The Official Huskies Ground The Flyers Thread

[CTBasketball]

Gotta lock it down on D here.

 

[ktuck911]

our perimeter D!

 

[ktuck911]

Soooooo glad the BoatShow took it strong to the basket and scored... we didn't settle for the perimeter shot...

 

[huskiesouth]

More great D - shot clock violation, Boat great drive, more great D, good team effort at end of game.

 

[FluxTZ]

Wow - Purvis. that was SICK

 

[ktuck911]

If Purvis took a page out of the Boatshow's arsenal (dribble drive way more than take perimeter shots) we'd be even more of a problem for folks

 

[Jay-Bone]

Ferrari in 6th gear.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Defensive stops, made free throws, low turnovers

 

[ktuck911]

What did I tell u... Purvis spin move dribble drive and score...

 

[Scottzer]

Finally putting this one away! 70-62, 2 minutes 3 sec

 

[huskiesouth]

Game turning into whistle contest - let them play.

 

[RichZ]

What the hell did they call there?

 

[MuchoDogYears]

"UConn tough". Like what I saw today when they got down 5 late.

 

[suzyq]

Apropos of nothing, Rip still looks like a kid to me.

 

[Shabazzkets]

Really nice job closing this game out. Money down the stretch at both ends. Although you have to wonder what Purvis was doing pushing the ball with 1:03 left, leading to the equally boneheaded Hamilton foul. Ollie looked like he wanted to hurl.

 

[Silk31]

Now that's how you close out a hard fought game!

 

[bmayuc]

Toughness, Defense, working through mistakes.

this team will be really good by March. Boat is having an excellent start to his campaign...

 

[huskiesouth]

This will be a quality win - great effort on D and on the boards, good ball movement, many contributed, but need to get to better on FT.

 

[August_West]

No D, Heartless and Gutless

I wish there was a dislike.

Sorry you don't get the mojo greatness of the William Shea quote there, fanner.
Down 5 when I posted that, and now what? A Victory for the good guys. There is still mojo to be wrung out of that obviously. Can you loathe me and thank me at the same time? I will accept that and take one for the team.

 

[prankster]

Apropos of nothing, Rip still looks like a kid to me.

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[JesusAllen11]

great finish , only thing i didnt like was seeing Purvis shoot free throws , they looked really bad.

 

[MuchoDogYears]

the little bit of doubt I still had about Boat not quite being filling Shabazz's shoes is gone. he's the next great UConn PG. tough, skilled, smart. A leader who hates losing.

 

[TheRogers]

This is the kind of win that gets the pups stronger!!!! Can you imagine when Omar comes in pistons firing!!!!!!

 

[JWILLDADDY101]

Good effort. Chemistry finding itself. Boat is a stud! Once we figure out minutes we will be okay.
No worries. I see a long run in the tourney.

 

[Gurleyman]

They only had 24 points in the second half. A lot of the first half problems came after Briunah and Nolan were both sitting with two. It doesn't excuse things like losing your man on back cuts or not hustling back on defense - we'll need to be better at holding down the fort in non-Brimah minutes with a little better team defense.

Part of it too, though, is that these early season 3 in 3 days tourneys don't give you much time for film/scouting report/game planning. Assistant coaches will be assigned teams, so whoever the Dayton scouter was would have had the game plan ready. But with less than 24 hours, you can't really get everything into your player's minds that you need to. Dayton ran some good stuff on offense - and they had good passers at multiple positions, which made them hard to scout since they can attack from different places.

Partially due to halftime adjustments, and partially due to Brimah, the second half was much better and we asserted ourselves when we needed to - great job attacking the rim late after maybe a bad possession or two with contested threes.

A good early season learning curve game.