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Hurley Suspension?

Viet Vet said:
But -bombs and -er were more than enough to warrant his expulsion and fine.

Stop justifying his behavior. It’s tiresome, embarrassing, and juvenile. Let’s not forget that university presidents, not ADs or coaches, ultimately have the power to affirm or deny admission into a conference. Does anyone think Hurley’s behavior enhances our reputation?
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Dan Hurley is not going to get us in (or barred from) a conference. That’s football performance alone.
 
Viet Vet said:
But -bombs and -er were more than enough to warrant his expulsion and fine.

Stop justifying his behavior. It’s tiresome, embarrassing, and juvenile. Let’s not forget that university presidents, not ADs or coaches, ultimately have the power to affirm or deny admission into a conference. Does anyone think Hurley’s behavior enhances our reputation?
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Dan Hurley is not going to get us in (or barred from) a conference. That’s on football performance alone.
 
Chief00 said:
John Gaffney a couple years ago bad mouthed Hurley during the offseason. If Hurley’s conduct was unprofessional, Gaffney’s lack of professionalism is worse. Val Ackerman is a disgrace. Gaffney is filled with bias every UConn game - he bumps into fairness.

If there was contact it was incidental, very hard to tell from video. The lack of honestly by Ackerman acting like it’s intentional is disgraceful. No way should there be 2 technicals since if it happened it was minor unintentional contact. If Hurley intentionally made contact it would have definitely had an impact it clearly did not have.

Gaffney is very unprofessional and a lier. Ackerman is just incompetent as she was in her WNBA role. Her office needs to be investigated and she should be terminated.
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What did Gaffney lie about?
 
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Hurley clearly should not have made contact, but maybe if the Big East actually reprimanded refs for inconsistency or bad calls on occasion Hurley wouldn't fly off the handle as much.

Some bad calls at the end including Smart coming onto the floor during the game and pushing his player. I believe Hurley was whistled for the same thing in the championship game against Purdue. It's a pretty easy call and I can't see how 1 of 3 refs on the floor couldn't see it. Then the no call on the Demary drive where it was called a tie up when the defender clearly had his arms around Silas's arms.

As some have pointed out, Gaffney has been critical of Hurley. Don't seem like he can separate his dislike for Hurley on the court and I don't get why the Big East lets him do a single UConn game.
 
king conn said:
I think the point of the explosion was, reverse situation and they blow the whistle on UConn

How many times in this game alone did Marquette drive, throw up a shot that missed, we grabbed the rebound and only then did they blow the whistle after we had the ball in our hands. I counted at least 2.
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Zero. Never happened
 
willie99 said:
I didn't watch the game, not one person who did said Silas wasn't fouled

My son said he screamed and 1, was disappointed the shot didn't go in and was shocked there was a no call

I don't care if Hurley's suspended, something has to wake this team up
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I watched. Didn't look like a foul to me
 
Viet Vet said:
But -bombs and -er were more than enough to warrant his expulsion and fine.

Stop justifying his behavior. It’s tiresome, embarrassing, and juvenile. Let’s not forget that university presidents, not ADs or coaches, ultimately have the power to affirm or deny admission into a conference. Does anyone think Hurley’s behavior enhances our reputation?
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Wow. Relax. It was pretty transparently a joke.
 
Jmark212 said:
What about when they’re 0-7…. How about stopping at that point?? At what point do you figure out you don’t have it tonight and change up the plan. The ball should have went into Tarris every single possession but no we jack up 30+ 3s against a team that has absolutely no inside presence whatsoever. Complete madness.
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If someone is a good shooter, you never stop them from shooting because of however many they've missed. Because you have no idea when they'll start hitting again
 
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uconngb said:
I seriously can’t believe these takes. We had the winning game plan. We abandoned it. There is no plausible reason why we did.
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They started defending that game plan?
 
Spaceman213J said:
Hurley clearly should not have made contact, but maybe if the Big East actually reprimanded refs for inconsistency or bad calls on occasion Hurley wouldn't fly off the handle as much.

Some bad calls at the end including Smart coming onto the floor during the game and pushing his player. I believe Hurley was whistled for the same thing in the championship game against Purdue. It's a pretty easy call and I can't see how 1 of 3 refs on the floor couldn't see it. Then the no call on the Demary drive where it was called a tie up when the defender clearly had his arms around Silas's arms.

As some have pointed out, Gaffney has been critical of Hurley. Don't seem like he can separate his dislike for Hurley on the court and I don't get why the Big East lets him do a single UConn game.
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It's almost St. Patrick's Day. The Irish should stick together.
 
UConniki said:
“ Nobody’s making 3’s SO STOP SHOOTING THEM. Give Reed the ball and let him do his thing. He had 10 points in the first half on 5 of 7 or something like that. He only took 3/4 shots in the second half for 4 points. He duplicates his first half and we win going away ( and their center gold fouls out). They had nobody that could guard Reed. But the coaching staff decided to let Mullins shoot 13 3’s and make 1.
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Sorry, you don't stop good shooters from shooting just because they have not been making them so far
 
There was actually a play later in the game where Mullins had the ball on the three-point line, wide open, but he had been bricking things up, so he passed it to someone else, the shot clock ran low, and then he ended up taking a much tougher, contested 3 anyway...

I'm of the belief that even if he's 0/10, if he's literally standing alone, then he should just shoot it.
 
Hopefully the BE gives Gaffney the rest of the year off (and next year and the year after). With all of the BE tournament games he will be out there I’m sure, but it would be in the best interest of the league to keep him from doing another UConn game this year. The guy is a total clown and routinely misses calls that happen right in front of him. Hopefully Dave B has already made some phone calls. UConn pretty much is the Big East at this point. Pitino may have 3-4 years left in his tank (max) and then St. John’s is back to being a nobody. Nova has history, but not sure they’re going to be hanging any more NCAA banners anytime soon with Willard who is a good but not great coach.

I’m personally done with the BE using our out of conference strength of schedule to try to boost these other garbage programs. Time for a change or a different league if the officiating doesn’t improve
 
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The calling of fouls this whole season in the Big East has been inconsistent, to say the least. I think that is what frustrates Coach Hurley and some of us as well. What Hurley did was wrong, but at that time the game was over.
 
NickDanger said:
If someone is a good shooter, you never stop them from shooting because of however many they've missed. Because you have no idea when they'll start hitting again
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Not true. There is such a thing as riding a hot 70% hand vs a 13% stone cold one and living another day. Another one of our issues is that we don’t separate the quality of the shot and volume especially on 25+ foot threes.
 
superjohn said:
Get the damn ball to Tarris Reed. If he doesn't have things designed to get the ball to him in the paint and the players can't execute getting him the ball in the paint it's on the coach. If you jack up dumb shots instead of getting it to him in the paint you sit.
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The problem is Luke’s equal opportunity Euro offense isn’t designed to do that. It is based on motion and indiscriminate ball movement. When everyone is hitting shots it works great but when we have one hot post hand and a frigid freeze with everyone else it fails us.
It is not design to let a guy get post position and get him the ball because you have a 70% chance of success, instead we continue the 13% with him having to set screens 20 feet away from the basket.
Calhoun would often have our post guy set screens down on the blocks and have guys coming from the corner or weak side run off it. That way he doesn’t need to recreate the wheel to get post position.
 
superjohn said:
The team has three goals this year. Winning the Big East, winning the Big East tournament, and winning a national championship. A team of that caliber shouldn't be totally dependent on the three where they live and die by it.

Hurley just spent two postgame press conferences basically saying Reed's play can still carry the team to their three goals and he needs to be a beast. Well he was a beast today when we were feeding him the first 21 minutes of the game. I didn't see anything designed for him after that.

Why did the play of this team peak in late November/early December? Why have we only really seen that again in one game against St. John's? Why have we played our two worst games of the season in late February/early March?
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Fair questions.
 
Mike Honcho said:
I think saying that we stopped looking for Tarris is ingenuous. We couldn't feed the post. They pressured us above the 3-point line and we weren't able to run an effective pick and roll with all of their length and deflections. Really, only Silas and maybe AK are reliable post feeders, and AK decided to go on vacation today. Stewie is OK at it, too.
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Reed took 2 shots the entire second half.
 
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Spaceman213J said:
Hurley clearly should not have made contact, but maybe if the Big East actually reprimanded refs for inconsistency or bad calls on occasion Hurley wouldn't fly off the handle as much.

Some bad calls at the end including Smart coming onto the floor during the game and pushing his player. I believe Hurley was whistled for the same thing in the championship game against Purdue. It's a pretty easy call and I can't see how 1 of 3 refs on the floor couldn't see it. Then the no call on the Demary drive where it was called a tie up when the defender clearly had his arms around Silas's arms.

As some have pointed out, Gaffney has been critical of Hurley. Don't seem like he can separate his dislike for Hurley on the court and I don't get why the Big East lets him do a single UConn game.
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Although Dan is a great leader / recruiter and coach - Do we really think refs in general would speak highly of him. Gaffney is not the only one that is critical.
Every great leader have room for growth which does not exclude Danny —.
 
Deepster said:
I am fine with the no call on Silas.

That’s not why Hurley got teched up. He got the T for the effort his team has given down the stretch here. Think about all the comments recently on their effort and the urgency needed to get to that next level.

Handwringing on whether it was or wasn’t a foul is a waste of bandwidth.
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Part of effort, in my view, is having the discipline to play smart. Saturday we failed that metric not getting Reed the ball more the second half. Sad to say but we need to adjust to the inconsistency in which our games are called or get out of the conference. The Big East will lose tens of millions in their next TV contracts.
 
JustbrewitMan said:
To be fair, a number of them never happened because Marquette fouled before a pass to Tarris could occur. A few of them we blundered/had a TO. A few he was open and we missed him. And one he could have made it happen but didn't use his size advantage to make him self available for an entry pass.

And in a bunch of the sets, he set highly effective screens to give wide-open looks to 38%+ 3pt shooters who missed their shots.

We just did not execute on offense yesterday. But it wasn't because we ignored and abandoned Tarris.
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We couldn’t get the ball to the biggest, strongest guy on the court for almost an entire half? lol
 
Chief00 said:
Not true. There is such a thing as riding a hot 70% hand vs a 13% stone cold one and living another day. Another one of our issues is that we don’t separate the quality of the shot and volume especially on 25+ foot threes.
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Good point. We’re built around three-point shooting, but when multiple guys are cold from deep, it’s time to attack inside the arc and knock down some twos to get the offense going.
 
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