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This was AFH Monday morning. My son took this while he was camping for the game. (That's not him in the photo.. not sure who it is..)
They have a Wii set up and were playing while they waited. After practice, the players came by and wanted to play but they had just shut down the game.
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.
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.
@Jayhawk_69 Agree. Jamari was fouled with the body. That was a foul most of the time. At that point, it needed to be an 'and-1' for us to have a shot at the win and he didn't make the shot, so it didn't matter quite as much. The officiating continues to be splotchy in the NCAA.
Our defense was good enough last night to make us competitive with any team in the B12. We'll need that to be a regular occurrence and not just something we trot out for top 10 teams if we want to be competing for a league title.
I miss the alert that lets me know how many threads have updates since I was last here. The little red dot with a number used to show up on the categories icon at the top left.
I just want to remind everyone that the story was that the injury came during warmups.
If so, trainers need to be a bit more engaged.
I mean, if you calculate the time lost during these games in terms of DPs contract, it's probably not far from the salary of a trainer.
I just want to remind everyone that the story was that the injury came during warmups.
If so, trainers need to be a bit more engaged.
I mean, if you calculate the time lost during these games in terms of DPs contract, it's probably not far from the salary of a trainer.
@kjayhawks2.0 ^^^ UGH ^^^
That was a gut punch.
I hear you all.. but the main thing that was wrong the other night was that our best player (or most expensive asset, if you look at it cynically) was not on the floor.
I think this is a good, competitive roster, when the whole roster is considered, plus the staff and the ability of the players to grow and improve.
That last point is worth noting: Most of the players have played less than 10 games under Coach Self. Some of these players are incredibly talented and others are very experienced (or both). Coach Self's track record with seasoned players is excellent. I'm bullish on them all improving faster than the competition (if they all get on the court and play together sooner rather than later.)
@Jayhawk_69 Agree. Jamari was fouled with the body. That was a foul most of the time. At that point, it needed to be an 'and-1' for us to have a shot at the win and he didn't make the shot, so it didn't matter quite as much. The officiating continues to be splotchy in the NCAA.
Our defense was good enough last night to make us competitive with any team in the B12. We'll need that to be a regular occurrence and not just something we trot out for top 10 teams if we want to be competing for a league title.
Both Duke and UNC win. Syracuse beats Tennessee. If we are going to be competitive, we are going to need to improve throughout the season faster than the other top teams.
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.
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.
I'm on a desktop as well, FWIW. (still don't see any red dot on the hamburger menu)
