Colorado Post Game Thread

[HailUConn]

Half glass full take - Emerged from this game is Nowell.
He played with confidence, the poise, the assists and the drive thru the lane with scoring ability and more importantly stout defense. Hurley needs to roll the dice and use Nowell ahead of Mahaney going foward.

 

[FreeKlaiber]

Only positive I'm thinking is Wally Pipp

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Nothing short of a pathetic showing here in Maui. We lost to the tougher team each game. Hurley goingnin the media and railing on the refs does 0 good, and he looks like a huge baby. Focus on getting your damn team ready to play defense, pass the ball and rebound the ball. They genuinely look like a team that doesn’t practice defense. We just lost to a mediocre team, yes, a mediocre team. There is not one player that should be proud of the way they played defense. Terrible basketball.

 

[Mets1432]

A loss tomorrow and we go from number 2 to out of the top 25. Has any team.ever done that in history?

 

[rcarj]

Bad defense does us in again

Over reliance on 3s and general softness.

 

[UConn76]

Pretty pathetic performance all around. Shooting, defense, fouling. No presence down low

 

[Bomber36]

 

[HailUConn]

Hurley needs to go back to the Lab.

 

[Brochacho]

Can we just leave Maui tonight? I’m not interested in the 7th place game

It’s going to be our only chance at a quality OOC win so I hope not. Baylor Texas and Gonzaga are gonna run us out of the gym.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

going from #2 to unranked in a week.

Not happening.

 

[Fan1978]

Hurley needs to behave and not call out refs. Extremely difficult to win with massive foul and free throw disparity. This is same behavior that hiurt team 2 years ago before andrea sat him down. Time for Andrea to sit him down again.

 

[upstater]

I'm ready to watch this lineup shrink to 8 players.

Samson gets very few minutes, and Ross gets basically none.

Starters: Reed, Karaban, McNeeley, Ball and Nowell.

Main bench players: Diarra and Stewart.

Spot minutes: Samson and Mahaney (Calcaterra minutes).

Ross and Singare for garbage time, if there ever is any garbage time.

Live or die with Nowell at this point.

 

[Kolumbo]

Colorado?!! Beyond preposterous

 

[xclamations]

No more espn tournaments pls

 

[3rdbass]

Diarra taking a shot to win it is just comically bad. McNeeley with 2 awful passes didn't help either at least one we ended up scoring. This team can't guard at all. If we don't beat whoever we play next and beat Gozaga and Baylor i'm not sure were we will be. Mahaney needs to go. What was Dan Hurley thinking when he got him? He is too tiny to guard anyone. We needed a bigger guard in the Portal. We were already undersized with Nowell, Diarra and Ball. Mahaney makes them look like Lebron in size.

 

[Palatine]

Colorado 56% from three. Most of them open shots. Second straight game the opponent shot over 50% from three.

This is a huge hole in our defense.

 

[UConnRock]

Maybe those no-holds-barred physical practices where they don't call fouls is not the best preparation for actual games. The team/coaches need a re-boot.

 

[boog204]

Is it time we accept that we simply lost way too much talent from last year's team to be able to challenge for a three peat? I don't know what to think right now...

That’s its November and our first title team lost six of eight in the middle of the season?

 

[sledog]

What the hell was that last play? CO shot 28 free throws vs 13 UConn. A ref rerun?

 

[KodiacKemba]

Fouls n free throw disparity again smh … can’t stop fouling n keep them off the line

 

[deedougie]

UConn sucks right now. Colorado is a poor team we had no reason to lose to. Hopefully they can become a good team. But right now its not a good team. Too many fouls. Soft defense. No leadership. And an inefficient offense. Hurley has his work cut out to even make this a tournament worthy team.

 

[Jmark212]

How about be better than freaking Colorado, and then the game isn't in the refs hands. Michigan State didn't have an issue there

Oh this is not a good team by any measure. But to suggest the refs did not cost us 1 or both of these games is shortsighted by awful over the back / no over the back calls.

 

[Scoe]

This is a rebuilding year.

 

[NCHuskie919]

Simply put, it's time to manage expectations.

 

[Chuck]

Hurley is never going to get the benefit of calls. He's made sure that 50/50 calls will go against us every time. He needs to change that.

That said, this team is in trouble defensively. They are so slow. Coach is going to have to change his tactics to adapt. We're too slow to hedge and run around screens. It leaves open shots or easy cuts to the basket (which results in fouls).

These won't be bad losses, but they aren't great losses either. Memphis usually collapses at the end of the year, and Colorado will probably be a bottom third Big 12 team.

 

[444JR]

The best game of Solo Ball’s career. He’s scored double digits in every game this season.

I’m still not confident about our backcourt, but the picture is clearer. Solo Ball gets 25-30 minutes and then figure out the rest of the rotation. Nowell's five assists and zero turnovers opened my eyes too...ready to move forward with Ball, Diarra and Nowell as the top-three guards.

Unfortunately Solo Ball get so lost on defense. Simply does not have a great feel for defensive rotations. It’s an issue with the entire team though. Hopefully improves with more reps and game time.

 

[Candyman]

Just not a good team. Seen this coming a mile away. Poor constructed roster. No one can create their own shots. When Diarra takes your last two shots of the game you know your team is in trouble. As good as he was he should be driving with game on line into traffic. Then we have no good play set up at end.

Defense is the worst it’s been in years. Like years. A mediocre Colorado team scored at will.

 

[REB1094]

We’re lucky that Colorado missed 10 of their 28 free throws, otherwise that could have been even uglier

The good -

• What a first half from McNeeley, 16 points and 4-5 from three. Need to calm down with those passes down the stretch though
• Solo Ball is a bucket. Him slashing needs to be a key feature of our offense
• I thought Nowell gave amazing first half minutes

The bad (limiting myself to 3) -

• Aidan Mahaney does not understand the offense yet, and it kills us
• Our defensive rotations are HORRIBLE. I can see the wide open shot we are going to give up 3-5 seconds before it happens
• Alex Karaban was 1-9 and 1-7 from three. The on-court leadership is great but we need 15+ from him every night

It can’t get worse, right? I need a 20 point destruction of Dayton tomorrow. As always, let’s go Huskies!

 

[Palatine]

I'm ready to watch this lineup shrink to 8 players.

Samson gets very few minutes, and Ross gets basically none.

Starters: Reed, Karaban, McNeeley, Ball and Nowell.

Main bench players: Diarra and Stewart.

Sports minutes: Samson and Mahaney (Calcaterra minutes).

Ross and Singare for garbage time, if there ever is any garbage time.

Live or die with Nowell at this point.

Did you watch the game. We were much more effective with Johnson in the game. Reed was basically a no-show.

 

[blkknight1]

Over reliance on 3s and general softness.

Was yelling stop taking the 3s and drive the damn ball out pressure on the other team to foul you for a change.