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As I reiterate. Ollie is not a big game coach. All the big games we've had this year we've lost. SMU twice. @ Cincy. Louisville twice. Anytime were a dog we lose. Never fails.
 
Husky999 said:
As I reiterate. Ollie is not a big game coach. All the big games we've had this year we've lost. SMU twice. @ Cincy. Louisville twice. Anytime were a dog we lose. Never fails.
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Why are you even a fan?
 
I look at facts man. We get blown out every time were a dog. Pretty troubling trend.
 
tzznandrew said:
You don't drop 3 seed lines in one game. That's just really really stupid. Not the dumbest thing you've said, but...
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ha while losing to #11 on their own floor. the logic in here!
 
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Husky999 said:
As I reiterate. Ollie is not a big game coach. All the big games we've had this year we've lost. SMU twice. @ Cincy. Louisville twice. Anytime were a dog we lose. Never fails.
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Wait, at SMU has now become a "big" game? That was our WTF loss when it happened. At Memphis wasn't a big game? Cinci and Florida at home? We lost... badly. Move on and stop embarrassing yourself.
 
boog204 said:
Wow, a whole lot of stupid in this thread. We got blasted by a team that is a terrible match-up for us, on their home court, on senior day. Burn the tape, toughen up, reinforce the basics and come back and make a run in the tourneys.
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Terrible match up is code name for more talented. I don't care about the way the other team plays good talented teams find ways to stay competitive. Calhoun teams did. So any team with big guys that plays physical defense is a bad matchup for us? Wow looks like we aren't going far this year. KO got out coached and our guys were just not playing smart today and got out played. Recipe for disaster when we live off one player. Stop SN and you stop uconn. Kind of sad!
 
And. No. Now we play Memphis at Memphis. Probably a loss there. So yea. 7-8 seed is just about right Einstein.
 
Husky999 said:
There is no "wagon" when you get beat by 30. Sorry
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You def must have been OFF the bandwagon at the end of the 2011 reg season. I know you will claim that you "really believed".

Let the season play out son. No need to be a diva or a b*tch.
 
3rdbass said:
Terrible match up is code name for more talented.
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Nope. Some teams match up better with others. Syracuse's 2003 title team never held a lead on UConn. And they won the championship.

Our 1995 team was blown out twice by Villanova.

The list can go on and on. A team with strong ball-handling and a good interior player is going to be tough for us. Couple it with Louisville's defense (and the cred the refs give them), and it's a recipe for trouble. It's been that way for 4 years now.
 
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KO is a great coach and will continue to improve, but he was out-coached by Pitino and Brown this year. Pitino pushed his zone well beyond the 3-point line and had a perpetual full-court press that disrupted our game. Brown put together the right mix of defense (including height) to keep Shabazz off his game. Apparently we couldn't come up with schemes to counter them. I'm sure other teams are taking notice. Additionally, our shooting game was terrible today and the ref's allowed for a one-sided physical game. Louisville is a challenging matchup for UConn, but that's where coaching comes in. We've played teams tough all year. It sucks that we drop a bad loss while being showcased on national TV. I'll mourn for a couple of days, but then I'll be back.
 
Husky999 said:
No ones embarrassing themselves. Look at who the favorite was in the game jackass.
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Dude calm down! Uconn got outplayed by a more talented team. Ollie is going to do better once he gets more talent. We can still make the sweet 16. Just not big enough to go much further.
 
I have said all year if Olander was needed for serious minutes, we would be in trouble. Otherwise, we fall in the 20-25 range. Obviously not peaking
 
Louisville is pretty much the team UConn wants to be. They have the star guard in Russ (Napier), the solid #2 in Jones (Boat), scorers in Hancock and Blackshear (Daniels, Giffey, Kromah) plus a beast on the glass in Harrell (.....moving on....).

We always say this team would be amazing if we had a physical,consistent inside rebounder and scorer....

Our teams are very similar, but they just have our number.
 
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itgoeslike said:
KO is a great coach and will continue to improve, but he was out-coached by Pitino and Brown this year. Pitino pushed his zone well beyond the 3-point line and had a perpetual full-court press that disrupted our game. Brown put together the right mix of defense (including height) to keep Shabazz off his game. Apparently we couldn't come up with schemes to counter them. I'm sure other teams are taking notice. Additionally, our shooting game was terrible today and the ref's allowed for a one-sided physical game. Louisville is a challenging matchup for UConn, but that's where coaching comes in. We've played teams tough all year. It sucks that we drop a bad loss while being showcased on national TV. I'll mourn for a couple of days, but then I'll be back.
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Ollie's a second year coach. I think he's got a great future. But it isn't a surprise if he's outcoached by two HOF coaches at this stage in each of their careers.
 
3rdbass said:
Dude calm down! Uconn got outplayed by a more talented team. Ollie is going to do better once he gets more talent. We can still make the sweet 16. Just not big enough to go much further.
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I'm not jumping off the Ollie bandwagon, but "outplayed" and "losing by 30" are two completely different things.
 
tzznandrew said:
Nope. Some teams match up better with others. Syracuse's 2003 title team never held a lead on UConn. And they won the championship.

Our 1995 team was blown out twice by Villanova.

The list can go on and on. A team with strong ball-handling and a good interior player is going to be tough for us. Couple it with Louisville's defense (and the cred the refs give them), and it's a recipe for trouble. It's been that way for 4 years now.
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We aren't that talented. We win because of SN,effort and hustle. We are what we are. To beat the better teams we need to play a great game. Florida is a bad matchup and we beat them. We have a fine line to win. I have faith in KO as he will get the talent level back up.
 
tzznandrew said:
Ollie's a second year coach. I think he's got a great future. But it isn't a surprise if he's outcoached by two HOF coaches at this stage in each of their careers.
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This is what I was thinking. I can live with being out coached my those two. Gotta give sleezy P a bit of credit at least.
 
Anyone blaming Ollie for his coaching this season has no clue about basketball. Have you looked at our roster? He got manhandled by Larry Brown and Pitino, true, but has done a very good job as a whole.
 
Bryan Lord said:
This is what I was thinking. I can live with being out coached my those two. Gotta give sleezy P a bit of credit at least.
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Right. And, I mean, you know who else got outcoached by Larry Brown? Phil mutha-duck¡ng Jackson. And he had Shaq and Kobe.
 
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walker11 said:
Anyone blaming Ollie for his coaching this season has no clue about basketball. Have you looked at our roster? He got manhandled by Larry Brown and Pitino, true, but has done a very good job as a whole.
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Exactly, this roster isn't up to uconn's normal standards of past years. We just have a great player who can single handily win games for us. We are even less talented than 2011 team. At least they had a consistent second scorer in JL and a big guy presence in AO. Also, having SN and RS as key contributors.
 
The truth is that the jury is still out on Ollie. The only way a coach is judged is on his NCAA record. Ollie doesn't have one.

If we lose in the first round, that is a terrible job. If we make a run, there will be hope for the future.

But make no mistake, not a single thing before his NCAA record matters. If he was 60-0 at this point and got knocked out in round one. Then that's all that matters.
 
Palatine said:
The truth is that the jury is still out on Ollie. The only way a coach is judged is on his NCAA record. Ollie doesn't have one.

If we lose in the first round, that is a terrible job. If we make a run, there will be hope for the future.

But make no mistake, not a single thing before his NCAA record matters. If he was 60-0 at this point and got knocked out in round one. Then that's all that matters.
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This. I don't know why this is so controversial. The jury is still out. You are judged in college hoops how you do in March. At UConn or anywhere. Ollie is very unproven so far.
 
3rdbass said:
Exactly, this roster isn't up to uconn's normal standards of past years. We just have a great player who can single handily win games for us. We are even less talented than 2011 team. At least they had a consistent second scorer in JL and a big guy presence in AO.
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Besides Olander, who is irrelevant, our big men were all relatively unheralded and all underclassmen. Brimah has shown he was under ranked but in an ideal world none of these guys would be getting big minutes until they were upperclassmen. Both of our guards are sub 6 feet. We are playing skinny small forwards at the 4 spot. This team can beat a lot of teams but they are too small and weak to compete with some squads, Louisville obviously included.
 
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