Hurley coaching malpractice

[djct1999]

We are a good defensive team because Creighton is the only really good offensive team we have played. Marquette and USC are decent, but both play big, so Hurley played our forwards more, and we won both games.

Wait until we get 3 more games like this into our stats, and we won't look as good.

You remind me of that stock market pundit who has been calling for the Dow to crash since it hit 20,000 then one day after trading off 500 pts at 30,000 you pound your chest saying ‘I told you so’.

 

[HuskyHawk]

There’s no way we lose this game if we continued feeding Sanogo. They couldn’t stop him, even with a double.

And he was stopping their attempts to score at the rim on the other end. And swallowing the boards too. This was the most inexplicably awful decision making I have seen in a long time.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Anyone have the time and score of the game when he took Sanogo out? Was it with 12:46 left and UConn up 8?

And we had a 7-1 edge in fouls at that point too. They had no answer except fouling us. Once the rim was unprotected we had no answer but to foul them.

 

[Hankster]

What the hell was that? Some of the worst in game coaching you'll see. Sanogo was the best player on both sides of the court. He took him out for what we thought was a 2 minute breather and he never sees the court again. The entire offense was being run through Sanogo. Loss is 100% on coach and that's how you could possibly lose a great young player.

Wow, just got on. No need to voice my opinion on why Sonogo was not put in. That was inexcusable.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Maybe Hurley has been recruiting too big too slow. Looking at past programs we've had the most success with guard heavy programs. I'm looking at the roster and it looks like we have 3 centers on the roster with a 4th coming in


Hurley needs to recruit more ball handling guards. Its part of UConn's DNA. This has to be one of our worst teams in decades with regard to true ball handlers. Feels like Hurley is stocking the team up to be big and slow.

UConn lead the country in shot blocking how many years in a row? Calhoun never went small. Never played more than 3 guards. Because he’d rather die to a streaky hot shooting team than give up free layups over and over, which is what we did today. UConn has almost never played a 3 guard lineup, it is not our DNA.

I’d love to see our +/- today when we had Whaley and Sanogo both in and when we didn’t. I’d guess it was something like +16 with them playing together. Is Hurley saying that if he had Wilt Chamberlain and a team went 5 guards, he’d pull Wilt? This was a pathetic small team and the only strategy that made sense was to go big and exploit their weakness. Let them launch 3s. They aren’t a 50% shooting team from deep, so misses were coming.

 

[storrsroars]

So I'm making a clay pot lemon chicken tonight and I believe I killed that poor already dead bird at least two additional times while trussing it, that's how p.o.'d I was about Hurley's coaching.

 

[HuskyHawk]

So if we are a similar team to St. John’s with Bouknight out, and Alexander is probably the best player between the two teams without Bouk, why are we acting as if this was some major letdown? They’ve been playing over their heads without Bouk. Polley turned into Klay Thompson for 2 1/2 games for crying out loud. We lost to a similarly talented team in conference. It happens. Readjust your expectations for this team minus Bouk. Unless you know polley is draining 6-7 threes a game at a 65% clip

Come on. St. John’s stinks. Whaley erased Alexander. We could go big and dominate them, and did whenever we went big today. Even without Bouk this shouldn’t have been close.

 

[Kolumbo]

So this is what had to ride the pine because they played guards.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I don’t care if Bouk is hurt, there is no planet where Brendan Adams should be playing 30 minutes for a high major basketball team.

 

[Kolumbo]

 

[okaforprez sr]

Hurley coaches for defense. St. John’s played us small and spread us out 5 outside the three point line. They used that to their advantage to take us off the dribble with no help inside. That’s why Sanogo can’t be on the floor because as good as he flashed he can’t defend that way on the perimeter. You couldn’t exploit us like that if we had bouk’s scoring.

Hurley’s post time out sets down the stretch (Adams turn down ball screen to find Martin on the skip pass and the draw up for Polley and Martins two man game in the corner) were both effective.

Many of you don’t know what you’re watching.

You banging the beehive ‘Chip’

 

[nelsonmuntz]

You do realize 3/4 of ncaa teams aren’t as good a creighton on offense. Who are these offensive juggernauts we’ll be facing sans nova?

You're going with "UConn is secretly a bad defensive team"? Really?

Are you two going with St. Johns, Depaul and Butler are good teams? Really?

 

[UCbcm]

Cole is so much better off the ball. Really ineffective creating for others and creating his own shot, he's a solid catch and shoot guy though.

Gaffney needs more playing time imo. Let him make mistakes. He's showed us flashes of great play like in the Houston win last year. Would also not mind seeing Adams as a primary ball handler in some sets. None of those 3 guys are effective "true Point guards", so just because Cole is the best ball handler of the 3 doesn't mean he has to be dribbling for 15 seconds every possession

Agreed.

Gaff needs more development and game experience. I'm optimistic that he will still become what we think he can be.

Cole is an improvement over last year's talent, but currently no where close to the type of UConn point guard we desperately need for this team to really take off.

 

[polycom]

Lol Hurley defenders sound like ollie defenders. Hurley coached poorly today, nothing less nothing more. The line was 7 we were up by 14. We adjusted our play style to our opponents when we were beating them up. That’s on the coach not the players. Game shouldn’t have come down to free throws.

 

[dalydosehoops]

Explanation for the Sanogo sub and offense without James here:

St. John’s grabs massive road win at UConn, first in 21 years

Posh Alexander’s 18 points and two-way toughness brought St. John’s back from 14-point deficit and seized win at UConn Monday. (Photo by USA...

dalydoseofhoops.blogspot.com

 

[jdb50]

Up 21-7 in first half. Bring in four subs and watch the lead evaporate as we struggle to score. In the second half with a 7-1 advantage in team fouls Sanogo is out at 12:46 and as each minute goes by I am waiting for him to go back in for either Polley or Adams. Hurley just doubles down on a group that was struggling to score at that point and then they could not make free throws. Whaley and Sanogo should have been in together the last 10 minutes of that game. Why no Akok in the second half? He saved the ball in the first half and beat the team down the floor. No reason to nail him to the bench either.

 

[auror]

Are you two going with St. Johns, Depaul and Butler are good teams? Really?

No... Which is why we didn't say that. You know you can measure defense relative to the competition right? You don't only judge it versus the good teams? And even then, you listed the three good teams and we played good defense against all of then (We held Creighton to 15 pts /100p below their average).

 

[SportsFan88]

I’m seeing words like troubling, disaster, malpractice, embarrassment, and devastating being used. Lmaoo. It’s peak boneyard

There is nothing like the BY after a loss 😂😂

 

[jdb50]

So this is what had to ride the pine because they played guards.

View attachment 63729 Josh is at the scorers table and when Sanogo made this shot Hurley had him walk back to the bench. This was in the first half.

 

[Husky1972]

You play them together, this really isn't that difficult.

Exactly. Whaley can certainly do better on whoever Polley is letting through for layups, and Sanogo can take who Whaley had. Whaley + Sanogo > Polley & Whaley.

 

[Kolumbo]

Explanation for the Sanogo sub and offense without James here:

St. John’s grabs massive road win at UConn, first in 21 years

Posh Alexander’s 18 points and two-way toughness brought St. John’s back from 14-point deficit and seized win at UConn Monday. (Photo by USA...

dalydoseofhoops.blogspot.com

“We can overcome that problem, but we can’t give up 74 points. We’re not winning a game like today, that’s played in the seventies, with some of the limitations that we have offensively."

Come on . Both teams hit 24 field goals and 7 three's. SJU hit 4 more free throws, 19-15. That game certainly was winnable.

 

[BParkDog]

And with [Sanogo] in at least SOMEONE would’ve been in the paint to attempt to stop Posh from dominating Cole.

Agree that Sanogo should have played more.
Disagree that he would have "been in the paint." Unless we played zone, which likely would have sucked.
Sanogo's man would have been planted at the 3 point line.

 

[Martin]

So this is what had to ride the pine because they played guards.

View attachment 63729

If I put this on a t-shirt and send to Captain Brutality would he accept? There was just no way to exploit this???

 

[Ukonnfan]

Replay?

 

[Stinger92860]

Plus, I was watching the foul situation and St. John's had either just reached the limit or gone over it when Sanogo went out. We were in the Bonus+ with over 5 minutes left. Perfect situation for feeding a big in the paint.

Provided the big can hit free throws. Hack-A-Shaq was at times effective because he was such a bad free throw shooter.

I was calling for more Sanogo early in in the chat and I was disappointed when he came out and never returned. I don't think we would have been effective with 2 bigs, but I'd use one and and I would have played the hot hand. He also had 2 nice defensive plays before he took a seat. Oh well, next game.

 

[coachn]

Cole burned us twice and Martin once at FT line. S..... happens. Cost us.
Whaley and Gaf have been clutch. Adams and Poley and Songo?
Got to give more responsibility to Gafney. He,
Whaley and Bouk are the heart and soul of this team.
PISSED..

 

[coachn]

There were available minutes in the second half for Sanogo. At the end of the game I understand going with Whaley and 4 wings/guards but Sanogo was left out for way too long. Uconn won the first half and Whaley, akok, Carlton and Sanogo all played.

Akok?

 

[raf46]

St. John's went small, so I get his thinking, but at some point when you go small to match them and still can't play any defense, you bring in your bigs and go zone. Just terrible coaching

st JOHNS DICTATED our game by ging small. thats where Coach was out coached. Also, Cole is in over his head. Never should be in game at winning time. A Coach Calhouns expression.

 

[8893]

Also, Cole is in over his head. Never should be in game at winning time. A Coach Calhouns expression.

And who do you see playing in his stead?

 

[dennismenace]

I disagree. Missing countless free throws in the clutch lost us the game, blowing lay up after layup last us the game, our defenders constantly getting blown by lost us the game. Adama MAYBE solves one of those problems. Some of you are suggesting Adama would’ve carried us to a win. I’m skeptical. Hurley made a call and traded offense for defense. It didn’t work, move on.

We only lost by four points and were ahead almost the whole game.