We should’ve won but overall it’s not terrible.

[AntG168]

a. Rashad was ridiculously clutch, and
b. He didn't get to his 38.6% by being incredible in a small handful of games, and bad in most others. He consistently shot well.


In the last 2 years Polley has had 3 games where he was incredible and pretty much won us the game, and then 29 games where he averaged 28% from three. If people want to use the word good to define that, OK.

"If you take away his great games he's average"

 

[Get a Job]

Not to pile on Polley, who is a fine player in my opinion, but last night he seemed to really be forcing it. He seemed to be doing a lot of dribbling to find a shot, which I've never really seen him do before, except in those couple games where he was on fire and hitting everything.

 

[Hungryhusky99]

Man I tell you with that “really really bad loss” we fell a whopping 4 spots in the NET. I’m a little confused seeing how bad of a team WV is.

Net also has Wyoming 18th. Faulty metric.

 

[AntG168]

The 5th all time 3point shooter in UConn history is a bad shooter

 

[7774]

"If you take away his great games he's average"

He's below average if you take them away. And his great games are 1 in 10. Kind of a problem. You're acting like I'm removing half his games.

"If you're good at something 10% of the time that means you're good!"

 

[AntG168]

He's below average if you take them away. And his great games are 1 in 10. Kind of a problem. You're acting like I'm removing half his games.

You are not being honest. All of his games are not hot or cold. He’s has plenty of 2-5, 3-8 games. You’re acting like people can’t go look up these stats. He’s going to go down as one of the top 5 3 point shooters in UConn history by the numbers and you’re calling him a bad shooter. I don’t know why you want to die on this hill

 

[UofCT]

That means absolutely nothing. Everyone watched what happen. You can gaslight all you want. We should have won that game.

Cry about it then

 

[August_West]

Oh shut up. Every team we beat “ain’t that good” and every team we lose to is “terrible” are there any other decent programs in the country outside of ourselves? Calling an 8-1 WVU team who may be ranked next week a “really, really bad loss” is beyond delusional and reactionary

Auburn is a great team. We were lucky to win that after pissing away a lead . Usually we piss away leads late for a loss. See last night. Or Mich state or creighton BET or St. John’s last year, I can go on.

 

[navery12]

He's below average if you take them away. And his great games are 1 in 10. Kind of a problem. You're acting like I'm removing half his games.

"If you're good at something 10% of the time that means you're good!"

Tyler Polley is a career 37% 3 point shooter, even if we define his bad games as any time he shot below his career average that's 66/112 games. That's nowhere close to 10% good games

 

[August_West]

I think we're a bad shooting team. I agree 3-21 is unlikely to happen regularly, but I doubt you see Villanova ever shoot that badly.

Nova just shot 13-50 against cuse ( 26% ) and still win by 14. Because they don’t beat themselves in other aspects of game.

 

[AntG168]

Auburn is a great team. We were lucky to win that after pissing away a lead . Usually we piss away leads late for a loss. See last night. Or Mich state or creighton BET or St. John’s last year, I can go on.

We weren’t lucky. We deserved to win. We were the better team. Late game management is an issue. There’s no disagreement there. Where I push back is on the notion that every loss is a bad loss. Had we loss clearly by 10 would it have been a better loss? I don’t understand the way of thinking. Disappointing? Yes. But acting as if WV is a “bad” team is unfounded. They’ve shown nothing this year for anyone to believe they’re a bad team. Unproven? Yes. But bad? Show me the proof.


Also, if we’re saying that every game we have a chance to win and don’t win is a bad loss, then we need to come to the conclusion that every loss the rest of the year will be a bad loss. We will have a chance to win every game. We’re that good in my opinion.

 

[Palatine]

I am one of TPs biggest defenders. But Tyler has definitely underwhelmed this year. He was brilliant against Auburn. But he missed way too many good open shots. He simply has to knock those down at a higher clip. Given the number of good looks he has been getting his percentage should b going up not down.

He needs to figure it out because he is not shooting anywhere near capabilities.

 

[NEforceUConn]

Entertaining watchable game.

Boy that Taz Sherman is a nice player.

Surprised we didn’t cover him better.

 

[huskyfan224]

It’s offensive you actually put him in the same sentence as Rashad. He has been the same player since day 1 like I said. Thanks for sharing the totals though so I didn’t have to look it up. Pretty telling that Rashad basically doubled his attempts in one less season lol.

He can have that percentage stat, anyone who follows this program understands he has a handful of great games a year and disappears the rest. It is what it is, glad he’s a Husky but I’ll never consider him one of the best shooters in program history

 

[auror]

Nova just shot 13-50 against cuse ( 26% ) and still win by 14. Because they don’t beat themselves in other aspects of game.

If we hit 26% we also win by close to double digits.

 

[auror]

That page shows an average of percentages, which isn't accurate, because it doesn't factor in that each game had different numbers of shots. For the specific total averages it's rounding (1.7/4.8 not 2/5).. You have to divide the raw totals, which is why 35% is correct.

 

[dennismenace]

I think there's a tendency in Hurley, and to be fair a large number of coaches at other schools, to coach these college players like an NBA coach might coach their players. That is, give them freedom to create. The problem is that these aren't NBA players, although some may eventually develop that level of skill. It's not reasonable expect that getting the ball inbounds, or creating a shot as the clock runs down is something that happens organically, especially down the stretch. Create some structure that they can rely on when the game is tense.

There is a necessary transition coming from AAU to college and hopefully the college coach teaches and implements an offensive system as well as a defensive one. We don't seem to have much in the way of an offensive system. I appreciate the emphasis on defense but as you point out, we don't seem to have that. WV throwing the 1-3-1 zone late in the game was a good example. Point guards should recognize what is happening and choose the option(s) that are practiced against those changes. If you know what your own team's weakness is it shouldn't be hard to figure out what your opponents will do. They're going to keep doing the same thing to you until you prove you can stop them. Flexibility.

 

[Rico444]

Nova just shot 13-50 against cuse ( 26% ) and still win by 14. Because they don’t beat themselves in other aspects of game.

That's what I mean though, they shot 26% which is their version of a bad shooting night. That's almost double what our percentage was.

 

[huskyfan224]

Cute lingo. He can have the percentage. He’s not top 10 on makes or attempts. This top 5 is wrong, Shabazz should be there at 37.5% so Polley isn’t top 5 on percentage either. Could be by the end of the season

 

[uconnfan68]

We'll just disagree. He's a streaky shooter. BUt definitely a good one. You exclude anyone's good performances and they'll look bad. That's a weird way of judging someone's ability.

He looked a little unsure last night. And forced a few too, but at least he shot it. Not getting a shot in 30 seconds is inexcusable.