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Hurley Providence Post Game Presser

uconnever said:
He’s exactly right, we had a terrible off night shooting and the defense was soft. LAZY!. He saw exactly what I saw. This loss wasn’t on Hurley.
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If the guys are soft and lazy then sit them and use players not lazy and soft. Sometimes you need to make a point when coaching and not leave bad play on the court.
 
If we can’t shoot, try someone else. You had Akok glued to the bench and he’s always good for a 3 or two.

Why not give Diggins a shot? Gaff was awful. He single-handedly dribbled away the last two minutes.

Why pick on Hawkins? You barely played him. I’d play him 30 minutes so he develops faster. We need him to be our savior.

Play your young talent. Your older players just aren’t good enough to win without some help from the talented youngsters.
 
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He's just so painful to listen to. But check the last 35 seconds. "Players need to stay off social."
 
Team shows up unprepared. Coach makes no adjustments other than to draw up in his safe space which is playing Polley and Whaley way too many minutes. Young players who are in a different orbit talentwise from the super seniors grow moldy on the bench. Sixty minutes to kids who were recruited in 2016. Zero for Diggins who likely regrets ever hearing about the state of Connecticut.

But yeah, stay off social. That will work. Should all work out really well.

Stayed tuned for the offense next game - I predict Whaley, Akok and Whaley will camp outside the arc and basically become a blockade should Cole, Gaffney or Jackson even thinks about trying to move the ball around. Also, Cole will have to do too much and Diggins will not even move from his seat.

But, for the love of God, stay of Instagram.
 
UCFan1513 said:
Too lazy to watch - he say anything about why Akok sat so much?
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He was kind of speechless and flabbergasted by Akok's performance and took long pauses to try and formulate an analysis of his perfomance tonight when asked. He basically said he just had a really tough matchup against the Watson, Croswell, et al and made some defensive mistakes and wasn't able to generate anything offensively.
 
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uconnever said:
He’s exactly right, we had a terrible off night shooting and the defense was soft. LAZY!. He saw exactly what I saw. This loss wasn’t on Hurley.
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Every night is an off night shooting. I'm suprised if they eclipse 55
 
when a coach who dictates playing time starts laying issues with a player that saw limited action, it tells me one of 2 things:
1. he finds it acceptable and easy to do so, or
2. he has no idea what so ever is going on the court and is over his head

Both are horrible but it has to be one of them because trying to encourage a kid by doing so is pure crap
 
uconnever said:
He’s exactly right, we had a terrible off night shooting and the defense was soft. LAZY!. He saw exactly what I saw. This loss wasn’t on Hurley.
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An off shooting night with this team will be the norm.
 
SwingDog said:
He was kind of speechless and flabbergasted by Akok's performance and took long pauses to try and formulate an analysis of his perfomance tonight when asked. He basically said he just had a really tough matchup against the Watson, Croswell, et al and made some defensive mistakes and wasn't able to generate anything offensively.
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His answer to PC playing both of their bigs was 5 out with 4 guards.
 
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Fishy said:
Team shows up unprepared. Coach makes no adjustments other than to draw up in his safe space which is playing Polley and Whaley way too many minutes. Young players who are in a different orbit talentwise from the super seniors grow moldy on the bench. Sixty minutes to kids who were recruited in 2016. Zero for Diggins who likely regrets ever hearing about the state of Connecticut.

But yeah, stay off social. That will work. Should all work out really well.

Stayed tuned for the offense next game - I predict Whaley, Akok and Whaley will camp outside the arc and basically become a blockade should Cole, Gaffney or Jackson even thinks about trying to move the ball around. Also, Cole will have to do too much and Diggins will not even move from his seat.

But, for the love of God, stay of Instagram.
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This is depressing to read but very accurate.
 
Fishy said:
Team shows up unprepared. Coach makes no adjustments other than to draw up in his safe space which is playing Polley and Whaley way too many minutes. Young players who are in a different orbit talentwise from the super seniors grow moldy on the bench. Sixty minutes to kids who were recruited in 2016. Zero for Diggins who likely regrets ever hearing about the state of Connecticut.

But yeah, stay off social. That will work. Should all work out really well.

Stayed tuned for the offense next game - I predict Whaley, Akok and Whaley will camp outside the arc and basically become a blockade should Cole, Gaffney or Jackson even thinks about trying to move the ball around. Also, Cole will have to do too much and Diggins will not even move from his seat.

But, for the love of God, stay of Instagram.
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These past 8 years have made Jim Calhoun look like an even greater coach than we realized. 8 years of poorly run offense and questionable in game coaching.
 
Greathusky said:
He talks about our great depth so why does Diggins, Springs and Johnson not see any minutes? I would not be surprised if you see a horde of transfers if this keeps up.
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If Diggins and Johnson aren’t good enough to see the court when the rest of the team is playing so poorly, then Hurley didn’t recruit as well as we thought.

The other option is that Diggins and Johnson should be playing - and that Hurley isn’t a strong enough coach to realize that.

Either way, not good.
 
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SwingDog said:
He was kind of speechless and flabbergasted by Akok's performance and took long pauses to try and formulate an analysis of his perfomance tonight when asked. He basically said he just had a really tough matchup against the Watson, Croswell, et al and made some defensive mistakes and wasn't able to generate anything offensively.
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Polley has a really tough matchup every time he’s on the floor and yet there he is for 25 minutes a game. Maybe when Akok is 25, he’ll be allowed to play through a tough matchup.
 
I kind of agree with Hurley about Akok. He drifted aimlessly on offense, lost his man a few times on defense, did his normal costly sagging off three point shooters. BUT, if Hurley thinks he doesn’t bear responsibility for a lot of the garbage we saw tonight, someone should remind him to re-watch his UMES postgame presser and listen to his own words. Year 4. His shtick is beginning to look tired. Needs to be called out for it.
 
Connecticut13 said:
If Diggins and Johnson aren’t good enough to see the court when the rest of the team is playing so poorly, then Hurley didn’t recruit as well as we thought.

The other option is that Diggins and Johnson should be playing - and that Hurley isn’t a strong enough coach to realize that.

Either way, not good.
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Great point on Johnson, I forgot about him today. He’s too talented to not even see the court. He, Jackson, Akok and Martín are 4 guys who would shine in a fast paced transition game but one point guard and several guys with poor handles make that pretty hard to play.
 
uconnever said:
He’s exactly right, we had a terrible off night shooting and the defense was soft. LAZY!. He saw exactly what I saw. This loss wasn’t on Hurley.
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I really don't think we were soft defensively. As McLovin said we held the Friars to 57 points. We were soft at times though, there were lapses where we left a lane or baseline open, and a few boxout fails and Providence did what good teams do- they took took advantage. There were a handful of breakdowns that cost us, and we need to clean that up for sure, but overall the toughness was there.
 
You know what the best part of the presser was? "We got 19 more of these".

The world is not over. 5 losses might win the Big East this year. Work to do. But we'll get there.
 
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