Disgusted

[Ts5034]

Drunk off success? We won 1 game in a row after looking bad and losing to Cincy.

What I was trying to get at was, they were probably way too over confident because of the way they beat USF so easily.

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

Besides Bazz, we never have legit NBA prospects playing here as seniors. Whenever we have had great years, other than 14, we have been led by underclassmen with senior role players. This isn't due to quality of the seniors.

Calhoun and Nolan are not any worse than most of our senior classes.

Doesn't it feel like our recruiting was affected since the NCAA coming down on us? I mean even our Junior class, a JUCO, Facey and Brimah is not anything to get excited about. It's not like anyone has left early for the NBA in the last couple years...Our senior and junior class right now are our classes the year of our postseason ban, and the year after. Now that we have come out of that shadow, our recruiting is clearly being restored.

 

[superjohn]

Yea, bench the whole team and see if the walk-ons can do better. Hard to take you serious.

You do it to send a message that no effort like that won't be tolerated. Guess what, Ollie did nothing and we continued to let them have rim runs and the game was over. Yup, that was great coaching right there. Also a little grammar tip, hard to take you "seriously"is what you should say in the future.

 

[dennismenace]

That's the issue, the effort. There was one point they showed 3 guys jogging back while a Houston player blew right by all THREE of them for a lay-up. Hate to say it but even if this team makes the tourney, do they deserve it? 6th place in this conference is a embarrassment given the history of our program. It's scary. Other issue is this team just isn't that like able. There's no Boat, no Bazz, no Kemba, no Okafor, etc. This is a team of role players and no leader.

This pretty much sums it up. A UConn team that loses by consistently failing to hustle in the big game. I truly feel like I am not watching a UConn team. Lack of hustle is a discipline thing. If they made mistakes or got beat fairly OK. I can live with that. But if they (players and coaches) don't think they have to hustle back on defense and don't care,
why should l? This is what discipline sounds like:

 

[3rdbass]

Yeah, it was the worst display of effort I have seen from a UCONN team in a big game since I can remember. I have been watching UCONN basketball from around 1980 so that is a long time. LOL! Sorry to say but some of this has to fall on KO as even one of his key guys SG was taking plays off all game long.

 

[krinklecut]

Sometimes around here I feel like I'm the only person who came into the season with realistic expectation. This team is a thrown together bunch of guys. Chemistry wins championships over talent. The individuals on this team are highly talented but as a whole they are lesser than their parts. That should have been expected. We are still dealing with the fallout of everything that happened to blow our team up, and I think not having a <20 win season since then is more than we should have hoped for. Look to the future.

 

[NotADimeBack]

You directed it to the wrong audience. Should have told the team

They know first hand how it feels, should know better already after losing to them the last 3 years

 

[Ts5034]

Sometimes around here I feel like I'm the only person who came into the season with realistic expectation. This team is a thrown together bunch of guys. Chemistry wins championships over talent. The individuals on this team are highly talented but as a whole they are lesser than their parts. That should have been expected. We are still dealing with the fallout of everything that happened to blow our team up, and I think not having a <20 win season since then is more than we should have hoped for. Look to the future.[/aQUOTE]
And this is why I thought one of those summer trips would have benefited this team more than any other team we have had. I read an article in one of the local papers before the season started and Ollie said they tried to put one together, but it didnt work out because of some of the players schedules or something like that. That would have been a lot more time this team had to practice with each other and the games vs solid competition would have helped toughen them up, and give the coaching saff the opportunity to see what they needed to work on welll before the season started.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I don't think what we saw today was much different than what we've seen for much of the season. This team just isn't that good. Well, they're good but they're not very good. They are what they are.

I agree. Basketball is not a rotisserie sport, but Ollie tried to create a rotisserie team with Gibbs and Miller. Throw in Brimah not really developing as we hoped, and we are what we are. Roles are not well defined, and the team just isn't that good.

The team composition is the problem. This squad is a function of UConn losing two recruiting classes at the end of Calhoun's and the beginning of Ollie's tenure. We have no upper classmen of consequence that came up the ranks. I am certainly disappointed in the team, but I don't know why people get so angry about a bubble team losing. That is what bubble teams do.

 

[Matrim55]

Doesn't it feel like our recruiting was affected since the NCAA coming down on us? I mean even our Junior class, a JUCO, Facey and Brimah is not anything to get excited about. It's not like anyone has left early for the NBA in the last couple years...Our senior and junior class right now are our classes the year of our postseason ban, and the year after. Now that we have come out of that shadow, our recruiting is clearly being restored.

Good post. This is still a trainwreck of a thread, but good post.

 

[SouthBayHusky]

Last two years have been emotionally draining as a fan. Really don't know what to think anymore. Can we just jump in a time machine to 2017?

 

[Tdaley]

Playing a team as bad as USF the game before didn't help. These are 18 yr old kids. They thought they played great defense against USF when in fact USF was just plain terrible. Houston is not terrible. If you want to beat them you have to play DEFENSE on every possession. This is not coaching. This is on the kids. How badly do they want it. Today they didn't want it bad enough and as a consequence they suffered a very bad loss. There is still time to turn this season around and make a deep run in the tournament but I'm not the seeing that from this group

 

[nychuskyfan]

I think we need to realize how overrated we are, and that we are not even CLOSE to the program we were in the Big East.
But there's hope for the future on the recruiting end. As someone on this board stated a couple weeks ago, this team is the last shockwave effect of the APR penalties and scholarship shortage. Our senior class is frickin Omar Calhoun and Phil Nolan. Once we start to annually bring in 3-4 4+ star recruits again, we are in great shape.
One thing we've learned after the majority of this season, is that this year+last year are bridge years more than anything. 3 of our best players are transfers for goodness sake. With that said, there's still NCAA hope for this team. This team, like any other team could get hot in the tournament, if we get there.

I wish this were true - even though they are transfers, Gibbs, Miller and Purvis as seniors are better than a 3/4 star player will be as a freshman and sophomore. The fact that we have this much experience - we play 5 seniors for crying out loud - and more talent than any other team in this conference yet are in 6th place is insane.

 

[krinklecut]

Doesn't it feel like our recruiting was affected since the NCAA coming down on us? I mean even our Junior class, a JUCO, Facey and Brimah is not anything to get excited about. It's not like anyone has left early for the NBA in the last couple years...Our senior and junior class right now are our classes the year of our postseason ban, and the year after. Now that we have come out of that shadow, our recruiting is clearly being restored.

This. Have very talented sophomore and freshman classes, with a top recruiting class coming in. Gotta look to the future. The UConn program has recovered, and this years team does not reflect that.

 

[pnow15]

The problem is that our spot of three point shooters Gibbs, Purvis and Calhoun can only hit shots when the game is out of reach or when we are ahead by 12 pts.
So, the other teams really close out hard, hoping and praying that they put the ball on the floor and try to make it to the rim.

 

[djct1999]

I wish this were true - even though they are transfers, Gibbs, Miller and Purvis as seniors are better than a 3/4 star player will be as a freshman and sophomore. The fact that we have this much experience - we play 5 seniors for crying out loud - and more talent than any other team in this conference yet are in 6th place is insane.

Not only that, but college basketball as a whole is very weak this year. To think we are probably on the wrong side of an otherwise extremely soft bubble is unconscionable. While I do believe that there is some truth to missed recruiting classes, the fact remains that this team should not be where it is.

 

[BleedHuskyBlu]

Once you expect them to continually disappoint and choke games away, the disgust goes away.

 

[Rocktheworld]

@ half of this thread

 

[CTBasketball]

People are saying Dotson came out of nowhere? The kid has been great this year and was very good as a frosh at Oregon. He schooled us today, simple as that. Gotta give him credit.

 

[kemba]

I wish this were true - even though they are transfers, Gibbs, Miller and Purvis as seniors are better than a 3/4 star player will be as a freshman and sophomore. The fact that we have this much experience - we play 5 seniors for crying out loud - and more talent than any other team in this conference yet are in 6th place is insane.

Individually perhaps, but the makeup of this team is just wrong. Gibbs and Purvis don't complement each other at all, Hamilton and Adams are the most talented players on our team right now and our only playmakers, and they will be a year older and more experienced. We could certainly be a better with a young team but with our more talented, and better all around players a year older.

 

[BlueDogs]

Team is made of glass. They shatter under any stress. I don't see KO cultivating the type of mental toughness or discipline needed to compete at a high level. We are down to the end of the season and nothing has changed.

 

[cheech63]

We are just an incredibly stupid and unclutch team, it's gross to watch. Gibbs and Purvis just suck when it matters. We have the third ranked defense and can't stop the ball to save our lives when it matters, we are the third ranked free throw shooting team yet never go to the line. We had no business winning the game but Gibbs was clearly fouled on the three to add insult to injury, I hate every lousy thing about being stuck in this hellhole of a conference.

Being in this lousy conference,doesn't change the fact that this team isn't basketball smart or play with heart and passion.

 

[gtcam]

What absolute BULL.

Credit them my .

This program is making the AAC look FAR better than it is. Anyone see what happened to Temple when they played Villanova?

Kevin Ollie and his staff making the AAC look like the toughest league in the country is malpractice at the highest order.

You make some real stupid arguments
Look what Nova did to Temple?? So that is the benchmark for the league
You are typical of the dolts who come on here after a loss, throw negative crap at the wall and sees what sticks
You also seem to prey on the other negative people to bulk your likes
Malpratice? what a laugh

Houston shot the crap out of the ball in the 2nd half and that did contribute to the win

 

[8893]

It was amazing. We continually jogged back while they just ran right up our rectums. That is effort and recognition. It's like we expected them to just get over half court and settle in to half court. Just such a lack of urgency and poise with this team. So much potential and so much fail. I've never seen anything like this team when it comes to close games. We find ways to lose. We don't get beat ( usually) ...we find ways to lose.

"Lack of urgency" was what I kept muttering from the end of the first half through the end of the game. Well, that and a lot of other things that horrified my family and the friends we attended the game with. Like "Calhoun would have choked one of these guys by now." Thank God Locust Reign came on tap at Willi Brew during our post game meal or else our ride home would be a lot more miserable right now (and I'd be driving, rather than Mrs. 8893).

 

[BlueDogs]

You make some real stupid arguments
Look what Nova did to Temple?? So that is the benchmark for the league
You are typical of the dolts who come on here after a loss, throw negative crap at the wall and sees what sticks
You also seem to prey on the other negative people to bulk your likes
Malpratice? what a laugh

Houston shot the crap out of the ball in the 2nd half and that did contribute to the win

Can't deny the D was sleep walking in transition. Houston also had some great ball movement. This isn't a terrible team; just a vastly underperforming team with little ability to handle stress. Not a single 3 ball shooter that can knock it down in the stretch.

 

[Sea Goat]

What absolute BULL.

Credit them my .

This program is making the AAC look FAR better than it is. Anyone see what happened to Temple when they played Villanova?

Kevin Ollie and his staff making the AAC look like the toughest league in the country is malpractice at the highest order.

Maybe Manuel knew something... KO has been uninspiring this year. The team looks scared and undisciplined at the end of tight games.
At the very least, KO should try new assistants. Shake up needed!

 

[djct1999]

@ half of this thread

You must have searched really hard for that one.

 

[huskiesnyc]

1. Told one of these trolls not to sleep on Houston...

I knew Houston was a team to take seriously and I posted over a week ago that we needed to play our B+ game at a minimum. Our fans in Gampel were ready for it. Can't say the same about the coaching staff… KO and company got straight up schooled in every facet of the game. That was a basketball clinic.

PS-No I'm not anti-Ko and I don't want KO fired but if you don't think major adjustments need to be made to the assistant coaching staff you're clueless.