Marquette Post Game Meltdown Thread

[tentoes4rings]

Score was 20-15 Marquette and then we went up by 9 with Clingan in, so a 14 point swing. Adama comes back in and they cough up 7 right away. Clingan should have played 30 minutes tonight, Hurley even said at halftime they couldn’t match up with him.

 

[Fishy]

I feel like having at least one point guard on the roster would have been a good idea.

Defense is not very good. Offense is just sketchy.

We don’t have a great player on the roster who can take over a game. If anyone expect that to be Hawkins, lord, no. He’s just a good shooting guard - nothing more.

 

[Candyman]

I have concerns, but we played the 4 other best teams in conference all in a row, 3 of them on the road. We should be 7-3 in the conference after the next 3.

Now the home games are must wins. Ya’ll can say it was cause they were home I’m not so sure. We shall see if we can beat what will probably be a top 10 Xavier, and top 15 Providence at home.

 

[rman726]

Some of y’all haven’t been through the gamut of a competitive Big East and it shows.

I know the Big East is tough. It doesn't excuse the complete lack of in-game changes that Hurley refused to make. Marquette on a big run to come back? Maybe we should change something? Dan's like nah, I decided five minutes ago that these five guys would be playing the next seven minutes, so they are going to play the next seven minutes. It's just awful coaching.

 

[TheRealKBuks]

Some of y’all haven’t been through the gamut of a competitive Big East and it shows.

No matter how many likes this post gets, it'll still be underrated

 

[Valleyfan]

I’m glad Hurley at least recognized how much more effective Clingan was.

 

[Palatine]

We were up 11 with Clingan and Marquette when on huge run as soon as Dan Hurley went back to Sanogo. I think Sanogo had four TOs on the next six possessions after he went back in.

 

[Griffman]

Better coach wins. Dan was in a deep sleep during the runs and refused to make any changes through the various Marquette runs. It took him 30 minutes to realize that Clingan is simply a better matchup against Marquette than Sanogo.

Better coach wins. Dan was in a deep sleep during the runs and refused to make any changes through the various Marquette runs. It took him 30 minutes to realize that Clingan is simply a better matchup against Marquette than Sanogo.

Stop blaming Hurley on his in game coaching for this loss. We can nitpick every decision until we are blue in the face. Maybe we just don’t have the guard play that it takes to win consistently game after game in this league. Nothing tonight from Newton, Hawkins or Diarra.

 

[HuskyFich]

20/10/5 for Clingan. 17/7 for Karaban. No one showed up to play except our freshmen. Zero excuses in a critical game… now 3.5 games out of first place. Our defense stunk. Another recent opponent who finished shooting 50%. Our 3pt prowess is now officially dead.

Up 11 in first half with Clingan on the floor. Sub in Sanogo and the other zero-energy starters and that momentum disappears. Hurley’s late game matchup zone was lipstick on a pig. But I don’t blame him. This one’s on our big 3.

The zone was the only way to keep Clingan on the floor. They hit tough 3s.

Not blaming the zebras much in this one, but that “foul” against Jackson was a huge momentum stopper

 

[UConnSwag11]

I’m glad Hurley at least recognized how much more effective Clingan was.

Took him too long. He even cooled him in the first half

 

[HailUConn]

Dan is definitely out coached, I don’t care if you dislike. When Sanogo is much of a ghost defensively and a turn over machine offensively (I’m counting 5 turnovers) while Marquette has no answers for DC, it’s Dan to blame.

 

[UCFan1513]

Just crazy…

 

[UConnSwag11]

We were up 11 with Clingan and Marquette when on huge run as soon as Dan Hurley went back to Sanogo. I think Sanogo had four TOs on the next six possessions after he went back in.

Teams are not afraid of our starting lineup. Both offensively and defensively. They’ve become horrendous

 

[August_West]

I'm going to stick with the positive here: we have a GREAT future in Karaban and Clingan. Another off-season of conditioning and skill work is going to take these guys to all-big east level performance next year.

But we will still have the same coach at game time. He’s has to get better. Hope he does. He does everything else well. He spit the bit tonight and handed Marquette the game. You could’ve handled rotations better tonight. I am being sincere.

 

[BigFanCT]

I am in pretty deep denial that we lost this game. This should have been a 10 point win. We had every opportunity to open this game up and we didn’t. We outrebounded them. They (finally!) had more fouls than us!

Take a look at our starters +/- tonight and how long they stayed in.

I think we need to talk about Dan, our “savior”. Yep, he can recruit (for now), yep, he can put them through tough practices. We certainly know he can yell and make faces when he’s mad.
But man - he goes into a game with a plan and he does not stray from it. Or he holds onto it WAYYY too long after it’s way too late. He’s indecisive. And it rubs off on the players.

If Clingan came in before the 12 min mark, this game would have had a much different outcome. The man could not be stopped tonight. Why did it take so long for Danny to realize this after watching him dominate all 1st half?

So here we are….3 losses….something many of us would take….but we can’t beat the good Big East teams. We’ve seemed to completed lost our defensive identity at the beginning of the year.

People should be angry. And people should seriously question.

We got a recruiter (for now). But do we have a coach?

 

[mauconnfan]

Still need to get down hill. But more importantly get the ball out of Newtons hands and let AJ run the point.

nope they don’t even guard AJ and he wasn’t good at all tonight either. Nor was our 1st rounder Hawk.

 

[HailUConn]

0-17 against ranked teams on the road if you were curious.

Yikes.

 

[3RingsCT]

Our second half defense has been a mess. All three losses have been with the opposition making second have adjustments while we do absolutely nothing.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

 

[HuskyFich]

Stop blaming Hurley on his in game coaching for this loss. We can nitpick every decision until we are blue in the face. Maybe we just don’t have the guard play that it takes to win consistently game after game in this league. Nothing tonight from Newton, Hawkins or Diarra.

Stevie Mitchell was a gd menace on D tonight. We couldn’t get a single offensive set moving.

PG play is the issue, and it has been all season long

 

[Palatine]

Hawkins is too easy to take out of a game.

It's Hurley's job to get Hawkins in a position to affect the game. The stuff we ran for him didn't get him open at all. It didn't look like it was Hawkins fault, he was working his butt off.

 

[August_West]

The zone was the only way to keep Clingan on the floor. They hit tough 3s.

Not blaming the zebras much in this one, but that “foul” against Jackson was a huge momentum stopper

Lol no. The zone was the dumbest thing iver ever seen under 2 minutes when we need ball pressure.

 

[CaptainRon]

They just executed better down the stretch.

Sanogo played poorly

Perhaps would have liked that zone earlier in the game and go back to man for crunch time.

Better execution down the stretch. Where have I heard that before?

 

[UncleSpliff]

Stop blaming Hurley on his in game coaching for this loss. We can nitpick every decision until we are blue in the face. Maybe we just don’t have the guard play that it takes to win consistently game after game in this league. Nothing tonight from Newton, Hawkins or Diarra.

Hurley hasn’t won an away game against a ranked team since he got here…

 

[mauconnfan]

On a side note I thought Chris Walker did an admirable job as the color guy calling the game.

 

[HuskyFich]

Lol no. The zone was the dumbest thing iver ever seen under 2 minutes when we need ball pressure.

How was ball pressure the other 38 minutes tonight?

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Our PGs are hurting us, like losing the game hurting us. Kolek is a real PG, Newton could learn a thing or two. Our bench is non existent, Clingan excluding. Our defense has been really bad in the BE, it’s weird. Teams just get what they want against us.

Sanogo, AJ and Hawk just don’t step up when we need them to. The Big 3 certainly isn’t that.

We can’t lose any of these upcoming games? there is literally no excuse. Hurley and co need to fire these starters up, and get anything out of these bench Guards.

I went from anticipating a FF run to hoping for 2nd weekend really quickly. This has to turn around somehow.

 

[UDann]

The guard play is killing this team. Can’t win tough league road games with brutal guard play.

Unfortunately the guards don’t create shots for themselves. Plus too many turnovers. Hoping they get it together.

 

[tcf15]

Best road win in the league right now is probably Providence at Seton Hall.

Creighton’s (0/3) last chance for a good road win is against Providence.

UConn’s (0/3) last chance is against Creighton.

Marquette’s (0/1) got three chances left against Xavier, UConn and Creighton.

Providence and Xavier still have road games against each other, UConn, Creighton and Marquette.

Let’s see what happens.

 

[Sportsfan71]

0-17 against ranked teams on the road if you were curious.

Wow, good gracious

 

[mauconnfan]

Lol no. The zone was the dumbest thing iver ever seen under 2 minutes when we need ball pressure.

When we got it to 1 possession to not be playing man was ridiculous. Agree AW