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It's not coaching

superjohn said:
It's all coaching. Hurley took the long process of building this thing and has talked nonstop about culture and toughness. It's now year 5 with nothing to show for it and we're still as fragile as it gets. Five seasons with a bunch of different players throughout and they always wilt.

Meanwhile Sean Miller comes in year one and has his team ranked #8 in the country and they look like an offensive juggernaut. Shaka Smart comes into Marquette and takes them to the tournament his first season and now they're #20 in the country in his second season. UConn has a lot more talent than either team on paper. I can name a bunch of other coaches who turned their programs around right away.

It's all about coaching or a lack of coaching.
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Thank you.

More examples - Jerome Tang at KSU, Dennis Gates at Mizzou, Mick Cronin at UCLA - we can go on and on.

Hurley has failed here. He cannot consistently keep the players he recruits, and he has failed in the portal. He has failed in March and he has not been competitive in the Big East.

This should not be acceptable here. Many people dont want to admit this, but we have seen Dan Hurley's ceiling. It is not good enough. I wanted to wait until March to really consider this season a success or failure but the last couple of weeks have rapidly sped that up. He is getting paid to be top contending coach, and he is not doing it. Plain and simple. This is not Wagner, this is not Rhode Island. This is UConn. I am not okay with just making the tournament in year five. No one in here should. The sample size is big enough.
 
UConnSwag11 said:
Dude what are you talking about? We were up double digits and pissed the game away. We were cooking. Then we went back to force feeding sanogo and not playing Clingan.
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Exactly. We should've been up 20 at the half but kissed away it to 11 before a Hawkins bail out 3. If we had actually just played offense besides "feed Sanogo" we would've had an insurmountable lead.
 
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deedougie said:
Exactly. We should've been up 20 at the half but kissed away it to 11 before a Hawkins bail out 3. If we had actually just played offense besides "feed Sanogo" we would've had an insurmountable lead.
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And it’s not a knock on Sanogo. He’s a stud. But teams know our offense and our coaching staff refuses to change
 
UConnSwag11 said:
Dude what are you talking about? We were up double digits and pissed the game away. We were cooking. Then we went back to force feeding sanogo and not playing Clingan.
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Agree with this for sure
 
August_West said:
Yes but it coaching too. The plan is designed for an inefficient high usage center. It was a nice thought but sample size is in. And then we added a big usage inefficient point guard. Nice numbers ( Newton last year at ECU, Sanogo last two years) but ultimately losing players to build around. Sanogo shot under 50 tonight that’s unacceptable for a center, I’ve been saying that for two years I didn’t even like his usage in creighton win. It’s long term fools gold. And combine that with how many turnovers we get trying to force feed him via coaching and we see what we get. Nice kid good player. Not a centerpiece. As long as he is a centerpiece instead of a piece this is us.
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It's time for Clingan to start. He moves better without the ball, and he can literally rip the ball out of the air in a way Sanogo cannot.
 
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Awful, those turnovers in the 2nd half on consecutive plays, that horrible call against Newton who made a layup and got fouled and was called for a charge. #1 issue can't be fixed this year- as many have said, no aggressive point guard who can get inside. Seton Hall gifted this to us for UConn to come away with a win, unlike the last few teams, they didn't run a pick up high which has been tough for us to defend. But we still screwed it up. I don't like seeing Clingan setting screens up high, it's a waste of what he does best. Sanogo drives me crazy with good and bad. Defense still lost the game for us tonight.
 
gtcam said:
I thought so for a while but at this point after seeing all the NBE teams, I disagree about the talent
It seems UConn is out jumped, out hustled, and just plain over matched athletically and mentally
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What you described isn’t talent
 
mauconnfan said:
Coaching is part of it no doubt it’s the staffs team which is on the floor they selected them to come to Storrs.

And their leaders were all no shows 2nd half so that’s not on the coaching. On both ends Sanogo and Jackson were dreadful and I’m not sure if Hawkins was dreadful, I couldn’t find him!
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Hawkins is trying to find his body parts - they abused him but he needs to muscle up
 
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shizzle787 said:
Seton Hall is a team we should smoke. You're not going to get credit for beating a team by one that you are favored to beat by five.
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Just like being 14 points favorites at home against St. Johns
 
Bottom line, we don't have guards that are able to drive to the hoop or create for others. Diarra is the closest we have, but he is not the answer. Early in the season, the problems were kind of hidden as teams didn't know to pressure our guards and the 3 point shooting was lights out.

The book on defending UConn is pressure the guards, guard the 3, and collapse on Sanogo and UConn won't have an offense as nobody is capable of driving to the hoop. On offense, teams can drive by the guards and there isn't a shot blocker to protect the rim unless Clingan is in.
 
It’s funny how Hurley’s previous teams were much more competitive with inferior players. They said Uconn was back…we are not back. Giving up 50% shooting, turning the ball over 20 times and being non-competitive on the road is not Uconn basketball. The dreams Big East regular season, Big East Tournament champs, seeded in the East Region targeting MSG, a number 1 ranking, and sugar plums dancing in our head are now over. It’s desperation time like all the other Hurley teams. They need a reset and we need to reset our own brains. The prognosticators on us being unranked and finishing in the middle of the Big East were correct. We just need to think make the tournament and get a least 1 win to continue the progress. Before the season we knew we were still a year or 2 away from being a championship team and being Uconn again. So we now need to take it from there.
 
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Conndog said:
Awful, those turnovers in the 2nd half on consecutive plays, that horrible call against Newton who made a layup and got fouled and was called for a charge. #1 issue can't be fixed this year- as many have said, no aggressive point guard who can get inside. Seton Hall gifted this to us for UConn to come away with a win, unlike the last few teams, they didn't run a pick up high which has been tough for us to defend. But we still screwed it up. I don't like seeing Clingan setting screens up high, it's a waste of what he does best. Sanogo drives me crazy with good and bad. Defense still lost the game for us tonight.
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Seton hall is a pretty bad team offensively. I don’t even know what we do anymore.
 
shizzle787 said:
Seton Hall is a team we should smoke. You're not going to get credit for beating a team by one that you are favored to beat by five.
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Point
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Your head


I would’nt have given him credit or blame for tonight is my point. If it’s his fault we lost tonight then it would’ve been his fault if we had one. It can’t go both ways
 
I want to believe that this will pass, but the last 6 games have been exactly the same, and we were lucky to win one of them.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

This team and coaching staff aren’t learning from these losses. They just aren’t and there isn’t any indication they know what to do about it.
 
3RingsCT said:
I want to believe that this will pass, but the last 6 games have been exactly the same, and we were lucky to win one of them.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

This team and coaching staff aren’t learning from these losses. They just aren’t and there isn’t any indication they know what to do about it.
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It doesn’t look good
 
dilznick said:
It’s funny how Hurley’s previous teams were much more competitive with inferior players. They said Uconn was back…we are not back. Giving up 50% shooting, turning the ball over 20 times and being non-competitive on the road is not Uconn basketball. The dreams Big East regular season, Big East Tournament champs, seeded in the East Region targeting MSG, a number 1 ranking, and sugar plums dancing in our head are now over. It’s desperation time like all the other Hurley teams. They need a reset and we need to reset our own brains. The prognosticators on us being unranked and finishing in the middle of the Big East were correct. We just need to think make the tournament and get a least 1 win to continue the progress. Before the season we knew we were still a year or 2 away from being a championship team and being Uconn again. So we now need to take it from there.
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They can’t hit the reset if they can’t identify what’s wrong.

They clearly have no clue.
 
AntG168 said:
We can just agree to disagree. If he makes that layup and the rest of the game plays out the exact same, we win by 1
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That’s just not how things work lmao. You can’t change one thing and keep the rest the same. Weird thing to say.
 
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