Uconn game thread
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alexd.
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To be honest, that last play with 10 sec, to go, the UCONN walk on got it across mid court and stopped when he got trapped by 3 SJU players. All the UCONN guys were standing around outside the 3 pt line. No one was looking to score with a double digit lead. I'm sure many would have jumper all over "big bad uconn" for trying to run up the score in that situation. No big deal in my opinion.
I dont like UConn or its idiot fans who are usually found intoxicated when they play at MSG. If we want to talk about "class" we can omit Calhoun and his puppet Blaney. If we had the two recruits who opted out we run them out of Hartford with their tails between their legs on the way back to Stoors. btw I cant imagine any recruit wanting to go to that desolate area in Ct. It is in nowhere land.
Uconn fans at the XL Center were much more polite, gracious and friendly than I had expected. I agree with Dee that the fans who travel to MSG are usually a bunch of drunk, obnoxious idiots but they are not really representative of all UConn fans.
Btw, $10 to park right under the arena was a very pleasant surprise.
Btw, $10 to park right under the arena was a very pleasant surprise.
Class of 72
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LOL!!! Re-anal-ized like only a Uconn fan could! Gosh I compare the SJ starting 3 and you want to throw in the rest of the Huskies to make it look like your stats were better. Lamb played almost exclusivly outside so I will give you Olander and the Kraut for statistical comparison purposes (so now we compare the numbers of 5 Huskies to 3 Redmen).
That gives Uconn 28+13=41 points ...........SJ's THREE Forwards still score 46.
Remove Napier from this game due to injury (I wished) and SJ wins in my humble homer opinion
Class of 72
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Drummond is a future 1st round NBA pick in June.
However, I must disagree he was the difference-maker. The Uconn guards (Lamb, Boatright, Napier) scored 41 points to our 3 guards who scored 23. That is an 18 point difference plus they dished out 13 assists to our entire teams's 7.
Drommond may have been intimidating but SJ took it inside often and got 30 free throws to Uconn's 23.
IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE GUARDS IN THIS GAME. I should not even count Malik Stiff. The Uconn guards we quicker, better bhandlers and better shooters. Other than D Harrison, ours were basically invisible.
No disagreement Alex, but pretty ridiculous for Uconn fans to criticize the losing team for playing til the end under any circumstance IMO. A team that is down has every right to press, trap and do whatever they have to do at the end. No rule they have to concede.
Hey, Stith would be barely top 300 and he gets minutes. We've been hurt by plenty of non-top 100 PGs this year. who could shoot etc. Time to get creative here. Our problem is manpower. They don't all have to be All Americans. UCONN had a couple of big white guys who we probably would have ignored. Sometimes you have to shop at Walmart instead of Sachs 5th ave to get what you really need. Louie made a living settling for seconds. We've already shown we can get some biggies but I think we're getting outhustled for the midlevel guys.
it usually takes four years for "walmart" players to make noise. i don't know how many people here have the patience. our sachs players weren't as good as uconn's sachs players. i could tell after five minutes we were going to lose.
we're getting better. let's keep shopping at sachs!
Yea Stith will be a 4th year walmart player next year, maybe he will make some noise then. Right now I see him as the last vestige of an awful era in st john's basketball. I will add though that had dwight hardy or dj kennedy been available for one more year it would have been very big for us considering what has developed with the non-commits and transfers
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I thought we played pretty decently overall against UConn. 1-13 from 3 in the first half. If we make 5-13 we're right in that game with some added confidence. Our second half started poorly defensively as there were wayyyy too many dunk at the rims and our frontline guys didn't do a good job of trying to deny position early on in UConns possessions to their bigs along the blocks and it led to a lot of alley oops. Other than that, I really don't have many complaints and thought we did a decent job of taking care of things of what WE could control.
Harkless, as we know, shies away from contact and did so a bit against UConn but overall I thought he dealt with the contact better against UConn than in the Kentucky game, so Moe is making progress in that sense. We need Moe to be the man against those big frontlines and not just against the Providences of the league. Once he learns to deal with contact better and get a bit stronger, he will move from really good to elite.
Harkless, as we know, shies away from contact and did so a bit against UConn but overall I thought he dealt with the contact better against UConn than in the Kentucky game, so Moe is making progress in that sense. We need Moe to be the man against those big frontlines and not just against the Providences of the league. Once he learns to deal with contact better and get a bit stronger, he will move from really good to elite.
Where do you come up with these wild theories?
I have been following the program very closely since 1981 as these are the facts:
1. In 1983 we finished 3rd in the polls with 3 MCAA as well as a junior college AA;
2. In 1985 we finished 3rd in the polls and went to the final four with 3 MCAA, a junior college POY, a top 100 pg, a top 100 small forward, a highly rated pg and a very highly rated transfer;
3. In 1986 we finished top 5 in the polls with 1 MCAA, a junior college POY, a top 100 pg, a top 100 small forward, a very highly rated transfer ( I don't know where Ron Rowan was rated in high school ) and a top 100 freshman center ( Marco Baldi );
4. In 1991 ( I believe ) we went to the elite eight with 2 MCAA, a top 50 shooting guard, a highly rated pg and a top 50 pf/center.
Where were the seconds Louie settled for? When Louie and his assistants brought in high level talent they won big. The years he lacked top talent we went to the NIT or were one and done.
Amen... Our Sachs players are all freshmen and we have only 6 of them, not the usual 13. Lavin isn't settling for marginal guys like some fans want to do, and I'm happy about that. I'd rather play short guys for one season than have 5 4- year marginal players occupying our bench. Lavin has bigger goals than many of the fans, and that's the way it should be.
This season we are Sampson and Pelle short of a nice tourney run. That's okay because Lavin didn't panic just to fill spots with marginal guys. Not one guy he brought in was marginal. Even mike Perez who plays for UTEP whom nobody wanted would not have been marginal.
I'm happy to be a fan now because I know that even if we fill 3 ships instead of 6, they will be legit players. A little bit of patience will pay off here. Mark my words.