UCF - Tulsa thread

[jestert79]

From my almost completely basketball-uneducated mind:

Ugly fouls from us - especially offensive ones

We're letting them get too many offensive rebounds

Still hanging in there though!

 

[jestert79]

Completely losing momentum now.

42-50

 

[thelandman19]

Such a frustrating team to watch. In away games we just look clueless at times.

 

[Nyght Shadow]

These charging calls are total bullshit. And then Davis gets mugged on a drive and they call nothing.

 

[Nashville_Knight]

It seems we just don't have a leader on the court. Someone needs to get some fire and light anyone up who doesn't give 100% on any given series. Every great team has a leader to feed off of. Who is ours?

 

[Oldest Man]

These charging calls are total bullshit. And then Davis gets mugged on a drive and they call nothing.

I agree...definitely one sided on the calls...we had 26 fouls they had 15...

but we also had 18 turnovers and they had 5...outrebounded 42-32 and we were only in the game in the first half because they shot so poorly....

we'll have to show that we can beat someone other than ECU or USF in our conference to be considered seriously.....

Memphis and UConn at home in the next 7 days......rubber meets the road....it's time to show us you can coach up this team Donnie......

 

[Stormthecourt?]

These charging calls are total bullshit. And then Davis gets mugged on a drive and they call nothing.

That's why I don't watch college basketball. I can't stand the "slide in front of the driving player, take a charge" play. It's so cheap and dangerous.

 

[Stetson_1883]

We've benefitted from a weak AAC schedule thus far. Let the pain begin and get used to it.

 

[KNIGHTTIME^]

We've benefitted from a weak AAC schedule thus far. Let the pain begin and get used to it.

ECU just beat Memphis @ Memphis so they aren't exactly unbeatable. Still hoping for 1 game over .500 for the season.

 

[UCFhonors]

I agree...definitely one sided on the calls...we had 26 fouls they had 15...

but we also had 18 turnovers and they had 5...outrebounded 42-32 and we were only in the game in the first half because they shot so poorly....

we'll have to show that we can beat someone other than ECU or USF in our conference to be considered seriously.....

Memphis and UConn at home in the next 7 days......rubber meets the road....it's time to show us you can coach up this team Donnie......

Nailed it.

The foul calling was all over the place. That makes any game frustrating to watch.

2 of our best players AJ and Adonys never got into an offensive rhythm. Clearly Tulsa was focusing on AJ.


Tough game which happen. Hopefully we bounce back.

 

[thelandman19]

If both Davis' drive, no matter what happens, they will still shoot. Even if they are closed down by four guys. They really need to learn how to drive and dish it with the three point shooters that we have..

 

[Knight_Light]

If both Davis' drive, no matter what happens, they will still shoot. Even if they are closed down by four guys. They really need to learn how to drive and dish it with the three point shooters that we have..

AJ Davis lead the team in assists so far this year...just because he does the above..but AJ's best offensive play is still driving the lane...getting opposing bigs in foul trouble...then being able to convert about 85% from the FT line.

Yes, sometimes AJ does it out of control but since he is basically getting major mins for the first time in college as a redshirt Soph, he is still learning and his future at UCF is extremely bright. And while AJ has improved his 3 pt shooting of late...I'd still prefer he drive even more to the lane to get to the FT line even more.

Without BJ Taylor doing the above (driving and dishing which he excels at), that was a big loss for the team this year as Tacko would have benefited greatly if BJ was our point...as BJ is the best at alley ooop inside passes and Tacko would probably have double the dunks this year if BJ was healthy.

AJ has to get to the line (team has to stay aggressive to that UCF can get the other team in the bonus early so even ticky tacky fouls on AJ around the perimeter normally leads to 2 pts once in the bonus.

AJ didn't get to the line even for 1 shot yesterday...as normally the more aggressive team, which was UCF, gets to the line a lot more than the 3 pt shooting team (Tulsa threw up 32 shots from downtown), but the refs swallowed their whistle a lot on UCF's action down low. Once or twice, the ESPN announces that AJ and/or McBride "got mugged"/mauled by multiple defenders yet no whistle was blown.

Hopefully UCF can stay aggressive vs Memphis...get Shaq and their other bigs into foul trouble...and hopefully have UCF bigs stay out of foul trouble, which they got into in the first half vs Tulsa.