it: Game thread

[RipCity]

Hopefully are administration is watching URI situation closely.

Benedict switched from a UConn subscriber to URI on his CBS Sports app. He still hasn’t realized we played tonight.

 

[RGay2006]

Still here. I ain't about to abandon the coach or the coaching staff. I still believe and support coach KO. Just have to be patient. They will figure things out.

Delusional.

 

[Forte]

Still here. I ain't about to abandon the coach or the coaching staff. I still believe and support coach KO. Just have to be patient. They will figure things out.

Honest question... what have you seen that gives you that hope?

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Where are the "keep Ollie" dopes now

Surely, they're kicking back observing the big talking "dump Ollie" dopes not prepping their bankrolls

 

[uconndoit]

That last foul might as well have been called on some random guy in a yurt in Mongolia.

In Mongolia they're called gers.

 

[WestHartHusk]

Still here. I ain't about to abandon the coach or the coaching staff. I still believe and support coach KO. Just have to be patient. They will figure things out.

I hope, for the sake of your employer, that you aren't a manager.

 

[D$]

Still here. I ain't about to abandon the coach or the coaching staff. I still believe and support coach KO. Just have to be patient. They will figure things out.

How can you believe and support Ollie if you take into consideration how he has lead this program over the last few years???

 

[upstater]

Sure he does. Why not just say 99/100?

Even if he makes it you’ve still got to defend and play another OT on the road with a team that ran out of gas halfway through the second half.

You can’t lead the complaints against the refs and support that decision. They are completely contradictory.

Refs were great tonight. Where did I lead complaints against the refs?

 

[Tenspro2002]

Do you think they didn’t try and recruit a big and a shooter? KO can’t force kids to come to UConn.

KO must be very proud of all his participation trophies from the recruiting trail.

 

[Forte]

How can you believe and support Ollie if you take into consideration how he has lead this program over the last few years???

We are heading for our second losing season in a row ... but don’t worry we are improving

 

[Candyman]

To all those saying progress. Tulsa won’t make the tourney and hit 16 threes against us. Tulsa from the eye test is not good. Uconn made them look good.

Can I point out that Ollie switch things up in 2nd half and was running baseline screens for Adams and Larrier like Calhoun and used two bigs to set screens. I was shocked he changed his style. We went on a run to tie game and then he went back to 3 guard with Larrier and we sucked on O rest of the way.

 

[uconnphil2016]

Every team hits a ton of threes against us. Happened against Arizona down the stretch, WSU, and others. It’s not bad luck

 

[BlueDogs]

We are heading for our second losing season in a row ... but don’t worry we are improving

Next year is the make or break year, or the one after that, or maybe the one after that...but it's coming, just trust the coach..

 

[BlueDogs]

Jalen hero ball, one of the best games of his career. Tulsa bricks everything down the stretch yet gets a jump ball and hits two contested threes to send it to OT.

What the hell do we need to do to win a game?

Not play catch up most of the game..

 

[DMIL]

Vital is getting worse

Undisciplined

 

[DMIL]

Most D1 teams when wide open the whole game tend to make a lot of threes.

When they have shooters yes.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Kind of like a 5th place consolation game in front of a small crowd, with some talent on display and flaws galore, between two roughly equal teams. A tighter lineup, fewer turnovers, some assists, even an odd sense that they might care, and somehow I go off to bed less bothered than curious about what's next.
Feeling OK about my first tanka as well.

 

[DMIL]

Every team hits a ton of threes against us. Happened against Arizona down the stretch, WSU, and others. It’s not bad luck

Young team that is learning how to play defense......can't just make them Seniors. When you have a team with not much upper class leadership given our talent profile it's going to be more frustrating than it should be. The seniors we have are transfers and frankly not effective.

 

[DMIL]

That isn't the new KO. He is a sullen coach who resides back in his seat most of the game. I saw this first hand in the Auburn game. The one with the passion is gone after the divorce.

Interesting.....divorce can take something from you.

 

[DMIL]

Do you think they didn’t try and recruit a big and a shooter? KO can’t force kids to come to UConn.

2018, plus Sid Wilson and a healthy Gilbert. May luck up and get JA and Larrier back.

 

[DMIL]

It’s a team that finds a way to lose, it’s become part of the culture, similar to the 2015 New York Giants.

Find a way to lose.

Typically means needs a change at the top to change the culture.

Youth.....

 

[tentoes4rings]

His only two Techs I can remember were embarrassingly awful. The ejection vs Louisville and the crucial paper tossing tantrum with a chance to beat Maryland in the BigErn game. Part of Calhoun’s magic was working the refs. How many times did we say “man we got hosed by the refs” in JC’s days?

Very rarely under JC. Working refs is a huge part of the job and KO is just so poor at it. We’re constantly at a major disadvantage from free throws attempted.

 

[mdkhusky]

2018, plus Sid Wilson and a healthy Gilbert. May luck up and get JA and Larrier back.

I don't get the excuses. It's mind boggling. We have plenty of talent if we had someone to run a competent offense and actually develop players

 

[DMIL]

They hit big shots and free throws, we don't.

No PG or shooters.

 

[UConn_Top_Dog]

Can KO just demote himself to assistant coach and take a pay cut? Then we can have Calhoun step in for the rest of the season and then hire Hurley or Donyell Marshal next year as head coach. Maybe Geno?