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Villanova Post Game Thread

WeAreUCONN said:
We aren’t playing good teams and we are barely winning. We gotta play better.
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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.
 
3rdbass said:
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.
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Not just a bad play call for Karaban at end of regulation, but also why is he going to his left?
 
RuffRuff said:
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.
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Yeah, seems like we raise or lower ourselves to our competition. Seems like we run a lot of plays that go nowhere. Where are the cuts and alley oops? Where is the hard nose defense that has us in foul trouble constantly? Where is the bench depth?

It just seems like we are regressing and those top 10 victories at the beginning of the season seem so long ago...
 
RuffRuff said:
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.
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We have Solo and Ross. I think more of our issue is we don't have enough people who can crate on offense. Demary is hesistant and Mullins is still learning how to play against top competition. They both have the attributes to create and we do need more of it as well as Ball. Having a little ISO ball when our sets break down would be great to have.
 
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TheHorde said:
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.
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Win another Championship maybe put his Jersey up there,but no. He is a good player. All time great?No
 
We have to remember that every opponent plays like it’s their Super Bowl against us. Especially the top 5 who have any sort of tournament aspirations. For instance, butler on the road will be hell. They’re games we expect to win but the opponent will scout us til their eyes bleed. And their 3 point shots will always fall.
 
3rdbass said:
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.
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Well, he was being fouled pretty consistently by the one guy for the whole time he was dribbling in. Just couldn't squeeze the shot off before the other guy fouled him going for the ball.

6 or so fouls. None called. Then OT.

UConn won. Nova beat the spread.

Do they have a special portal on betting sites for the corrupt BE officials?
 
I know Karaban stepped up big time second half, but Solo Ball won the game by keeping us in it in the first half. And don’t discount his D on Perkins when they tried to isolate him in the second half. He got beat once, then forced bad fadeaways the next two or three times.
 
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UConnTrumbull said:
We have to remember that every opponent plays like it’s their Super Bowl against us. Especially the top 5 who have any sort of tournament aspirations. For instance, butler on the road will be hell. They’re games we expect to win but the opponent will scout us til their eyes bleed. And their 3 point shots will always fall.
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Rondogg said:
Yeah, seems like we raise or lower ourselves to our competition. Seems like we run a lot of plays that go nowhere. Where are the cuts and alley oops? Where is the hard nose defense that has us in foul trouble constantly? Where is the bench depth?

It just seems like we are regressing and those top 10 victories at the beginning of the season seem so long ago...
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Malachi seems almost unplayable right now as Hurley is giving him 5-6 minutes a game max. We had 6 pts off our bench today, 4 from Reibe. This is clearly not a strength anymore. I have no complaints with the D, we kept Nova to 34% shooting.

We may be everyone's SB now, but that won't change in the dance.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Best part of the game:

Solo is back!

Worst part of the game:

The refs were horrendous.

Two of the fouls called on Reed should have been on Brennan. There were two additional fouls on Brennan (including a moving screen on the three very late in regulation) that were not called.

We got the W and showed a tremendous amount of fortitude. Hope Mullins doesn't miss any time.
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He charged stewart and that was called a block too
 
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RuffRuff said:
What do you think it is? Are they just not running it? I feel like there is a lot more iso ball this year.
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I think they spent more time working on defense this past offseason and less time working on offense
 
UConnTrumbull said:
We are used to it. Unlike Michigan or Arizona or Nebraska who waltz through these games because no one really gets that hyped for them.
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Sarcasm?

Nebraska is undefeated and top 10, anyone playing them will be hyped. Anyone going up against a top 10 team is going to be hyped up, doesn't matter who it is.
 
Scottobot said:
I think they spent more time working on defense this past offseason and less time working on offense
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But most of these kids are multi year and should know the offense.
 
This win should punch our ticket into the Big Dance! Team adjusted well in the 2nd half to losing Mullins. AK & Solo had nice 2nd halves. Hopefully, that will get their confidence going.

Again, some very questionable calls against us. BE conference style of play relies heavily on how the refs are going to call the game. They need to be consistent!
 
RuffRuff said:
Malachi seems almost unplayable right now as Hurley is giving him 5-6 minutes a game max. We had 6 pts off our bench today, 4 from Reibe. This is clearly not a strength anymore. I have no complaints with the D, we kept Nova to 34% shooting.

We may be everyone's SB now, but that won't change in the dance.
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In all fairness the games all have been close in the second half,so he has been playing his starters more minutes.Ross has no business playing in crunch time. He is a very poor mans Andre Jackson.
 
RuffRuff said:
Sarcasm?

Nebraska is undefeated and top 10, anyone playing them will be hyped. Anyone going up against a top 10 team is going to be hyped up, doesn't matter who it is.
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Yeah seriously. People online are jumping through hoops trying to discredit our wins, let’s not do the same to the other obviously elite teams. Every top 5 team is getting everyone’s best.
 
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Couldn't watch, had to follow intermittently on phone. Apparently your typical BE rock fight. UConn doing what UConn does under Hurley, win. 1-21 from Lewis and Lindsay isn't going to get it done against elite teams.

Lewis is a freshman, he'll learn and get better from this. Lindsay is learning that life in the BE ain't pretty or easy. Williard should have Baker Dunleavy seriously look into another year of eligibility for Brennan and Askew. 😁🤷‍♂️
 
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