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Seeing them all strung together like that, really reinforces the notion that we were a team of dunks and threes. I can't remember a Husky team having that kind of frequency with the dunks. This reel really made me realize how much I'll miss Newton.

I knew who posted this when I read the title. Our very own Mister Optimism. But I do like Stewart's potential.

Not really when I was a kid, but teen/early adult roundball heroes were Russell, Robertson, Baylor, West and Wilkens.

That was an erroneous thread title. The actual quote was that he expected Hassan to return.

Driving to the hoop was the biggest single improvement area in his game. 22/23, his drives usually looked out of control, and often resulted in an 8 or 10 foot semi-hook shot instead of a layup. Or in a charge call. This season, he seemed so much better at identifying a seam in the D and weaving...

Expected by whom? If it's the OP, it means pretty much nothing. If it's Hurley, that's promising. If it's Hassan, that's very promising. Even so it leaves wiggle room that the thread title doesn't allow for.

At the time, as the season wore on, I felt that the team started paying more attention to their floor general than their coach. By the 2nd or 3rd round of the tourney, it felt to me like the team was looking to Bazz more than Ollie for direction and inspiration.

There's temp gigs and then there's 28 game gigs.

If I had that attitude, then I'd have to live to 85 at the bare minimum. And I don't think my heart would take 5 in a row, much less 8.

Some time back (my kid was under 10, and he's going to be 60 next year, so it was a LONG time ago.) I coached a youth team. There were three players (and their parents) who still stick out in my mind. Two of the kids were best friends, as were their fathers. Putting the ball in player A's hands...

Not sure when that mistake got into my rings, but thanks for the heads up. Fixed now.

Took a little longer to update this year, as I'd kind of reached the limit on placing the intertwined rings in a straight diagonal line, and didn't want to make them any smaller, so I had some rearranging to do. Feel free to DL it for your own use. It's 1080 by 1920 for use as a screen saver or...

Probably because it happens a few times a week in practice.

Don't forget the not insubstantial role that Joey C played in getting #5.

The over the back call on Clingan and the lack of a goaltending call on Edey bothered me. A lot. That was shoddy officiating.

The announcers were blaming the fact that he played the full 40 minutes in the previous game. Hell, our guys wouldn't be wound out in that situation. They've been through a zillion Hurley practices that can't help but condition them to go until you're exhausted. Then go some more.

Spencer draws Edey away from bucket and drops it to Clingan for a dunk and an early lead. Diarra! Love the way we often turn seemingly broken plays on the perimeter into wide open layups, and he is almost always involved. Half way though the first half, foul trouble rearing it's ugly head. For...

Perhaps the alums from Purdue's NCAAMBB Championship teams will show up to boost their team's confidence toni.... What's that? Oh. Really?

Thanks for posting that link. Really great article.

Scott Burrell is the closest guy to Castle that comes to mind.

Thank you for sharing.

And how is winning by a bunch unfortunate on UConn board?

Castle looking to take advantage of the big stage to show his stuff. #5 scores the first 5 points for the Huskies. I'm not sure I've ever seen Spencer miss the bunny before when he breaks to the hoop unguarded and the ball handler fires the ball to him from near the top of the key. DC was on his...

High profile cheering moms have been a 'thing' at UConnMBB since Kemba.

I'm not in the mood to go back and dig through every game to check the accuracy of may aging memory, but I swear I recall that early in the season, Ball was often the first or second guy off the bench. The first of the frosh, anyway. But by the midway point in the season, Stewart had supplanted...

Van Gundy kept talking about how they don't allow play that physical in the NBA. Yeah, RIIIIIGHT. They do, and what does it matter? We're watching a college game. To be honest, I really don't give a hoot about the NBA any more, except for highlight videos of former Huskies.

I couldn't believe it when he sad this. It certainly couldn't have ingratiated him with their fans. If he carried the same message into the locker room, it might well have fueled their (total lack of) effort in the first 10 minutes of the half.

Well THAT was not the start I expected. That is much, much better. It only took four minutes before a ref made a terrible foul call against us. Our hot start ran out of gas when Clingan went to the bench. I don't think I've ever seen Tristen shoot this poorly. 3:15 left in the half, and he's 0...

Really tough when it happens to everyone on the team in its biggest game since any of them have been there.

I don't like this thread. My great-grand-daughter's name is Siena.

I think that's about the time they realized it was too far out of hand for them to have a prayer of coming back. They knew their season was over, but had to take another ten minutes of beat-down. They were simply disheartened.

Both teams scoring at will early. Double digit lead at 10:48 in the first half. Looks like Spencer has his whole trick bag working. Three, D and finding openings at the rim for unguarded layins. And suddenly, our shooting has vanished. Still stuck at 27 while SD creeps back into it. And no...

I had a really exhausting day yesterday. Happens a lot at my age. So I took a nap after supper last night to be sure I'd be wide awake for the SDSU game. Woke up at 7:30, turned on the TV and after a dozen "Where TF is the UConn game?"s eventually I realized that it was Wednesday.

Why does it seem so damned long between games in the tourney? I like the start. Clingan being his early game self, and Castle really came to play. 4 dimes on 5 buckets at the first time out. We've tried a pair of threes and missed them both. But we're having our way in the paint, and our D...

I suspect we'll be watching a game that resembles a layup drill. Opening minutes, play a bit sketchy for both teams. How is it that Newton getting poked in the eye is not a foul? 6 minutes in, we seem to be doing more freelancing than executing our offense, but our D has been suffocating...