Reed has been inconsistent and that's the issue. Sometimes he plays hard and smart, other times he plays uninspired, and not so smart. Certainly, a consistent Reed is the need. An inside out game with balance and that is not overly reliant on the 3 ball puts this team in position to be much more effective.
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they'll practice inbounding the ball this time.
Na, this was more like pulling a plane out of nose dive that could have been unrecoverable if they lost.
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I don't see anything positive about Nowell at this stage of the season. He got blown by twice with ease by Villanova players; missed his 1 shot that was not in the flow of the offense. He dribbles too long near midcourt instead of moving the ball.
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Well that 2nd round possiblity is becoming increasingly unlikely by the day. Which is why I think he'll be back, something I didn't think was a possibility a few weeks ago. Not to mention it's a huge hole on the roster
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Yeah, I’m in the same boat. If you want to tell amazing value giving Hass rest, that it a low bar. He didn’t really show me anything that some other frosh PG couldn’t do. 100% uneventful minutes. I found him to be kinda unsmooth looking to he honest.
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Really is wild to consider. Mixed feelings on it.
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AK has taken over 500 threes in his career and is a 37.5% shooter. Of course he’s trending down but I don’t think a 47 shot sample size is going to wipe him off draft boards in a class bereft of floor spacers
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Reed had a huge game and played well tonight but it seems everyone seemed to forget that he's had a very bad stretch where he's played poorly on defense, soft on offense and struggling with foul trouble, resulting with him sitting instead of playing. .
When he plays like a Grizzly Bear, he's truly a beast, but he still hasn't shaken his tendeny of playing passively.
Now I do agree the coaching staff hasn't done a consistent job of drawing up some offense that gets him the ball in the paint more often.
I'm curious to see how this plays out down the stretch and if Tarris reverts back to the Teddy Bear or plays from this moment on as the Kodiak Bear.
I skimmed the comments, but not sure anyone commented on how great the late clock play was compared to other efforts this season. Nova had a guard on Karaban, we used Karaban to set the screen. They didn't want to switch that dude on to McNeeley, so McNeeley got downhill. Drew the help, found Reed early before the defender could get the passing lane. Just A+ execution.
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Transfer / Adams
Ball / Furphy
Mullins / Ross
Karaban / Stew
Reed / Reibe
if Alex isn’t the starting PF next year then we need to get 2 starters out of the portal. Alex can go back to being the fifth leading scorer and glue guy.
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I don’t feel that way about Stewart either. I would love to see him play to his ability bc we’d be a much better team if he did, and agree with others he has a lot in his bag.
I just don’t think what’s lacking is a freedom to play through mistakes. He’s seventh on the team in minutes and over the last ten games coming into tonight, averaging 25mpg, all starts. He’s not the only one, but he just didn’t contribute with enough consistency during that stretch and at times has been unplayable defensively (besides the Dixon round one anomaly). Checks in tonight and commits a careless live ball turnover and immediately lets up an offensive rebound off a mixed box out. I think the same could be said for a few others, but with Stewart it feels more like a need to be focused, locked in defensively and consistently playing with the same toughness he showed grabbing the rebound for a put back late in the second half.
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I didn’t either but like him and think we need a larger sample size to judge what his role longer term looks like. That time he picked up his dribble at halfcourt was bc he was bumped twice by the defender in literally his first minute handling the ball in over a month. He proceeded to pass out of the double team, something I’m not sure how often we get elsewhere. Just feels like our best shot at successfully getting Diarra some backup minutes, if only a couple each half.
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These are the first half dozen mocks I looked at that were updated w/I last 10 days. AK was in all of them, 4 had him late in 1st.
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ESPN 29
Tankathon 30
NBA Draft Room 31
BleacherReport 34
NBADraftNet 49
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I saw the last 10 minutes originally and just got done with the rewatch.
Like others have said, it’s bizarre that we haven’t been pushing Reed this season. Easily one of our best players.
McNeeley would easily be All-Big East 1st team if he was healthy
Don’t care about Karaban’s 3 point slump because he still does little things great and gets easy buckets at the rim
Solo with 6 assists and no turnovers is AMAZING. Want him to keep tapping into his playmaker abilities.
Diarra continues to be a warrior.
Mahaney continues to be bad.
Nowell should get more minutes and was not bad. It’s hard for him to show much of anything in one 3 minute stint. Hurley pointed to the bench as soon as he missed one 3.
I’m not sure what Ross did that was so bad to not go back in the game. He missed one contested layup trying to be aggressive and got pulled. That’s the kind of thing that makes a player timid and not want to try and make plays.
Like others have said, it’s bizarre that we haven’t been pushing Reed this season. Easily one of our best players.
McNeeley would easily be All-Big East 1st team if he was healthy
Don’t care about Karaban’s 3 point slump because he still does little things great and gets easy buckets at the rim
Solo with 6 assists and no turnovers is AMAZING. Want him to keep tapping into his playmaker abilities.
Diarra continues to be a warrior.
Mahaney continues to be bad.
Nowell should get more minutes and was not bad. It’s hard for him to show much of anything in one 3 minute stint. Hurley pointed to the bench as soon as he missed one 3.
I’m not sure what Ross did that was so bad to not go back in the game. He missed one contested layup trying to be aggressive and got pulled. That’s the kind of thing that makes a player timid and not want to try and make plays.
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Yes. His rebounding alone far outweighs the bad and at times he’s unstoppable on the block. He needs touches.
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Mismatches work both ways. It was painful watching Solo try to keep Dixon from posterizing him, when he and Tarris could have switched if either had a clue. Just very little coordination out there.
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I don't want to sound over dramatic, but losing a game like that tends to be part of a bigger spiral, maybe that 27-6 game ending run saved the season
Can we take those past 10 minutes and bottle it?
Gross 30 minutes.
Promising 10 minutes.
Can we take those past 10 minutes and bottle it?
Gross 30 minutes.
Promising 10 minutes.
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I think the hope is Stew can handle the PF position next year with Abrahams backing him up.
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He wasn't that good on D. Ross really gives us next to nothing when he comes in. It should only be Stewart coming off the bench to play SF/PF/SG.
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That play was in the second half where there was a loose ball and Alex bent over to get it and the Nova player dove for the ball and k locked it loose. Eventually was OOB on Stewie but Alex absolutely mailed in that play.
It just required someone whose first instinct is to get possession of the ball at all costs.
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We actually played fairly well on D in the first half, Nova just made a bunch of shots.
We actually played well on O in the first half, we got exactly the shots we wanted, most wide open, and simply missed them.
That’s been the story of most of our losses, contrary to popular opinion.
Great comeback. Good on us for not quitting until the law of averages came around. Eventually teams will stop making everything, while we simultaneously pick those stretches to be ice cold (making it look like we’re “playing poorly” because the other team built a lead). And hopefully in the tournament, teams will not get the nightly confidence boost of knowing they can do whatever they want on D.
Hurley’s stubbornness has contributed to some of our struggles. Reed should be getting comfortable with the bulk of the minutes and Samson should be back where he’s more comfortable - energy guy off the bench and change of pace against bigs who have been battling a beast, now having to guard a grasshopper. Precisely what worked to our advantage last year.
And he keeps shoehorning Mahaney into the PG spot and then benching him because he’s not executing. He is better than Joey C, and could be helping the team so much in that same role, but instead he’s become an overthinking shell of his former self that no longer contributes anything. That’s on Hurley. I love him as our coach and he’s great, but he’s not infallible and has clearly made some mistakes this year.
Thank goodness they pulled out the win. Team really needed that boost going into NYC on Sunday, and it also proves this team is not the same as those Ollie-adjacent teams that people keep referencing, who would have lost this game by 20+.
We actually played well on O in the first half, we got exactly the shots we wanted, most wide open, and simply missed them.
That’s been the story of most of our losses, contrary to popular opinion.
Great comeback. Good on us for not quitting until the law of averages came around. Eventually teams will stop making everything, while we simultaneously pick those stretches to be ice cold (making it look like we’re “playing poorly” because the other team built a lead). And hopefully in the tournament, teams will not get the nightly confidence boost of knowing they can do whatever they want on D.
Hurley’s stubbornness has contributed to some of our struggles. Reed should be getting comfortable with the bulk of the minutes and Samson should be back where he’s more comfortable - energy guy off the bench and change of pace against bigs who have been battling a beast, now having to guard a grasshopper. Precisely what worked to our advantage last year.
And he keeps shoehorning Mahaney into the PG spot and then benching him because he’s not executing. He is better than Joey C, and could be helping the team so much in that same role, but instead he’s become an overthinking shell of his former self that no longer contributes anything. That’s on Hurley. I love him as our coach and he’s great, but he’s not infallible and has clearly made some mistakes this year.
Thank goodness they pulled out the win. Team really needed that boost going into NYC on Sunday, and it also proves this team is not the same as those Ollie-adjacent teams that people keep referencing, who would have lost this game by 20+.
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The stress is very difficult to take. We know it’s only a basketball game and we shouldn’t let it tear up our insides but there are no casual fans here. For Hurley every game is a life or death struggle. Still searching for a coping strategy.
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Tarris struggles w guys taller than him. He has slow feet defensively and tends to foul to compensate. Just rewatch the creighton game and tell me he is a five. He was great last night because for some reason they wanted Dixon to play down low in the second half. That’s a great matchup for Tarris and he showed it. That’s not every game.
Gutting comeback win for sure. Nowell does look like the only guy who might be able to spell Diarra for a few but he still looked like a deer in the headlights to me. The people asking for more minutes for Stewart and Ross particularly last night - i get it but can you imagine what a loss last night would have done to this team. When you enter a game like this, you cannot turn the ball over immediatly or you are coming right back to the bench. Better players have longer leashes. Reed is a man on the floor. I really would like to see him get some touches at the low post. He just looks like a classic successful back to the basket guy. His strengths don’t get used if a clear majority of his touches come above the foul line. As for Karaban - no criticism from me. He does so many things to help his team even without the 3 point shot.
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