yes agreed. I was thinking the same thing about AK. His worst game as a Husky. I had made a comment about his ball rotation on his shot a few games ago. I heard Lapas make the same comment during the game. What was that rocket pass to Clingan or should I say attempted pass. He played decent defense in the second half but that’s about the only positive thing I saw from him tonight. Oh well can’t be great every game. Not worried about him.
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I thought I heard the announcers say he had his finger taped up or something. I wonder how much that affected his shooting/passing.
 
Fordham squashed the Jaspers 93-61. That was just slightly worse mathematically than UConn's beatdown, 90-60.
 
Connecticut13 said:
To be fair, that 21% number is with a very small sample size. He’s ice cold right now. He’s not Andre Jackson — Solo can actually shoot it.
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Even more of a reason to work on something that you can never be ice cold at over a long period of time.

Newton was 0-5 from 3 today too. But took 11 2s and got to the FT line 9 times (5-9 on the 2s too so it wasn’t like he was perfect). So it didn’t even matter.

Making your game live and die by the 3 when you have all that athletic talent is so stupid and it genuinely pisses me off because the kid works too hard and has too much talent to be playing this bad.
 
Up 15 at half but felt like 25. They made some dumb threes. #3 was laughing after 2 of his 5 first half threes because he knew they had no business going in

Very sloppy second half and frankly very boring to watch. Lots of whistles, missed shots, and ugly play. Hurley will have it cleaned up before Kansas

But at the end of the day, we played our C game at best and won by 20. New record for consecutive OOC double digit wins!

My favorite parts -
  • Force feeding Clingan last game paid off. Looked very comfortable today leading to a career high in scoring
  • Newton’s shot was off but he would have had an easy triple double if we didn’t miss every shot
  • Diarra had 2 strip steals within 1 minute of coming in. Then forced another turnover right after. He fouled out today but I’d say only 2-3 of his 5 fouls were actual fouls
  • Solid game from Samson as well, including a BEAUTIFUL pass to a cutting Newton for a layup
  • It was funny watching #4 talk trash all game, flop his way to the line, then shoot 7-14 on his FTs
Go Huskies!!
 
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HuskyWarrior611 said:
Samson is a literal pogo stick out there. The backdoor pass he made to Newton was great to see. He’s looking like a great asset and another change of pace big similar to last year.
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The thing I like best about Samson is he goes up strong and dunks it seemingly every time. For as big as Clingan is, I would think he would be able to do this as well, but it seems like he settles for layups or little hook shots. Just dunk the ball!
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
There’s no reason a 21% 3 point shooter who’s an elite athlete should take more 3s than 2s. He needs to be like Castle and only take a 3 if it’s his last option. But the first thought is always attack.

He should’ve been spending this game making sure he can attack. Because that’s the best bet at his success moving forward.

If you disagree then we’ll just disagree.
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Hurley predicted he'd shoot 40% from 3. He was raving about his shooting this fall entering the season. It's clear he was making a ton of 3s in practice. And presumably he took a lot more 3s in practice than he has in the games so far.

Either something needs to be tweaked about how he's shooting in games vs. how he shoots in practice mechanically, or he just needs to shoot his way out of the slump.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
He’s hardly shooting at the rim and that’s much easier to get down.

We literally watched Andre spend 3 years working on his 3 point shot and ignoring attacking the rim until it was too late. It’ll really piss me off if Solo makes the same mistake of wasting time trying to prove he can shoot rather than making sure he can use his clear advantage.
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If you getting pissed off results in 3 years of Solo & a Natty. I’ll take that trade
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
He’s hardly shooting at the rim and that’s much easier to get down.

We literally watched Andre spend 3 years working on his 3 point shot and ignoring attacking the rim until it was too late. It’ll really piss me off if Solo makes the same mistake of wasting time trying to prove he can shoot rather than making sure he can use his clear advantage.
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The situations aren't really anything alike. Jackson had no jump shot at all. Solo has decent form and for the most part he's getting good looks, he's just not really setting his feet well (in my uninformed opinion). I too think that he should focus on getting to the rim too but I don't think he's wasting anything by taking open threes that we're going to need him to make at some point in his career. He also seems to attack the rim a decent amount at this point - think he's still adjusting to the fact that kids can actually stay in front of him laterally at this level. We'll see.
 
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This was the same as the MVSU game. The refs changed the whistle in the second half and made it a terrible watch.
I would have to imagine that the players pick up on the disruption in flow, and play worse as a result.
Although AK and Solo were just gross on offense today, they were both pretty good on defense.

This game sucked. We got the record. Now bury the tape and move on.

Edit: Also, DC is hitting his free throws at over 75% over the last 4 games.
 
MDHuskFan said:
If you getting pissed off results in 3 years of Solo & a Natty. I’ll take that trade
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I get it. I love the natty too. I also love seeing our guys have as much success as possible as individuals. Especially when they have the talent to.

Would love for Solo to both win a Natty and become an elite talent at the NBA level for himself when he has all the talent and mindset in the world to do so.
 
Hope these young guys are ready to go Friday. If they’re down Castle, McCullars and Adams are guys that can get Karaban in foul trouble. Young dudes better be ready to go at the Phog.
 
We were told coming into this season this team has lots of shooters and we should expect to see a lot of 3’s taken. After tonight we’re averaging 30.8 % from 3 which sits us at 250th in D1. We’re getting good looks, just not hitting (outside of cam). Anybody else worried about this? Esp when we’re playing opponents that we won’t totally dominate the boards.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
I get it. I love the natty too. I also love seeing our guys have as much success as possible as individuals. Especially when they have the talent to.

Would love for Solo to both win a Natty and become an elite talent at the NBA level for himself when he has all the talent and mindset in the world to do so.
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10-11 minute mark he addresses solo. If he’s confident with him shooting it, I am too. Definitely acknowledges that the game is moving fast for him though. Idk if driving is the answer, but just finding ways to be more comfortable & get “caught up” with the speed.
 
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UCLJ0211 said:
I thought I heard the announcers say he had his finger taped up or something. I wonder how much that affected his shooting/passing.
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Pretty sure they were talking about his left hand. It's been taped like that all season.
 
MDHuskFan said:

10-11 minute mark he addresses solo. If he’s confident with him shooting it, I am too. Definitely acknowledges that the game is moving fast for him though. Idk if driving is the answer, but just finding ways to be more comfortable & get “caught up” with the speed.
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He said the same thing last year with Andre until he was forced to say “hey, cut to the basket and drive more.” It’s actually not encouraging to hear that he’s okay with him going 1-6 today and not call for him to go to the rim more.

We aren’t going to crash with Solo like we did with Andre last year because he’s not as an integral part of the team, but if he keeps shooting more 3s than 2s I don’t see him as a big contributor this year doing so. Would love to be wrong. And it won’t be his fault that his focus is moreso on trying to be a good 3 point shooter over anything else either.
 
I know one T was on Hurley but who was the other on ?

I was at the game and no one in my section had a clue and they didn’t announce it.
 
Speaking of T, did they show Hurley egging on the crowd after the first T? I was in 218 behind the UConn bench and as Hurley was jawing at the refs he had one hand behind his back encouraging the crowd to get loud and on the refs. It was awesome and crowd definitely responded.
 
Solo Ball can shoot, he’s not Andre. RELAX.

With the way the second half was being called and the struggles shooting the ball it seemed like mid way through the second half the guys just wanted it to be over. They’re ready for Kansas. Alex, Tristen, and Donovan have shown up on the biggest stage. They’re big game players. This wasn’t that. Nothing to see here
 
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