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We can’t guard Nova man to man

Brandon86 said:
They constantly hit WIDE open looks and it ripped our throats out. Them wide open 3’s turned into 30 points or more. So what would be the difference you feel me? For some reason we like to think we play them good man to man. We don’t they always get wherever they want to do n the court. Gillespie literally dribbles all the way to under the basket. Our defense broke down over and over again.
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This is gibberish Brandon. They scored 63 points and won by a bucket.
 
Brandon86 said:
We gave up 8 3’s in the first half alone lol. On offense everything they get is easy or wide open. Every point we score is hard. It’s a big difference. Trust me when I tell you we gave up over 10 WIDE open 3’s where our defense broke down. Yes defense was most definitely a problem. That’s literally half of their points.
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We held their three best 3 point shooters (43%, 40%, 36%) to 2-13 from 3 and 7/24 from the field.

The rest of the team went 9/17 from 3. Those players shoot 25%, 33%, and 31%.

The game plan was fine.
 
Brandon86 said:
They constantly hit WIDE open looks and it ripped our throats out. Them wide open 3’s turned into 30 points or more. So what would be the difference you feel me? For some reason we like to think we play them good man to man. We don’t they always get wherever they want to do n the court. Gillespie literally dribbles all the way to under the basket. Our defense broke down over and over again.
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How many 1-2 foot point blank shots were missed by UConn? How many free throws were missed? A lot came during crucial/momentum swinging moments as well. Ball game.
 
not sure if people on here realize it, but samuels and slater are NOT good shooters. samuels is 25% and slater is 30%. we were doubling off of them to help in the post and they made us pay. it's basically the same strategy that creighton was using against jackson and whaley, but nova's shots just happened to go in.

gillespie posting up cole was always going to be a weakness for us, but it's not like our guys were getting beat off of the dribble every time.
 
DaveHuskiesFan said:
We held their three best 3 point shooters (43%, 40%, 36%) to 2-13 from 3 and 7/24 from the field.

The rest of the team went 9/17 from 3. Those players shoot 25%, 33%, and 31%.

The game plan was fine.
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How is giving up wide open 3’s to kids good enough to play college basketball fine? Like they coach just said. We let Slater and them get their shots, and they burned us.
 
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blackuc said:
I think i might have tried Jackson on him to see what he could do. Cole can't guard him
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Didn’t matter. Nova can exploit switches . Put AJon Gillespie and then a few other nova players can post Cole . Just a tough matchup for RJ across the board against Jays system.
 
Brandon86 said:
They constantly hit WIDE open looks and it ripped our throats out. Them wide open 3’s turned into 30 points or more. So what would be the difference you feel me? For some reason we like to think we play them good man to man. We don’t they always get wherever they want to do n the court. Gillespie literally dribbles all the way to under the basket. Our defense broke down over and over again.
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Pretty much what Big Ern said. Our man to man D is a team strength and along with rebounding what we hang our hat on. We aren't gonna just abandon it in the Big East tourney semis. If you want to say we should have tried the zone earlier, I will buy that. Just know Wright would have made an adjustment eventually and probably had us running around like fools. It worked because it was a surprise for the last few minutes and was a small sample size. They scored only 62 points any way.
 
Brandon86 said:
How is giving up wide open 3’s to kids good enough to play college basketball fine?
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they are a top-10 team -- you have to give something up when you guard them. hurley had a choice to give up buckets in the post or three-point attempts from bad shooters, and he chose the latter.

if gillespie had 25 points in the post tonight, people on this board would be livid.
 
UCfor3 said:
Pretty much what Big Ern said. Our man to man D is a team strength and along with rebounding what we hang our hat on. We aren't gonna just abandon it in the Big East tourney semis. If you want to say we should have tried the zone earlier, I will buy that. Just know Wright would have made an adjustment eventually and probably had us running around like fools. It worked because it was a surprise for the last few minutes and was a small sample size. They scored only 62 points any way.
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See this is the problem. People really think our man to man defense is just so dominant. It is against certain teams. We ain’t played Villanova 1 single time this year and had complete control of the game. Villanova wants to break you down and kick for wide open shots. We actually be giving them exactly what they want. They are not a big team, and we are one of the better rebounding teams in the country. I’m telling y’all playing an extended zone against them would do wonders for us.
 
Brandon86 said:
See this is the problem. People really think our man to man defense is just so dominant. It is against certain teams. We ain’t played Villanova 1 single time this year and had complete control of the game. Villanova wants to break you down and kick for wide open shots. We actually be giving them exactly what they want. They are not a big team, and we are one of the better rebounding teams in the country. I’m telling y’all playing an extended zone against them would do wonders for us.
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You are assuming playing an extended zone is something we do well, or do at all for the most part. In theory I get what you are saying. In execution, it probably would have been a disaster over a whole game. Nova is experienced, smart, well coached and can shoot you out of a good zone in a jiffy. You think Nova has never seen an extended zone before? If it was some giant achilles heel, everyone would be throwing a zone at them.
 
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UCfor3 said:
You are assuming playing an extended zone is something we do well, or do at all for the most part. In theory I get what you are saying. In execution, it probably would have been a disaster over a whole game. Nova is experienced, smart, well coached and can shoot you out of a good zone in a jiffy. You think Nova has never seen an extended zone before? If it was some giant achilles heel, everyone would be throwing a zone at them.
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We DONT PLAY MAN TO MAN WELL against them!!! Everybody ain’t long and as athletic as us either. Everybody doesn’t rebound good as us either.
 
Villanova is straight up better than us this season.

Louisville was straight up better than us in 2014. Not expecting much but…
 
Brandon86 said:
We DONT PLAY MAN TO MAN WELL against them!!! Everybody ain’t long and as athletic as us either. Everybody doesn’t rebound good as us either.
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I think we are just gonna have to agree to disagree here and go our seperate ways. They are a tough cover and we gave up 63 points. Wasn't the disaster you make it out to be and wasn't the reason we lost. Have a nice evening.
 
Brandon86 said:
I will say this I don’t know how many times. Sometimes we gotta try something different while playing Nova. They break is down almost every time down the court. They kick, and they get a wide open shot.
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It’s our starting lineup that can’t handle them. We played better with Polley in over Whaley or Sanogo
 
Kenny11 said:
In the first half we gave up 3’s, in the second half we shut them down from 3 but gave up some layups. But defense overall was still solid. I thought Whaley and Sanogo both unnecessarily doubled Gillespie and left their man open under the hoop. Offense was still the main problem though. And free throws
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Did we shut them down from 3 or did Jay say let’s go inside. Gillespie dominated the second half. Best player on the court
 
Brandon86 said:
How is giving up wide open 3’s to kids good enough to play college basketball fine? Like they coach just said. We let Slater and them get their shots, and they burned us.
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I get that it’s a loss so everybody who never posts comes out of the woodwork but use your head for a second. You realize they’re playing another team that happens to be pretty good, right? You don’t just say “hey, Villanova, don’t shoot any threes tonight” and they say “well, okay, I guess we won’t, but we’re not going to like it because we’re good at it.”

You try to get the shots to come from their secondary scorers. We did that. If they make those shots you live with it. The idea that you’re complaining about leaving open “kids good enough to play college basketball” is freaking moronic. When you play a team like Villanova you play the percentages. Defense was not the problem. Again, it was a ONE POSSESSION GAME. Christ, people.
 
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Brandon86 said:
We play some type of zone. We finally did it with under 4 minutes left in the game. It actually worked very well for us. The problem is we waited 36 plus minutes to make the adjustment.
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I mean they didn’t go in but didn’t we give up like 2-3 open looks from three in the zone? I feel like Daniels got off two and maybe someone else in the corner? We disrupted them a bit and they still swung it around until they found the open man.
 
geordi said:
Gee! There's a brilliant, insightful explanation. I'll bet that, if we scored 10 more hoops, we would have won.
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Not sure your issue with this post about UConn simply not scoring tonight and hence the loss- it’s true. Besides Tyrese, no one was lighting it up tonight. Nova is a team that shoots well and doesn’t turn it over. If we have a cold night, it’s tough to win.
 
MilliniumPrince said:
I would like to see him mix in more Jackson on Gillespie early on. He wasn't shooting jumpers tonight. That said, they held him under 10 points. Kid just doesn't panic. Cole had a good game as well. Some night you just tip your cap and take the L.
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Well except for those wide open 3's when we needed them. Those are emotion killers. Cole was not cold-blooded today and Sanogo just look tired for a second game.
 
huskyfan224 said:
How many 1-2 foot point blank shots were missed by UConn? How many free throws were missed? A lot came during crucial/momentum swinging moments as well. Ball game.
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Don't forget those two wide open 3's and 1 by Martin that was missed. You can't do that in big games. If we just hit one we would have gone into OT.
 
Valleyfan said:
This team thinks they are better than they are - a lot like their coach. I hate it when Dan Hurley celebrates with the team like we won the NCAA championship, the only problem is that there is 12 minutes left IN THE FIRST HALF. Celebrate after the game IF you win.
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Great analysis………
 
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BigTenFan said:
Gillespie is an assist machine
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He’s typically not tho. We turned him into one. Took away his scoring. Rather him pass than shoot all day. That put us in position to win but we couldn’t make layups.
 
Nova's whole damn team eats too much peanut butter. They're thick as hell like a damn football team.
 
Sanogo and Whaley in-close Yips (6 for 18). Cole bad night shooting (1-6 3s) 11 pts. total. Had 8 assists to compensate. 8 for 13 FTs Huskies vs. 7 for 8 Cats.
 
Brandon86 said:
We gave up 8 3’s in the first half alone lol. On offense everything they get is easy or wide open. Every point we score is hard. It’s a big difference. Trust me when I tell you we gave up over 10 WIDE open 3’s where our defense broke down. Yes defense was most definitely a problem. That’s literally half of their points.
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1 point game at the half. We only gave up 2- 3’s second half. We had 8- 3’s also. These 2 teams are close. They get easier and better shots, we have board edge.
 
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