Hubert Davis is a tool

[Rico444]

I didn't hear what he said, but honestly, I don't have a problem with what it sounds like he said. We're one of the top 5 programs in the country right now. 3 national championships in the last 15 years. We're a blue blood. Programs with that amount of success are held to a higher standard. Barely beating one of the worst teams in the Big East...I'm sorry, we're better than that. If Ohio State barely beat Penn State, I wouldn't expect analysts to be slobbering all over how "gutsy" the win was.

As a fan, I'm happy we won. But around the country, we're expected to be a top 10 team, Final Four participant (hell, we've been in 2 of the last 3). I can't blame people for expecting more.

 

[Reno]

Yeah, I mean we played like for the first 15 minutes of the game and were down 18 against a NIT bound team without their leading scorer. I'm glad they fought back, but let's not act like this was a good performance or validated the preseason expectations. And if Bazz misses that 35 footer all of you people would crucify him. That alone tells you it was not a good shot. He could have gotten to the 3 point line or more with ease.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Last night's game and all surrounding it defies words. When the score was 26-8, Hubert Davis correctly compared UConn to a 20-games-out-of-first-place NBA team in April. He had nowhere to go but down after that, just as UConn had nowhere to go but up.

A minute or so into overtime, I txted my sister that I could write "WOW" and turn off the TV at that point and be right no matter how the game ended.

In the aftermath, I take it as a road win in which UConn scored when Lamb moved and didn't score when he stood still; in which Alex scored when he looked at the basket as he shot and didn't score when he didn't look; in which the box score shows a remarkable balance beyond the necessary distortion; and in which Villanova just wanted the loss more than UConn.

I remember Roscoe's 3 and made baskets by Olander and Daniels, choosing to forget their misses. I note that Villanova was 3-9 from 3-point range, which was better than JL from 3-point range and better than non-JL UConn from the free throw line. And nobody can say, "Why didn't the refs just let them play?"

It was a Big East road win. I'll take it.

 

[upstater]

Here is video of the cackling, too bad we don't get to hear his verbal diarrhea before this.

Why are you getting on Hubert? I blame ESPN for allowing roosters on the set.

 

[upstater]

Yeah, I mean we played like **** for the first 15 minutes of the game and were down 18 against a NIT bound team without their leading scorer. I'm glad they fought back, but let's not act like this was a good performance or validated the preseason expectations. And if Bazz misses that 35 footer all of you people would crucify him. That alone tells you it was not a good shot. He could have gotten to the 3 point line or more with ease.

On the road Monday night in the BE after a Saturday game.

 

[Dann]

cocaine is a hell of a drug

 

[jibsey]

Hubert is also a religious zealot. Didn't he get in hot water for something a couple years ago?

 

[Kitaman]

cocaine is a hell of a drug

Nah he has a hole in his pants and is sitting on something. He laughs harder when he wiggles in that vid.

 

[upstater]

He was injured.

 

[Huskies4ever]

Dude sounds creepy alright. Caws like a freaking crow. Crows are actually intelligent and serve a purpose in the ecosystem, though.

 

[HuskyBballFan]

It was not a high percentage shot, not by any stretch of the imagination.

But he was open and able to get the shot off, at least. His other options were:
1) Take one more dribble and take a 24 footer instead of a 30 footer - however the 24 footer would have been tightly contested and maybe even blocked by Cheek.
2) Go all the way to the rim and try to score over Yarou, Sutton, and Pinkston. The chances of being bailed out by a foul are slim to none, and the chances of Shabazz scoring over the trees in that spot are probably not much better than the chances of the 30 footer going in.

You're right that nobody would have criticized his decision had he attacked the basket. But I also doubt that he scores - and we might still be playing.

 

[baldinghusky]

I'm confused. If there wasn't a better shot, how the heck could there have been a better decision? What was he going to do, pass it to someone behind him?

 

[baldinghusky]

You're right; it's not difficult. Either you think the layup was a better shot and your post makes sense, or they were equal and your post makes no sense.

 

[UCweCONN]

I liked the shot selection. Had he taken it coast to coast (if he could have) with the way this season has gone it is more likely that he gets charged with an offensive foul and Nova goes to the line to beat us. As Shabazz says, he did what Nova didn't expect and that's why it worked.

 

[baldinghusky]

Actually, I didn't understand your equation of "better shot = more open shot" because I was still mostly going off your first post, which you said it was a horrible shot. If openness of shots = better, then his shot was about as open as it gets.

The only way "better" makes sense to me is if it was a) more likely to go in the net, or b) more likely to result in points. And that seemed to be the sense you meant it in originally. The follow-up clarification on your part felt like an increase in confusion, not a clarification.

In fairness to you, I read your recent post quickly and didn't consider carefully enough before responding. My apologies for the snippish tone.

 

[The Viking]

Is it any shock that of the four guys doing Game Day he's the one who brings up several times how much of a distraction the APR is, how they will lose so many players to the NBA and transfers because they can't play next year in the tourney (conveniently ignoring the fact that they certainly may play in the tourney).
I don't think he said a single positive thing about UConn.

 

[TRest]

To be fair to hubie, I would bet that on all these panel shows each guy is assigned specific talking points. So today digger talks us up and hubie tears us down.