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This game was tailor made for Akok at the 5 . He got a minute in first half tgat was it
 
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Lucelab113 said:
What's adding up is the fact Hurley can't keep his players healthy.

Remember Akok a week ago sparking the Xavier win? A week later and he can't give us a thing?

Remember the first 10 mins of this game when Bouk was the best player in the country? He gets hurt again and is giving us nothing.

Total joke. Nothing else matters if the players aren't durable.
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How does hurley keep a guy from getting bumped and falling? Not sure what any coach can do for bouk in that situation.
 
MervthePurvis said:
But the 50/50, nickel dimers, and non calls are stacking up. I think they call that home court advantage. Wish we could see that someday. Free throws sure. But the stripes are getting involved now. Can’t say that nova is playing harder.
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I normally don't join in on the "it's the ref's" thread but can't help this one. Was it 6-7 minutes into the second half and Nova had 6 fouls and the good guys 1. I couldn't believe it. They called 3 quick fouls on the good guys inside of a minute. And they were BS calls.
 
Hankster said:
I normally don't join in on the "it's the ref's" thread but can't help this one. Was it 6-7 minutes into the second half and Nova had 6 fouls and the good guys 1. I couldn't believe it. They called 3 quick fouls on the good guys inside of a minute. And they were BS calls.
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During that stretch there were 3 loose balls out of bounds that I think all went the wrong way. I don’t think Whaley tipped the first ball out. Gilespie definitely tipped the ball after rj picked it on the sideline. And Jackson has a nova player come through him on the third. That plus the double possession and I’m convinced there was 4 possessions that should have changed hands.

Wouldn’t have changed the outcome in my opinion. Gillespie would have hit two more daggers. He wasn’t letting nova lose today.
 
August_West said:
This game was tailor made for Akok at the 5 . He got a minute in first half tgat was it
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Akok is coming back from a career threatening injury. I’ve heard medical people say playing him that long against Xavier was coaching malpractice. If he becomes a big time player it will be in 2021-22.
 
RJ Cole went 2-10 from the field. He couldn’t handle Gillespie man to man. This was the guy who had 25 vs Xavier. Guess Hurley told him to miss those shots.

The offense though has turned back into give the ball to Bouknight and stand around while he plays hero ball. It worked in the first half but as he got beat up, and Villanova adjusted not so much.
 
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XLCenterFan said:
@StllH8L8ner Whaley is an offensive liability. And the refs blew the whistle so late on like 4 suspect fouls.
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Yeah I don't disagree. It's just a little disappointing bc I've seen Whaley hit those little medium range jumpers but he just seems to have zero confidence in anything outside of the wide open dunk lately.
 
Lucelab113 said:
Another loss under Hurley because we couldn't get Bouknight through a game without getting injured and Akok apparently a DNP.
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Too bad they let Villanova dictate the tempo. We’re way too predictable.
 
uconnfan68 said:
Too bad they let Villanova dictate the tempo. We’re way too predictable.
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Don't think anyone was dictating the tempo, UConn is 319th in tempo and Villanova is 331st
 
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uconnfan68 said:
Did you forget how much better we looked when we played faster?
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Of course not, my point is until proven otherwise that game should be treated as an anomaly because we haven't played fast much of the year. Even with the games we played "fast" we're one of the slowest teams in the country

Edit: To expound on this, and my math may be off here, but I believe we averaged 64.2 possessions a game before Xavier/Providence. We had 70 and 73 possessions in those 2 (raising the average to 65.2), and then had 67 possessions today. Not sure if there's anywhere that tracks possessions to confirm, had to piece that together by searching KenPom in the wayback machine. So I wouldn't say we played particularly slow today
 
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So we took the lead at 40-39 near 15:00 left. There were 3-4 really bizarre calls that went to Nova in a 1 minute span. We never recovered.
 
OkaForPrez said:
During that stretch there were 3 loose balls out of bounds that I think all went the wrong way. I don’t think Whaley tipped the first ball out. Gilespie definitely tipped the ball after rj picked it on the sideline. And Jackson has a nova player come through him on the third. That plus the double possession and I’m convinced there was 4 possessions that should have changed hands.

Wouldn’t have changed the outcome in my opinion. Gillespie would have hit two more daggers. He wasn’t letting nova lose today.
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Was it wrong for me to wish for hard screen on this guy to wipe that resting bitch face away? 😂😂😂
 
Coaching staff should be held accountable for injuries for overuse of a player, length and or practice activities, not recognizing some players are more susceptible to injury, abusive medical staff, these peoples history with injuries and so on. Only someone with inside information could tell us that regarding current staff.

These players hold these coaches livelihoods in their hands. Considering they only have these players for 1-4 years the thought of too much practice or too much playing time is sometimes ignored. Any of you involved with competitive sports knows this. You probably experienced it with your own kids. Mine dealt with shin splits for 18 months; coaches don’t always care. They’ll go away eventually. In the meantime you will run. And when you make a mistake you must run. If you miss a serve you run. If you are lazy you run. If you’re teammate is lazy you run. Madness. Sorry...flashback to daughters competitive years.
 
Refs were awful, but I also wonder if Bouk's fast start also affected the team.

It's natural to watch a guy like Bouk when he's on and and he certainly was on until the fall. Sometimes, if this happens right at the start, it can take a team out of its offense. They become spectators like the rest of us, watching a special player do special things.

Don't get me wrong. Let's have Bouk out there as much as he can stand, but guys cant stop moving and have to be ready. Too me, they didn't look it this game.

Cole's 2 quick fouls also hurt.
 
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Martin said:
Coaching staff should be held accountable for injuries for overuse of a player, length and or practice activities, not recognizing some players are more susceptible to injury, abusive medical staff, these peoples history with injuries and so on. Only someone with inside information could tell us that regarding current staff.

These players hold these coaches livelihoods in their hands. Considering they only have these players for 1-4 years the thought of too much practice or too much playing time is sometimes ignored. Any of you involved with competitive sports knows this. You probably experienced it with your own kids. Mine dealt with shin splits for 18 months; coaches don’t always care. They’ll go away eventually. In the meantime you will run. And when you make a mistake you must run. If you miss a serve you run. If you are lazy you run. If you’re teammate is lazy you run. Madness. Sorry...flashback to daughters competitive years.
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Sounds like your daughter should have taken up track or cross country, due to the amount of running she had to do. 🤣🤣🤣
 
Akok showed us a move last week. What the hell happened with him?
 
As I said in the chat, the Big East has regained much of its prior rep for one reason only, Villanova won two titles. They aren’t going to jeopardize that. I don’t mean that they are actively biased, just that Colin Gillespie lives on that aggressive shoulder bump, so they are going to let that go.

It’s like the NBA in the Jordan era, he lowered his shoulder to get space to shoot all the time. They called it...on the defense. UConn has benefited from similar situations over the years. Kemba got lots of calls.
 
HuskyHawk said:
As I said in the chat, the Big East has regained much of its prior rep for one reason only, Villanova won two titles. They aren’t going to jeopardize that. I don’t mean that they are actively biased, just that Colin Gillespie lives on that aggressive shoulder bump, so they are going to let that go.

It’s like the NBA in the Jordan era, he lowered his shoulder to get space to shoot all the time. They called it...on the defense. UConn has benefited from similar situations over the years. Kemba got lots of calls.
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I have been thinking these exact thoughts since the game ended yesterday but I didn’t want to sound like some conspiracy theorist. You worded this well, and I strongly believe this is true. It’s in the Big East’s best interest to cement a 1- 2 seed in the tourney.
 
The refs were pretty bad yesterday, but college refs in general are pretty bad. And their incompetence is exacerbated by how bad college basketball rules are. I don’t think yesterday was particularly egregious, though, although the bar for college refs is pretty low.

Hurley’s defensive style seems to lend itself to committing more fouls - particularly with the freedom of movement rules - but it’s also very effective. It would be nice if other teams weren’t in the bonus for 10 minutes every half, but right now the team’s defensive stats speak for themselves.
 
RayRay said:
I have been thinking these exact thoughts since the game ended yesterday but I didn’t want to sound like some conspiracy theorist. You worded this well, and I strongly believe this is true. It’s in the Big East’s best interest to cement a 1- 2 seed in the tourney.
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I don’t think they are favoring Nova, so much as favoring Nova’s style of play. These modern Villanova teams would get mauled in the old Big East, which favored a different, very physical style. Yet Creighton is now playing a similar style to Nova, and Hurley clearly wants to.
 
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