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Hurley will never take UConn to the next level

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BostonBay said:
Totally outcoached tonight. No FG in last 7 minutes...Are you kidding me? He had the deer in headlights look & didnt know how to change things up to get an easy basket or 2 down the stretch. Same pattern with him in close games against good teams over the years. Nothing has changed.
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BostonBay said:
Totally outcoached tonight. No FG in last 7 minutes...Are you kidding me? He had the deer in headlights look & didnt know how to change things up to get an easy basket or 2 down the stretch. Same pattern with him in close games against good teams over the years. Nothing has changed.
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Please. Do remember where we were in 17-18? I do. Getting our asses.kicked by 20+ points in multiple games. Non-competitive in the non-conference and a second division team in the AAC.

In Year 1, the team was coming together...peaking when they were throttling Wichita State at Gampel...until Gilbert collapsed in a heap with the facial injury.

In Year 2, arguably the best team in the AAC coming down the stretch. Covid stopped their season as they were peaking.

Year 3, back to the dance with two brutal pauses and injuries to Bouknight and Akok.

Hurley's recruiting is on fire. He is ready to put a player in the NBA. And, by the way, could be poised to make a run to the second weekend of the dance.

Not too shabby. Next level???.... We're already there...so why don't you consider downing a big frosty mug of STFU.
 
ASweet3781 said:
The OP is a but if you are not just a little tad concerned with what you are seeing from Hurley in these tough games against NCAA opponents than you aren't being honest. Whiffing on all 3 chances against Creighton is pathetic.
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Remember that time we got blown out by Louisville every time we played them. Then won a ship... games are about matchups. This isn’t great & we could/should have beat them 1-2 times. Didn’t happen though. To say we aren’t in a good place is a wild take
 
Storrs South said:
How does this awful take crop up after every single loss. They just held a team that averages 79 points a game to 59. The 11th best offense in all of college basketball and they looked terrible.

So the offense fell apart at the end as Bouk was far from 100% tonight and lost their star point guard due to bleeding from the head.

So disrespectful to Hurley man. He has brought UConn back from the dead and it's only year 3.
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These posters crawl out from their holes after losses to hijack the board. They don’t post here regularly. Banning would be great
 
uconngb said:
Yeah, if he made it. The point is valid.
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it's not valid. youre both arguing it's hurley's fault when wide open shots are missed.
 
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ASweet3781 said:
The OP is a but if you are not just a little tad concerned with what you are seeing from Hurley in these tough games against NCAA opponents than you aren't being honest. Whiffing on all 3 chances against Creighton is pathetic.
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It's not pathetic. Creighton is a really good team with way more post season experience. The program is headed in the right direction and is making consistent and steady progress and is nowhere near its peak under Dan Hurley.
 
BostonBay said:
Totally outcoached tonight. No FG in last 7 minutes...Are you kidding me? He had the deer in headlights look & didnt know how to change things up to get an easy basket or 2 down the stretch. Same pattern with him in close games against good teams over the years. Nothing has changed.
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Delete this thread you moron
 
@Deepster Can your decision as Juuurdge involve forcing everyone to put OP on ignore?
 
BostonBay said:
Totally outcoached tonight. No FG in last 7 minutes...Are you kidding me? He had the deer in headlights look & didnt know how to change things up to get an easy basket or 2 down the stretch. Same pattern with him in close games against good teams over the years. Nothing has changed.
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You could probably be a little more subtle than only coming on here after losses and posting the same garbage
 
Hurley just hasn’t figured out how to win the big ones yet. It will come. Truth is we lost another one down the stretch, which is frustrating to see. So close, yet still not there yet. B Team on the court with 8 minutes was really questionable given the circumstance, kept Adama on the bench too long when he was the X factor, and he didn’t really extend the game very well. On to bigger things. Let’s gets some Ws in the Big Dance.
 
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Whaley played great, as did Sonobo. The rest of the guys were spotty. Martin and Gaffney took some wild shots. We didn’t rebound well. And Bouknight had a miserable night, missing quite a few of his normally easy shots. On to bracket Sunday.
 
BlueDogs said:
Hurley just hasn’t figured out how to win the big ones yet. It will come. Truth is we lost another one down the stretch, which is frustrating to see. So close, yet still not there yet. B Team on the court with 8 minutes was really questionable given the circumstance, kept Adama on the bench too long when he was the X factor, and he didn’t really extend the game very well. On to bigger things. Let’s gets some Ws in the Big Dance.
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He got us 3 shots in the final 10 seconds, 2 to tie the game. I'd say he did a perfectly fine job extending the game
 
Horrendous take. We played an experienced team and lost our PG during crunch time.

It was a gutsy game on both ends. It was frustrating to see the offense being stagnant but it is what it is. We aren't a great shooting team. But we're learning and the kids played their hearts out.

No need for this board to melt down. We got another game.
 
BostonBay said:
Totally outcoached tonight. No FG in last 7 minutes...Are you kidding me? He had the deer in headlights look & didnt know how to change things up to get an easy basket or 2 down the stretch. Same pattern with him in close games against good teams over the years. Nothing has changed.
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LOL............ “it’s the coaches fault we lost” hot take. The team with the better players won. Creighton beat UConn 3 times this season for a reason. They have a better team and better players. If the coaches switched teams Creighton would have still won.
 
navery12 said:
He got us 3 shots in the final 10 seconds, 2 to tie the game. I'd say he did a perfectly fine job extending the game
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We didn’t start trying to foul until 44 seconds remained. That was way too late. We also wasted 10 seconds not getting into any set one possession because there was no play and they were running their standard high rotation offense above the arc. I don’t get it.
 
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Please, we need to give this Hurley stuff a rest. He has transformed this program in 3 years to get us out of the wilderness that were the Ollie years and back into playing meaningful basketball. He has had 2 years worth of recruits (the Brendan Adams year doesn't count) and and is still rebuilding this roster with more quality recruits on the way. The program is headed in the right direction all because of Hurley's hard work. Honestly, I would love to have seen this board's reaction in 1994 losing to Florida in the 16s, 1996 losing to Mississippi State in the 16s, or even during the struggles of the 1997 season. This board would have killed Calhoun saying he couldn't win the big one, etc. etc. I for one love Hurley and expect this program to keep getting better each year.
 
BostonBay said:
Totally outcoached tonight. No FG in last 7 minutes...Are you kidding me? He had the deer in headlights look & didnt know how to change things up to get an easy basket or 2 down the stretch. Same pattern with him in close games against good teams over the years. Nothing has changed.
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You are ridiculous!
 
BlueDogs said:
We didn’t start trying to foul until 44 seconds remained. That was way too late. We also wasted 10 seconds not getting into any set one possession because there was no play and they were running their standard high rotation offense above the arc. I don’t get it.
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Creighton got to 57 points at 2:38 left and then we held them to no points to get the ball back with 49 seconds to go down 3. Are you proposing we should have fouled and given them free points? Because the defense did exactly what it was supposed to do when you play out every possession Hurley chose to
 
ASweet3781 said:
The OP is a but if you are not just a little tad concerned with what you are seeing from Hurley in these tough games against NCAA opponents than you aren't being honest. Whiffing on all 3 chances against Creighton is pathetic.
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So if gtown beats creighton what’s does that say about us? The conundrum keeps spiraling.
 
If you make shots you’re a great coach. If you don’t you suck. However. Did anyone notice that nova recognized we were back so those titles they racked up in our absence may as well go in the closet. Things will be changing. This if s year one of the second era.
 
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