Walker's poor play, missed free throws, poor shooting; Cincinatti 71-UCONN 69

Well Husky fans, I wish this were not true but this reporter is already in the running for his third career prescience award. A quote from my first post of the season ; "Of most concern is that this years Huskies shoot poorly both from the field and the charity stripe. For example, in the three point loss to Kentucky Dyson alone missed 10 free throws. Of even greater concern is that the Huskies do not have a reliable 3 point shooter, a critical ingredient in close games that go down to the wire. My one criticism of Walker, who is a great penetrator and defender is that he sometimes makes poor dish offs and there have been too many turn overs."
Countless bonehead plays by Kemba Walker in which he either over penetrated without intent or turned the ball over were extremely costly in a game which the Huskies should have won. Walker's worst play of the game came right after he hit a trey to tie the game at 69. With the Bearcats Vaughn having fouled out, everyone in the house but Walker seemed to know that Cincinnati was going to put the ball in the hands of sensational Freshman, Lance Stephenson and let him take it coast to coast. Dyson picked up Stephenson in the back court and you could see Calhoun desperately trying to get Walker's attention so he could double up on Stephenson to either slow him down or force him to give up the ball. Unfortunately, Walker was too busy grandstanding to the crowd to see Calhoun and trap Stephenson. Dyson could not contain Stephenson alone and he drove the length of the floor and got fouled with .7 seconds to go. He drained both free throws and it was lights out.
The Huskies were also bedeviled by poor shooting from the floor (38%) and from 3 point land (30%) hitting only 4 treys compared to the Bearcats 7, a nine point differential. The Huskies were led by Dyson's 24 points whose sensational, slashing drives to the hoop accounted for 24 points and Robinson's 22. Robinson continues to show signs that he may be a factor in big games this year, but we shall see.
The game was a typical, early season Big East contest; physical with a lot of sloppy and spotty play. Despite all this the Huskies lost by only 2 on the road so I wouldn't read too much into the loss. Majok is definitely a project and will have to improve during the year for the Huskies to contend seriously come March. Walker is becoming more and more concern as I see him repeating mistakes that he should be out growing by now.
A safe and happy New Year to all.
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Steve