Outside shots aren't always going to go down. You just have off nights sometimes from outside, nature of the game. Our offense heavily depends on Sanogo and he was missing point blank layups. There's no excuse for that, he's too good a player to be bricking layups.
Yeah he looked really gassed out there. Having an extra day off/game less isn’t the worst thing, and going toe to toe with a good nova team isn’t going to hurt our confidence.
The 13 rebounds is very good but he took a tremendous amount of shots, all with 3 feet of the basket and missed 75% as he did vs Hall - that is not a good look or going to get UConn where they need to be. Both he a Cole were not good this tournament offensively and UConn needs their offense.
I think sanogos hand is beat up. Last night he had issues too.
That call made no sense. It was totally opposite of how the game had been called.
Very true. Jubilation after a win is great. a heartbreak after a loss in MSG to a rival hurts some, but I like that too. It is apathy and irrelevance that is the wors. we had that in 2017-2019 in the AAC especially in AAC tourney. Today it looks like less than 300 people are in Fort Worth for the Memphis-UCF game
Sanogo was fouled on the rebound, he couldn't secure it because Nova player was holding one of his arms.
Yeah. Can’t win when your post guy is that inefficient. Even 50% is poor for a big man but less than that is a killer.
His left hand is clearly bothering him. I think it’s a release thing as he moves a lot with the ball. Last night and tonight.
It might be from that game in Omaha
Agreed.
I watched several times and he looked inbounds to me.
This. Good point.
Looks like he should be a Duke-esque AH but, yeah, he seems like a good kid. I wish he were more hateable.
I laughed out loud when he hit. Of course he hits that in that moment, so lucky
In his defense. They called his wing thing that Gus mentioned in this game, like 2 or 3 times last night. We played well. Didn’t foul until the end. Went cold but didn’t get run out the gym. Actually hit threes just not at novas clip. What do you do? Seriously?defense totally fell apart at the end as they shot like 60% in the second half. But pick your poison. Gillespie is heady and essentially did what sanogo does under the rim but passed it to the open guy each time. Usually samuels. I would bet jay told him to just chuck it under as there will be someone there.
If he hasn’t figured it out yet, we may eventually have the best center to touch a basketball on our hands
Me neither. I have no hatred towards Gillespi. He gave UConn tons of credit in his post game interview.
Does anyone have a picture of the shot? Couldn’t see on TV. Just a bizarre call for a ref to make if he was inbounds.
I noticed Whaley passing up open shots trying to get it to Sanogo. It's waaay too forced. Everyone knows what we are trying to do and it's to our detriment. Our offense needs a more natural flow where everyone gets involved. Shoving down Sanogo's throat ain't it and it affects the other guys.
It's why I don't let myself get too up or down about this team. You know when you have a winner so to speak, and those are the teams that frustrate you when they don't execute. This team isn't quite there yet. They are going to have a chance to win most games they play, but if the opponent is a good team that knows what to do with the ball in their hands, then it's a lot of pressure for our offense to keep up. Thankfully there are only a handful of teams that fit that bill, so let's see what the bracket looks like.
We lost on the defensive end in the second half yo be honest. The shot the lights out despite our best efforts. A little luck. Experience, game plan. Whatever we gave up some points.
This is true, but there are going to be times when you have to shoot it out a bit, especially against upper tier teams. If we had one more creator, or one more shooter, someone who could open things up a bit, we would be there. I really believe it. We're just a little shy on firepower.
Speaking of Jackson. What a coming out for him. Great week. He really showed up.