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Hurley Houston Post Game Presser.

bendm said:
at the very end he couldn't help but chuckle while saying the University of Connecticut heads to dallas for the conference tourney
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Where we won a NC.
 
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XLCenterFan said:
It's funny that we travel so far to play a conference tourney. Someone may know this, but I don't: Besides Hawaii, what is the furthest any team travels to play their conference tourney? This has to be close to the top.
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among the power conferences plus UConn:
miami > greensboro = 824
wvu > kansas city= 895 miles
UW > vegas= 1,069
UConn > dallas= 1,704
 
Arlington is 19 mi west of Dallas. Fort Worth is 32 mi west of Dallas. About the same distance Hartford to New Haven.
 
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Always interesting to hear the opposing coaches view after a loss to us. Sampson said the turning point for us was when Akok went out it forced us to play Whaley more who he said makes more winning plays, that Akok will get there but right now Whaley is much better.
 
bendm said:
among the power conferences plus UConn:
miami > greensboro = 824
wvu > kansas city= 895 miles
UW > vegas= 1,069
UConn > dallas= 1,704
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Awesome work. Thank you!
 
UcannUconn said:
Always interesting to hear the opposing coaches view after a loss to us. Sampson said the turning point for us was when Akok went out it forced us to play Whaley more who he said makes more winning plays, that Akok will get there but right now Whaley is much better.
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Can’t say I disagree with that assessment. Love Akok, but losing him wasn’t the disaster many thought it would be.
 
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pj said:
Disagree, we only have three bigs, there were plenty of minutes for Whaley alongside Carlton and Akok.

But kudos to Whaley for stepping up big time.
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Whaley brings aggressiveness and smarts on D, Whaley has an offensive game - something Akok lacks
Akok is a great shot blocker but needs so much refinement
One has to wonder where this team would be if Pork Chop was given more of a chance the whole season.
 
gtcam said:
Whaley brings aggressiveness and smarts on D, Whaley has an offensive game - something Akok lacks
Akok is a great shot blocker but needs so much refinement
One has to wonder where this team would be if Pork Chop was given more of a chance the whole season.
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I agree that Whaley contributes more than Akok at this point (against most opponents, perhaps not all). But we'd be better off having all three than just two, even if it meant a modest reduction in Whaley's minutes.
 
UcannUconn said:
Always interesting to hear the opposing coaches view after a loss to us. Sampson said the turning point for us was when Akok went out it forced us to play Whaley more who he said makes more winning plays, that Akok will get there but right now Whaley is much better.
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That is 100% true, but it's not all of it. Carlton, with no foul trouble last night, only played 15 minutes or so. So Whaley being a huge improvement over Akok, as startling as that is, is part of it, but the move to playing most of the game with 4 guards and 1 big has also been a huge part of it. I've been a proponent of defense is underrated most of my life, but this team is making me reevaluate it. While I thought they played really well defensively last night, since the Akok injury we have been a far worse defensive team, and yet we've more than made up on it by being a far more efficient offensive team. last night we made over half of our 2 point FG attempts. I can't remember the last time we did that.
 
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Tenspro2002 said:
I think people are more concerned about what the loss of Akok means for next year or beyond.
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This. He's not gonna be back to start the season, and there's a decent chance he misses the whole thing. Even if he comes back in the second half, he'll be both limited and super rusty.

Emergence of Whaley has mitigated this pain somewhat though. We've got our starting center next year. If Springs used his red shirt year productively, and can come in swinging at PF, we might be able to abide.
 
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gtcam said:
Whaley brings aggressiveness and smarts on D, Whaley has an offensive game - something Akok lacks
Akok is a great shot blocker but needs so much refinement
One has to wonder where this team would be if Pork Chop was given more of a chance the whole season.
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I don't know. Perhaps Whaley wasn't ready earlier in the year. IF anything though, I would have had him replacing Carlton over Akok. Akok/Whaley is a much better dynamic/option than Whaley/Carlton.
 
businesslawyer said:
That is 100% true, but it's not all of it. Carlton, with no foul trouble last night, only played 15 minutes or so. So Whaley being a huge improvement over Akok, as startling as that is, is part of it, but the move to playing most of the game with 4 guards and 1 big has also been a huge part of it. I've been a proponent of defensive is underrated most of my life, but this team is making me reevaluate it. While I thought they played really well defensively last night, since the Akok injury we have been a far worse defensive team, and yet we've more than made up on it by being a far more efficient offensive team. last night we made over half of our 2 point FG attempts. I can't remember the last time we did that.
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It's much more Whaley over Carlton that is the factor in my mind. JC getting less than 20min vs more than 30 is a net benefit.
 
Am I the only one who thinks that his constant public reference to Sid being half a player, "we can play sid for a few minutes, which gives us 7.5 players" a little degrading? If I were Sid it would piss me off to be honest. Maybe it's a coaching tactic.
 
HanDurley said:
Am I the only one who thinks that his constant public reference to Sid being half a player, "we can play sid for a few minutes, which gives us 7.5 players" a little degrading? If I were Sid it would piss me off to be honest. Maybe it's a coaching tactic.
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I think this has always been reference to Sid and Alterique not being 100% healthwise. He mentioned something about Alterique only being 80% at gametime.
 
HanDurley said:
Am I the only one who thinks that his constant public reference to Sid being half a player, "we can play sid for a few minutes, which gives us 7.5 players" a little degrading? If I were Sid it would piss me off to be honest. Maybe it's a coaching tactic.
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I took that 1/2 player to be mainly a reference to Al's balky back. He said he didn't know until 35 minutes before the game that Al would be able to play, and that the trainer told him Al was only around 80%. So basically, with the combination of Al's limitations and the limited minutes you can expect from Sid, it's probably worth 1 1/2 players between the two of them.

Although I'd hate to apply that same metric to Josh...
 
McLovin said:
And Hawai’i only 700 miles further to their conference site in LA (2400 miles total)
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And with that 2400 miles of travel, their conference allows them to schedule appropriately as to limit the effects of traveling so far each year. They essentially play the non-conference at home, with usually 1 P5 game on the road, then they have the Diamond Head Classic in December. In conference, they play 2 at home, 2 on the road. The road games are 2 days apart in close vicinity. It helps their players get used to one week travel, one week home. UConn gets no such special travel treatment. If i had more time, i could try to count up the travel miles Hawaii vs UConn have each year, but probably wont add much to our argument, since we all agree UConn travels too much.
 
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