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Leash on who tho? Clearly can’t bench Vital because his defense and scoring abilities can’t be benched. Nobody plays harder. Gilbert should probably see the bench if he wants to consistently miss outside shots and shoot interior shots only to get swatted 99% of the time. Enough of that! Heavy legs josh does some nice things but my gosh he just isn’t good. Tyler Polley (who some on here have said is an nba player) is a hell of a shooter but the fact of the matter is he can’t get open, can’t create his own shot, and quite frankly can’t do much else. Frustrating loss.
 
Devland said:
Okay- but there's not much on the bench either. Just because it's different doesn't mean it's better.
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A lot better than last year. We have a bench that is decent enough to hold its own while resting players. Actually the bench is putting up numbers.
 
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GHSWolverines said:
I think Hurley is letting Sid die of a slow death. He will enter the transfer portal
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I feel for Sid some of it's his own doing like The St. John's decision to go then to transfer after one day of classes and then having to sit a year because of it, put him behind the 8 ball. Then KO is fired and he has to play for a different coach, but since he has already had to sit a year he probably doesn't want to transfer again. He's stuck between a rock and a hard place.
 
HHusky said:
I think Sid needs to practice so hard that he forces Hurley to play him.
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Something's going on, I'm sure people in the know have the details. He did not look like a player who thought he might be going in the game tonight, just my view from when cameras cut to the bench.
 
tentoes4rings said:
What gifts though exactly? He’s a fairly quick but short point guard who doesn’t exhibit the explosiveness he did in high school. I think some people on the board vastly overrate his current athleticism.
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to me AG is really gifted with the ball, dribbling, passing and driving. He just doesn’t use it to his or the team’s advantage. He defends well on the perimeter also. I think AG would get a lot of accolades and all team talk if he simplified things. Should easily be around 8 assists per game if he stops trying to score all the time. Assist the ball, occasional foul line pull up jumper and suffocating defense and people will talk about him being all conference.
 
uconnever said:
to me AG is really gifted with the ball, dribbling, passing and driving. He just doesn’t use it to his or the team’s advantage. He defends well on the perimeter also. I think AG would get a lot of accolades and all team talk if he simplified things. Should easily be around 8 assists per game if he stops trying to score all the time. Assist the ball, occasional foul line pull up jumper and suffocating defense and people will talk about him being all conference.
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I thought he was the only one that could break the press tonight. The first half Gaffney seemed like he was in a tornado, although he played much more settled in the 2nd. AG just seems to be making a lot of bad decisions lately. I don't know if having more interior targets would help or a better flowing offense, but its off. He had a couple decent drives tonight, but the majority he is getting swarmed. Is that because no clear out or just floating too long? Or is it because he is picking the wrong spots? Also the trying to cut two defenders is rarely working. I am let down.
 
uconnever said:
to me AG is really gifted with the ball, dribbling, passing and driving. He just doesn’t use it to his or the team’s advantage. He defends well on the perimeter also. I think AG would get a lot of accolades and all team talk if he simplified things. Should easily be around 8 assists per game if he stops trying to score all the time. Assist the ball, occasional foul line pull up jumper and suffocating defense and people will talk about him being all conference.
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You're asking for a completely different player from what he is. In a perfect world he would be that player and it would transform our team but he's just a bad basketball player at this point. There's a pretty sizeable body of evidence at this point.
 
If the juniors can't produce, than play the underclassmen, start preparing for the future

I can't watch futility anymore, I just can't. Losing is one thing, being totally out of a game before the first timeout and NEVER competing in any game is just not acceptable. It can't be, he has to send a message
 
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uconnever said:
to me AG is really gifted with the ball, dribbling, passing and driving. He just doesn’t use it to his or the team’s advantage. He defends well on the perimeter also. I think AG would get a lot of accolades and all team talk if he simplified things. Should easily be around 8 assists per game if he stops trying to score all the time. Assist the ball, occasional foul line pull up jumper and suffocating defense and people will talk about him being all conference.
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And he will have that game to make you think he turned the corner then right back to that frustrating guy. He’s too smart of a kid to keep going back to this type of game, trying to continuously dribble between double teams. But we need him to be the good, smart PG to beat good teams you’re right.
 
If you're not part of the solution, then......
 
tentoes4rings said:
I agree. I think Dan Hurley is fed up with Polley’s overall game.
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Are you kidding ? He is not the main problem it is bad coaching and playing a guard that thinks he is playing in a school yard. Gilbert needs to sit. Bring Calhoun back for just one game
 
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I think it is safe to say the whole team(coaches included) didn’t show up tonight. I don’t think it is fair to throw all the blame at 1 or 2 guys. There isn’t a magic bullet this year...the guys need to show up, be consistent, and perform.
 
kelde1wd said:
I think it is safe to say the whole team(coaches included) didn’t show up tonight. I don’t think it is fair to throw all the blame at 1 or 2 guys. There isn’t a magic bullet this year...the guys need to show up, be consistent, and perform.
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I just hate the not showing up excuse. Danny gets paid 3 mill a year. He and the team should show up to a conference opener against a team that has killed us for eight years.
 
kelde1wd said:
I think it is safe to say the whole team(coaches included) didn’t show up tonight. I don’t think it is fair to throw all the blame at 1 or 2 guys. There isn’t a magic bullet this year...the guys need to show up, be consistent, and perform.
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Agreed, everyone was pretty bad tonight. A few players played better in the 2nd half, but the first half was some terrible basketball all around, except maybe ok by CV.
 
willie99 said:
He has too, my confidence in Gilbert is waning, he absolutely refuses to learn from his mistakes. He still thinks he can "tricky dribble " into a triple team of much taller men, do a 360 and heave the ball over the back of his head and have a different result.

Now he's not the only problem, far from it, but that stupid nonsense is nauseating. I keep saying it's fixable, but it's not getting fixed.

We need size, big teams are going to kill us

Polley has to shoot, if he's scared to shoot then he has no game

We have to win with defense, and we have to make more shots

We could rebound better too
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Polley was getting the ball with 2 seconds on the clock, closely guarded, and 25’ from the basket. Don’t blame him for missing. Blame the terrible offensive sets.
 
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Jay-Bone said:
Nor does he move to get set up. He waits and hopes he gets forgotten. some teams forget him, its easy, but some teams don't. Cincy didn't.
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You think coaching wouldn’t help? Maybe he’s doing what he’s told.
 
uconnfan68 said:
You think coaching wouldn’t help? Maybe he’s doing what he’s told.
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I've thought that the last 2 years. And I've watched him. He's always camping out on the 3 line. It's likely that is what Danny is telling him to do. Part of the reason he never gets offensive rebounds. Very stagnant. But our offense for years has been a non-motion offense, and it seems Hurley is continuing that. Not sure if he can't get the kids to learn complex sets, or doesn't want to. But i'm also not sure Polley is quick enough to get around a screen, turn around, catch and fire. He is a very set shooter. It didn't work tonight. I also think nights when its not working, he needs to get in the tussle and grab a rebound. A game or two he had like 5. I was amazed that he can do it.
 
uconnfan68 said:
Polley was getting the ball with 2 seconds on the clock, closely guarded, and 25’ from the basket. Don’t blame him for missing. Blame the terrible offensive sets.
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He has to move more and get open too
 
HoopsHype34 said:
Please oh please let it be
Gaffney
Bouk
Adams
Akok
Carlton
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That would make a statement. I’m not sure if you can justify Gaffney over CV. I think you have either Gaffney or Adams in but not both.
 
willie99 said:
He has to move more and get open too
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Polley is very slow and flat footed. He can’t run past screens and cut as easily as other great shooters. He is not creative, so getting open is very difficult. He takes a lot of his shots off balance.

You need to run set plays for him that leave him unguarded (which has been proven hard) or find him in transition.
 
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