The team has lofty goals and not good enough to have single dimension starters. Tristan was a point guard and both Cam and Castle had assists. The offense relies and assists.
Agree with using Nowell more. Does Hurley offer a reason for not doing it?
He's PG3 - will probably be only used in Singare-type situations (extreme foul trouble or garbage time)
The FT discrepancy each game is amazing. McNeeley is bumped all the time when he dribbles the ball and nothing is called. Opponents are bumping and grabbing UConn players as they run their sets and nothing called. Then their opponent drives out of control towards the hoop, initiates contact and throws up a shot that doesn’t even reach the rim and the refs call a foul every time.
Always feels like a balancing act, especially in conference play. Weaker opponents getting the benefit of the call. I wonder if the Marquettes/St. Johns' will get those calls.
I agree, that’s what I see too, but the media largely doesn’t cover the 28 to 10 foul shots, but rather Hurley’s reaction.
Didn’t that grooming start early on? The +/- results are just not there even when he’s playing ok but the offense just doesn’t flow.
I spend a lot of the game watching him on the defensive end. Watch the replay, he was beat over and over. I agree he has been improving f
Is what it is but I wish he was PG2 and Mahaney got moved to SG2.
Yeah, I totally agree. I'm no basketball mind, I really have little idea what is going on on the court, but to the eye it seems like other teams play us much closer than we play them, and we get called for fouls and they don't. Like today, Depaul was all over our guys, to me it looked like they were fouling.
Solo is a sophomore, not even half through 2nd year and still developing. Doing a fantastic job trying to shut down top guards, hit 3’s and rebound. You call that single dimension? You are nuts. Doing damn well too.
Then he shouldn’t be in the rotation. Hurley brought him in to play PG and Ross is backup SG. We aren't going 10 deep. Either Mahaney or Nowell becoming a reliable backup PG for ~10mpg will make or break this season.
I am talking about AN not AM.
Sorry chief a typo on me.
It should be Nowell
Then why the heck isn’t he playing??? He and stew are really getting the shaft
I don’t think it’s the weaker opponents getting the calls. I think its the 7 schools that left the original Big East to form the “new Big East” get preferential treatment from the refs.
And UConn did not leave the Big East. Those Catholic 7 schools left the Big East to form their own conference and then a few months later decided to buy the Big East name from the remaining members which were UConn, South Florida, and Cincinnati. The AAC is the original Big East so to speak. It's kind of like the Baltimore Ravens are the original Cleveland Browns.
