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Hurley’s next move

superjohn said:
You want Brendan Adams to be our starting point guard over Alterique because Brendan won a hustle award in the offseason?

This board is so strange.
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What has alterique shown your blue glasses that you think he should be the pg right now? Throw up bricks left and right and turn the ball over? For 5-7 minutes to start the game yes someone else should start and have AG come off the bench. Send a message.
 
I understand what everyone is saying but all Polley can do is shoot the 3. But I guess for now - it’s all we got. So pissed bouknight not playing fir fla game.. Can’t wait till he becomes our starter
 
superjohn said:
You want Brendan Adams to be our starting point guard over Alterique because Brendan won a hustle award in the offseason?

This board is so strange.
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Was his 25GP last year shooting 38% with a 1.5/1 assist to turnover not a big sample size enough for you? Then he rolls in this year looking absolutely good awful and you don’t think he needs a reality check from the head man with a benching to start the game. Your just as complacent. Shake things up.
 
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SirHypeAlot said:
Bench Vital Gilbert and Polley til the first media timeout Sunday. IDGAF that it’s Florida. The team as it’s constructed now isn’t going anywhere. We’re building for next year two games in. The younger guys need to see this. Run the kid from Southington, Adams and sid. Hurley hems and haws like a god damn clown on the sideline and you fools take it as him being a hardarse. You assume behind closed doors he’s running the team to death after a loss like that. We have no idea if he does. bench the fcuck out of those three this weekend. JC wouldn’t put up with it. It’s your move Hurley - DO IT
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Bench them all and forfeit every game until January. That will learn-em.
 
Whatever his next move was, the team didn't like it. At least I really hope they didn't.
 
lange10 said:
Or our guards need to realize they have a player on the court with them that is an elite 3 point shooter and find him when he’s open.

Polley should be taking 8 3’s a game, however Vital and Alterique are taking away from his shots.
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This has happened constantly for the past two years. Polley open on the wing and CV and especially AG drive out of control to the hoop or chuck one up themselves. This is exactly what happened on the last play of the first half last night.
 
JB75 said:
I understand what everyone is saying but all Polley can do is shoot the 3. But I guess for now - it’s all we got. So pissed bouknight not playing fir fla game.. Can’t wait till he becomes our starter
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Be pissed at Bouknight then.
JB75 said:
I understand what everyone is saying but all Polley can do is shoot the 3. But I guess for now - it’s all we got. So pissed bouknight not playing fir fla game.. Can’t wait till he becomes our starter
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I can’t either but Bouknight made his own bed.
 
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Husky25 said:
The energy in the building will not be what it was last night, but Florida cannot be allowed to score three straight times without being answered with a time out and a sub.
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Or even 3 open looks. That’s how we used to roll.
 
SirHypeAlot said:
What has alterique shown your blue glasses that you think he should be the pg right now? Throw up bricks left and right and turn the ball over? For 5-7 minutes to start the game yes someone else should start and have AG come off the bench. Send a message.
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The thing with messages today is those they are targeted towards know they are only messages. Rique still starting. So.... unless he gets in trouble it ain’t changing.
 
Amongst the many things that this team needs is a pass first point guard who plays tough D. Then everyone gets involved and we get defensive leadership. When Boat decided to play that role, looked what happened. Go back to Taliek Brown, KO, etc. Very successful teams because of team first point guards.
 
hardcorehusky said:
Amongst the many things that this team needs is a pass first point guard who plays tough D. Then everyone gets involved and we get defensive leadership. When Boat decided to play that role, looked what happened. Go back to Taliek Brown, KO, etc. Very successful teams because of team first point guards.
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Didn’t AG play really good on the ball D last year? I kno I keep saying this but how is it possible with him getting stronger over the summer - and a full summer to build and get better - that he has gotten worse? Hopefully these are just two bad games.
 
hardcorehusky said:
Amongst the many things that this team needs is a pass first point guard who plays tough D. Then everyone gets involved and we get defensive leadership. When Boat decided to play that role, looked what happened. Go back to Taliek Brown, KO, etc. Very successful teams because of team first point guards.
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Then he should be molded into that. If rique ever had an nba dream I’m sure he also realizes it’s as a facilitator.
 
SirHypeAlot said:
drinking with your wife right now
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AG overpenetrates more than any guard I have ever seen, and it never seems to end well. His mindset going into every game should be to get double digits assists, not drive repeatedly into 2 guys a foot taller than him.

Somebody mentioned NBA aspirations in this thread. Huh?
 
It's been 36 hours. I'm done criticizing the St. Joes game. I'm sure Hurley has addressed it and they have a plan for the guards going forward. I'm on to Florida.
 
SirHypeAlot said:
correct me if I’m wrong but Hurley had a system in place this summer to track hustle points and Brendan Adams won and he doesn’t start. AG in particular is starting based on pedigree because the effort and results simply are not there
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I did say effort and output. I have no clue what happens in practice so I have no answer.
I was primarily responding to the idea of benching players from the outset based off the St Joe's game.
 
Every now and again there’s a post on here, like the OP, that reminds me how much older I must be than the kids who have taken over this board recently. Lots of entitled babies who must not have followed the team before 1999.
 
After reading these post I get the feeling many posters want Hurley to use the quick hook like Calhoun. Of course those would prolly be the same posters who hated it during the Calhoun years.
 
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YearoftheHusky said:
Every now and again there’s a post on here, like the OP, that reminds me how much older I must be than the kids who have taken over this board recently. Lots of entitled babies who must not have followed the team before 1999.
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I was 9 years old in 1999 living in Connecticut. First year I began watching UCONN. Was lucky enough to witness their first national championship which is what inspired me to love basketball. My dad took me to watch them play ST John’s that year in the garden back when they were a top 25 team.

That summer I attended Jim Calhoun’s basketball camp and got to meet him in person. He said he liked my last name bc it’s Irish. I moved to the West Coast in 2001 but I will always be a die hard UCONN fan after those experiences and some others which I don’t have time mention.

My younger brother also got to a play a 2 on 2 game with Caron Butler in one of Calhouns camps. Special days i will always remember. But since i was a kid UConn was always one of the top teams in the country. These last few losing years have been frustrating and new to me as a fan of 20 years.
 
AuRevoirAAC said:
The difference is that Vital and Gilbert are two of the only guys on our roster who know how to play basketball competitively. Without them, we would be a glorified version of Eastern Connecticut State University.
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If that is the best we have we are in big trouble. Gilbert is out of control most of the time playing school yard ball. He needs to get pulled out once in awhile. I think Hurley is too soft.
 
Yorkeez4 said:
After reading these post I get the feeling many posters want Hurley to use the quick hook like Calhoun. Of course those would prolly be the same posters who hated it during the Calhoun years.
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I don't think anyone like that he had to do it. Bottom line, however, is that it was pretty effective for the most part.
 
lange10 said:
Or our guards need to realize they have a player on the court with them that is an elite 3 point shooter and find him when he’s open.

Polley should be taking 8 3’s a game, however Vital and Alterique are taking away from his shots.
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Who the hell is the elite 3 point shooter?! There is a big difference between shooting 3 pointers is all you can do and being elite at shooting 3 pointers.
 
This thread sucks. Worse than any of the players. Some awful takes in here.
 
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