Butler Post Game Thread

[CTBasketball]

Just get by for now, this team is on track to peak in mid/late February and March.

Seasons aren’t decided in Hartford in January.

 

[UCTitleTown]

Yea no. They’re a classic first weekend upset team. They can’t shoot. Some team from the sunbelt is gonna get hot, zone them up and beat em.

Talking Big East, not NCAA Tournament.

 

[AntG168]

Talking Big East, not NCAA Tournament.

Gotcha. You have them over Marquette? I think Marquette and healthy Huskies are better. They’re in that conversation though.

 

[YearoftheHusky]

Please just go one game without doing something embarrassing

Go root for Rutgers.

 

[UCfor3]

Some people need to take a breath or learn how to manage expectations. Buy a hamster to vent to after games or something. Nobody thinks we have a great team. It's flawed in its contsruction. With that said, turning on a back to back coach or thinking you know what's wrong but the staff doesn't is ridiculous.

 

[slepers]

Man, it’s disappointing that only Diarra and Karaban are the only guys trusted to make plays with the ball in the final seconds.

Did diarra make plays?

 

[superjohn]

We’re not as good as we were the last 2 years. As soon as we stop holding this group to those standards we’ll stop the crashouts. We’re probably not a top 8 team even with Liam. The team is limited. You know it happens once every couple of championships. Enjoy the ride and let’s get hot and catch some magic when it matters.

Nobody in the history of modern day college basketball was as good as we were last season. If there's any people who expect that again right away they have no understanding of basketball or they're completely delusional.

I don't really think anyone is holding them to those standards though.

 

[aceboon]

I figured this was how the game was gonna go after they immediately allowed that 15pt lead to get to single digits, I've never seen a team's whole operation just completely disintegrate when going up dbl digits. I'm gonna keep harping on it but this is why I hated that nonsense Dan Hurley pulled vs Georgetown, for a team still trying to figure things out and key guys in need of live reps, the last thing they needed was for the coach to disconnect the controller after 32 minutes of game time.

 

[Durks07]

From the interwebs, sounds like Hurley yelled at the refs that he's the best coach in this sport lmao

No lies detected.

 

[Mister P]

Can someone tell me what he said. I couldn’t figure it out and I could care less if the media was upset.
Let’s see the media talk about the support he had tonight for his players.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Missing on Mahaney really killed this roster construction. It’s insane how we need 11 screens to create even a possibility of getting downhill.

Also the defense isn’t getting better, it’ll be marginally better with Liam, but he’s no Jackson Jr or Castle, the wings just give the least resistance I’ve ever seen on a Hurley coached team.

 

[AntG168]

Can someone tell me what he said. I couldn’t figure it out and I could care less if the media was upset.
Let’s see the media talk about the support he had tonight for his players.

You see the “lifelong UConn fan” in this thread didn’t bring this up. I hope Dan Hurley never changes .

 

[TheHorde]

Can someone tell me what he said. I couldn’t figure it out and I could care less if the media was upset.
Let’s see the media talk about the support he had tonight for his players.

Yeah well…the media is by and large an embarrassment, so I wouldn’t fret too much.

 

[navery12]

lol for football. It must be mad tiring reaching for stupid things to try and discredit someone’s lifelong fandom.

Your posts are even more embarrassing knowing you're a lifelong fan. I always gave you the benefit of the doubt but that's gone now

 

[Vowelguy]

Hurley not sounding great in press conference.
Says coaches are "exhausted."

 

[AntG168]

Missing on Mahaney really killed this roster construction. It’s insane how we need 11 screens to create even a possibility of getting downhill.

Also the defense isn’t getting better, it’ll be marginally better with Liam, but he’s no Jackson Jr or Castle, the wings just give the least resistance I’ve ever seen on a Hurley coached team.

Yeah. We work way too hard to create advantages on offense. I’d love Jalen Adams on this team.

 

[navery12]

Hulu apparently decided the game ended with 57 seconds left in regulation, so that was great. At least we won so it was worth the search to finish the game

 

[Waquoit]

Looks like bandwagon is emptying out. Fine by me, the ones left are more fun to be with.

 

[giddyup]

The team has so many deep flaws it would require a miraculous transformation to even think there is chance to make run. But, that’s just the way it is and we should just accept it’s going to be a tough slog.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Hass had a bad second half but that wasn't his fault at the end of regulation. Coach needs to draw up better stuff or have a counter when his play gets blown up. Samson ended up with the ball again with 5 seconds left on the shot clock at the ft line and when Hass got it he had to shoot.

Hass is the biggest reason we aren't losing more of these games with McNeeley out.

Yeah, I would suggest having the offense run through Johnson handing the ball off to anyone 20' from the basketball with less than 5 seconds has poor results.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Outside of getting a healthy team back, my big hope for tourney time is we continue to see the trend of more emphasis on freedom of movement than we get in the BE. It’s just not an emphasis for the league refs and it really shows up in games like today where our off-ball stuff can get mucked up and we just don’t have the dudes to go manufacture a bucket and adapt to the way the game is being called. Last year we had enough guys that could just go get a bucket that it wasn’t as apparent, but we got a huge boost once we got out of league play from that two years ago.

 

[navery12]

Hopefully the light bulb goes off and chemistry harmonizes with McNeeley back, but boy it’s a lot to put on one guy.

But we've already seen that with McNeeley this team was firing on all cylinders and a very good team. So even if it's a lot to put on one guy, it's already been shown it's possible

 

[HuskyWarrior611]

Your posts are even more embarrassing knowing you're a lifelong fan. I always gave you the benefit of the doubt but that's gone now

Man I do not care what you Ollie era bandwagons think.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Looking way forward for some reason, but man, we are gonna need to bring in a grad transfer perimeter stopper BADLY. Our freshman class is gonna be great, but none of them are particularly good defenders.

 

[TheShot1990]

The Huskies have an uncanny ability to win, after exploring every other possibility first.