Hurley Post Game Quotes

[KodiacKemba]

Great. Now we're pining to bring back Ollie . . .

Of course that’s not going to happen ... I’m just a fan of uconn basketball and hopefully Hurley is the right guy but if he isn’t in years to come then we have find another guy

 

[Caronimo]

The way you start a game is probably 70% to 30% on the staff

Would have to disagree. If you heard Hurley in the pre game, he knew exactly what the team was getting into against St Joes. You don’t think the staff prepared? The players came out flat, slow and lazy on defense. I think the only thing Hurley did wrong was call a timeout sooner to clear the bench.

 

[CTBballfan243]

You can’t teach basketball IQ. It’s blatantly obvious that this team is lacking in that department. I’ve seen the same dumb shots, the same dumb dribbling to nowhere, the same driving into the trees in the lane for the last several years and have seen no improvement.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

st. Joseph’s was ridiculously hot in the first half and some of their players made some shots throughout the game that they may never make again in their life. That happens with underdogs sometimes.

But the amount of stupid plays we made is just unacceptable. We had Gilbert, Vital, Polley taking contested long two’s without any ball movement. Josh airballed his first shot and the airballed a free throw later. He didn’t come ready to play.. Then we come back Vital and Gilbert decide to just dribble into the other team and give them the ball.

However, we should ban the “ollie’s Guys” argument. These kids have been Hurley guys for 2 years now and have all bought in to his program. A good coach can get the best out of players even if he didn’t sit on the mother’s couch when the kid was 17.

Polley hit 4/5 shots 4/4 from 3
I’ll take that shot selection anyday

 

[Madmannsucks]

Ollie had no coaching experience, tried to run our program, and decimated it.
Hurley has a track record of winning at multiple programs.
Look to the common denominator.
He deserves time to get ride of what is left over from the Ollie era.
Blaming Hurley in year two when still relying on Ollie’s players is insane

I am cool with that. He did not have the team ready last night. But KO had no track record and won it all.

 

[JB75]

I’ve Never seen a player like Gilbert who can pretty much penetrate at will but has such a problem finishing and/or kicking out/hitting the open man. It’s mind boggling

 

[Madmannsucks]

You can’t teach basketball IQ. It’s blatantly obvious that this team is lacking in that department. I’ve seen the same dumb shots, the same dumb dribbling to nowhere, the same driving into the trees in the lane for the last several years and have seen no improvement.

You can’t teach basketball IQ. - you can teach x's and o's. Think the term for that is coaching.

 

[Onions]

And he did absolutely nothing while SJU was running away in the first half. That's part of my point about talent. There is nobody out there who you can rely on to get a basket to stop the run.

Polly is a limited player with a number of flaws, but his lack of production in the first half was a result of the guard play - he can't score if he never touches the ball. The inability to get Polly the ball in the last five minutes, after he proved that he could make his shots, is the biggest indicator of the problems of this team. I'm sitting on my couch, screaming at the TV, "get Polly the Ball" only to see both CV and AG give away the game.

 

[HooperScooper]

You can’t teach basketball IQ. - you can teach x's and o's. Think the term for that is coaching.

I think you can teach basketball IQ. Players learn it from someone. Players aren't born with basketball IQ. But I will admit that if they don't have it by the time they get to this level it's harder to learn.

 

[Madmannsucks]

I think you can teach basketball IQ. Players learn it from someone. Players aren't born with basketball IQ. But I will admit that if they don't have it by the time they get to this level it's harder to learn.

Yeah, that was not my quote...I quoted from another post and added my commentary.

 

[NJHusky]

Polly is a limited player with a number of flaws, but his lack of production in the first half was a result of the guard play - he can't score if he never touches the ball. The inability to get Polly the ball in the last five minutes, after he proved that he could make his shots, is the biggest indicator of the problems of this team. I'm sitting on my couch, screaming at the TV, "get Polly the Ball" only to see both CV and AG give away the game.

Rashad Anderson was a limited player too...but when he got hot the team fed him the ball....Taliek should show him the film of the 2004 NCAA Alabama game. Look at that box score...Taliek took 3 shots and had 10 Assists!! Anderson was 6/9 from deep

 

[imno1]

I'm a big Hurley fan, but some of this debacle is on him. Pregame, coach was talking about the match up nightmare that they faced with St. Joe's. Instead of playing to our comparative advantage, speed and depth, we tried to play their game. They did not have a bunch of great ball handlers...the press should have been employed right from the start.

Vital is all about tenacity, and grit, but he doesn't have the basketball mind to be leader on this team. How many of his shots does he jack up when there is not one teammate is anywhere near the basket? Statistically most will be misses. His shots are ill-timed (s/b labeled turnovers) momentum killers. It's like he does not comprehend the team aspect of the game. Granted, he gives you effort, rebounds, and points - albeit in a losing effort. You would think the definition of insanity would occur to him. Hear he is a bright kid...just has a terrible blind spot.

And speaking of being near the basket for rebounds, as been pointed out here before, Polley drifts away from the hoop when a shot goes up. It's not that he is out muscled, he's not even in the mix.
Not going to get many boards 25' from the basket.

And then there is the one guy with the ball, four guys watching. Coaches have a lot of work to do!

"Match up nightmare" lmao

 

[superjohn]

I'm a big Hurley fan, but some of this debacle is on him. Pregame, coach was talking about the match up nightmare that they faced with St. Joe's. Instead of playing to our comparative advantage, speed and depth, we tried to play their game. They did not have a bunch of great ball handlers...the press should have been employed right from the start.

Vital is all about tenacity, and grit, but he doesn't have the basketball mind to be leader on this team. How many of his shots does he jack up when there is not one teammate is anywhere near the basket? Statistically most will be misses. His shots are ill-timed (s/b labeled turnovers) momentum killers. It's like he does not comprehend the team aspect of the game. Granted, he gives you effort, rebounds, and points - albeit in a losing effort. You would think the definition of insanity would occur to him. Hear he is a bright kid...just has a terrible blind spot.

And speaking of being near the basket for rebounds, as been pointed out here before, Polley drifts away from the hoop when a shot goes up. It's not that he is out muscled, he's not even in the mix.
Not going to get many boards 25' from the basket.

And then there is the one guy with the ball, four guys watching. Coaches have a lot of work to do!

Agree with all of that, it was a brutal game for Hurley. That St. Joe's team sucks, the only possible way they could beat us is by spreading us out and making a ton of threes and we let them do it. We let their fat and slow point guard bomb threes on us all night. They had no major athletes and no real ballhandlers and yet we only really pressed them when we were down a million points.