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Coach Hurley says this year's team can't take "hard" coaching

Deflection narrative achieved. You recruited these nice kids from a good family, but they arent tough enough, got it.

I think we bashed Pitino when did the same end of last year. It's an ego saving measure. Coaching implies coaching what you got.
 
1. It's mostly on Hurley and the staff for not recognizing this when recruiting his players.
2. He has to make the choice of what is more important- coaching a team of players who handle his preferred coaching techniques, or finding players who have the talent and skills he wants and then learning how to motivate them.
3. He's had to learn about round holes and square pegs.
 
ARIDE said:
I did not read article but this should stay in the locker room! Sometimes I think Dan thinks too highly of himself!!!
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I don’t know. He sees time ticking away on this season and we still don’t have any junkyard dog in us. And we’re about to go play the biggest game of the year in a tough crowd. Now or never to get these guys a little mad.
 
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Yeah you can either look to recruit one type of player you can lay into all the time or you can be flexible and learn how to coach different types of players to get the most out of them.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
1. It's mostly on Hurley and the staff for not recognizing this when recruiting his players.
2. He has to make the choice of what is more important- coaching a team of players who handle his preferred coaching techniques, or finding players who have the talent and skills he wants and then learning how to motivate them.
3. He's had to learn about round holes and square pegs.
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Yes! I still think that Dan is the best coach in the league. So do others. Lakers, KY etc. But he's not infallible.
This is a misstep for sure on his part.
There is this unspoken, distant, appraisal that we pedestrians have for celebrities, especially very rich, successful celebrities. We somehow think, because they have many of the highly regarded yet superficial life goals figured out that they have the "real life" stuff figured out as well. Truth is: clouded by ego and non-stop praise, they often have a tougher time seeing things clearly than we do.
 
Danny's statements were fine. This team has one month to improve, where is the opportunity for big improvements in the next month? Grit, determination, will to win can be expanded on a short time scale. Danny has to push the buttons to get there. Coaches challenge manhood all the time. Competitors respond, if they respect their coach and want to win his respect.
 
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Jaydumo20 said:
Yes! I still think that Dan is the best coach in the league. So do others. Lakers, KY etc. But he's not infallible.
This is a misstep for sure on his part.
There is this unspoken, distant, appraisal that we pedestrians have for celebrities, especially very rich, successful celebrities. We somehow think, because they have many of the highly regarded yet superficial life goals figured out that they have the "real life" stuff figured out as well. Truth is: clouded by ego and non-stop praise, they often have a tougher time seeing things clearly than we do.
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Halo effect.
 
Chin Diesel said:
1. It's mostly on Hurley and the staff for not recognizing this when recruiting his players.
2. He has to make the choice of what is more important- coaching a team of players who handle his preferred coaching techniques, or finding players who have the talent and skills he wants and then learning how to motivate them.
3. He's had to learn about round holes and square pegs.
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You can’t motivate everyone the same way. And you can’t coach everyone the same way. You might yell at the group. But when you have to communicate effectively with the individual. Great coaches coach to get the best out of each individual. The analysis the skills and talent of each individual and Taylor a game plan that best utilizes their skill set. And start bringing in the talent and skill set they are looking for to run the system they want. If what he is saying is true he needed to adjust to this team. And recruit the type of players that fit the profile he is looking for.

The coach adjusts. The players won’t.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
Yeah you can either look to recruit one type of player you can lay into all the time or you can be flexible and learn how to coach different type of players to get the most out of them.
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This
 
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uchusky32 said:
You can’t motivate everyone the same way. And you can’t coach everyone the same way. You might yell at the group. But when you have to communicate effectively with the individual. Great coaches coach to get the best out of each individual. The analysis the skills and talent of each individual and Taylor a game plan that best utilizes their skill set. And start bringing in the talent and skill set they are looking for to run the system they want. If what he is saying is true he needed to adjust to this team. And recruit the type of players that fit the profile he is looking for.

The coach adjusts. The players won’t.
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Bill Parcells said a great coach could “take his’n and beat your’n and take your’n and beat his’n”. I think we are finding out that is not Dan Hurley.
 
This isn't something new. He's been saying this for weeks.

“I can’t coach this team exactly the way I’ve coached other teams,” Hurley said. “Those other teams could handle more intensity from me, more getting under their skin, needling Cam Spencer. This team, it doesn’t have the same makeup. I can’t be as tough on them. If I coach this team as hard as I coached the last two, I would break these guys. We would have gone into a tailspin.”

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HooperScooper said:
This isn't something new. He's been saying this for weeks.

“I can’t coach this team exactly the way I’ve coached other teams,” Hurley said. “Those other teams could handle more intensity from me, more getting under their skin, needling Cam Spencer. This team, it doesn’t have the same makeup. I can’t be as tough on them. If I coach this team as hard as I coached the last two, I would break these guys. We would have gone into a tailspin.”

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Hurley reflects on UConn's season, sideline arguments and why he won't change

Mike Anthony spent some time with Hurley for this article. As always with Anthony, it's very long. “I can’t coach this team exactly the way I’ve coached other teams,” Hurley said. “Those other teams could handle more intensity from me, more getting under their skin, needling Cam Spencer. This...
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Convenient to restate it to the reporter of NY Post before Sunday game vs St John’s.
 
FreeKlaiber said:
Convenient to restate it to the reporter of NY Post before Sunday game vs St John’s.
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He didn't say it to the NY Post reporter. The NY Post is just trying to stir the pot before the game tomorrow. They're good at doing that.

Hurley was asked about the current state of the Huskies on Mad Dog Sports Radio on Thursday, and he opened up about some of the difficulties coaching this year’s squad.

“I started the year breathing fire, talking like a coach that believes his team can compete for a three-peat,” Hurley said on the show. “I still think that this team has the potential to get on a roll late in the year.”
 
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This is a wierd comment by Dan Hurley, but for some reason it doesn't bother me as much as some of his other actions this season. I think he's just trying to send a message to his players that they need to be tougher, so I'm willing to wait for the results to come in.

During most of the Seton Hall game, I was asking myself if there's not a morale problem on this team? Then, the tide abruptly shifted and it semed as if magic happened.
 
It's interesting that he always talks about how they only recruit a certain type of kid to play here, meaning good coachable kids, not just great basketball players. But it seems like this team has some players that are neither.
 
uconngb said:
Bill Parcells said a great coach could “take his’n and beat your’n and take your’n and beat his’n”. I think we are finding out that is not Dan Hurley.
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So... Parcells was not a great coach?
 
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