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Re: St John’s game2

Postby jaysfor3 » Wed Feb 19, 2025 9:46 am

Django wrote:We shot 30 three pointers. We made 8 of them. That’s 26.7% from 3. The zebras had zero to do with that.


True, and equally true, is there were fouls not called on STJ against CU that led to missed 2 point shots, rebounds that could have been put backs or CU possessions vs STJ points, and tons of moving screens by STJ's that led to open, made 2 point shots by STJ's and that did have a positive impact on STJ's points total to CU's detriment, which if the game were officiated better, CU could have won.

It's been said previously and this back and forth could go on forever, two things can be true at the same time. It's OK to point out some of the most atrocious officiating we've seen all year when it clearly has an impact on the game.

It sucks and that's why it's also true to the "other point of view" that you have to focus on what you can't control, e.g.; turnovers, 3 point shot making, and shot selection as there will be days, like against STJ's, when the officiating is gawd awful.

Lastly, I'll take CU's style of play every day of the week vs STJ's very ugly style of play that crumbles if the ref's don't allow a crap load of moving screens, hooking and shoving on rebounding, hacking players arms on layup's and put backs...
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Re: St John’s game2

Postby NUgradCUfan » Wed Feb 19, 2025 10:10 am

Django wrote:We shot 30 three pointers. We made 8 of them. That’s 26.7% from 3. The zebras had zero to do with that.


Really need Ash to start knocking down wide open 3's. He had multiple great looks these past two games. He's too good of a shooter to miss 75% of those looks.
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Re: St John’s game2

Postby psychojaysfan3 » Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:10 am

The weak 3 point shooting has killed us over the past 5 games. Since the Nova game, we have shot 29% from 3 and have shot 29% or worse in 4 of the last 5. The outlier there is the Marquette game but even then, we had a horrific shooting performance in the first half and then randomly got scorching hot in the 2nd half.

A team that shoots half their shots from 3 simply can't be this poor of a shooting team. Ashworth is chucking bad shots and missing open looks. Neal has been a walking brick over the last five games. Miller is Miller. Traudt has gone cold. And McAndrew is a streaky freshman shooter.

We just can't afford to have all these guys in a shooting rut at the same time. Couple that with a streak of poor defensive rebounding and sloppy/turnover prone offense, its shocking the UConn and St John's games were close.

Hopefully a few games against weaker opposition helps our guys get back into rhythm.
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Re: St John’s game2

Postby cufan10 » Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:32 am

NUgradCUfan wrote:
Django wrote:We shot 30 three pointers. We made 8 of them. That’s 26.7% from 3. The zebras had zero to do with that.


Really need Ash to start knocking down wide open 3's. He had multiple great looks these past two games. He's too good of a shooter to miss 75% of those looks.


Yeah, some costly misses from Ashworth this week. Towards the end of the Uconn game would have given us a late lead and at St.Johns would have pulled within one. Most likely tired legs. I hope with a week off that the three-point shooting will improve a bit.
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Re: St John’s game2

Postby jays34 » Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:33 am

Couldn't stay hot forever....As long as we get it going for a few games in March, we'll be fine. St. John's has a way of speeding you up. They're exactly the type of team that gives us fits. Not an extremely talented roster basketball wise, but aggressive and hounding the entire game......The fact that we played a top 10 team at their place and we were within a possession or two of stealing it gives me a lot of confiendece in the finish to our season.

The UCONN loss is the one that really hurts, but all's well that ends well. Time for the stretch run.
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Re: St John’s game2

Postby Alphawalt » Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:59 am

jays34 wrote:Couldn't stay hot forever....As long as we get it going for a few games in March, we'll be fine. St. John's has a way of speeding you up. They're exactly the type of team that gives us fits. Not an extremely talented roster basketball wise, but aggressive and hounding the entire game......The fact that we played a top 10 team at their place and we were within a possession or two of stealing it gives me a lot of confiendece in the finish to our season.

The UCONN loss is the one that really hurts, but all's well that ends well. Time for the stretch run.


Last UCONN game hurt, but the really hurts games this year are Nebraska and Georgetown. We seemed like we were disinterested playing Georgetown and treated it as meaningless game. As for Nebraska, we are a much superior program that it sucks to lose to them any year. But at least we are likely to win our first round NCAA tournament game and we know they will lose theirs if they get in (looks like they may get in due to Big Ten bias, but we know what most teams from that conference do every year in the tournament, lose, lose, lose).
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Re: St John’s game2

Postby NUgradCUfan » Wed Feb 19, 2025 1:16 pm

Alphawalt wrote:
jays34 wrote:Couldn't stay hot forever....As long as we get it going for a few games in March, we'll be fine. St. John's has a way of speeding you up. They're exactly the type of team that gives us fits. Not an extremely talented roster basketball wise, but aggressive and hounding the entire game......The fact that we played a top 10 team at their place and we were within a possession or two of stealing it gives me a lot of confiendece in the finish to our season.

The UCONN loss is the one that really hurts, but all's well that ends well. Time for the stretch run.


Last UCONN game hurt, but the really hurts games this year are Nebraska and Georgetown. We seemed like we were disinterested playing Georgetown and treated it as meaningless game. As for Nebraska, we are a much superior program that it sucks to lose to them any year. But at least we are likely to win our first round NCAA tournament game and we know they will lose theirs if they get in (looks like they may get in due to Big Ten bias, but we know what most teams from that conference do every year in the tournament, lose, lose, lose).


For as sub par as the offense has looked the last couple games, nothing comes close to how they looked in the Nebraska game. No one was on the same page. You need chemistry to beat their defensive scheme, which we definitely did not have 4 games in. We saw the signs in every game buy game leading up to it. Having two 6' wings out there to guard their length/size also wasn't an ideal scheme. Hindsight 20/20.
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