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Xavier post game thread.

Defensive intensity. We upped it bigtime in the second half and then when we come down after an opponents miss with everyone looking to pass or get to their spot for a shot it wears the other team down. And our top 8 blend together well which disorients opposing defenses. It is constant pressure. Our slow start was frustrating but the plays were there, the shots were off. Will be an intense game tomorrow with St Johns bringing out their fans. Good for the league.
 
Donny made a great point that Xavier playing last night was the main reason we were caught `flat footed ' at the start. They looked oiled and we looked frozen.

The 2nd half we were on fire!
 
ucp990411 said:
Shot poorly? We made our last 15 shots
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I can see his point. There is no way we are going to make another 15 shots in a row. UConn needs to step up it's game. Nothing short of 20 in a row guarantees a comfortable win. <g>
 
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5 point game with 13 minutes left.
 
REB1094 said:
I was a bit distracted watching because I’m at work, but I wasn’t too worried in the first half. It felt like we were taking the shots we wanted and they were taking the shots we wanted them to take. We missed ours, they made theirs

In the second half we started making ours and they stopped making theirs. Then we built some momentum and overwhelmed them to a +26pt second half differential

The love was shared as 6 of the 8 rotation guys hit double figure scoring. Great game for Samson, Newton had a quiet 13/7/5 on 50% (and a monster putback dunk), Castle came alive in the second half, Clingan dominated the paint again, 29 assists on 35 FGs, and UConn marches on to Friday!

Side note: shoutout Apostolos and Solo. AR 5pts in 2min. SB 5pts in 4min
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First part is so true - and I was thinking: this iteration of Hurley teams are the most confident I've been in teams figuring it out and not crumbling.

Even with missing good shots, sometimes that will get in the head of a shooter or a whole team and they'll continue to struggle the whole game.

This team especially is so mentally tough that when they're missing makeable shots, they don't panic. It almost always resolves itself, because they hunker down and focus.
 
Yeah idk how people can say we aren't athletic. Maybe our guys can't jump like Andre Jackson, but you know what they do that no one else can? Constantly run in motion on offense for 40 minutes and tire the crap out of the defense. Our team conditioning is what separates us, and that to me, is the most underrated part of being athletic considering how our offense operates. You can be lightning fast on defense but it doesn't matter when you get tired chasing Cam Spencer around after 20 minutes and Spencer looks like he hasn't even broken a sweat.
 
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aburks41 said:
Yeah idk how people can say we aren't athletic. Maybe our guys can't jump like Andre Jackson, but you know what they do that no one else can? Constantly run in motion on offense for 40 minutes and tire the crap out of the defense. Our team conditioning is what separates us, and that to me, is the most underrated part of being athletic considering how our offense operates. You can be lightning fast on defense but it doesn't matter when you get tired chasing Cam Spencer around after 20 minutes and Spencer looks like he hasn't even broken a sweat.
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Thank you! When you make 17 layups / dunks in 20 minutes of basketball that constitutes as clinically manhandling your opponent. You can only do that if you are physically equipped to do so. This team gets stronger in the second half and wants to knock you out.
 
Unless you're saying your basketball team would beat ours in a track & field meet and that that is somehow meaningful, it's a silly argument. We have an established metric for determining the best athletes in a basketball game. It's called the "score".
 
UConn77 said:
The first half was ugly and Xavier was pumped. Once we settled in in the second half and Xavier ran out of gas, the Huskies ran away with the game.
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Great tune up game!

We will definitely face a team like this in the tourney - everything falls for them 1st half, we have a bunch of missed free-be’s and bad bounces, and no foul calls - tied at Halftime.

Loved the response and actually was thinking this was the game we needed.
 
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aburks41 said:
Yeah idk how people can say we aren't athletic. Maybe our guys can't jump like Andre Jackson, but you know what they do that no one else can? Constantly run in motion on offense for 40 minutes and tire the crap out of the defense. Our team conditioning is what separates us, and that to me, is the most underrated part of being athletic considering how our offense operates. You can be lightning fast on defense but it doesn't matter when you get tired chasing Cam Spencer around after 20 minutes and Spencer looks like he hasn't even broken a sweat.
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There's people who think Doncic and Jokic aren't athletic because they hardly ever dunk, lolz.
 
aburks41 said:
Yeah idk how people can say we aren't athletic. Maybe our guys can't jump like Andre Jackson, but you know what they do that no one else can? Constantly run in motion on offense for 40 minutes and tire the crap out of the defense. Our team conditioning is what separates us, and that to me, is the most underrated part of being athletic considering how our offense operates. You can be lightning fast on defense but it doesn't matter when you get tired chasing Cam Spencer around after 20 minutes and Spencer looks like he hasn't even broken a sweat.
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It's semantics. When I hear "best athlete" I think best pure athlete, not who has the most skill or conditioning.

People have had this exact same argument on this board 1000 times one way or the other and always managed to get offended like my buddy you're responding to.
 
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People don’t realize how much our offense wears down an opponent. They have to work like heck to defend us then on the other end they run into the physicality of our defense. We wear teams out mentality and physicality
 
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husky429 said:
It's semantics. When I hear "best athlete" I think best pure athlete, not who has the most skill or conditioning.

People have had this exact same argument on this board 1000 times one way or the other and always managed to get offended like my buddy you're responding to.
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You are one of the most well-informed guys on the Yard from a variety of perspectives on BB. I never question your opinions.

This debate about athletic BB players is a matter of opinion. My opinion is. A highly successful CBB team like UConn has a gumbo soup combination of players. Studs-First Round Draft picks/Over-Achieving awesome CBB players/Role players-/3 yr CBB players.

Do they understand their roles and play Team Ball?? Yes. UConn does and that's why they're knocking on the door for a back-to-back.
 
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