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Went to game last night

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First off the remaining Syracuse fans were jerks.

Iowa was way way way bigger faster stronger than Uconn--not close. In person in decent seats it was grossly apparent. Uconn looked like a good HS team against Iowa despite any score.
Iowa also played with cohesion. It looked like they stole the Virginia defense. As the ball moved side to soide 2-3 long armed big guys wrapped up uconn shooters. When Uconn drove they were outmatched.

The ONLY possibility to compete against a team this good wouldve been a full out forceful full court press with many steals and many 3s. In terms of match up--no match. No chance.

One guy from Iwoa looked like Lebron James physically --maybe 6-9 250/260 and athletic
 
The crowd sounded good on TV. Two awesome moments: 1) at the start of the game, there was an older lady in UConn shirt who chugged her beer. Not mugging to the camera, she just chugged it down. 2) three UCONN fans brought a CT flag and were waving it as they went to commercial. Awesome.
 
scrappy2.0 said:
First off the remaining Syracuse fans were jerks.

Iowa was way way way bigger faster stronger than Uconn--not close. In person in decent seats it was grossly apparent. Uconn looked like a good HS team against Iowa despite any score.
Iowa also played with cohesion. It looked like they stole the Virginia defense. As the ball moved side to soide 2-3 long armed big guys wrapped up uconn shooters. When Uconn drove they were outmatched.

The ONLY possibility to compete against a team this good wouldve been a full out forceful full court press with many steals and many 3s. In terms of match up--no match. No chance.

One guy from Iwoa looked like Lebron James physically --maybe 6-9 250/260 and athletic
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There is no way Iowa is faster than us.
 
superjohn said:
There is no way Iowa is faster than us.
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On the basketball court Iowa looked bigger faster and longer. I never saw UConn with a speed advantage. They could not get into gaps they could not drive past anyone they did not get up absorb the floor they did not get to balls faster they did no affect Iowa on d. In fact Iowa’s press looked much better than anything UConn through at it. O sorry UConn was not faster at all
 
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BlueandOG said:
The crowd sounded good on TV. Two awesome moments: 1) at the start of the game, there was an older lady in UConn shirt who chugged her beer. Not mugging to the camera, she just chugged it down. 2) three UCONN fans brought a CT flag and were waving it as they went to commercial. Awesome.
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Add to that the "Thank you Hurley" chant when he got ejected. Awesome moment for a new coach.
 
superjohn said:
Scrappy seems to be confusing Iowa's strength and a good defensive gameplan with speed.
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They were quick enough and were there to defend, on offense they didn’t need speed. They outsized us and driving to the rim didn’t work much. Didn’t have to be there in person to see what Cook and Garza we’re doing. They only shot 30% from 3 but went to the line like crazy. Tough matchup for us. I don’t think Hurley can game plan against those bigs with what we’ve got.
 
BlueandOG said:
The crowd sounded good on TV. Two awesome moments: 1) at the start of the game, there was an older lady in UConn shirt who chugged her beer. Not mugging to the camera, she just chugged it down. 2) three UCONN fans brought a CT flag and were waving it as they went to commercial. Awesome.
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@tcf15 @Storrs South can we get some gifs? I saw the flag briefly but not that woman. Would be legendary.

Also the crowd had Hurley’s back on everything. I loved it and so did people on Twitter.
 
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UConnSwag11 said:
@tcf15 @Storrs South can we get some gifs? I saw the flag briefly but not that woman. Would be legendary.

Also the crowd had Hurley’s back on everything. I loved it and so did people on Twitter.
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I'm looking back at the game now and I'll see what i can find. I already found the miscall when Tarin Smith stole the ball then went off the ref and should have been an easy basket but ref said he was outbounds. Can't wait to find the other 1,000 calls they got wrong.
 
scrappy2.0 said:
On the basketball court Iowa looked bigger faster and longer. I never saw UConn with a speed advantage. They could not get into gaps they could not drive past anyone they did not get up absorb the floor they did not get to balls faster they did no affect Iowa on d. In fact Iowa’s press looked much better than anything UConn through at it. O sorry UConn was not faster at all
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I disagree that UConn was not faster - by far UConn was faster and more athletic
What killed them was/is that Iowa is bigger, stronger and much more experienced. They recruited to play in Big10 which is full of teams that have teams that should have pads on instead of sneakers.
The unfortunate things was that UConn was not prepared to play a team with that size and had looked like they had no game plan and no adjustments.
Yeah the refs absolutely sucked and played a part in the team never being able to dig out of the hole but lack of rebounding and horrid shooting will kill you every time
I think next time Dan Hurley will be sure to bring a Plan B rather than worrying about the calls
 
I agree with Scrappy that our guards were slow last night. Couldn't penetrate and less consistently swarmy on D
 
They looked a little tired to me.

Biggest issue - Iowa was just plain too big and UConn doesn’t have a lot of options against that.

Cobb stepped up, but that’s the only real size on the team and with MD and SW out, a thin front court is threadbare.

It’s going to take two years to put the roster back where it needs to be after a few years of neglect.
 
On TV, Iowa looked huge.
Last week when I was at the Morehead St. game, I was surprised by how small AG was. He’s really small. Putting him against those giants from Iowa... yeah, not a great physical match up.
 
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gtcam said:
I disagree that UConn was not faster - by far UConn was faster and more athletic
What killed them was/is that Iowa is bigger, stronger and much more experienced. They recruited to play in Big10 which is full of teams that have teams that should have pads on instead of sneakers.
The unfortunate things was that UConn was not prepared to play a team with that size and had looked like they had no game plan and no adjustments.
Yeah the refs absolutely sucked and played a part in the team never being able to dig out of the hole but lack of rebounding and horrid shooting will kill you every time
I think next time Dan Hurley will be sure to bring a Plan B rather than worrying about the calls
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Are you a UConn fan or just an Ollie fan?
 
Storrs South said:
I'm looking back at the game now and I'll see what i can find. I already found the miscall when Tarin Smith stole the ball then went off the ref and should have been an easy basket but ref said he was outbounds. Can't wait to find the other 1,000 calls they got wrong.
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Any luck with the woman chugging a beer? I’m assuming the compilation of horrendous calls is taking time lol
 
It would have been a experiment, but I would like to have seen Cobb and Carlton get a few minutes together. Hurley did give Brendan Adams some meaningful time in the second half which was a forward looking thing to do. There may come a time when we need to see size in the front court.
 
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auror said:
Iowa had 100% corn-fed beef which plugged driving lanes.
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Corn fed beef tastes horrible. That’s why here in Europe I spend the extra bucks for Irish grass fed angus. Not that this has anything to do with BB, but just had to mention it.
 
Mokum said:
Corn fed beef tastes horrible. That’s why here in Europe I spend the extra bucks for Irish grass fed angus. Not that this has anything to do with BB, but just had to mention it.
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Not sure if you’ve been here in recent years, but grass fed is common here now too. Much better in every way. Especially amazing to me is how little grass fed beef is needed to satisfy my craving for steak. It must be the nutrients and good fats signaling my brain that I’m all set.
 
Hoophound said:
Not sure if you’ve been here in recent years, but grass fed is common here now too. Much better in every way. Especially amazing to me is how little grass fed beef is needed to satisfy my craving for steak. It must be the nutrients and good fats signaling my brain that I’m all set.
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What the animals eat is the major factor in how they taste. They have turkey here. I don’t know what they feed them, but it tastes nothing like the turkey in America.
 
I didn't go to the game. In fact, I didn't watch the game live. I haven't watched UConn in real-time in years. My heart, at age 80, simply can't take it. I record the game and watch it in intervals as it goes along. I always know what the score will be at the end of the interval I'm watching. I watch only if UConn has remained ahead or close.

So I didn't watch the Iowa game at all until Sunday afternoon, when I decided, "What the heck." I watched the first ten minutes. I expected the worst, but what I saw was entirely encouraging. The guys hustled, took good shots, played an aggressive defense. What was clear was that our guards were never going to draw a foul on penetration, and Iowa was never going to make a move toward the basket without drawing a foul. You could see the awareness of that making our defense tentative and transforming our offense into an ineffective outside weave. Wish I had a dollar for every time our guards faked a penetration move and decided, "Better not."

After ten minutes, I'd seen enough. My conclusion -- I don't believe the guys were "fatigued" and I don't believe (as I did previously) that they were in a delusionary euphoria after the Syracuse win. I especially don't believe we were "outsized." I believe we were whistled out of our game from the start, the contest becoming a function of the officiating, period, end of story. The Iowa team walked into the Garden and committed murder. Father Brown will have to tell us why the zebra never barked.
 
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