Akok Akok get hurt???

[Kitaman]

A bit of a double standard. AG was a disaster and there was no hook from DH.

Don't need a hook, just a good old fashioned talking to (during game). Make your point, then if he refuses to listen sit his arse down. Hurley didn't seem to want to hurt his feelings. Happens with leftover players with a new coach.

That's why male lions when taking over a clan, kill the cubs immediately.

 

[HuskylnSC]

AG looked like s---- vs AG 9/9 FT line in 1pt 2 OT game..

I'M NOT SMART ENOUGH TO FIGURE THIS OUT. I DONT'T KNOW.

We need profanity Friday (Saturday)

FFFFFFFFFFFFU

The problem with AG in this game, IMO, was the one man forays into the tall timber disturbed the ball movement necessary to win. He would juke left, juke right at the top of the key until he found that sliver of an opening. Then drive into the lane where he was forced of balance, have no outlet pass, and throw up an off balance shot. Sometimes getting fouled, but just as often having it blocked. The rest of the team stands around while he does this. He played like it was an AAU game.

 

[browndog319]

Why did he never get back on the floor?

That or I think foul trouble.

 

[browndog319]

Akok is such a disruptive force down how is he not in game after josh goes out , baffling

After Bouknight, he is our most exciting player

 

[browndog319]

He was not very tough on defense in the 2nd half. He didn't contest a couple of shots by the white guys. I think Hurley sat him because of that.

So some of our really lousy offensive decisions and just non-existent shots were okay? There were plenty of guys to make up for that deficiency. We needed guys to hit the hoop

 

[browndog319]

He played good in regulation minus the 2 in a row in the first half where he did the expected, and the last play which I still put on Dan because the ball should have been in Bouks hands for sure. AG was solid in regulation then he was his erratic, whacked self in the 2 OT's no doubt. But we should've won in regulation but that's not him more coach, Carlton and CV.

CV is great rebounding so maybe not all bad

 

[intlzncster]

He had to have done something that Hurley felt needed a message. Doubt it was over his play.

What, did he kill the locker room attendant? The time for sending a message was not then.

 

[browndog319]

What, did he kill the locker room attendant? The time for sending a message was not then.

We needed ALL hands on deck in double OT. Agree on this. Unless injury or felony, you play. If about had still been suspended I would have lifted it...

 

[ctchamps]

What, did he kill the locker room attendant? The time for sending a message was not then.

Apparently he gave the bird to the guy who was wearing the dislike face shirt with chief00 on the back.

Sat with a bunch of fans who lurk here and know about @tzznandrew and chief. One of them wore a frown face shirt with the caption dislike underneath. Denied he was tzz. I have my suspicions. I was surrounded by fans who come down on the side they think the whole thing is funny.

 

[intlzncster]

Apparently he gave the bird to the guy who was wearing the dislike face shirt with chief00 on the back.

Sat with a bunch of fans who lurk here and know about @tzznandrew and chief. One of them wore a frown face shirt with the caption dislike underneath. Denied he was tzz. I have my suspicions. I was surrounded by fans who come down on the side they think the whole thing is funny.

lol that's amusing. I know tzz wasn't in charleston, so it's definitely somebody else.

 

[browndog319]

Apparently he gave the bird to the guy who was wearing the dislike face shirt with chief00 on the back.

Sat with a bunch of fans who lurk here and know about @tzznandrew and chief. One of them wore a frown face shirt with the caption dislike underneath. Denied he was tzz. I have my suspicions. I was surrounded by fans who come down on the side they think the whole thing is funny.

Omg, really? So we sat a guy for that? I mean, if he hurled a racial epithet, that would be one thing... but the finger? If it didn’t wind up on TV and cause an FCC violation, come on... you can read Hurley’s lips and his lips ARE often FCC violations.

 

[Waquoit]

Can't do this to your fteshman if you're not gonna do it to your 4 year guards.

Really? No RHIP?

 

[Excalibur]

Apparently some of you do think Hurley is lying . . .

 

[browndog319]

He had to have done something that Hurley felt needed a message. Doubt it was over his play.

See this is what doesn’t make sense. DH refers to Akok as so coachable:

Akok Akok working quietly, diligently to improve his game for UConn men

When Akok Akok, 6-foot-9, made the choice to leave Putnam Science Academy in the middle of his post grad season and enroll at UConn in January, getting a head start on his freshman season, it was clear that if he is a man of mystery, a man of few words, he is also a man with a plan.

www.courant.com

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Agreed, but every time he drove and got stuffed and we get on his case about it.. there is nobody else in the paint. The bigs are around the perimeter and everybody is standing there watching AG try and shake 3 guys. Nobody cuts, nobody crashes to clean up the ensuing wreckage of his eventual block. Nobody is there for a drive and dish, so AG forces it and we get on him about it. The only time they crashed was end of regulation when AG waited way to long to make a move and time expired before CV's put back

They may be as surprised as we are that he's gone and done it again.

More seriously, and more disheartening, if a full 'highlight' film of this pattern were made, I think it would show a number of quick 3-ponters going the other way, which means the teammates aren't just not in the lane.

If this is some very long leash conceived in an optimistic view toward full-season development, I sure hope it bears fruit before league play begins.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

He had to have done something that Hurley felt needed a message. Doubt it was over his play.

Two thoughts on this:

1.) Teach the message some other time, not with a big game in balance.
2.) So, no teaching of a lesson to AG ( don't keep penetrating and throwing up prayers again ana again).

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Apparently he gave the bird to the guy who was wearing the dislike face shirt with chief00 on the back.

Sat with a bunch of fans who lurk here and know about @tzznandrew and chief. One of them wore a frown face shirt with the caption dislike underneath. Denied he was tzz. I have my suspicions. I was surrounded by fans who come down on the side they think the whole thing is funny.

Seriously?
Now that's "curiouser."

 

[TouchdownHusky]

I think you read too much into that.

I agree. But let's be mindful of some of our words. Fair enough?

 

[Devland]

No. It’s more likely that “gimpy” doesn’t mean couldn’t play. Maybe Kimani figured he’d have to play through it and Hurley didn’t want to risk it. But either way, Akok got up and started for the scorers table.

This makes some sense. Someone on the pregame radio show had stated that AG kept asking to go back into the Buffalo game the night before. The coaching staff refused to put him back in until he was further evaluated the next day.

 

[HHusky]

Akok went out with 5:58 left in regulation. Never played after. Observing him before that, I would guess groin or knee "gimpy".

 

[HuskyHawk]

They may be as surprised as we are that he's gone and done it again.

More seriously, and more disheartening, if a full 'highlight' film of this pattern were made, I think it would show a number of quick 3-ponters going the other way, which means the teammates aren't just not in the lane.

If this is some very long leash conceived in an optimistic view toward full-season development, I sure hope it bears fruit before league play begins.

They aren‘t surprised because Hurley is calling for him to do that. In the first half AG had some nice passes off of his penetration.

 

[buddy]

So Hurley is lying?

He did say that Alterique would be out for the tourney. Yet unfortunately, he played the next day! Some sprained ankle.

 

[Mister P]

No. It’s more likely that “gimpy” doesn’t mean couldn’t play. Maybe Kimani figured he’d have to play through it and Hurley didn’t want to risk it. But either way, Akok got up and started for the scorers table.

I was a few rows behind the bench and can confirm this happened.
I did see Akok look down at his foot a couple of times and rotate his ankle.

 

[buddy]

The problem with AG in this game, IMO, was the one man forays into the tall timber disturbed the ball movement necessary to win. He would juke left, juke right at the top of the key until he found that sliver of an opening. Then drive into the lane where he was forced of balance, have no outlet pass, and throw up an off balance shot. Sometimes getting fouled, but just as often having it blocked. The rest of the team stands around while he does this. He played like it was an AAU game.

The stand around because they know he will NEVER try to dish the ball out.