Colorado Post Game Thread

[upstater]

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

Samson offers absolutely no threat of offense with this team, and this team absolutely needs an inside presence on offense.

 

[Candyman]

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...

Three peat? This team has to make the tourney first. We have to still beat most likely Dayton which should have beat NC. Not sure we win tmrw. Gonzaga and Baylor are both top teams.

 

[Scoe]

Just win tomorrow and learn and get better and don't talk about it either just do it.

 

[jibsey]

We had. 5 point lead and the ball with 2 min

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Ross didn’t do a single thing in these two games. What is Hurley seeing in these practices lol???

 

[ihatepants]

RIP to the streak

 

[TheHorde]

Diarra should've pass that back to Karaban. Having him take our last two shots with Ball, Karaban and McNeeley on the floor is criminal.

I was stunned that that was what was drawn up out of a time out.

 

[FreeKlaiber]

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.

I think alot of us see that is what will eventually happen. The question is when will Hurley and staff see it for themselves and move on. Nowell's got that Khalid energy.

 

[That Guy]

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

Fair point, but that team showed early on that they can compete with the best of the best. Just happened to hit a really bad mid season slump. I don't know if this team could win against any ranked opponent right now.

 

[jibsey]

I think alot of us see that is what will eventually happen. The question is when will Hurley and staff see it for themselves and move on. Nowell's got that Khalid energy.

I like Nowell but he missed the gym on a 3.

 

[Jhuskie89]

Totally bummed I'm 14 hours ahead of this in the far east and won't have the pleasure of reading this thread with all the reasonable, rational takes.

It's obvious Hurley doesn't have what it takes any more to lead a program with national championship aspirations. The yoga interviews with Bilas and crap like that need to stop and he has to coach the team.

Hopefully Benedict is on top of this and can do the right thing.

Uhhhhhhhh….

 

[Marat]

I can only shrug this off for 1 reason is that we're back to back champs.

But, if we keep losing ......

 

[98Uconn]

We don’t get a great whistle… but a big part is we do foul a lot and very rarely do anything to draw fouls.

 

[BigTenFan]

Interesting stat- Uconn took twice as many 3 pointers as Colorado..hit one or two more then different result

 

[TheHorde]

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.

Agreed. Free Nowell and Stewart.

 

[husky429]

It's time to roll with Nowell over Mahaney and put Aiden in the Joey California role.

We had a center problem tonight. Reed will learn, I'm not too concerned about that.

AK's worst game of the season. O guarantee it.

 

[BigTenFan]

Interesting stat- Uconn took twice as many 3 pointers as Colorado..hit one or two more then different result

 

[I Bleed Blue]

Another blown call against McNeeley aside, it’s awful having Diarra shoot a 3 down by 1 to end it. Wtf was that.

 

[Excalibur]

This is an obviously flawed team that won't beat even decent teams unless Karaban plays well.

Mahaney was a miss. Cut losses and go with Nowell. Reed was inconsistent at UM and it's carrying over.

And how on Earth do you not drive to the basket on the last possession?

 

[BigFanCT]

I still think this team is boat loads better by March. But Colorado just absolutely torpedoed our rankings from here on out. They are a very, very bad team by the numbers and will be very lucky to win 5 games in the Big 12.

Where was Karaban when it mattered?

I don’t want to have any other coach ever, but I think we can all say - Hurley went into this season unprepared. Was he enjoying success too much? Hopefully this brings back his obsession to winning and he has a revelation in the air back.

Dayton ain’t no cake walk. In fact- they are a ton better than Colorado. We can very likely go 0-3 in Maui.

 

[Marat]

Another blown call against McNeeley aside, it’s awful having Diarra shoot a 3 down by 1 to end it. Wtf was that.

Solo should have gotten it.

 

[freshler40]

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

We settle for 3's, worked in the first half, more of an NBA style it seems. Hard to go to the line shooting so many three pointers.

 

[upstater]

We should have had a few more cupcakes to open the season.

?
We could've scheduled Colorado instead of LeMoyne.

 

[connVA]

I think Dan Hurley needs to seriously reconsider his approach of not calling fouls in practice to get the players acclimated to the BE. The logic makes sense in theory but this team doesn’t seem to understand what they can and can’t get away with out of conference.

 

[uconnfan68]

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.

Offense is terrible this year. McNeeley had terrible passes back-to-back. Caused the loss of Reed. Not sure why Ball never looked to drive until the end of the game. Some big problems, and some appear beyond repair.
Bright spot was Nowell. Maybe time to see Abraham too instead of Ross.