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Laundry list of Coach Hurley's shortcomings this year

Waquoit said:
After the game, I heard a commentator say Hurley was "strangely subdued". That's not it at all. He knows that the job has just begun. This team doesn't need the fist pumping. They got this.
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We don’t need crazy man Hurley. We need a coach in complete control of a dynamic team. Benching Sanogo and Hawkins for their stupid play, shows he is 100% in control.
 
Don't kid yourself.. Danny is benefiting from having a glass of Geno wine on the long ride back to Storrs(celebrating the Trophy) talking about/with Geno.. When you're 8-0.. How do you keep the team hungry? Geno knows and Danny learns. Coaching psychology no matter who your team is.
 
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nadavtheman said:
He would be wise to listen
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That's like a guy worth $100 million sitting next to a billionaire and talking to him about how to make money. Yeah, you might learn something, but you might also find it more useful to talk about something else.
 
pj said:
That's like a guy worth $100 million sitting next to a billionaire and talking to him about how to make money. Yeah, you might learn something, but you might also find it more useful to talk about something else.
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Yea.. Just a spin on what Hurley said about talkin' to Geno on the way out to the PKI on the plane and how it benefited him
 
pj said:
That's like a guy worth $100 million sitting next to a billionaire and talking to him about how to make money. Yeah, you might learn something, but you might also find it more useful to talk about something else.
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You’re not completely wrong here. I have seen guys humble bragging about their multi million dollar deals to a (near) billionaire. He was neither engaged nor impressed. On the other hand people who came to him after doing the groundwork with a specific question often got good advice or connected to helpful people.
 
Let us enjoy our team’s accomplishments but hold the bragging until we see the Huskies cut down the net that counts. They are a very good team but don’t count on a non-defeated season. They do not walk on water the court floor is still made of wood. Hey they are our team GO HUSKIES!,
 
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At the beginning he was trying to give the team an edge. Show the team he had their back. Now he has a team that won't get excited about a bad call. He'll be better this year because his team got this. Ps I don't think Hawkins will get another tech.
 
CL82 said:
You’re not completely wrong here. I have seen guys humble bragging about their multi million dollar deals to a (near) billionaire. He was neither engaged nor impressed. On the other hand people who came to him after doing the groundwork with a specific question often got good advice or connected to helpful people.
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Article on the Yard about Geno and Danny bonding on the way out to PKI earlier in the week.. That's all that's goin' on in my comments.
 
Evidently, he's too smug by half...
 
I think the one fair critique of Danny was his handling of offensive sets but this is his first roster entirely his own design and he is obviously killing it. Talent >>>>>
 
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Umami Zen said:
Don't kid yourself.. Danny is benefiting from having a glass of Geno wine on the long ride back to Storrs(celebrating the Trophy) talking about/with Geno.. When you're 8-0.. How do you keep the team hungry?
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nadavtheman said:
He would be wise to listen
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Gives a whole new meaning........................ Wait...........................To flying coach. ;)
 
Coach Hurley is in his 5th season. This is where he moves out of the shadow and into the light.

Every player on the team is someone he brought in. From the freshmen to the squad he shoplifted from the transfer portal....

All Hurley approved players, brought in precisely because they are his style of player, bought into his system.

A big piece that he has now, as he had not really had at his previous jobs is UConn. The brand name of the school has, IMHO, opened more doors for him to entice 3, 4, and 5 star prospects he may not have been able to entice at previous gigs.

This year is not only a special place and time for the program, but a sneak preview of our future.
 
Ok I will bite.

He’s been really good, most rotations much better. But a noticeable weakness is in bounds plays. Seems either Sanogo or Clingan are getting lobs 90% of the time sometimes in corners, not good. Can we get a guard an open look or just open please.

There!!!
 
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Your list of what Hurley needs to do was empty, but the brainiacs on the yard have two threads here saying:
  1. He needs to find ways to play Clingan and Sanogo together
  2. He needs to stop being smug
Classic Boneyard.
 
mauconnfan said:
Ok I will bite.

He’s been really good, most rotations much better. But a noticeable weakness is in bounds plays. Seems either Sanogo or Clingan are getting lobs 90% of the time sometimes in corners, not good. Can we get a guard an open look or just open please.

There!!!
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Yeah I’ve noticed that too - but any chance he’s just holding onto those plays? We really haven’t been in a position to NEED a bucket off inbounds. Maybe he’s just keeping those plays hidden for now. Past years we’ve had decent inbounds plays so he does have them in the bag.
 
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Anyone else think that those early fouls in the second half of the Iowa State game were as much to bait Hurley into a technical as to even the fouls.

I was really happy he kept his cool.
 
UChusky916 said:
Your list of what Hurley needs to do was empty, but the brainiacs on the yard have two threads here saying:
  1. He needs to find ways to play Clingan and Sanogo together
  2. He needs to stop being smug
Classic Boneyard.
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I have posted thoughts in past years that critiqued Hurley's offense and player rotations. I, like the rest of diehard UConn fans here, had gotten frustrated by the sometimes ugly play on the court. But you know what, look at this year's roster (only players who have seen some minutes):

Returning players:
Hawkins, Jackson, Johnson, Sanogo, Springs (5)

New players:
Alleyne, Calcaterra, Clingan, Diarra, Karaban, Newton (6)

Hurley has incorporated more than half a roster of NEW players and solved the Rubic's Cube of roster combinations that has our team playing at an insanely high team-oriented level.

Don't look forward to March, yet. Enjoy this season, each game as it comes. It is shaping up to be as special as the Dream Season, coming after a long period of sub-par results. Hurley can do no wrong.
 
Umami Zen said:
Article on the Yard about Geno and Danny bonding on the way out to PKI earlier in the week.. That's all that's goin' on in my comments.
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I wasn’t replying to you
 
mauconnfan said:
Ok I will bite.

He’s been really good, most rotations much better. But a noticeable weakness is in bounds plays. Seems either Sanogo or Clingan are getting lobs 90% of the time sometimes in corners, not good. Can we get a guard an open look or just open please.

There!!!
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Do you have a list of coaches or teams that do well on inbounds plays? I swear when I watch basketball nobody has ever stuck out in that regard.
 
Huskyforlife said:
Do you have a list of coaches or teams that do well on inbounds plays? I swear when I watch basketball nobody has ever stuck out in that regard.
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Honestly have no list but will note who in the future. Because I watch games quite often and think to myself how come we can’t get a shot like that off an in bounds or an alley pop. But for you I will begin to not who, good?
 
UconnPT2007 said:
Hurley just seems very pleased and a little less animated this year - likely because he sees a final four caliber team playing well. None of the games have been close.
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I want to find the source, maybe someone can help (I posted this in another thread too) but I remember Hurley being quoted as saying that once his teams become better, and better at executing, he will chill out more and more because his "animated" side won't be as necessary, at least not so often. I still think if Uconn gets a poor call late in a close game vs, let's say, Creighton, we will see the Hurley we have seen in the past and even get T'ed up. Of course lets hope he doesn't get any Ts.
 
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