Kansas Jayhawks Vs UConn Huskies Game Thread 12/2 8PM CT
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Final box score:
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They outrebounded us 25-10 in the second half. Lol. and that was 4 rebounds for Flory and 3 for Tre and even that was mostly in like a 5 minute stretch. We got 3 rebounds from the rest of the team the second half.
Ouch.
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Dawson had 4 turnovers and 2 fouls in 8 minutes. Thats rough. Might have been a game for G?
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Woo, doggy, that there is what you call an epic collapse.
Lemme ponder the box score. Some ugliness in there for sure.
God almighty if Council weren’t such a bricklayer, we’d have a chance most games. -
UConn really took Tre White out of the game and that seemed to be a good decision. He was double-teamed if he got the ball. Hurley had some real respect for him.
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Not so fun with the box score!
FGs
Tre White — a shocking 1-3
Melvin Council — a not so shocking 4-13
Elmarko Jackson — a pleasing 4-9
Box score invisibility
Bryson Tiller — did he even play?
Jayden Dawson — I thought in the summer he was an obvious starter. Maybe now losing playing time. He seems brain dead.
FTs
KU — 15-21
UConn — 6-8
That’s a winning formula. What the heck happened??
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Big issue with most of the players is that they are streaky shooters.. You can see guys get hot and reel off a string of points and then cool off and it then takes a couple of empty possessions before they realize they aren't hot anymore -- The streakers: Council, Jamari, Elmarko, Tiller, Dawson, Kohl. The less streaky are Tre and Flory.
Streaky players can do as much damage as they do good if you don't have good offensive rebounding or some good half court go-to sets for when they cool off.
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A approxinfinity forked this topic
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Really poor shooting game and 35% isn't going to cut it against most teams. 5 total made baskets in the 2nd half which is crazy to even think of. Didn't see a lot of adjustments and if there was, they were ineffective. They just laid an egg at home and beat themselves. Defense held Uconn to 61 pts (season low) & took them out of their rhythm for most of it.
The offense just isn't good as usual, currently 57th on Kenpom. We haven't had a top 25 offense in over 3 years now. Last night they made layups look like rocket science. DP would certainly improve this offense to some degree but expecting a wholesale difference is dreamland.
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Tiller had one of his "down games". Dawson has played sporadically due to injuries and what not but clearly is not an impact player here.
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@BeddieKU23 Idk adding the best PG in CBB to any team would bring a top 60 offense at least into the top 25. Maybe DP falls short of that, but he has been as good as advertised in what we have seen so far so not putting it out of the question.
At worst, we have a similar offensive output for 35 mins of the game, but instead of council shooting a low percentage 3 in the last few mins of the game to keep us in it, we have DP and Flory running a P&R and actually have a decent change of scoring. Love what we are getting from council but iso ball with the clock winding down is not his game and not what he was brought in for.
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@rockchalkjayhawk I thought we were going to pull it out until about 3 mins left when we started missing FTs right as we had a chance to tie. Then uconn hits the deep 3 and KU's offense went into desperation mode too early.
