Creighton’s coach is phenomenal

[navery12]

Kaluma also banked a three in at 40 mph. Luck is a part of every game but when things like that happen on the road in a close game it usually makes a difference

That 3 and the Hawkins 3 from about 8 feet behind the line were killers

 

[Frank06830]

Simple? Not the way you've presented it incompletely and without correct facts.

Hurley is 1-5 against McDermott, and has never defeated him while he has coached UConn.

I've just made your point for the second time, both with greater accuracy & clarity than your attempts.

You are wonderful Hans. Thank you

 

[QDOG5]

It's really hard to play that type of press when you only have a 7 man rotation and one of those 7 in Gaffney is behind glass that says only break in case of emergency

Agreed. Also, hard to full court press off of a missed shot. I'm not suggesting 40 minutes of hell. It just seems to me there are games we start extremely slow offensively and some pressure D might help our tempo. When you have two starters actively looking not to shoot it puts a lot of pressure on the other three. Btw, don't talk about Gaff like that to @Chief00. He's on a mission to get him in the starting lineup.

 

[CheshireCat]

Are implying we are not a good team?

I should have said “great teams”. We are a good team. Talent wise, I don’t think we had any business losing to Creighton missing their starting point guard.

 

[OkaForPrez]

UConn is 2-6 when they don't score 70. Uconn starts every game with their best defensive team. Why don't they employ some type of press to up the tempo of the game? Especially if Creighton is minus their point guard. If Dan Hurley doesn't want to start the game with a press he should realize when the score is 7-2 bad guys at the 15:30 mark that something needs to change. UConn has AJax and Whalley out there turning down wide open looks why don't they flip the script and have those two wreaking havoc defensively in the full court?

He was, you have to score to press.

 

[huskyharry]

Hurley has never beat Mc Dermott. Not an anomaly folks

Actually he did as an 11 seed beating Creighton as a 6 in the 2017 NCAA. But that was with URI

 

[nadav]

Man what a season, can’t wait for the BET, Friars will be well rested, healthy, studying gamefilm and ready to go with Durham back in the line up having the next 8 days off!! really hope we get to play you guys, will be a lot of fun!!

Maybe you’ll even win a NCAA game like you do every 30 years

 

[1999GoodSon]

That's the comment. Why is Jackson bricking a 3 after a timeout. There were tons of issues, don't blame the players. If you take that 12-3 run to start the 2nd half away, Creighton ran us out of the gym. Dan Hurley's lack of adjustments in 2nd half made Kalkbrenner look like Durant. Our offense was very disorganized. The fact we only lost by two tells the story. Hurley can't close. Close games, especially close road games, we freeze. We choke. After Saturday, everything's a road game. Don't feed me the MSG second home thing, we're got to find another gear, one that lasts the whole game. And hopefully, Hurley will spend more time coaching then walking back and forth arms folded looking pissed.

 

[navery12]

That's the comment. Why is Jackson bricking a 3 after a timeout. There were tons of issues, don't blame the players. If you take that 12-3 run to start the 2nd half away, Creighton ran us out of the gym. Dan Hurley's lack of adjustments in 2nd half made Kalkbrenner look like Durant. Our offense was very disorganized. The fact we only lost by two tells the story. Hurley can't close. Close games, especially close road games, we freeze. We choke. After Saturday, everything's a road game. Don't feed me the MSG second home thing, we're got to find another gear, one that lasts the whole game. And hopefully, Hurley will spend more time coaching then walking back and forth arms folded looking pissed.

And if you take away Creighton's run in the 1st half away we blew them out. But that's not how basketball works

 

[1999GoodSon]

And if you take away Creighton's run in the 1st half away we blew them out. But that's not how basketball works

Yeah I know. Basketball has a manual that begins and ends with scoring. We start guys that can't score. The first five minutes of our games are for making sandwiches (-nova last week) We lose games to lesser teams, because we don't score down the stretch. This game was almost a carbon copy of 2/1. Same result. Not a good recipe for March.