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Which Husky would you say had the most dominant game?

HooperScooper said:
Donyell actually finished 3rd in the voting for the award in 1994 behind Glenn Robinson and Grant Hill.

Ray Allen finished 2nd behind Marcus Camby in 1996.

Emeka Okafor finished 2nd behind Jameer Nelson in 2004.
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I can't find the actual voting but don't forget Kemba getting beat out for the award by Jimmer in 2010-2011.
 
From pure statistical standpoint, the Donyell games against SJU and Thabeet against SHU are tough to beat.

Putting a layer of context of the importance of the game and how the peformance impacted the game and I really lean to towards Kemba in 2011 with his Maui, BET and NCAAT run. 11-0 in elimination games and he was a beast in almost all of them.
 
Some honorable mentions should be Kemba Walker v. Notre Dame on Senior Day. Came up short tho, but he absolutely took over in the 2H.

But Ben Gordon in the 04’ Big East Tournament should be Top 2/3 on the list. Locked in.
 
Mike Honcho said:
That was this game:


The commentary setup is so perfect too. Say goodbye to your ankles, former DPOY.
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Classic. That Marquette team had Jimmy Butler and Wes Matthews Jr. on the roster as well. BE in its heyday.
 
Hard for me to pick any one isolated game and all of it's facets. But in terms of domination in a run I can think of nothing even close to Kemba and the 2011 Big East Tourney and NCAA Tourney run. He was the MVP of the Big East Tournament and MOP (Most outstanding player) of the NCAA Tourney. It was mind boggling and is still hard to comprehend. That team had a 9-9 Big East regular season record. Kemba just seemed to pick that team up by sheer will and was the closest thing I have ever seen to someone who truly played as if he KNEW what the destiny and outcome was going to be.

Sorry; I know that wasn't the thread topic but I just couldn't get that out of my mind (and love to relive it!)
 
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Huskybass said:
I'll never forget that day. My son and I were at a Cub Scout event and we had to listen to the game on the radio on the way home and couldn't believe that Brimah went off for forty.
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Wasn't that the game where they were almost all dunks off of alley oops?
 
TIL that people remember the details of actual games that didn't happen in the last day or so.

I'd say that Emeka, Donyell and Caron had the greatest ability to dominate a game. Emeka could wreck teams on both ends, that's pretty rare. Emeka averaged a double double for his career, and that's not counting the blocks.
 
David 76 said:
Wow! I don' t think I've heard Ray Allen or Kenya Walker's name mentioned.

But I go with Donyell (except for his last game) and Caron
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Who is Kenya Walker? :) I've seen a lot of names of former players butchered on here but never Kemba's. Wow.
 
Mike Honcho said:
I can't find the actual voting but don't forget Kemba getting beat out for the award by Jimmer in 2010-2011.
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Yup, missed that one. Fredette received 3,761 votes in the poll of nearly 1,000 national media who cover the sport. Kemba was second with 3,356.
 
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I was nervous going into the 2004 final four only because of the stinger Emeka had, there were reports he reaggravated it during the week. He doesn’t get into foul trouble we beat Duke by double digits, 8 at the very least.

Emeka got into Dukes heads they stopped driving to the rim, and got sloppy remember the errant Luol Deng shot that hit the the side of the backboard.
 
No love for what Ricky Moore did vs Duke? I know the stats aren't over the top, but he scored double his average, rebounded double his average, held Avery in check the entire game, and IMO delivered us our first. He's the most under-heralded PG, maybe player, we've ever had.
 
Not a stat-stuffing game by any means, but my vote is probably 2nd half Okafor vs 1-seed Duke in 2004. That Duke team was loaded, all 5 starters for them ended up in the NBA with Deng and Shelden Williams both going top 10 and JJ Redick going 11th.

Okafor went out with foul trouble and back spasms in the first half and Duke went on a massive run putting them up 10 or so after we had jumped out to an early lead. Emeka didn't get his first bucket until mid 2nd half, but from that point on he controlled the game. He scared Duke right out of the paint and forced Shelden Williams to foul out, but Redick and company hit several big 3s to put Duke ahead. Rashad Anderson responded with a couple 3s and then Emeka iced the game with one unstoppable post-up and one offensive board and putback. Duke meanwhile continued to hoist threes because they knew they couldn't drive against him. Okafor ended up with 18 points and 7 boards in 22 minutes, but the way he dominated when he came back has stuck with me since I watched the game as a kid.
 
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huskiesNhoos said:
Not a Uconn game...but NBA playoffs celtics vs bulls...BG and Ray just went bonkers against each other

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Absolutely incredible. Watching this video gave me chills. Two of our best warriors battling it out. Makes me so proud to be a Husky!
 
XLCenterFan said:
No love for what Ricky Moore did vs Duke? I know the stats aren't over the top, but he scored double his average, rebounded double his average, held Avery in check the entire game, and IMO delivered us our first. He's the most under-heralded PG, maybe player, we've ever had.
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I've always said that Ricky was the real MVP of that game.
 
RichZ said:
I believe that Emeka was the most dominant force we ever had on game in/game out basis.
But BAZZ in the 2014 Tourney was something special.
Caron's 2nd half against Maryland might be the single most impressive half of basketball ever by a UConn player, but not winning the game (and the title) takes some of the shine off it.
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I know I’m late, but for sure these 2 guys were easily the most dominant players at UConn. Think about how hard it’s been to find players like these lately.
 
Kitaman said:
Going down memory lane, I was trying to remember the most dominant game by a UConn player. Not only points, just true domination (regular and post season).

Need help here, a Ben Gordon game is on my mind. But there are so many other contenders including Caron, Bouknight and of course Kemba.
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Yeah, Gordon against Nova in the BE semis I think. In 2004 of course.
 
It probably wasn’t a most dominant, but I keep thinking about the game prior to the crushing NCAA tourney loss to Mississippi State in ‘96. The good guys were down at the half to Earl Boykins and Eastern Michigan and Sheffer really settled everyone down in the second half and took over. He finished with 27/7/5 on 10-14 shooting. Great performance.
 
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bmayuc said:
I would like to nominate Kemba Walker for the entire 2010 Maui Invitational just being an absolute beast.

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Except for the first half of the first game against Wichita St. where he sat in foul trouble. But then came back and scored 29 in second half. Amazingly the rest of the team kept it close in the first half. That game was so close.
 
XLCenterFan said:
Agreed. Wasn't even close.
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I love Ricky Moore and he was great, but everything had to come together for us to win that game. This includes 27 points from Rip, ball handling, clutch FTs and leadership from El-Amin and great defense across the board. Battier and Maggette did very little in this game. That’s a tribute to our defense as a whole, which includes but is not exclusive to Ricky. So saying that it’s not even close is a bit of a stretch.
 
After Jimmy
Geno
Brianna
 
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