Xavier Post Game Thread

[temery]

Nm

 

[husky429]

Might be a little late for this one @temery

The trolls are already out with 50 threads of their own, lol.

 

[Dove]

Saw last 6 minutes at The Black Seal. The treys!!!!!

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Hawkins needs to cool it with the flopping or the refs will turn on him.

 

[Edward Sargent]

Ok I'll start it off by saying tested positive for the Vid at 3:23 left in the first half. Made it this far without getting it! Going undefeated is about as difficult as avoiding Covid

 

[NC_Uconn_Fan]

Its 1 loss, not the end of the world. I'm sure this place will overreact though.

 

[MJKI]

Even great teams lose games. Very disappointed with the defense effort, especially from sanogo. Disappointed with Hurley too. Refs were bad but we didn’t force them into many calls. This was always gonna be tough, now let’s rebound and murder Providence

 

[YoungFree]

Its 1 loss, not the end of the world. I'm sure this place will overreact though.

Already have. The "Hurley Head on a Pike" crew is out in full force.

 

[Palatine]

Played a grind it out game in tough environment. The opponents shot the lights out. The foul situation was unbalanced. It takes the pressure of being undefeated away. It gives Hurley stuff to work on and will make the players focus a little sharper.

In the big picture, it means very little. A very winnable game if they take care of details. Danny seemed to be hunting that technical, almost like he wanted it.

 

[Phoenixhusky]

Not a surprising loss, should have played clingan more.

 

[YoungFree]

We want to win a Natty, we need to respond to this loss...this will show us who we really are

 

[whosurdaddy2720]

Annoyed but not to upset with this loss. Can’t win em all although I’m certain the Boneyard will have the torches out in no time.

Refocus and get the next one men.

 

[JMick]

Already have. The "Hurley Head on a Pike" crew is out in full force.

they've been mad we've been doing well all year and have been licking their chops to find a reason to come out of the woodwork.

 

[F101Voodoo]

That TECH on Hurley deflated UCONN’s ballon a bit but they just could not get it together today. What was that TECH for??

 

[tentoes4rings]

Completely unacceptable. They got a lot of whistles but on a team with Adama and Clingan we shouldn’t play like an NBA team settling for threes all game. Winnable game with some adjustments.

 

[Vancat]

I had a feeling.

 

[XLCenterFan]

I agree with everything you said. Well put.

 

[husky429]

Its 1 loss, not the end of the world. I'm sure this place will overreact though.

Here's how I think of it.

I'm fine with losses when shots don't fall, players make mistakes, whatever. I can't reasonably expect a bunch of 20 year olds to be perfect every night.

When I look back at the game and think our coach was the primary problem in the last 10 minutes of the game? Then I'm rightfully upset. He's being paid 3 million a year, and part of that is shutting the hell up when the game is on the line. Or playing your 7-2 star freshman more than 7 minutes in a game where our starting center is playing terrible.

 

[Nebraskan18]

I feel like the exact player we were missing today was Samson Johnson. Karavan was getting bullied inside and not hitting his shots, Samson would’ve been exactly what we needed I think. Also Hassan should’ve played more in the 2H

 

[Tenspro2002]

The concern after a game like this is that we're really a #10-20 type team that played over our heads for a month and now have come back to earth over the last 3.

 

[Durks07]

Hopefully this will end all the asinine "when will we have our first close game," and "can this team beat [insert idiotic opponent who they could never beat here]" threads going forward.

 

[Conquistador]

Not a surprising loss, should have played clingan more.

I thought Clingan on Nunge and Sanogo on Fremantle would’ve been a good matchup for us considering X played them together a lot.

 

[JustbrewitMan]

We were bound to lose a game.

A lot to learn from that game. We will be a better team for it.

I thought our sub pattern was the main reason we lost this game. Karaban was struggling out there all game on D. Just absolutely abused. Why he got so much run is beyond me.

We made our runs with Clingan & Diarra on the court. Why they didn't get any run for the last ~10 minutes is a mystery.

This is the first game I thought we strayed from our winning strategy of finding the players needed to beat the other team…regardless of who it was.

And go figure, we lost.

 

[Palatine]

Xavier shot 4-13 from three.

Andre shot 4-12 from three.

It looked bad because he was jacking up shots at the end. But he was a respectable .333. Take that all year from him.

 

[husky429]

Danny seemed to be hunting that technical, almost like he wanted it.

He absolutely was not. Don't be ridiculous.

Your general point is true though. I said before the game that this feels like a first loss to me. Xavier away is a damn tough game. We were bound to lose at some point, and this might be an important spark.

I feel bad for Providence. This team is going to be hungry.