Good coaches continue to be a problem

[Fishy]

UConn has played five good coaches this season. They lost to four of them.

In four of those games, UConn has been the more talented team but they only managed to win one of those games. In every loss, they've gone on an extended streak where they really didn't do much of anything except watch the opponent score.

The substitutions all year have been bizarre. Tonight's example - Jalen Adams scores seven points to bring UConn back into a game they had no business losing. He misses a jumpshot with about seven minutes to play and he goes to the bench....for the rest of the game.

Why?

Pretty sure the head coach just forgot he was there.

Ollie needs more help than he's getting from the bumps of a log he has next to him on the bench.

 

[nomar]

I don't think Fran Dunphy had much to do with it.

Agreed he outcoached Ollie, but I outcoached Ollie from my living room couch.

 

[champs99and04]

You can't call Dunphy a good coach but not Matta. That Temple team does some dumb stuff.

 

[Jay-Bone]

UConn has played five good coaches this season. They lost to four of them.

In four of those games, UConn has been the more talented team but they only managed to win one of those games. In every loss, they've gone on an extended streak where they really didn't do much of anything except watch the opponent score.

The substitutions all year have been bizarre. Tonight's example - Jalen Adams scores seven points to bring UConn back into a game they had no business losing. He misses a jumpshot with about seven minutes to play and he goes to the bench....for the rest of the game.

Why?

Pretty sure the head coach just forgot he was there.

Ollie needs more help than he's getting from the bumps of a log he has next to him on the bench.

Dunphy switching to zone confused the shat out of them.

 

[Fishy]

You can't call Dunphy a good coach but not Matta. That Temple team does some dumb stuff.

My bad - we beat two good coaches and had more talent than five of six.

 

[jfuchs91]

WTF were we doing out there on offense tonight? There were several possessions where we didn't even pass until the shot clock was under 10. We were in the double-bonus early, but we were never aggressive attacking the hoop when we were desperate for points.

Just a baffling performance all around.

 

[Fishy]

Sample script to help our assistant coaches communicate with KO:

Assistant coach - "Remember when we recruited that kid, Adams, from Massachusetts?"

Ollie - "Yeah?"

Assistant coach - "Great news! He's right here on the bench! You took him out a while ago...."

 

[Tommyboy]

UConn has played five good coaches this season. They lost to four of them. In four of those games, UConn has been the more talented team but they only managed to win one of those games. In every loss, they've gone on an extended streak where they really didn't do much of anything except watch the opponent score. The substitutions all year have been bizarre. Tonight's example - Jalen Adams scores seven points to bring UConn back into a game they had no business losing. He misses a jumpshot with about seven minutes to play and he goes to the bench....for the rest of the game. Why? Pretty sure the head coach just forgot he was there. Ollie needs more help than he's getting from the bumps of a log he has next to him on the bench.

The assistant coaches seem to be especially useless. Zero life or energy coming from the bench.

 

[UConn990411]

Daniel Hamilton: 6 points on 13 shot attempts...including multiple missed jumpers in the last few minutes.

Shonn Miller: 18 points on 13 shot attempts...none in the last few minutes.

The level is coaching right now is miles below what we're used to at UConn.

 

[uconngb]

Sample script to help our assistant coaches communicate with KO:

Assistant coach - "Remember when we recruited that kid, Adams, from Massachusetts?"

Ollie - "Yeah?"

Assistant coach - "Great news! He's right here on the bench! You took him out a while ago...."

Asst: "Coach, we have a foul to give"
Ollie: "what?"
Asst: " we have a foul to give"
Ollie: "what does that mean?"
Asst: "it means we should have fouled that guy that just drove into the lane uncontested and scored the game winning hoop."
Ollie: "do you think anyone on the Boneyard noticed? Find me some papers to spill onto the floor"

 

[scotty0330]

Buck stops with head coach not assistants. It's becoming apparent we have a good recruiter who has no business coaching.

 

[Waquoit]

What about sitting your best player for most of the game?

 

[ASweet3781]

Buck stops with head coach not assistants. It's becoming apparent we have a good recruiter who has no business coaching.

The buck can stop at more than one person. It's the job of the assistants to keep track of the fouls and remind the coach down the stretch. Judging by the vegetative state like status that Hobbs and Moore usually appear to be in, I think it's reasonable to wonder if that happened.

 

[Hoophound]

WTF were we doing out there on offense tonight? There were several possessions where we didn't even pass until the shot clock was under 10. We were in the double-bonus early, but we were never aggressive attacking the hoop when we were desperate for points. Just a baffling performance all around.

We are playing the dribble drive offense. Unfortunately, we don't have a player capable of driving on the floor most of the time. You need a true, scoring point guard and a versatile pair of wings to play this style. It isn't a system that creates shots, the players must create shots. What we are seeing is that we lack the playmakers we need to attack the basket and finish or distribute. Simple as that.

Jalen Adams is our only chance. Give him the keys and let him create opportunities for Hamilton, Gibbs and Calhoun and Miller. If it isn't working sometimes, just play through it.

 

[UConnStats]

The way we underperform with our talent level people are going to start confusing us for UNLV.

 

[3rdbass]

We are playing the dribble drive offense. Unfortunately, we don't have a player capable of driving on the floor most of the time. You need a true, scoring point guard and a versatile pair of wings to play this style. It isn't a system that creates shots, the players must create shots. What we are seeing is that we lack the playmakers we need to attack the basket and finish or distribute. Simple as that.

Jalen Adams is our only chance. Give him the keys and let him create opportunities for Hamilton, Gibbs and Calhoun and Miller. If it isn't working sometimes, just play through it.

Dham is a playmaker also but for some reason he has forgotten to pass the last couple of games. It is like he is trying to win the games going one on one. The one time he did make a pass something great happened. SM for a dunk. DHAM has to have confidence in his teammates.

 

[mauconnfan]

Dham is a playmaker also but for some reason he has forgotten to pass the last couple of games. It is like he is trying to win the games going one on one. The one time he did make a pass something great happened. SM for a dunk. DHAM has to have confidence in his teammates.

Totally agree. He had so man kick outs when he wasn't making shots it was pitiful and he elected to miss shots and some were forced. Too much DHam for me lately but then again, who else? Adams seemed to be ready tonight but can't do it form the pine.

 

[mauconnfan]

The way we underperform with our talent level people are going to start confusing us for UNLV.

Did you just say KO=Dave Rice?

 

[Dove]

Yeah...Gibbs was the guard to be on the bench at the end. Adams should have been in. Was he yanked after going short on that trey?

 

[pnow15]

I think Ollie has a lot of players with large holes in their game and with little basketball sense. He had no trouble coaching Bazz and Boat.
Ollie is hoping that Gibbs will eventually be a point guard, but Gibbbs can't beat anyone off the dribble and can't finish at the rim. The offense stagnates when your point guards best pass is to the guy next to him and who is covered. Gibbs leads the league in two categories: wide open threes missed and wide open threes not taken.

 

[OkaForPrez]

4 L's, 4 mismanaged end games.

Foul against Cuse, extend the game.
Foul against Zags, extend the game.
Don't lose your and get t'd up to make a bad call worse.
Use your foul to give under 5 seconds in a tie game.

Don't Call out your best player in post game while still failing to acknowledge your own role in 4 losses.

 

[8893]

Dham is a playmaker also but for some reason he has forgotten to pass the last couple of games. It is like he is trying to win the games going one on one. The one time he did make a pass something great happened. SM for a dunk. DHAM has to have confidence in his teammates.

DHam is being told to shoot more and pass less; he had the opposite problem before the last couple games and has been specifically told to shoot more and try to take over. He seemed to resist the notion that he needed to change his approach and now he seems to be forcing things to try to do what he is being told. I don't the answer, but it is confounding.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

DHam is being told to shoot more and pass less; he had the opposite problem before the last couple games and has been specifically told to shoot more and try to take over. He seemed to resist the notion that he needed to change his approach and now he seems to be forcing things to try to do what he is being told. I don't the answer, but it is confounding.

Pump fake, one dribble, behind the back dribble, reverse pivot, jump, make decision. Every time.

 

[Woof 101]

UConn has played five good coaches this season. They lost to four of them.

In four of those games, UConn has been the more talented team but they only managed to win one of those games. In every loss, they've gone on an extended streak where they really didn't do much of anything except watch the opponent score.

The substitutions all year have been bizarre. Tonight's example - Jalen Adams scores seven points to bring UConn back into a game they had no business losing. He misses a jumpshot with about seven minutes to play and he goes to the bench....for the rest of the game.

Why?

Pretty sure the head coach just forgot he was there.

Ollie needs more help than he's getting from the bumps of a log he has next to him on the bench.

Could not agree more...KO is not always on top of things and some of the bench seems to be out of the picture often. I put some of the blame on FHCJC for demanding the UCONN staff be of UCONN lineage when he put Warde between a rock and a hard place. Did he place the same weight on KO, I don't know. Having said that no former protégé of JC have gone on to continued success. Yes they made money with head coaching positions but were not able to hang on to their jobs. Sorry getting of topic...
Tonight was a dunk according to the books, they are not often wrong. We look bad at this point. Everyone keeps beating football up to get us to the pie in the sky, some should sit back and realize what is happening here...

 

[tower1]

The assistant coaches seem to be especially useless. Zero life or energy coming from the bench.

It seems to me that they have been told to do just that sit and don't say anything.