Hurley re-recruited both of them last season and expressly said he preferred them to anyone in the portal.
You do want a pissing contest. I made a simple observation that those four critical pieces to our performance didn’t start life as UConn frosh under Hurley. Is that inaccurate? It’s more a fact than any of your claims that you know better than Hurley how manages end game. I’m far less critical of Hurley than you are. Don’t let that get in the way of your narrative.
No. I basically looked at every tourney we played in under Hurley, the exception being last year's NCAA. I also said I wasn't positive that my observation was correct. But it seems to be the case. Yes, it is a small sample size.
I have no idea what point you are trying to make at this point.
You are off the deep end. You are saying something about what I said I never said. Get it through your thick head, thicker than I ever thought of you, that I said nothing about trash heaps. it has zero to do with criticizing Hurley and for the record, your opinion of his coaching moves are just opinion so don’t go congratulating yourself on being a great coach because a kid made a shot he misses 65% of the time. Peace and love.
This seems like a strong possibility, especially since hurley has said in the past that Jackson would probably go into the NBA as a point guard.
What was your point in calling Polley and Whaley “Ollie holdovers”?
No distress. You are screwed up today. It was a simple statement that 4 of our top players started out not under Hurley and two of those were under Ollie. They could’ve been under Jim Calhoun for all I care. If I’m not mistaken they were here before Hurley. That’s all I said. I didn’t say Hurley didn’t want them or the transfers . Obviously he wanted them.
I am screwed up because—like many others here and elsewhere—I simply questioned whether we might have had a different result doing the same thing we did last time in the same situation, which, in fact, led to a different result?
Seems like Martin has to have several plays for him early in each game. Get him going! His effort is supreme if you do that. We continue to force, at times the ball, into Sanago. We are very predictable. Several late turnovers from that activity hurt in this game and many games. Whaley needs to look for his shot more and put up 6 - 9 points a game for us to win. He is a good shooter but, like Jackson, looks to pass too much. Everybody has to be somewhat of a threat for us to go into the third round of the NCAA's.
This is revisionist history, because Kimani didn't do anything differently than Hurley. You can go back and read all the posts after the Villanova win about how Kimani waited way too long to get Polley back in the game and how he should have done it sooner. But since Polley hit a big shot and we won the game it all gets glossed over.
I wrote many of those posts; I don’t need to review them. I was at the game and said it in real time at the three minute mark, so yes I thought he should have done it sooner. But to Kimani’s credit he realized it, made the change and drew up a play to get Polley a shot, which he hit.
The idea that Kimani did something different from Hurley to win us the Villanova game like you keep saying. Since Polley hit a shot and we won the fact that he waited too long to get Polley back in wasn't an issue and he gets praised.
It was the second Nova game when Polley hit the shot and we won. Last night was the third.
You win. The kid made a shot and you’re smarter than the coach. If he bricked it than it follows you would be wrong. That’s is the logic you are using to support a strategy that maybe at best works a third of the time. Isn’t the bigger problem for this team (if winning 23 games with unreliable shooters is really a problem) that we are in a lot of close games because the choice is about sitting better defenders in favor of kids who might or might not be on that day? It’s kind of why we have so many close games at the end. Looking at end game blows past the overall issues with the team. We haven’t even touched on a guy like Akok who potentially on O has the jumper to help and at least shot block some if not defend great so maybe the choice between a Whaley and Polley wouldn‘t be the main option. This team is maybe one more consistent shooter away from both drawing some attention away from Sanogo and having more breathing room the last few minutes. The margin of error for almost every BE team between winning and losing is paper thin. UConn has lots of company.
Those are when the numbers are from, no idea why I called it the first. I think I've just completely erased the road game from my mind
Ok, we are making progress here!
Yeah but that's kind of my point, they were both inserted for an offensive possession and the play that was drawn up worked whether it was a Polley 3 in the win or a Jackson 3 in the loss. They hit both shots, is it only a good thing if Polley takes the shot and bad if he's just drawing the defense's attention?
So long as you stand by that strategy regardless of whether or not the a shot goes in, than fine. In hoops, a shot going in makes a coach look good. The real issue for this team is pretty much consistent throughout the game, lack of enough reliable shooters and defenders combined in each individual. It impacts everything and contributes to close games. The difference between our better defenders and our better shooting subs is pretty wide.
That is definitely true for Polley; Hawkins was getting better at both ends of the floor but unfortunately he wasn’t an option and I don’t know what to expect from him for the NCAAs.
We're projected to be a 6 seed. That's more like round 32 talent. 4 seed means Sweet 16 talent.
