Villanova Post Game Thread

[husky429]

Anyone else just want a blowout instead of risking a cardiac incident once a week?

 

[prankster]

We won by eight. Not a close game. 😂

It was OT.

OT = "close game"

 

[superjohn]

silver lining to Mullins leaving the game was Solo busting out of his slump in a big way. hopefully that's the end of that and hopefully Mullins only misses the PC game out of precaution, back for Creighton on 1/31.

Solo and Braylon were both playing well together today.

 

[JustbrewitMan]

Don’t care what his stat line looked like, Tarris got his lunch money stolen by a totally inferior center pretty much all game long. Frustrating to watch.

I’m confident that we can win games playing like hot sweaty stinky arse. Let’s stop doing this and play to our potential.

 

[WeAreUCONN]

This team. Should've had 3 easy games but we like to make it difficult on ourselves.

We aren’t playing good teams and we are barely winning. We gotta play better.

 

[3rdbass]

Nice to see Ball play better. Karaban really showed up in the 2nd half but why are we calling a play for him to win it in regulation off the dribble. That was just a bad play call. It should of been either Demary or Ball. Glad we won and nice to see us just take it in ovetime. I love what Stewart and Ross bring on defense and hustle but they give us next to nothing on offense including FTs. Our bench for offense is just Reibe as Smith can't even make a layup anymore. I love our starting lineup but we don't have much firepower on the bench when we need some points.

 

[Al Czervik]

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

Other teams are learning how to blow up our sets on offense, which leads to us having to play off script / iso at times.

 

[Hi-Low]

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.

Alex Karaban needs to be on one of the All-American Teams at the end season.

 

[Waquoit]

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

Why do you insist on embarrassing yourself?

 

[prankster]

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

Fun?

Not a descriptor that came to my mind.

 

[bjc42]

We aren’t playing good teams and we are barely winning. We gotta play better.

lol

 

[Waquoit]

I'm sure he's fine. Didn't look like he got hit that hard. Might have to go through concussion protocol and be out for the next game.

He got freaking clocked! You’re 100% wrong here.

 

[Hi-Low]

We aren’t playing good teams and we are barely winning. We gotta play better.

Nova is a quality team...not debatable.

 

[RuffRuff]

Other teams are learning how to blow up our sets on offense, which leads to us having to play off script / iso at times.

How? By holding? So that offense had a lifespan, or we just don't have the right guys to run it?

One thing that's been said already is we have zero rim runners on this team for the easy dunks, Tarris just doesn't play above the rim at all.

 

[prankster]

Please inform us to where we are going...

Ask AD Dave that question. Plus one more.

"Where are we going, Dave?"

And...

"When do we get there?"

 

[superjohn]

Solo had 13 of our 30 points when Braylon was playing, then Braylon hit a three with 18 minutes left in regulation to tie the score 33-33. 40 seconds later Braylon was knocked out of the game.

Solo had 13 and Braylon had 8, they had 21 of our 33 points once Braylon left the game.

They've played well together in plenty of other games too. Please stop pushing this nonsensical theme that they don't play well together, it isn't true.

 

[Greedo]

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.

He was pounding the ball a ton in the beginning of the season too. He was just having more success while doing it then vs now. I think OOC there is more room and the game is less physical so he could dribble around forever and eventually find someone open. Now the game is tighter and more physical and he doesn’t have the room to dribble forever and find someone open. He hasn’t really run Hurley’s offense all season and now with a tighter, more physical game it’s not working for him.

 

[Kemba15]

We aren’t playing good teams and we are barely winning. We gotta play better.

We do need to play better but we haven’t lost either. And we beat a bunch of good teams in November and December.

 

[alphasigko]

Refs were against us especially with Tarris' 5th foul.

IMO the 5th was legit bc he pushed Brennan in the back... It was the 4th one that was really bad when Brennan was over the top on him.

 

[Chin Diesel]

1. It's a win
2. Solo. Welcome back.
3. Karaban. Great second half and OT
4. Demary drives the bus for the team
5. Ross may start eating Malachi's minutes. Great D today.
6. How is it Brennan doesn't play for dook? He absolutely plays like a dookey big.
7. Damnit on Mullins. Sit him against PC. Hopefully he is good to go for Creighton.
8. Next

 

[Palatine]

How? By holding? So that offense had a lifespan, or we just don't have the right guys to run it?

One thing that's been said already is we have zero rim runners on this team for the easy dunks, Tarris just doesn't play above the rim at all.

The offense is consisting producing open shots including lay up. We missed 5 lay ups (that's 10 points) in the first half.

 

[MrJoe]

good teams win games like this ; great teams don’t get into games like this . good teams that win games like this can win the natty. the rematch in nova going to be fun to watch

 

[jpeakin]

We aren’t playing good teams and we are barely winning. We gotta play better.

I wouldn't necessarily call Nova a bad team.

But we have played VERY good teams and won and IMO, a win is a win. Hurley has said it a million times, conference games are battles and you can't take any of them for granted. They see and scout us a lot more so they are familiar. Unfortunately, we will have some head scratchers along the way

That being said, knowing what we are capable of, I agree, we have to get back to what we were in the OOC.

 

[Kitaman]

Years ago Hurley was losing close games and the Yard was complaining.

Today Hurley is winning close games and the Yard is still complaining.

Just saying.....

 

[Chin Diesel]

Nice to see Ball play better. Karaban really showed up in the 2nd half but why are we calling a play for him to win it in regulation off the dribble. That was just a bad play call. It should of been either Demary or Ball. Glad we won and nice to see us just take it in ovetime. I love what Stewart and Ross bring on defense and hustle but they give us next to nothing on offense including FTs. Our bench for offense is just Reibe as Smith can't even make a layup anymore. I love our starting lineup but we don't have much firepower on the bench when we need some points.

Not just a bad play call for Karaban at end of regulation, but also why is he going to his left?