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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3906416, member: 833"] I will want to sleep on this a few days, but my immediate thoughts: 1) It's not clear our talent has gotten better year over year. I wouldn't have minded Gilbert and Vital this season. Our guards after Bouk are just not Big East caliber guards, but we kept playing 3 of them. 2) Hurley can't compete with the top coaches on gameday. Turgeon embarrassed Hurley today. Hurley gets laser focused in a bad way, and doesn't dictate the game to the opponent. Hurley is always reacting, which is how we ended up with so many small ball lineups this season despite having a really good frontcourt. Our offense sucks, and the players don't seem to know what to do when the defense throws them a curveball. He needs some help on the bench. My dream would be PJ Carlesimo as an assistant for a year or two. Hurley played for PJ in college. 3) We need to see some big skill improvement. Sanogo will be a major piece next season. Gaffney has to take the next step and be a dependable, go-to point guard. Martin has to hit his layups. AJax has to be able to shoot, at least a little. I am not feeling optimistic about Akok's return to anything close to 100%. The thing is, we don't have a great track record here. Carlton, Polley and Adams either didn't improve or got worse year over year. Did Whaley get that much better? This is the whole game for a coach. If Hurley can't show a clear track record of improving talent year over year, UConn will reach a ceiling pretty soon. Calhoun was the best of all time at this, which sets a high standard for Hurley. 4) Our record was inflated by a weak schedule. We all kind of knew that, but today really highlighted it. Maryland is not that good, and they outplayed UConn from start to finish. I don't want to overreact to one game. There is a lot to be optimistic about, but right now UConn is just another bubble program with some history to make it special, and Hurley only has a year or two to make his own history before he and UConn will not be that special anymore. [/QUOTE]

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