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getting Dan Hurley to stop publicly embarrassing us while gaining some of our goodwill back
 
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I'm still not convinced they can't come together in the next month and win the whole thing. Bill Parcells had a saying about the playoffs - just get in! Anything can happen. They have to work on in bounds passing, time clock awareness, 3 point D and not making ill advised passes. If they come together, everybody jelling, the coaches at their best, they can beat anybody. I'll believe they can't win it all when they are eliminated. Whatever happens, we have nothing to complain about after the last 2 years and our incoming class.
Seems like that happened in 11 & 14. Liam will have to lead them like Kemba & Bazz.
 

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That the exits from the two tournaments isn't as painful as yesterday.

This team can still beat everyone if they stop beating themselves. But it pretty clear that they will lose to the first team that plays tough man to man defense. That's assuming we don't have two or more players have off an shooting night.
 
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They were outplayed yesterday big time. They blew it twice. Make the tournament and play hungry regardless of what they think of the opponent. Everyone is going to give UConn their best effort
 
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And we lost to Colorado and Seton Hall. Two of the worst teams in a major conference
And two games we lost bc of refs who decided to swallow whistles. Very odd that we lost both of them but we have some very good wins. They care about who you can beat.
 

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That the exits from the two tournaments isn't as painful as yesterday.

This team can still beat everyone if they stop beating themselves. But it pretty clear that they will lose to the first team that plays tough man to man defense. That's assuming we don't have two or more players have off an shooting night.
There are 6 games left for everyone not named Hassan or Alex to learn how to play "UConn basketball". Ball is getting there. Liam is capable of it. Samson and Reed both can contribute but neither is Sanogo or Clingan. That's what we're rolling with.

Stewart is probably the best hope of a meaningful bench contributor, but he's far short of the kind of plug-and-play guys who've been on our bench the past couple years. Really no hope for Mahaney or Ross at this point.

I would do something completely wild and play Nowell significant minutes vs Johnnies. It's the only game we're projected to lose and one where losing it isn't going to matter vis a vis seeding. If Nowell can deal with Johnnies, then Dan Hurley has 4 games to get him fully integrated before the BET. If Nowell doesn't work out, we're no worse than we are.

I don't know what's up with Abraham, but hey, maybe same thing applies there, but only for the minutes Ross would get.
 

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This team has to go at least 4-2 reg season and win 1 NBE game to ensure a tourney seed above 9 IMHO
As some have said I hope there isn't a collapse.

My wildest dream is to play the 2nd weekend
Realistically - lose a nail biter in round of 32 to a high ranked opponent.
 
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This team has to go at least 4-2 reg season and win 1 NBE game to ensure a tourney seed above 9 IMHO
As some have said I hope there isn't a collapse.

My wildest dream is to play the 2nd weekend
Realistically - lose a nail biter in round of 32 to a high ranked opponent.
You could argue a 10 is better than the 8/9 if the goal is to win 2 games.
 

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You could argue a 10 is better than the 8/9 if the goal is to win 2 games.
It's the difference between facing Auburn/Duke/Alabama/Florida vs facing Tenn/Houston/Purdue/Texas A&M. Neither group is enticing, but if firing on all cylinders, we could take out a couple in that 2nd group.
 
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It's the difference between facing Auburn/Duke/Alabama/Florida vs facing Tenn/Houston/Purdue/Texas A&M. Neither group is enticing, but if firing on all cylinders, we could take out a couple in that 2nd group.
could not agree more

Purdue has fallen off that two line hard.
 
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5-1 pre-BET/BET finals/Sweet 16..Tournament is all about brackets and matchups. Refs don't impact outcomes quite as much as BE games.

If Solo/AK/Liam can start showing up on the same night shooting wise- and we play with energy and urgency on defense- We could blow up some brackets in the Tournament. Would be great to see our A game at the right time.

Time to walk the walk. No more talking the talk.
 
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Bracket Matrix still has UConn as the second 8 seed so the team is long way from Bubble territory. Hopefully guys can re-group & make a push to get a 6 or 7 seed....that should be the realistic goal at this point and then anything can happen in Tourney.

Big game tomorrow night vs Nova, they'll be gunning for us in desperation mode so all better be ready from the tip.
 
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Bracket Matrix still has UConn as the second 8 seed so the team is long way from Bubble territory. Hopefully guys can re-group & make a push to get a 6 or 7 seed....that should be the realistic goal at this point and then anything can happen in Tourney.

Big game tomorrow night vs Nova, they'll be gunning for us in desperation mode so all better be ready from the tip.
Nova has been terrible on the road, 3-8. They’re very inconsistent but with Dixon and Poplar, yeah never know. These could be the two most inconsistent teams in the BE.

The SH loss basically negated the Creighton win.
 
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Honestly, I'd be happy if we made the NCAA tournament and got out of the first weekend.
Nothing good to say about the last game. But, I think the good teams we beat, we beat them with a healthy Hassan Diarra. So getting that back is key.
While the 3-Peat hype I could never understand - most of our loses to good teams have been in the 1-4 point range. So as bad as some of our moments have been, we are not that far away. We have won NC’s with PG stars (Walker, Nappier and Newton) and that we lack.

I think Hurley needs to roll the dice on Reed and have him set screens and play in the paint. McNeeley, Ball, Karaban, and Stewart need to discuss with each other what they need from each other to be successful on the court.

What are their sweet spots and how they get open off of each other?

While I thought Hurley made a mistake evaluating Mahaney over Diarra early - contrary to his results in games - I still think Mahaney can be a shooter. He needs to shoot the open shots he passes up and avoid force type shots.
 

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Bouncing back and playing extremely competitively against Villanova and St. John’s and winning at least one of those games, and then doing well in the big east tournament, and then making it to the sweet 16.

And after every single victory, nothing but humility and praise for our opponents.
 
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There’s probably 4 or 5 teams I wouldn’t want to line up with the first weekend, Bama, Auburn, Duke, Florida, Houston

Not entirely nervous about playing anyone else. Tennessee has Rick Barnes, Purdue? A&M? Iowa St? Mich St?

Line it up and let’s ride! We’re fine!
 
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There’s probably 4 or 5 teams I wouldn’t want to line up with the first weekend, Bama, Auburn, Duke, Florida, Houston

Not entirely nervous about playing anyone else. Tennessee has Rick Barnes, Purdue? A&M? Iowa St? Mich St?

Line it up and let’s ride! We’re fine!
I'm nervous about playing Nova tomorrow.
 
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The Big East is down to 2 teams in the Top 25 with UConn and Creighton both dropping out. At this point I can't even try to predict how those games will go for UConn.

UConn has Nova, @SJU, Gtown, @PC, Marquette, SHU
Creighton has Gtown, DePaul, @Xavier, @SHU, Butler
 

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