Don’t disagree with you on this 429. But just so I can watch some of those coaches and games, who are the worse coaches doing more with less talented players? Would like to compare what they are running
Yes, we ought to. I’m waiting for the big game to do so. If you can’t see a troubling pattern of no shows and no finish, then I don’t know what to say.
If you can’t recognize that we have made huge strides since last year, then I don’t know what to say.
Will def. check some of those out but I have seen Davidson, St. Bonnie’s and Richmond a lot over the years. My dad is a Umass grad and has season tickets so I see a ton of those teams play. Mckillop, Schmidt and Mooney are definitely not worse coaches. They are all awesome coaches who have chosen to stay in their programs. I think each one of them has been at those schools for 15+ years. They have implemented their systems with their players and run it their way. None of them have had overwhelming success either. And I just watched SD State look like an 8th grade team in this tournament that had no offensive plan despite knowing exactly the defense that would be thrown at them. If you are just looking at KenPom, isn’t UConn top 25 in that as far as offensive efficiency? I’d also take Loyola off that list. They are a legit really good team with a lot of juniors and seniors riding that wave over the last couple years. That’s the cool part about being a mid major. You have a team that develops together over a few years and also why you see more mid majors winning games now. The have less talent than the UKs of the world but make up for it with experience. Will be interesting to see if Loyola can maintain that offensive efficiency next year when they lose a ton of kids. I’ll definitely follow them closer next season to see if it works out.
The full quote pretty much answers those questions. His full answer was they play 2 traditional bigs to try and capitalize on the boards and if they had been able to convert on a few of the offensive rebounds we're having a different conversation today
Yes, it was challenging to watch with no adjustments, even seemed to slow down our play more in the second half and we embraced it, ran our clock down repeatedly with no change. Our players are taught to take plays from the bench, this slows down the on court response. Apparently the coaches don't trust the guards enough to run some plays on their own.
Sanogo was in foul trouble the entire game, unfortunately. Something to clean up for next year, but all season long we were better when he was on the court. To think he should have been a senior in high school this year is incredible. All of the tools are there, but I digress.
Well, we had over a week to prepare our defense for the outside five offense, not a one day turn around.
The line score said Sanogo had two (2) fouls. He does have a lot of up-side but the defense program that requires our bigs to double team outside creates some problems inside. I'd like to see the metrics that say we steal the ball more or create havoc that makes this a good defensive move.
Wow. I didn’t realize he only had 2. I thought it was more than that. My bad.
O.K. that makes more sense. The full quote wasn't in the Courant, just what I provided above. I can deal with a strategy to dictate the game rather than counteract. They rebounded but just didn't make the bunnies they should have. It was an issue we saw most of the season. Remember @Thirty Three's statistic from some analytics web site? The team was terrible converting from close distance. Came back to bite us in the back side big time.
Sure. And when Sanogo and Carlton each got 2 fouls and we were only playing 1 big at the end of the 1st half, then why did we play the same way without any of the advantages of playing 2 bigs?
Finished the year 272nd in FG% at the rim (56.2%). Everyone other than Sanogo and Bouknight was pretty bad
I am sort of with you on this. Hurley to me at this point looks like one of those guys who goes to the tournament most years but as a 7-10 type seed and packs light because he will be home after the opening weekend. This isn’t the first time he has been out coached in an important game either.
On offense or defense? I thought we made plenty of good adjustments on the defensive end, but the lack of any offensive system is frustrating
Is that true? Like the team that is on the court next year is the program we can expect going forward? Not sure I believe that either for the good or the bad. Personally I think his recruiting will get better and it’s been pretty darn good so far.
The team wasn’t ready for the moment period. They weren’t ready in the BET or the NCAA. This is where experience in big games matter and coaching. This is where your bad tendencies get exposed. When you lose against a team you should beat the criticism is fair game full stop. If UCONN plays their C game they win. No one could have expected them to bring their D /D plus game and a historically bad offensive performance.
Not much Hurley can do when our guards are too small and our bigs either can't play perimeter d or get ticky tacky fouls early. In a game that was so poorly played, criticism is warranted to everyone, starting with Hurley and going down the entire line. This game though was all about execution. Our players simply did not execute at all for 40mins. Fact is, our backcourt is undersized and average at best. Cole and Gaffney struggled mightily until late in the game. They couldn't get us into our offense or any rhythm and they were both manhandled on the defensive end.
