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NJHusky said:
Bilas picked MI State over Duke in the east....

Didn't we already beat Mi state? even though it didn't count
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Yes I just saw that too. Surprising he has MSU over Duke as well.
 
UConn and Furman playing in Philly at 10 pm is completely moronic. It's almost as if the people in charge are intentionally asinine. Maybe the NCAA has deals with hotel chains and want to be sure people need to book rooms
 
regarding leadership, I wonder if part of it is a byproduct of the transfer portal. I don't know their personalities but Silas and Demary could have taken more leadership roles but perhaps being first year Huskies has something to do with it. Maybe hire Khalid as an assistant coach so some attitude would rub off

 
Kolumbo said:
regarding leadership, I wonder if part of it is a byproduct of the transfer portal. I don't know their personalities but Silas and Malachi could have taken more leadership roles but perhaps being first year Huskies has something to do with it. Maybe hire Khalid as an assistant coach so some attitude would rub off

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Silas & Malachi, sorry
 
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UCTitleTown said:
No, I'm not talking about Silas or Smith (meh....) The other guys that portaled or signed that never see the floor.
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You think Elezaj was brought in with the idea that he would be a contributor? Or Millender, who came from a D2 school?

You need a roster of a certain size to even practice effectively. You don't build a roster with the expectation of running a 15 man rotation.
 
UCTitleTown said:
No, I'm not talking about Silas or Smith (meh....) The other guys that portaled or signed that never see the floor.
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Elezaj and Paunovic were brought in as practice players. Jacob Ross was brought in because he wants to play here and be with his brother. He's a practice player we may hope to develop for the future so he has a role as an upperclassman. Millender was basically brought in as a practice player, he was only going to get any time if something disastrous happened and we lost both point guards to injury and lost another player with guard skills to injury. Koroma was brought in as a stop gap if we had injuries to the frontcourt and he got some minutes early in the season when we were injured. There was most likely some expectation that Furphy could earn some minutes but his body needs to get better and he needs to adjust to the speed and physicality of elite D1 basketball.
 
UCTitleTown said:
No, I'm not talking about Silas or Smith (meh....) The other guys that portaled or signed that never see the floor.
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So you think all 15 scholarship players are expected to contribute? How is that even remotely possible?

Tom Moore explained it pretty well in the offseason. They filled out the roster with practice guys who were good teammates. Think Millender, Koroma, the 2 Europeans. They like Furphy and were thinking of him as a long term development piece. Jacob Ross too.

I think your expectations on how to build a 15 man roster are out of whack.
 
NCAA expanded the scholarship and total roster from 13 to 15 which gives coaches a little leeway for injuries and practice players.

we got:

Demary
Smith
Alec Millender
Dwayne Koroma
2x euros
Mullins
Furphy
Reibe
Jacob Ross

Realistically 4 have gotten realistic minutes while the other are there to either be practice pieces or growth pieces.

Or run a fantasy football pool…
 
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RuffRuff said:
These most recent pressers from Hurley have been weird - almost like he's talking more about what they've earned/great season and less about being confident, almost like he's conceding. Tone is off.

Previous recent pressers similar.

The bit about how many players/coaches meetings have they had - and it was zero. No leadership on this team. That's on Dan though - he's not recruiting kids with substance. I'll ask the question, if Karaban isn't this, what is the point in continue rolling him back 2x - because he can help organize an action? He should be tone setting, meanwhile can't run a decent inbounds. I thought he was a "coach" on the court? We laude the kid for

This was really lame too



Dan, just go recruit kids that you don't have to make excuses for - holy cow. You think we're going to move the BE tourney?

A LOT riding on his tourney showing.
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A lot riding on it for Hurley? Because if we don’t do well he will only have won two of the last four championships? I think not. You may be disappointed by this season but a 27-4 year does not make a coach have a lot riding on the post season. I know UConn fans have trouble with this concept, but 27-4 years and top ten rankings do not grow on trees.
 
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UCTitleTown said:
No, I'm not talking about Silas or Smith (meh....) The other guys that portaled or signed that never see the floor.
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Koroma and Millender were not brought in to see the floor (absent emergencies due to injuries and/or foul trouble). They were young men who decided for whatever reason they were o.k. finishing their careers on teams where they were “break glass in case of emergency” roster fillers, but getting to learn how a great program was coached and run and getting to see the tournament from the bench, rather than being starters or rotation players at a low D-1 level. Both they and Hurley are getting exactly what they wanted from the arrangement (Hurley got enough players to always be able to scrimmage at practice without using walk ons for little or no money.). The Europeans were brought in to learn, and maybe to develop into a rotation piece in future years. Ross’s younger brother was brought in to redshirt and then see if he’s good enough for this level.

Where do you think there was a miss? A recruit brought into play who isn’t?
 
businesslawyer said:
A lot riding on it for Hurley? Because if we don’t do well he will only have one two of the last four championships? I think not. You may be disappointed by this season but a 27-4 year does not make a coach have a lot riding on the post season. I know UConn fans have trouble with this concept, but 27-4 years and top ten rankings do not grow on trees.
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He could not be more eager to see UConn come up short so he can gloat about it
 
businesslawyer said:
A lot riding on it for Hurley? Because if we don’t do well he will only have one two of the last four championships? I think not. You may be disappointed by this season but a 27-4 year does not make a coach have a lot riding on the post season. I know UConn fans have trouble with this concept, but 27-4 years and top ten rankings do not grow on trees.
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29-5 currently but I get your point.

I do think our record is a bit inflated compared to past UConn seasons because this is probably the weakest Big East since I've been watching basketball but we did schedule great out of conference and we did win those games minus the Arizona loss without two starters.
 
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Marat said:
If you just said most titles in ncaa modern era when expanded to 64 teams, then UCLA's 10 titles would not be included.
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And only 2 included since 1975 when expanded to 32
 
UCLA had great players but they got to play a West Final on campus for crying out loud.
 
UConnTrumbull said:
Just an fyi there’s a 3:30am Amtrak from Philly to New Haven
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I was back in the states this past autumn, and last minute amtrak train$ are so expensive! I was shocked! Did an OS to Boston day trip.
 
businesslawyer said:
A lot riding on it for Hurley? Because if we don’t do well he will only have one two of the last four championships? I think not. You may be disappointed by this season but a 27-4 year does not make a coach have a lot riding on the post season. I know UConn fans have trouble with this concept, but 27-4 years and top ten rankings do not grow on trees.
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A lot riding on the tournament for Hurley, he's gotta "prove his recruiting chops," it's lunacy. It's like the two rings are complete flukes and on the flip side the regular season May had with Michigan proved he's for real.
 
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superjohn said:
10th in the country as a 5 seed is crazy.
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It really isn't. I'm not sure what seed people expected them to get, their non conference was a disaster and the whole body of work is evaluated. Everyone talked about it last fall. Their 3rd best win is at Villanova. Their 4th best win is Baylor on a neutral site, and they're not even in the tournament.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
A lot riding on the tournament for Hurley, he's gotta "prove his recruiting chops," it's lunacy. It's like the two rings are complete flukes and on the flip side the regular season May had with Michigan proved he's for real.
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Saying the two rings don't count for much is what the deepest online UConn haters say. That if not for Clingan we'd be nothing, all that. Pretty telling when a poster here starts sounding like that
 
superjohn said:
Elezaj and Paunovic were brought in as practice players. Jacob Ross was brought in because he wants to play here and be with his brother. He's a practice player we may hope to develop for the future so he has a role as an upperclassman. Millender was basically brought in as a practice player, he was only going to get any time if something disastrous happened and we lost both point guards to injury and lost another player with guard skills to injury. Koroma was brought in as a stop gap if we had injuries to the frontcourt and he got some minutes early in the season when we were injured. There was most likely some expectation that Furphy could earn some minutes but his body needs to get better and he needs to adjust to the speed and physicality of elite D1 basketball.
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Furphy had an ankle injury so he kinda lost out on earning any 2nd level minutes…cam attitude but next year should be better
 
Inyatkin said:
Saying the two rings don't count for much is what the deepest online UConn haters say. That if not for Clingan we'd be nothing, all that. Pretty telling when a poster here starts sounding like that
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If it wasn't for good players teams wouldn't be good is among the dumber of the hot takes we see around here. Right up there with "if [good shooter] didn't make a bunch of shots we would have lost." I have yet to hear anyone suggest that Mara makes Michigan's success a fluke.
 
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