Dayton Post Game Thread

[UConn990411]

There’s still a potentially good team in there, but the lineups have been nonsensical so far. As others have stated, Stewart’s lack of minutes has made zero sense on any level, and Samson has proven that he cannot be a starter.

And, for the love of god, Hurley needs to cool it. I get that he’s wired a certain way, but that probably resonated more with the more experienced teams he’s had the last two years. This is a much younger team with a lot of guys playing new roles, so he really needs to pick his spots better.

 

[bendm]

Lol we are so talented though right? @superjohn

We have 2 guys on this roster with a shot at the nba right now. Liam is a 1st rounder and Alex is a 2nd rounder. That’s it. Ball is one dimensional on offense. Ross has nba athleticism but not nba skill. Stew can’t play D to save his life. If sanogo couldn’t get drafted Reed won’t either.

 

[USNavyDog]

Here is my prediction for the rest of this season. We'll have the following record over our 31 game season:
20-11, 14-6

We'll be on the bubble but do somewhat ok in Big East tourney and go 1-1. That puts our record at:
21-12, 14-6

We'll get back into the tournament as an 8 or 9 seed....make slightly decent run to the sweet 16 but thats as far as it goes. We end our season with the following record:
22-13, 14-6

Not a great year...but not a disastrous one either. It'll be a year of rebuilding as growth...but the following year will be back to greatness with our star studded 5 star recruiting class coming.

We'll be back for another title run in 2025/2026.

 

[REB1094]

We full way too much in love with this offense to the point it seems more important to run it than develop real offensive skills that help rise above the Xs and Os and score.

I’m hoping we push Solo as the 1A guy and have him get aggressive overall and live with the growing pains that come with it.

Solo seems like the guy that can fill the Cam role of getting the ball off a curl and making something happen near the rim or a short midrange. Obviously not as good of an offensive player as Cam was, but he seems the best equipped to make those types of plays

Liam is pretty good at it too but is slow, so it usually turns into a tough shot at the rim. But he’ll get there with some time

 

[USNavyDog]

Here is my prediction for the rest of this season. We'll have the following record over our 31 game season:
20-11, 14-6

We'll be on the bubble but do somewhat ok in Big East tourney and go 1-1. That puts our record at:
21-12, 14-6

We'll get back into the tournament as an 8 or 9 seed....make slightly decent run to the sweet 16 but thats as far as it goes. We end our season with the following record:
22-13, 14-6

Not a great year...but not a disastrous one either. It'll be a year of rebuilding as growth...but the following year will be back to greatness with our star studded 5 star recruiting class coming.

We'll be back for another title run in 2025/2026.

Correction....we'll be the following after the sweet 16 run:
23-13, 14-6

I miscounted the wins.

Does anyone agree this is a realistic way our season will end?

 

[UConniki]

Kids have a lot to learn. Coaching staff has a lot of work to do. They're just as disappointed if not more so than us. I'll be there to encourage their turnaround

And if someone doesn't think a 98 - 48 free throw disparity makes a difference or the inconsistencies are justified, well they can keep on throat punching air.

I'm going to suggest we just witnessed the largest free throw disparity in the history of three game tournaments

And that’s not even taking into consideration that more often than not that whenever the other team was shooting 3’s there wasn’t a UConn player within 10’ of the shooter. ( why were we backing away from players when they initially drove to the foul line giving them wide open midrange shots).

 

[bendm]

olo seems like the guy that can fill the Cam role of getting the ball off a curl and making something happen near the rim or a short midrange.

That was the hope but he doesn’t do anything but shoot 3s. Don’t think he has the handling or passing gene that cam did

 

[TouchdownHusky]

Rebuilding year. Thankfully we have our best class ever coming in next season.

Problem with that is THE class doesn't address the need for more athletic players 6-8, 6-9, 6-10. Can't keep recruiting Cam Spencer types. For example: recruiting Furphy after landing Mullins. Same player to some extent.

 

[Tiamat7]

They realized they needed some shooters/offense to take the next step and the results spoke for themselves the last 2 years. Unfortunately, they took it to an extreme with this team and I'm afraid with next year's recruits as well because we are sorely lacking quickness and athleticism at every position. I'm sure he realizes this mistake by now. I love all our recruits for next year individually, but collectively, the team will lack quickness and athleticism again unless he finds a way to address this. A start would be getting the players we have with some athleticism some experience ASAP... i.e. We know Karaban & McNeeley will get their minutes this year, but beyond that, play Nowell, Abraham, Stewart and Reed this year as much as we can and be ready to hit the portal. This is a lost season. Come to grips with the fact that long term, Ball is a 2nd unit/perhaps 6th man on a good team due to his elite shooting. Ross, Mahaney, & Singare are not UConn level talent.

And yet two weeks ago Ross was being compared to a young Reggie Lewis.

 

[Mike Honcho]

Some guys have all the luck .

I thought they would lose this one.. Seemed like a let’s get out of town game. Sort of like a baseball team playing an afternoon game to end a long road trip. Get it over with and get on the plane.

You pop up like a cockroach whenever we lose. I remember looking and you were absent from the boneyard for five months after the championship. That's some way to live.