Doggydaddy's Den: DoggyDaddy's Dailies 2/2/17

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So, we moved into our new rental today and we are so happy!!! It's nicer than the first one. Bright, great view, just a great situation.

Before we moved I played golf in the morning and had my best round of my vacation, shooting a tidy 77.

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And to top the day off, I watched UConn play their best half of the season against the Temple Owls on their way to a 97-69 win.

UConn ran out to a 52-18 lead at the half, hitting 77% of their shots. They also forced Temple into a very poor shooting percentage. The effort was amazing and the execution was even better.

The second half? Well, the offense was still very good. But the defense? It's hard to keep up that intensity when you have such a big lead and to Temple's credit, they never let up. And they started hitting a high percentage of their shots. For a while it looked like they wouldn't miss, especially their three point shots.

Temple outscored UConn 29-22 in the third quarter and UConn barely out scored them 23-22 in the fourth quarter. It was quite the different half for both teams.

You'd think by some of the comments of the fans, Geno would be upset with his team. In the post game interview, he was not. In fact, he said that in spite of the high number of points UConn gave up in the second half he called his team "tremendous" for the game.

Collier led the team with 25 points, and Samuelson added 24. Williams and Chong both had double figure scoring.

In spite of only going 4-16 on threes, they scored 97 points. They shot 61% from the field. And an amazing 34-46 on two point baskets. That's 74%. Wow.

I'll leave the nitpicking to others. I loved every minute of this game!!!

Here is UConn/Temple post game report.

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Speaking of nitpicking, here is a beauty I read in a game thread on a UConn board.

"Her penchant for foul trouble is probably her most salient liability right now."

I guess that is maybe true. I don't know about "salient", but it might be her only liability. I do remember a couple of games where she had 2 in the first half like she did in this game. But let's take a closer look at the numbers.

In 21 games she has had 39 fouls. 39. Less than 2 per game.

To call that a "penchant" is just looking for something to worry about. Just silly.

Here is another brainiac

"Atrocious half. Start like this against South Carolina and we're toast. "

This is just the most idiotic logic and I see it over and over again. Anytime UConn has a bad quarter or even 1/2 a quarter, someone invariably says this. I don't know about you, but I find this so annoying.

Last one -

"1st half... A+ 2nd half... D+"

This was posted by my friend Eric. Sorry buddy. But that is so far from the truth.

UConn had a very good offensive second half. And Temple was on fire. Just because a team is hot and shoots way over their heads making 8-16 three pointers doesn't make that a D+ second half.

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I remember back when I was around 10 years old, I was in a kids bowling league. They gave out a trophy for bowling exactly the same score all three games. I was lucky enough to win that award with three 104 games.

Well, Wednesday night, I am awarding Cincinnati the Quadruplicate Award . In their 72-52 loss to No. 20 South Florida, the Bearcats scores 13 points in all four quarters.

I'm sure they would have preferred the win.

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By David in Naples!!!!!

Uconn's win over an outmatched Temple team was actually decided in the 1st quarter. The smothering defense held Temple to 3 baskets and created 8 turnovers. The Owls shot 15.7% in the quarter and gave up 25 points to the Huskies on 11-12 shooting.

It only got a little better for Temple in the 2nd period. They did scored 4 baskets and cut the turnovers down to 5. But the Huskies scored 27 points on 6-6 shooting by KLS and 5-6 shooting from both Gabby & Pheesa. For the half, UConn shot 77%, had 12 assists and only 3 turnovers. Temple managed only 19% shooting and 18 points. Game over, 52-18.

UConn is now 21-0, winner of 35 straight road games (a record) and winner of 96 consecutive overall games (also a record).

Go Huskies..!!

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