Fall Practice Thread

[HW611]

I’m surprised you haven’t latched onto Hurley’s interview after the first practice and his comments about his mistakes in the way he’s coached Ross.

I’m not an interview watcher personally, especially when they’re that long (think it’s like 10-15 mins edit: even worse 25 minutes).

Thanks for the heads up though as I might have to check it out now lol.

 

[jibsey]

I think we can all agree that we are starved to see this team in action and then really have something to argue about. I just have a feeling based on who we have on this roster that we will really love this season. Once again I go back to “ did Hurley get the defense the way he wants it?” That is the whole ball of wax right there because frankly the “O” we’ve got it.

 

[twiceahusky]

We’re not talking about making the right play. We’re talking about attempting to do something.

Stop with these phony false parrallels. Sanogo went from not passing it at all to passing it just fine.

You’re making it seem like he passed it before but turned it over and was bad at it and got better. That would’ve been progression and working on something. No, he just attempted passing the ball after the losing streak. You can be silly enough to think what the coaches were teaching him just magically clicked after 3 and a half years.

I’m going to use common sense critical thinking to assume the coaches assessed the situation and saw that was one of the things that needed to be fixed. And Sanogo is a smart enough guy to easily take coaches direction because I’m going to give him that credit and not assume these players are these dummies where it takes 3 years to do something so simple.

Last post on this.

At 9:53 AM you said “Last post on this”.

At 9:59 AM you posted again.

 

[Scot-e]

Season can’t start soon enough. 😏

 

[HW611]

In my humble opinion, it’s not just his handles that are keeping him from being a PG in college and certainly not the pros. I think you dramatically oversimplify how easy it is to just teach anyone PG skills, which is a bit odd given you consistently blast Hurley for not being able to develop PGs.

Don’t know why I’m just seeing this. Addressing this Solo thing and retiring this convo as well.

He’s not going to be junior year Kemba if he had handles, but he can be an underclassman Boatright.

Calhoun’s PG training program used to take 3 years for any of those guys to get down and perfect so I know Solo won’t look like a great one just from his handles. But it’s a big start to him at least being able to reasonably play the position.

It’s also why I get annoyed when we don’t get guys going right away at that position out of all of them. Like we’re getting Solo going now so he only has 2 years (maybe 1 if he goes to the draft) to work on it instead of prepping him for this kind of role from day 1 when it’s the hardest position to learn because so much goes into it.

It’s like unless you’re a ready made day 1 player the only thing you can do on the court is shoot 3s and play defense before you’re allowed to grow your game and do anything else.

 

[navery12]

Calhoun’s PG training program used to take 3 years for any of those guys to get down and perfect

Are you sure he didn't only start trying to teach them PG skills in year 3? That seems like a long time for someone to learn a skill

 

[Excalibur]

Sorry if it seems like I’m dropping the hammer.

LOL at "dropping the hammer".

The hammer . . .

 

[JustbrewitMan]

Don’t know why I’m just seeing this. Addressing this Solo thing and retiring this convo as well.

He’s not going to be junior year Kemba if he had handles, but he can be an underclassman Boatright.

Calhoun’s PG training program used to take 3 years for any of those guys to get down and perfect so I know Solo won’t look like a great one just from his handles. But it’s a big start to him at least being able to reasonably play the position.

It’s also why I get annoyed when we don’t get guys going right away at that position out of all of them. Like we’re getting Solo going now so he only has 2 years (maybe 1 if he goes to the draft) to work on it instead of prepping him for this kind of role from day 1 when it’s the hardest position to learn because so much goes into it.

It’s like unless you’re a ready made day 1 player the only thing you can do on the court is shoot 3s and play defense before you’re allowed to grow your game and do anything else.

Kudos to you...

You've cultivated, developed and perfected one of the schtickyist schticks on the Yard...

The "I'm the one always watching every second of practice, independent off-season/in-season player development moments, one-on-one coaching moments, pregame warmups, and second of game for every single UConn MBB player...so I know all of the things they are/aren't working on, what they actually should be doing, the egregious disservices our coaching staff is doing by not forcing people to do tennis ball dribbling reps, etc."

Thank goodness you're retiring the Solo PG conversation now. Until you unretire it before the end of the day.