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

gtcam said:
Bottom line - did these kids just appear out of the blue or did someone recruit or picked them out of the portal?
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He also picked them the previous 2 years. I will take that track record. No coach bats 1000%. Not even Calhoun. Look at Bill Self the last 2 years. Preseason #1.
 
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Perhaps he’s saying out loud something that he thinks will get them to gel around each other?


 
FreeKlaiber said:
anyone who is on the board clearly loves UConn. I understand that after back to back nattys, Dan Hurley & staff earned alot of capitol & leeway, and anyone who would complain about our record this year I would define as entitled

He went on maddog's nationwide show before our biggest game of the year, and this is the quote he gave to cite out problems. Maybe you are ok with calling out players toughness in press or maybe you think its a nothing burger. Fine, I can accept either. IMO However its too easy to say "you all hate the coach" bla bla. We have to take the good with the bad, and there's a wholeee lot more good with Dan Hurley. But to say you can't criticize his behavior on the sidelines this year or how he's explaining the season in the press is pollyanna-ish to me and you aren't calling balls and strikes IMO. Have at it Johnny Most. Let's go UConn!
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This isn’t remotely true. We literally have fans from other programs who post here to troll us @kobe.

There is a difference between criticism and reaching to find fault in everything the guy does simply because we aren’t dominant this year. You sound spoiled. He made a vanilla comment that he’s made like 3 times since Maui and you’ve found a way to make it controversial. He’s literally saying he coached this team the wrong way early on and had to adjust based upon the personalities in the locker room. How you turned that into “throwing kids under the bus” is next to comical. But “fan” how you want.
 
IMO- Hurley is simply being honest and is showing his continuing evolution as a coach. He's got to be flexible enough in his coaching style -based on his roster in any particular year- to make adjustments. It's a work in progress this year. No surprises. Has been saying this since Maui.
 
Umami Zen said:
IMO- Hurley is simply being honest and is showing his continuing evolution as a coach. He's got to be flexible enough in his coaching style -based on his roster in any particular year- to make adjustments. It's a work in progress this year. No surprises. Has been saying this since Maui.
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I think some just don’t like successful people who are confident and who aren’t quiet about it. We can have a legitimate convo and just end up on different sides about his sideline antics. I completely understand fans who have an issue with that. But this quote? It’s exposing some in this fanbase I believe who just don’t care for the guy.
 
FreeKlaiber said:
anyone who is on the board clearly loves UConn. I understand that after back to back nattys, Dan Hurley & staff earned alot of capitol & leeway, and anyone who would complain about our record this year I would define as entitled

He went on maddog's nationwide show before our biggest game of the year, and this is the quote he gave to cite out problems. Maybe you are ok with calling out players toughness in press or maybe you think its a nothing burger. Fine, I can accept either. IMO However its too easy to say "you all hate the coach" bla bla. We have to take the good with the bad, and there's a wholeee lot more good with Dan Hurley. But to say you can't criticize his behavior on the sidelines this year or how he's explaining the season in the press is pollyanna-ish to me and you aren't calling balls and strikes IMO. Have at it Johnny Most. Let's go UConn!
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Honestly your posts on this topic have been totally logical even if I disagree. But keep in mind there are others on this thread and a few others who clearly have no respect for Dan Hurley and talk about him as if he was along for the ride the past two seasons.
 
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I don’t get it, what he said was the this current group of players cannot be coached hard. How is that attacking them personally? I appreciate when my superiors or my spouse are honest with me. That is how one Improves in life. I obviously don’t know how old some of you are, but I would venture to say that you are much younger than I am, because I do not believe those comments were hard at all. My own personal opinion is that the generation that followed mine are soft as hell.
 
boog204 said:
It’s very different when a player speaks about the players versus a coach throwing his players on the bus. How would you feel if AK came out and said our coaching staff isn’t coaching us the way we need to be coached?
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Iluvsuebird said:
I don’t get it, what he said was the this current group of players cannot be coached hard. How is that attacking them personally? I appreciate when my superiors or my spouse are honest with me. That is how one Improves in life. I obviously don’t know how old some of you are, but I would venture to say that you are much younger than I am, because I do not believe those comments were hard at all. My own personal opinion is that the generation that followed mine are soft as hell.
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I don't think hard coaching can fix what's wrong with this team for every game.

I do think we needed more time outs today.

St. John's came to play and we needed to adjust and we never really did.

But that being said, we got beat by a better basketball team today - that was no fluke.

But I wish Dan could have skipped the tough talk and brought some more players off the bench as some of starting players were sleepwalking today.
 
boog204 said:
Sometimes? Listen, I’m obviously thrilled he’s our coach. But imo he’s carried himself like a tool for the past year. You can’t spew ad nauseum how UConn is a culture for the right players and families bla bla bla and then go public, repeatedly now, that they do not have the personalities to handle your coaching. You brought them here. You told anyone who would listen about the UConn/Hurley way. It’s your job to figure out how to reach them and not go public telling everyone how they can’t handle YOUR way.
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THIS
 
businesslawyer said:
Calhoun actually spoke about this from time to time. He thought he could yell at kids with good father son relationships as much as he wanted because they had the security of other relationships to take it. He thought those without a strong father type relationship with someone had to be treated more gently.
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Calhoun coached with kids from completely different generations. Not sure the parallels are the same
 
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Guys catch the Pitino half time locker room talk? That should have been Dan and our guys - and if they can’t take it what the hell are they doing trying to play competitive sports?
 
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formerlurker said:
nypost.com

Dan Hurley admits that this UConn team can’t take ‘hard’ coaching like years past

UConn head coach Dan Hurley believes that his players can not handle his typical coaching style.
nypost.com nypost.com
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Hurley and staff are great, but they need to own that they screwed up this year. This years team has shown no improvement. Hurley has been too stubborn, sticking to what worked great the last two years. He need to adapt and do something different this year and was unable to do so. Some things they could have done, but didn’t due to stubbornness:
#1: full court press and trap on defense to make up for not being able to defend in the half court.
#2: Play Reed and Johnson together for 5 minutes a game. Reed and Johnson are without a doubt 2 of best players on the team and head and shoulders above, Stewart and Ross talent wise. Singare played very well EVERY time the two of them had joint foul trouble.
 
uconngb said:
THIS YEAR is a mess. If you don’t see that then I don’t know what to tell you.
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They are extremely flawed but let’s see how the season ends before going crazy
 
Kemba15 said:
“Mess.” They. Have. Won. The. Last. 2. Championships. I couldn’t imagine being this miserable.
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Maybe we should bring back Ollie. He won in 2014.

This year Hurley did a bad job. Not the last 2 years.
 
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freescooter said:
Maybe we should bring back Ollie. He won in 2014.

This year Hurley did a bad job. Not the last 2 years.
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Didn’t Olie win with a team that the GOAT at least ( partially but substantially) put together it's foundation?!!
 
navery12 said:
I know you despise Dan Hurley but this makes no sense. No part of this quote is trying to absolve Dan Hurley of any blame
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Look the operation is soft as puppy dung this year. The coaches, the players, the water boy, the statisticians, the ticket collector - everybody!

They have lost their taste for success.
Yeah Dan Hurley gets a pass, but the coach sets the the tone. That's why he makes the big bucks...
 
uconngb said:
THIS YEAR is a mess. If you don’t see that then I don’t know what to tell you.
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I wouldn’t call this year a mess. They still have a shot at the tournament. This team could have been a lot better and fell well short of expectations. The coaching staff needs to realize that the same formula might not work every year. Danny needs to remember that his epiphany after New Mexico loss is what lead to changes and a fantastic last 2 years.
 
I’ve said this before but now comes the test for Hurley. K won back to back then won several more over his career. Donovan won back to back then never won another. One is a hall of famer. One is a good coach. We’ll see what Hurley does over the next decade. If he wins another that will put him in the HOM category.
 
freescooter said:
I’ve said this before but now comes the test for Hurley. K won back to back then won several more over his career. Donovan won back to back then never won another. One is a hall of famer. One is a good coach. We’ll see what Hurley does over the next decade. If he wins another that will put him in the HOM category.
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Donovan will be in the HOF, also made 2 other Final fours and a bunch of sweet 16s. Hurley would have to have one horrific horrific fall from grace to not be 1st ballot HOF. The Hurley name and back to back chips he's in and he won tournament games with URI. To be on a scale of K or Calhoun we'll see I mean we're talking a top 5 list here.
 
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