Chief’s Briefs - Seton Hall Edition

[YoungFree]

Our guards couldn’t handle Richmond and Karaban and Jackson couldn’t handle Ndefo. On offense, please please let the AJ point forward experiment come to an end after this season. Road Runner is great for energy but he isn’t a floor general.

I can't even pin it just on the guards. It was an absolute implosion.

It's like they took sleeping pills at the half or the speech from the coaches was, "we got this. Go into full cruise control boys."

I get it...I'm angry...we are too talented for this...and ill calm down tomorrow...but give me a flin flam break already.

 

[beasteast]

up 17 points late in 2nd. period stop!

 

[Chief00]

The thing that the team cannot control is the luxury of relying on their best players of Jackson, Hawkins and Sanogo to stop the momentum of the opponent and to make the critical plays that have to be made when the games tighten up and at crunch time.

This has been exposed in all of their losses. The opponents best players are stepping up and making plays. Our best players have lacked the ability to consistently execute the offense and defense when needed.

All of the remaining options around different line ups, defensive strategies and forcing the officials to call more fouls is secondary and more peripheral.

Our best players have to make plays and be trusted to execute at a high level. This is not happening and they will need to learn. Unfortunately this learning process cannot be rushed and has to occur naturally. Hawkins is not there yet. Jackson is in a new role still learning. Sanogo has never really demonstrated the ability to close out competitive games consistently. It starts and ends with these 3 guys. There is no other way I can put it. They were punched in the mouth several times in the second half and failed to respond adequately on the road. The Big East smells blood. We are still waiting for our Huskies to respond.

Maybe I am answering your point - why isn’t Clingan included in our best players? Well, he’s not in our starting line/up either as he should be!

 

[Hankster]

It was the turnovers. Lots of them on terrible passes into the teeth of defense. We were very lax with the ball in the second half. It robbed us of numerous possessions.

18 turnovers to SHU 9.

I recall Jackson turn the ball over on passes three times..

 

[Hankster]

Maybe I am answering your point - why isn’t Clingan included in our best players? Well, he’s not in our starting line/up either as he should be!

When Clingan was in it seemed it was for a minute or two.

 

[Chief00]

Another thought - where is that quick Jim Calhoun type timeout when things start imploding?

 

[YoungFree]

When Clingan was in it seemed it was for a minute or two.

And he missed two many shots and had too many turnovers. He played a lot like a Freshman tonight.

 

[Chief00]

When Clingan was in it seemed it was for a minute or two.

I have no rationale explanation other than his 4 fouls tonight.

 

[gtcam]

No point guard
No mid range game
No fortitude No will
No BB IQ
No Coaching IQ
No Floor Leader
No Guts No Glory

All spells disaster and that's what you have in Storrs

This team is done and it is so sad

No NBE refs who know how to call a game without making it about them - the league needs to get some gonads and get rid of the garbage they have - it was poor for both teams

I'm at wits end with the program as it stands. First time in over 48 years that the family did not renew their mens basketball season tickets and my son was glad that our money didn't go to this fiasco. During the 2nd half the UConn ticket people had the audacity to call me to ask my interest for next year (they call every game) and I told him that without any major changes we will only continue to buy soccer/football/baseball packages.
I am watching Xavier/DePaul now and can't see UConn beating DePaul.
Say it ain't so

 

[Hankster]

Sanogo's missed bunny instead of a dunk sums up our last 6 games.

Has trouble handling the ball, walks under the hoop with defenders. This is All-American material. Honestly I there are other big men in the Big East that are more impressive.

 

[shizzle787]

There are some many times we break the first guy off the dribble and then decide to pass to another guarded guy in the paint area. Why not shoot an uncontested floater? That is a bread and butter shot. Newton and Jackson were the two big offenders of this tonight.

 

[REB1094]

The thing that the team cannot control is the luxury of relying on their best players of Jackson, Hawkins and Sanogo to stop the momentum of the opponent and to make the critical plays that have to be made when the games tighten up and at crunch time.

This has been exposed in all of their losses. The opponents best players are stepping up and making plays. Our best players have lacked the ability to consistently execute the offense and defense when needed.

All of the remaining options around different line ups, defensive strategies and forcing the officials to call more fouls is secondary and more peripheral.

Our best players have to make plays and be trusted to execute at a high level. This is not happening and they will need to learn. Unfortunately this learning process cannot be rushed and has to occur naturally. Hawkins is not there yet. Jackson is in a new role still learning. Sanogo has never really demonstrated the ability to close out competitive games consistently. It starts and ends with these 3 guys. There is no other way I can put it. They were punched in the mouth several times in the second half and failed to respond adequately on the road. The Big East smells blood. We are still waiting for our Huskies to respond.

If the alternative is to dribble and swing the ball around the perimeter for 30 seconds before trying to force feed Sanogo through two defenders, we might as well just give Hawkins the ball and let him chuck a bad shot

I’d trust that more than whatever it is we were doing tonight. When Hawkins gets the ball, he’s the only guy that has a willingness to deviate from the set and make a basketball play. Everyone else is just going through motions. But Hawkins can’t get the ball because defenses realize that they just have to blitz him off screens and nobody can punish them for it

 

[MTBingNinja]

 

[YoungFree]

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Already am. My new season prediction is 19-12 before the BET.

 

[Bstop55]

This is 2006-2007 all over again. That team started the year 12-1 or so and was ranked in the top 10 only to end the season 17-14 and no postseason.

 

[DMIL]

Maybe I am answering your point - why isn’t Clingan included in our best players? Well, he’s not in our starting line/up either as he should be!

You have to think about where the leadership on the team, the guys on the floor is going to come from. It has to be Hawkins, Jackson and Sanogo. There is no one else on the roster that this can come from. Clingan is one our best players however is still learning and not in a position to carry a team. When you look at a team like Alabama they have Miller and he's a freshman. We have no one like that on our team. The floor leadership is missing in these tight games from Sanogo, Jackson and Hawkins. These are the guys the team needs to rely on for consistent execution on offense and defense. The rest of the team are role players. It falls apart against the better teams when absent. The blueprint is out on our Huskies and our big dogs are not showing much heart or enough heart right now. I don't think it's necessarily a coaching thing. The light has to come on for the leaders on the team and the rest will take care of itself. When this happens I think the response will be a beautiful one. This losing streak however is painful.

 

[bendm]

Nothing against Luke but why is he effectively the head coach in practice tonight with Tom there?

Brando made a comment in the second half that tom had said he wanted to be the one sitting and Luke the one standing, or something to that effect.

 

[uc1990]

the season plays out and tells you what kind of team we have. Even if the refs did a better job(that Newton charge was the worst, total game changer) we are very even with Seton Hall. So we are not very good. Hope we can turn it around. Maybe we hit rock bottom? And can grow and get better. The under 4 minutes possessions is a good place to start. I was happy we were going to Hawkins but he jacked up a 3 from so far from the basket with 20 seconds left on the shot clock it was awful. And then we just got worse and worse. Tough to watch a team with so much promise be this bad.

 

[jdk1047]

How do you not have Sanogo and Clinigan out there on the last play

 

[jdk1047]

How do you not have Sanogo and Clinigan out there on the last play

Clinigan would of got that rebound

 

[wheelerdog]

Diarra wasn't good at all tonight.

I appreciate his effort and toughness. He is zero threat with the ball

 

[Hankster]

We have these rotations and regardless of how a player plays we stick to them. That has got to change. It is also tough to beat teams when you turn the ball over much more than your opponent. Turnover tonight 18 for UConn and 9 for Hall.

A fellow poster displayed some data that showed Sanogo gets fouled 1 of 20 attempts in the paint. That is outrageous and continued tonight.

True he could use some better sell techniques but he often gets fouled and no whistle by the Big East officials, who have been a disaster this season under a very weak commissioner. When Sanogo misses a post shot, there is no one in the zip code to rebound without a Double Big.

First half, 3 foul shots for UConn and 10 for Setan Hall. With 7 minutes left in the game 8 foul shots for UConn and 18 for Hall. For the game short end of 14 to 25.

Hawkins, Sanogo, Clingan, Jackson and Karaban are our 5 best players and it is a no brainer they should be our starting line-up. Time is running out for our coaching staff to recognize this. How much more evidence do they need that the current approach is not working?

Having said that, I liked Diarra game tonight. He can break the defense down off the dribble, but needs to improve his FT %.

But where did our ball movement go? And there’s a big price to pay without having a double big for the rebound at the end,

The direction this team is heading, I believe Chiefs Briefs are going to be really brief.

 

[storrsroars]

I counted at least 8. Despicable 2nd half. We implode at halftime every single game for the last 6 games.

9 in 2nd half alone.

 

[karstenkibbe]

We still have time to turn the ship around but double big needs to start next game and in the starting lineup.

Nothing against Luke but why is he effectively the head coach in practice tonight with Tom there?

I think people should be giving this point a whole lot more consideration than they are right now.

 

[storrsroars]

I recall Jackson turn the ball over on passes three times..

At least one of which was a dime to Sanogo that he fumbled.