Villanova Post Game Thread

[RuffRuff]

Hurley runs a beautiful offense. Our players need to start executing it. They did when it counted.

An ugly game always looks pretty in the W/L column.

Jayden Ross was huge on the defense end. That's why Hurley had him in at the end.

What do you think it is? Are they just not running it? I feel like there is a lot more iso ball this year.

 

[navery12]

I think what gets Solo going is not sharing the floor with Mullins and knowing he's the guy. That's a hard role to share. Let's not forget that our wins against BYU, Illinois and Florida were all without Braylon. Those are wins over the best teams we've played. Braylon was huge in the Kansas win.

Solo had 13 of his 24 points before Braylon left with his concussion. I know this is your new narrative but Solo was playing great today before the injury happened

 

[blkknight1]

I’d like to see Silas look for his scoring a little bit more tbh. Think that will take some pressure off in the offense

Seemed like after he missed that first layup he was hesitant after not looking for his offense.

 

[blkknight1]

We need Malachi to play like he did in the non con slate

He seems to want to keep the ball in his hands now instead of moving it and getting others involved. The offense just stops because he pounds the ball.

 

[Inyatkin]

Yeah sorry, they looked amazing. Clicking on all cylinders. Another effortless win. Offense looked like a Ferrari. Let me know if that helps.

Nova a good team, but that was a home game after a number of close wins against bad teams. GTwon beat PC at PC today. NC caliber teams have a close win from time to time, but they don't eek out a series of games against lesser competition.

Nova solid but not a second weekend team.

Just stop. NC teams can actually lose winnable games sometimes, or did you miss 2023.

Yes, I know, “The field was weak that year!”

You overreact to everything. It’s exhausting

 

[Huskyforlife]

Gotta credit Hurley for this team never quitting even when things aren’t going their way. We used to complain Hurley couldn’t win these type of games.

Smith is unplayable, try AM or Furphy, it’s hard to believe they’d be worse. Every time Demary comes out the other team goes on a run, we won’t win a championship if that continues. That, or Smith needs to figure it out by March.

 

[Inyatkin]

Solo had 13 of his 24 points before Braylon left with his concussion. I know this is your new narrative but Solo was playing great today before the injury happened

Seriously, this amateur psychology has got to stop

 

[ec33]

Life is too short to watch Big East games live.

 

[bendm]

What do you think it is? Are they just not running it? I feel like there is a lot more iso ball this year.

There’s def more iso ball but I can’t believe it’s by design. I haven’t heard a good explanation for why the offense doesn’t even resemble what we were running to perfection in 23-24. #35 in KP.

 

[Palatine]

What do you think it is? Are they just not running it? I feel like there is a lot more iso ball this year.

Shooting. Hurley can get guys lay ups. They have to make lay ups.

Hurley can get guys open threes. They have to make open threes.

Our offensive needs to convert open shoots on a more consistent basis. If they did we would have been up by 8 or ten after the first half. It would also take a little pressure off our defense.

 

[superjohn]

It's honestly pretty remarkable we still just have the 1 loss to #1 with two starters out. We've been living on the edge and we've been asleep for large portions of the past 4 games and the offense is a mess...

There's something to be said about finding ways to win when so much is going wrong and this was an extremely important win. Nova is tough and our schedule gets a lot tougher especially with Braylon possibly missing some time. This was a 1 seed win.


We all know Solo's shooting struggles but so many things are out of sorts lately. AK was amazing late in the game but he can't be taking off the first 32 minutes like we're seeing. The bench was so good in our out of conference but they're giving us very little offensively lately, poor Malachi is all out of sorts. Jayden got that huge block and had some other very good defensive possessions but they all have to play better. The offense isn't nearly good enough lately, we're missing layups like crazy and we aren't controlling the glass like we should.

The good, we always play great defense and we find ways to win when it seems like nothing is going right for us. Defense travels and we have that clutch factor, we always think we'll win. Solo hit big shots and he backed it out late in overtime which eventually set up Silas for the driving layup. In the past Solo would've put his head down and gone straight to the rim and it would've gone very badly. That was a smart veteran move by him and the play of the game, IMO.

Nova is very good, Willard is going to have that thing humming soon.

 

[MJKI]

Extraordinary D on that last possession by Ross and Silas. Absolutely abysmal offensive performance over the last 4-8 games by our bench. Mali is lost. Give his minutes to Millender. I’m not joking. Stewie comes in and immediately has a great tip in, but a stupid missed block out and then push at the end of the game? Ross is just a zero offensively. Reibe is at least really good but our team cannot win a ship with 6 players contributing.
Frustrating and Willard continues to be a dirtbag, but I guess a win is a win

 

[twiceahusky]

We have to get out of this moribund conference.

If all games were that fun and competitive, I’d say we’re in the right conference.

 

[TheHorde]

Alex Karaban is an all time great Husky, and I’d like to see him in the Huskies of Honor with his jersey in the rafters at Gampel. I don’t think the guy was 100% healthy last year. We are very lucky to have him in this program.

 

[Gutter King]

Bryce Lindsay 0-8
Acaden Lewis 1-13

Take a freakin bow, Silas. Obviously he didn't guard both, but spearheaded the defensive effort. Braylon was excellent, outside of one bad posession.

 

[bendm]

Shooting. Hurley can get guys lay ups. They have to make lay ups.

Hurley can get guys open threes. They have to make open threes.

Our offensive needs to convert open shoots on a more consistent basis. If they did we would have been up by 8 or ten after the first half. It would also take a little pressure off our defense.

That’s a small part of it. We missed some layups but on the season Solo has been the only guy struggling with his shot and he was on fire today. The offense is just not creating all the easy scoring ops that it used to.

 

[alphasigko]

We have to get out of this moribund conference.

When we leave they will be reduced to the Colonial League level.

Which is fine. I'm sure many schools will rush to join . So they will be fine, I am sure.

Nothing at all for Val to worry about. The lease on her Mercedes is safe.

Please inform us to where we are going...

 

[boba]

Life is too short to watch Big East games live.

Or why Hurley doesn't want to coach past 60, these games put the years on one.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Smith is unplayable, try AM or Furphy, it’s hard to believe they’d be worse.

It's actually incredibly easy to believe they'd be much worse.

 

[3rdbass]

8 point win is better for Kenpom than a buzzer beater. I will take it LOL!

 

[Magic32]

OK grinding and winning ugly is this team’s trademark. I’m done looking for 20 point wins.

Another absolutely pathetic home crowd - no energy in the building until the very end.

I did not think crowd was that bad. I feel like UConn fans are louder when winning than they are for rallying.

 

[Dibbie]

I know this it out of left field, but this team makes me appreciate Samson Johnson. Was nice having someone play above the rim and get transition dunks

 

[superjohn]

Stocking the shelves with ugly wins. It seems to be this teams identity. Will it translate to March?

Solo looks himself after Braylon goes out - made some huge buckets.

Credit it Nova for a tough showing. Willard can coach.

Solo and Braylon were both playing well together today before Braylon was knocked out of the game.

You keep pushing this nonsensical theme, let it go.

 

[RuffRuff]

Bryce Lindsay 0-8
Acaden Lewis 1-13

Take a freakin bow, Silas. Obviously he didn't guard both, but spearheaded the defensive effort. Braylon was excellent, outside of one bad posession.

Wild, I guess that's what this team is - a gritty defensive team with a pretty stagnant offense. The best this offenses has looked all year was against PC when we were in comeback mode, against a team that doesn't play D. And perhaps a second half stretch against Kansas.

8 point win is better for Kenpom than a buzzer beater. I will take it LOL!

I wonder if KP factors in OT.

 

[3rdbass]

That’s a small part of it. We missed some layups in the first half but on the season Solo has been the only guy struggling with his shot and he was on fire today. The offense is just not creating all the easy scoring ops that it used to.

Ball was on fire after shooting 6-16? I would call that admirable after a horrible stretch shooting. Not on fire.