The Pembroke Postgame Report.

#26
#26
1Big_Orange_Fan said:
Hopson's insconsistency is maddening! Great play and then dribbles out of bounds. How many turnovers did he have just dribbling out of bounds - 3 or 4?

Tatum played pretty good defense but didn't finish a single drive.

McBee can't create his own shot and has a slow windup. He seems to also be a defensive liability. I wouldn't play him unless we were having trouble shooting like in the Vandy game. DOES NOT NEED TO BE ON THE FLOOR SAME TIME AS PEARL.

Fields hurt us today by dropping three easy passes inside that would have been buckets.
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Best observation from the game. I think a guy wearing cooking mittens could have caught and finished those plays. Great assist that ended in turnovers. Huge plays that definitely affected momentum.
 
#27
#27
On TV it appeared that Pearl told Scotty to sit his are down on a timeout. Scotty was standing around on offense, planted on the block for 12 seconds. Bruce calls a t.o. and Scotty pouts and mopes to the bench.
 
#28
#28
UT IE 95 said:
On TV it appeared that Pearl told Scotty to sit his are down on a timeout. Scotty was standing around on offense, planted on the block for 12 seconds. Bruce calls a t.o. and Scotty pouts and mopes to the bench.
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That's what happens when you coddle a guy for two and a half years. Hopson's lousy atitude is as much Pearl's fault as anyone's.
 
#31
#31
I liked the fight we saw from the guys early on, but nobody seemed like they could handle the ball. We picked a terrible time to go on one of our cold streaks...would rather have that early on. McBee seems to be nothing but a liability when he's on the court -- no defense, and his slow release and shot selection kill his 3-point potential. We played good D inside, but (again) failed to contest the deep shot.

Not a terrible loss, but UConn played bad enough to keep us in it. It will be key to shrug it off and tear through the next few SEC games.
 
#32
#32
Kemba Walker should be good enough to not need his bigs to get away with illegal screens right in front of referees. There was a "screen" that freed him for a short baseline jumper that was the most blatant moving screen I've ever seen. I think it was on Bone. The big saw Bone going around the initial screen, so the big just moved a few steps into Bone to set a new "screen." A referee was standing right there and watched the whole thing. I don't think UConn got called for an illegal screen all night.

I just watched it. It's the shot that made it 50-45 after Pearl's steal/layup cut it to 3. The big guy "screens" Bone three different times in a row. He just keeps moving into Bone and "screening" until Walker gets his shot off. And, this is about 2 minutes after Bone had the foul called on him at the top of the key when he didn't even touch their player. Two UConn trips later was the play when the UConn player kicked it out of bounds, and the official standing right there incorrectly ruled it off of Williams. All of that happened with the game close, midway through the second half. I wish we got this protection for our home games (see Vandy).
 
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#33
#33
hatvol96 said:
2. The sequence at the end of the first half was a killer. The turnover and Walker's 3 really swung the momentum.
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Not playing for the last shot there (with the shot clock off, btw) may have cost us the game. That swing also encapsulates this team's struggles this season:

Dumb plays + unforced turnovers + great 3-pt shooting by opponents = Losses
 
#34
#34
If Fields doesn't fumble the ball, we're up by 4. And, there must be some rule I don't know about that says that there are no fouls when the ball is loose on the floor. The UConn player got the ball by diving into Fields and then grabbing the ball. I immediately thought of the play late in the Charlotte game when the Charlotte player came down on top of Goins and then literally took a seated position on Goins. I guess loose balls are treated like fumbles in football. Whoever comes out of the pile with the ball gets possession. No fouls.
 
#35
#35
ukvols said:
If Fields doesn't fumble the ball, we're up by 4. And, there must be some rule I don't know about that says that there are no fouls when the ball is loose on the floor. The UConn player got the ball by diving into Fields and then grabbing the ball. I immediately thought of the play late in the Charlotte game when the Charlotte player came down on top of Goins and then literally took a seated position on Goins. I guess loose balls are treated like fumbles in football. Whoever comes out of the pile with the ball gets possession. No fouls.
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The more aggressive player should get the benefit. I see no problem.
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#38
#38
ukvols said:
If Fields doesn't fumble the ball, we're up by 4.
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And then add the Walker 3, and we're up 1. Whereas, if we just hold for the final shot, we would have at least been up 2. You absolutely hold for the final shot every single time.
 
#39
#39
LawVol13 said:
And then add the Walker 3, and we're up 1. Whereas, if we just hold for the final shot, we would have at least been up 2. You absolutely hold for the final shot every single time.
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That's the way I'd play it.
 
#41
#41
ukvols said:
If Fields doesn't fumble the ball, we're up by 4. And, there must be some rule I don't know about that says that there are no fouls when the ball is loose on the floor. The UConn player got the ball by diving into Fields and then grabbing the ball. I immediately thought of the play late in the Charlotte game when the Charlotte player came down on top of Goins and then literally took a seated position on Goins. I guess loose balls are treated like fumbles in football. Whoever comes out of the pile with the ball gets possession. No fouls.
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Actually, the rule used to say that two or more players going after the a loose ball does not constitute a foul, even if violent contact occurs.
 
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