Xavier Post Game Thread

[Husk1esB2B]

Hurley won another close game! They kept fighting even though it was awful down the stretch... not to be that guy but whats the excuse for the crowd this time? Back to back champs, Big East Home opener, close game.... all i heard was lets go huskies at some points. Are the students too used to winning, or do they just get "it", is it the the TV broadcast and it was wild in there, or is that a product of the XL center?

The students bring the juice.. in my opinion they didn't bring it today the way i'm sure a lot of people were expecting. Karaban, Hurley, the Social Media team, McNeeley, Diarra, pretty much everyone has said countlessly they need the fans. Hurley was outspoken when they went to Kansas last year and truly saw what court advantage looks like. Ready to be flamed but all you have to do is go back and watch replays of older teams to know what I'm talking about.

thats an odd take.. I'm sure XL exploded in those final minutes

 

[temery]

Diarra and Reed with double doubles.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

The foul call on Ross with 9 seconds left in regulation was BS. The Xavier player (Maddox?) threw his head back when he brushed his teammate who set the screen and got the call, Ross didn't touch the him. It smelled of a make-up call but the call on McNeeley was legit.

I was a bit relieved however as I was worried X would launch a contested three and hit it.

I also don't get how they missed McNeeley getting tripped at the end of regulation.

 

[El Obrero]

In a true democracy, the officiating at tonight’s game would warrant a congressional investigation. But we won, and I have weed, so, whatever…

 

[mauconnfan]

Their defense wasn’t great but it wasn’t awful. I mean Maddux was a 5pts a game guy and 32% from the floor and 30% from 3 he played a career game good for him.

Tough physical win against a very tough X team with a very good coach. Will sleep well.

 

[housekeys]

Hats off to Xavier, they shot the lights out. We will get these games in the BE it's an opportunity for our opponents to take down the King.

Exactly. Every team. Every opposing player will play with flair and "nothing to lose" attitude. They will play hero ball and depending on their individual skill set, they will deliver. UConn must take everyone's best shot, but I am guessing no team is good enough, but players having career nights will be a staple this year and will cause havoc.

 

[AtlantaHusky]

Don't forget Diarra playing great D and running the offense almost flawlessly.

Indeed! No forget. Lots of kudos to the entire team. Glad we ran a buzzer play without Hass with ball in his hands. We should have won with a trip with McNeeley shooting FT's which would have been ugly but justified.

 

[uconngb]

what are you going to do when the other guys shoot 63% from three? there is always room for improvement on closeouts, but we ain't THAT bad.

Maybe guard them??

 

[superjohn]

My biggest concern was that the bench provided so little tonight in an OT game.

Offense this year in key spots should be Liam with the ball creating with a take to the rim, or a dump in to Tarris. It would have worked in the last regulation posession but Liam took an outside route to the lane that went sideways. Tarris was isod down low with a guy he had a ton of size on and ate up all night.

Great character building win against a team that came in really hungry and hot from the field, and with a great coach. The immediate response after going down 5 in the last five minutes show resilience.

Liam was fouled.

 

[dennismenace]

Our offensive rebounding( 14 ) was a big factor in tonight’s win with a number of second chance possession's and points.

Also, great OT coaching by Hurley switching McNeeley and Ross for offensive and defensive possessions. Ross shut down Maddox in OT.

This is great news as far as Ross being a lockdown defender. We need to shutdown some of the perimeter 3 pt shooting going forward

 

[Revrat]

The foul call on Ross with 9 seconds left in regulation was BS. The Xavier player (Maddox?) threw his head back when he brushed his teammate who set the screen and got the call, Ross didn't touch the him. It smelled of a make-up call but the call on McNeeley was legit.

I was a bit relieved however as I was worried X would launch a contested three and hit it.

I also don't get how they missed McNeeley getting tripped at the end of regulation.

People kept saying that I dont think you saw the actual foul. Ross grabbed the guy on his cut there was nobody else near

 

[Bomber36]

Huge for game for Reed as far as fouls. If he fouls out, we probably lose. He needs to be smarter and not take offensive fouls. (2 in t he first half)

 

[superjohn]

Maybe guard them??

They did. We got way more open threes than Xavier did.

 

[caw]

Diarra 11 assists 1 TO - wow.

He's really grown as a player. I just wish his shot would return, he's pretty much playing great at PG aside from that.

If my math is correct he is at 74 assists on the year and only 25 TOs. A more than solid 3 - 1 ratio and a tad over 6 assists per game.

 

[BFieldHusky]

My biggest concern was that the bench provided so little tonight in an OT game.

Offense this year in key spots should be Liam with the ball creating with a take to the rim, or a dump in to Tarris. It would have worked in the last regulation posession but Liam took an outside route to the lane that went sideways. Tarris was isod down low with a guy he had a ton of size on and ate up all night.

Great character building win against a team that came in really hungry and hot from the field, and with a great coach. The immediate response after going down 5 in the last five minutes show resilience.

"Liam took an outside route to the lane went sideways." Is that another way of saying he was tripped on his cut to the basket? Smh.

 

[uconngb]

A win in their first Big East game is better than a loss like they've had in 5 of the last 6 years before this.

I did have a question. Is their 3 point defense really as bad as the stats look? Marquette hit a lot of tough threes. When is that regression happening that Isaac Trotter of CBS Sports promised?

There's a real chance that UConn has some positive regression coming its way defensively. Even in Sunday's much-needed, 76-65 road win over Texas, UConn still did not have the Basketball Gods on its side. Texas attempted four guarded catch-and-shoot 3-pointers. It made every single one of 'em.

That was not an anomaly.

Teams are shooting 37% on contested catch-and-shoot treys against UConn this season. That's an absurdly high number. Opponents are also shooting a ridiculous 35% on off-the-dribble 3-pointers against UConn. Again, a ridiculously high number compared to most of UConn's peers.

Overall, top-100 teams are shooting 48% from 3-point range against UConn this year. Maui's generous rims could be fudging those numbers a tad, but that does not feel sustainable at all.

If UConn's defense starts stringing together better performances, there's a good chance the 3-point luck has swung back in its direction.

Trotter's 10 Trends: Iowa State's soaring offense, Kentucky's changed Lamont Butler among top takeaways

UConn's unlucky defense is also among 10 trends that Isaac Trotter is tracking.

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Marquette??

 

[freshler40]

I'm expecting Reed to abuse alot of these Big East frontcourts, outside of like 2-3 teams I don't really see how they're gonna match up with his size and touch around the rim

Reed is a force from another world. Masterful rebounder and would have scored more but we sometimes want to feed him a bounce pass inside rather than a nice lob for an easy two.

 

[RuffRuff]

Liam was fouled.

Hard call as he drove over a guys planted foot, the guy didn’t stick it out purposely. Rewound it. Liam was also a bit off balance and wild on that one.

I know the fanbase commoner thinks every call is against them. I like to see things objectively. There were some terrible calls in this one (the reviewed call on Tarris was a blatant hack), but I didn’t think that the Liam no call was egregious. Solo getting shouldered across the floor felt like it should have been called. Not sure where Liam was going with that one anyway as he took a really wide angle which was likely going to end up in a kick out anyway.

 

[3rdbass]

Reed is a force from another world. Masterful rebounder and would have scored more but we sometimes want to feed him a bounce pass inside rather than a nice lob for an easy two.

The problem I have with Reed in there with Karaban and McNeeley is the frount court lacks speed up front. We need Johnson back to help out the D from guards penetrating.

 

[Pmac923]

Maybe guard them??

Did you watch the game? Most of them were guarded hero, heat check shots that went in. Sometimes you can only do so much. I think you press teams like that to speed them up.

 

[El Obrero]

Favorite Raff quote tonight, in reference to Karaban: “He’s gonna have a long life playing this game!”

 

[Edward Sargent]

A win in their first Big East game is better than a loss like they've had in 5 of the last 6 years before this.

I did have a question. Is their 3 point defense really as bad as the stats look? Marquette hit a lot of tough threes. When is that regression happening that Isaac Trotter of CBS Sports promised?

There's a real chance that UConn has some positive regression coming its way defensively. Even in Sunday's much-needed, 76-65 road win over Texas, UConn still did not have the Basketball Gods on its side. Texas attempted four guarded catch-and-shoot 3-pointers. It made every single one of 'em.

That was not an anomaly.

Teams are shooting 37% on contested catch-and-shoot treys against UConn this season. That's an absurdly high number. Opponents are also shooting a ridiculous 35% on off-the-dribble 3-pointers against UConn. Again, a ridiculously high number compared to most of UConn's peers.

Overall, top-100 teams are shooting 48% from 3-point range against UConn this year. Maui's generous rims could be fudging those numbers a tad, but that does not feel sustainable at all.

If UConn's defense starts stringing together better performances, there's a good chance the 3-point luck has swung back in its direction.

Trotter's 10 Trends: Iowa State's soaring offense, Kentucky's changed Lamont Butler among top takeaways

UConn's unlucky defense is also among 10 trends that Isaac Trotter is tracking.

www.cbssports.com

Most of those 3s were with Tarris covering. Our switches were wrong tonight

 

[Leebo]

Kenpom offense up to #2. Defense slid back to #95.
Overall went #11 to #13.

 

[homunculus]

I was actually fine with them for most of the game. But the last like 5 minutes of reg through OT was one of the worst stretches of refereeing I’ve seen in a long time.

Yup. And if this game was at Xavier we lose. This is exactly what happened two years ago. It was arguably even worse in that game, but all anybody talks about is Hurley’s T.

 

[BFieldHusky]

Hard call as he drove over a guys planted foot, the guy didn’t stick it out purposely.

No it's not. It's an easy call. It's a foul. ESPECIALLY, when they are calling much, much less 10-15 seconds before.