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Hurley Suspension?

djct1999 said:
36% from 2, 13% from 3 and 16 turnovers. It’s also ok to call out then players making 6-7 figures in nil.
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which is yet another reason why NIL needs to be overhauled. If w wntd to wtch a pro game, we'd flip the channel
 
IndyLives said:
Losing Adams before the season hurt the team immensely. He is a Dog.
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If you are talking about Darius Adams then maybe. He would have stabilized the bench but it would have been at the expense of Stewart or Ross. The lack of consistent offensive flow stops this team from going on multiple long scoring runs.

They are not getting or taking the best shots available by the right shooter. Having a go to scorer would solve this particular problem for this team. Mullins is the only one with that potential and it is not going to be realized this year. Reed should be that player on this team as well if he was more disciplined with not fouling, and if the guards fed him the ball consistently in his sweet spot. Ball's inconsistency defensively, impacts his offensive game negatively. Also playing Ball and Mullings together throws off the offensive chemistry a bit at the expense of Ball's performance.
 
ec33 said:
There was a play (early in the 2nd half) in which Newton drove to the hoop, was fouled twice while shooting, got his own rebound, was fouled, and they ruled the ball off Newton's knee (with Reed mysteriously on the ground, I guess he just got tired and wanted to rest).

That is a lot of "missed calls" one way.
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And Donny was so into whatever the heck he was babbling on about that he never broke stride to comment on the replay clearly showing the fouling of Demary (obviously not Newton) twice.
 
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husky429 said:
He clearly chest bumps the ref. Is it a violent action? No of course not. But by the book it's a suspension.
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Supposedly a good veteran ref.
Would not want to ref a Hurley game.
As we all know - spends more time cursing refs than advising players.
I love UConn BBALL - men’s and women’s - but it is hard watching him snarl at the refs all game — will he ever learn.
Like him off the court but he needs some good therapy
Thank goodness for Donavan.
 
Deepster said:
Why do you have to defend him to anyone? If they don’t like him? They can go screw.
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Fair point I guess. Idk I just think this one was just particularly bad. Just giving other teams fuel to want to stick it to us in the post season.
 
JBK said:
Supposedly a good veteran ref.
Would not want to ref a Hurley game.
As we all know - spends more time cursing refs than advising players.
I love UConn BBALL - men’s and women’s - but it is hard watching him snarl at the refs all game — will he ever learn.
Like him off the court but he needs some good therapy
Thank goodness for Donavan.
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He obviously does something with the players or we wouldn't have two nattys and only 4 losses this year. The dude clearly coaches and coaches well. Get off the "Hurley doesn't coach" wagon already.
 
JBK said:
Thank goodness for Donavan.
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navery12 said:
I've watched the clip a bunch of times and honestly, no I do not see the contact. Everyone else sees it so maybe I'm just blind but I see him get in his face but that's it
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He did it in a very crafty manner. Standing straight up with his whole body making light contact. Nothing overt, but I thought I could see slight movement of the ref's upper body.

If he didn't have the reputation of being a ref baiter he might have gotten away with it.
 
uconngb said:
This is like the easiest thing in the world to understand. And there are people on here saying “Hurley wasn’t the one missing all the 3s”. No, but he was the one deciding who stayed in the game to continue missing them!!
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Good lawd. The players he kept in the game were the ones that got us to a #4 ranking. Nobody was making threes. Nobody. Who was he gonna put in? Me?
 
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JBK said:
Supposedly a good veteran ref.
Would not want to ref a Hurley game.
As we all know - spends more time cursing refs than advising players.
I love UConn BBALL - men’s and women’s - but it is hard watching him snarl at the refs all game — will he ever learn.
Like him off the court but he needs some good therapy
Thank goodness for Donavan.
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They all do it!
 
djct1999 said:
Last I checked, Hurley can’t play the game just coach it. Today was more on the players than the coach. Just stop w this nonsense.
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The players don't prepare the game plan, nor do make the required adjustments on the fly.

This team has been struggling since mid-December and, other than the second St. John's game, haven't played like a championship team.
 
storrsroars said:
Did you pass math?

They shot 36% overall. 3-24 from three (13%) and 18-35 (51%) from two. All the more reason to take more 2s.
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Not telling his players to take it inside against a team with no one capable of stopping Reed or Reibe was the problem.

The coaching staff either failed to make that point, about what seemed to work all night, or the players didn't execute the plays the coaches called. My guess is the coaches didn't make it clear enough that you'll sit the rest of the game if you don't keep taking it inside...... especially when we were making our free throws.
 
JustbrewitMan said:
So under this logic, if a 38-45% 3pt shooter starts the night off 0-2, they should just stop shooting the rest of the night since they are at 0%. Call it a night and hope for a better start the next game.

Sheesh.
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No, you want your shooters to shoot their way into the game but, at the same time, you want to win the regular season title.

They could have easily won it with easy two's against a team with no interior player capable of stopping Reed and Reibe. Plus, we had a great game on the FT line and interior plays should get us AND 1's.

Coaches make those calls so they either didn't call plays to go inside or the players didn't listen.
 
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Scrutineer said:
Not telling his players to take it inside against a team with no one capable of stopping Reed or Reibe was the problem.

The coaching staff either failed to make that point, about what seemed to work all night, or the players didn't execute the plays the coaches called. My guess is the coaches didn't make it clear enough that you'll sit the rest of the game if you don't keep taking it inside...... especially when we were making our free throws.
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Hurley played double bigs for the first time all year - it's like he was trying anything, he was so desperate. Did he scout them at all this week? A week of prep and they looked confused as could be. It's like do you not know their 5 is Ben Gold? I would feed it to Reed every single time, like every damn possession until they showed they could stop it. Reed was 7-10 from the floor. He should have taken 20 shots mimimum and treated like Zach Edey in this one.
 
DMIL said:
It's roster construction. You have to have the right mix of players that have the ability to execute the game plan at a high level consistently on both sides of the ball. This includes the bench. You have to have Dogs that mirror the Hurley's mentality. It's not there with this team and we need to accept this reality.

This is a good team, it's not great. They plateaued in the middle of the season and they put fear in none of their opponents who look at them as vulnerable. The signs have been there the entire season. When you think about the early season success that benchmark is contingent on continued development relative to the other top teams.
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Too many system players and not enough dogs and ballers.
 
Hurley has many strengths. Self-control is not one of them, though he did show improvement in that area for the majority of the season. Today was evidently too much. Not a proud moment, but life goes on.
 
RuffRuff said:
Hurley played double bigs for the first time all year - it's like he was trying anything, he was so desperate. Did he scout them at all this week? A week of prep and they looked confused as could be. It's like do you not know their 5 is Ben Gold? I would feed it to Reed every single time, like every damn possession until they showed they could stop it. Reed was 7-10 from the floor. He should have taken 20 shots mimimum and treated like Zach Edey in this one.
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That is not why. Marquette called timeout to set up a play with 1 second left on the shot clock. Shaka brought in Gold, presumably for a lob. Hurley countered with Reibe to guard against it. Hurley took Reibe out on the next whistle.
 
FreeDogs said:
Good lawd. The players he kept in the game were the ones that got us to a #4 ranking. Nobody was making threes. Nobody. Who was he gonna put in? Me?
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I don’t know…..maybe stop chucking them up???
 
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RuffRuff said:
Hurley played double bigs for the first time all year - it's like he was trying anything, he was so desperate. Did he scout them at all this week? A week of prep and they looked confused as could be. It's like do you not know their 5 is Ben Gold? I would feed it to Reed every single time, like every damn possession until they showed they could stop it. Reed was 7-10 from the floor. He should have taken 20 shots mimimum and treated like Zach Edey in this one.
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He did that w about 4 minutes left in the game.

IE: too late
 
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.
 
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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Do you realize how crazy that is and how that's a failure on coaching? He got two quick buckets when we fed the post at the start of the second half and then he never touched the ball again in the post for the final 19 minutes of the game.

If an 11-19 Marquette team can dictate how we play where we're incapable of feeding our go to scorer there's something seriously wrong.
 
superjohn said:
Do you realize how crazy that is and how that's a failure on coaching? He got two quick buckets when we fed the post at the start of the second half and then he never touched the ball again in the post for the final 19 minutes of the game.

If an 11-19 Marquette team can dictate how we play where we're incapable of feeding our go to scorer there's something seriously wrong.
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I seriously can’t believe these takes. We had the winning game plan. We abandoned it. There is no plausible reason why we did.
 
I think some on this board would be happier with the KO teams at the end of his tenure. We're a freaking 2 seed in the NCAA tourney. Hurley is a great coach that loses his mind sometimes...I'll take it. We have a good but not great team...we've all known this for awhile. Crazy things happen in the tourney so let's not write the season off just yet.
 
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superjohn said:
Do you realize how crazy that is and how that's a failure on coaching? He got two quick buckets when we fed the post at the start of the second half and then he never touched the ball again in the post for the final 19 minutes of the game.

If an 11-19 Marquette team can dictate how we play where we're incapable of feeding our go to scorer there's something seriously wrong.
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100% agree, although some of the blame needs to be placed on Tarris, who picked up his third at the 15:39 mark of the 2nd half, spent 2.5 minutes on the bench, then completely neutered his own effectiveness by playing passive, scared to pick up his 4th.
 
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