Recent content by Hurleyman216

Kid is seriously underrated. I know he’s a top 25 prospect in his class, but he definitely looks closer to top 5 from what I’ve seen compared to others ranked above him.

The game has definitely slowed down for Ross and if his offense is clicking like it was the other night it’s going to be hard to give him under 25 mins/game.

8-0 run for Iowa. Jefferson is a nice player for Iowa State but once he gets it he is a black hole. Other than Jefferson and their PG, Iowa State looks slow and unathletic.

I get that Iowa State smoked Purdue, but they don’t pass the eye test as a top 5 team.

One problem with our defense is our guys are most likely used to defending the UConn offense that gets run in practice which doesn’t include a lot of drives. Then we get to a game where the other team just drives on us non-stop. We probably don’t practice or see that 1-on-1 defense as much as...

It seems like very often (such as the 1st half last night) we get 7-8 fouls called on us very quickly and often in the act of shooting. On the flip side, once the refs realize the huge foul discrepancy we often see “make up” calls in our favor. The problem is these aren’t shooting fouls and they...

Until Gampel starts impacting our NIL fundraising or recruiting I see no reason to change it. If given the choice between having a brand new state of the art facility or a top 5 basketball team, I’ll take the top 5 team all day long. The reality is the donors that would need to get hit up to...

You can be the best player on the team and still be the “glue guy”…in fact most of the best players in college bball are literally what hold their teams together.

I wish I could get a framed picture of Mullins at the line with the game on the line shooting his first ever free throws in college with AK looking over his shoulder from behind. It was little bit of a foreshadowing from what was our past to what may be our future glue guy.

Credit to our coaching staff that were screaming from the bench for Malachi to shoot it. If not for that, could’ve been more of a nail biter

And AK drew him away from the basket, drove on him at least once and hit a three. This guy on Zona ain’t Zach Edey. We also won that game fairly comfortably. It’s not the #1 option, but if Reibe gets in foul trouble which I suspect he might, we can do it in stretches of 3-4 minutes.

If AK can guard Zach Edey in the National Championship, he can guard this 7’2” guy from Zona for a bit. I expect we’ll go small for stretches. It sucks on defense, but could help open the floor on offense if their big man is forced to come out and guard AK.

I said this in the chat but I was surprised at how much a few of the BYU players were able to push off and create space for themselves on offense. Saunders and Dybansta did it at will. I’m not sure why it was being allowed, I feel like every other season those would be charge calls. Without some...

I think Clingan and Rip are the 2 must haves. Then throw in that moxie at guard with Kemba, Bazz or El Amin and it doesn’t even really matter who the other 2 are. You could debate all day about Emeka vs. Clingan, but for $2 less I’m taking Clingan all day long.

If the officiating is calling it tight this year I’m fine with that, but they need to call EVERYTHING tight if that’s the case. Last year we would get called for hand check fouls 35 feet from the basket and on the other end our opponents were literally close lining, holding, checking our players...