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cmullinsTU

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Likely same starting 5. Jeffries can play tonight, but not sure how many minutes he plays.

As I said elsewhere I expect us to win 15+ vs “The not so Mighty Huskies”.
 
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cmullinsTU

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Also, we need to win tonight. Our conference schedule gets much tougher after tonight.
 
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JesseTU

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Worst crowd I've ever seen at an evening game. I'd believe 1k by tipoff is possible. Hope people are just running late.
 
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6PM tip-off is hard to make.
Taplin and Etou need to get more involved
 
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JesseTU

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6... People still showing up. But the crowd is really thin.

Edit:. Crowd getting to be a normal "meh" crowd. I was worried for a while there.
 
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Maybe the crowd is due to the bedlam basketball game tonight. That's the crutch excuse amongst our OU loving fans, right?
 
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Hope we don’t take out the hot 3 point shooters. No No No.
 
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7-13 from three but we need to work things inside or get stops on the other end.
 
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JesseTU

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Sloppy ball handling.

Live by the three...die by the three.

But good enough so far!
 
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Why is there always some dumbass visiting fan who acts like a complete idiot at every single game? There’s always one...
 
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Henderson, when he is in rhythm, is a freaking lights out shooter. Good grief.
 
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cmullinsTU

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Henderson at home is such a good shooter. I need to check but I’m pretty confident he shoots 8-10 percentage points higher at home.

17 first half points from him.
 
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Etou needs to stay out of the paint against this team on offense. They double him and he is toast.
 
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JesseTU

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We spelled George Washington wrong (Washinton) for the 60 seconds with bit that I couldn't understand what they were saying...

Otherwise, game is going according to plan. Hope our 3 hands stay hot!
 
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Up 6 at half isn’t bad but if we had taken care of the ball a little better we would be in the 10-15 range. Henderson 5-8 from deep that half for 17 points. We also out rebounded them by two. We need to keep that up in the second half and have Etou turn it on.
 
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nevadanatural said:
Up 6 at half isn’t bad but if we had taken care of the ball a little better we would be in the 10-15 range. Henderson 5-8 from deep that half for 17 points. We also out rebounded them by two. We need to keep that up in the second half and have Etou turn it on.
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When UCONN started missing some shots we rebounded Ok. Adams is really creative off the bounce. #22 is a really nice player. Long and athletic and really good shooter.
 
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cmullinsTU

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UCONN is doing everything they can to make us beat them without Etou. Aggressive double teams on him. We’ve responded with 3s in the first half.

I suspect they start the 2nd half with same game plan on Etou, but if we continue our 3s they’ll go away from that and then Etou can get his scoring going.
 
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Either one of two things will happen to Etou...he continues to get doubled aggressively and he passes out of it, or he starts forcing it and he becomes a turnover machine. He started forcing it late in the 1st and he missed an open 3 and had a couple of dribbling miscues. If he moves the ball we will be better as a team for it. We are getting plenty of contributions from everyone else so he doesn’t need to necessarily shoulder this load right now.
 
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JesseTU said:
Electrifying 4 pt play... Why take him out of the game? WHY?
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Scott was already at the table to come in for him. Think Haith was trying to get him an extra minute or 2 breather on either side of the media timeout. Unfortunately, Scott got lost on defense twice in the minute he was in
 
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