Marquette Post Game Meltdown Thread

[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

 

[Hunt for 7]

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.

The zone at the end of the game. Don’t get that at all. I would have been ok with it earlier in the game when they were making their runs to change pace but to go zone when clock is your enemy is not a very good strategic move.

 

[UCFan1513]

Losing 3 tough road games to 3 top 25 teams. Wish they won but I'll judge them by how they respond to this adversity. Remember 2011 went 9-9 in the Big East. This isn't the same BE but it's still a damn tough league

Found myself thinking this, but this team doesn’t have a generational shot creator and leader so doesn’t instill much confidence

 

[superjohn]

Clingan is better than Sanogo.

 

[polycom]

Not being able to get downhill is our downfall when we are hitting 3s from everywhere. Teams aren’t going to let Hawkins get open looks we need to run plays to get down hill.

 

[CheshireCat]

The problem UConn faces isn't just that Clingan is a better, prototype 5 that can flat-out dominate a CBB game, it's that they lack the PG to exploit that talent.

Clingan dominated and they pick and rolled the bleep out of them. They exploited it just fine while he was in there. He just can’t play 40 minutes obviously. Sanogo was a walking turnover.

 

[#1 PA Husky Fan]

We get zero guard penetration. Solve that and you get kick-outs, and easier shots for bigs.

 

[Greathusky]

We are going nowhere with Newton at the point. He looks like a scared deer out there. Also, do we lead the NCAAs in fouling three-point shooters? Christ back off!

 

[wheelerdog]

100%. We don’t have a guard that can finish. When the defense runs out at our guards, there’s no fear in any of them going to the hoop. Our guards shoot or pass, lack the handle and the ability to go inside or feast from the stripe.

This guard play will lead to a 2nd round exit. There's no getting around it.

 

[husky429]

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.

I would say this was Hurley's C+ game. I wasn't blue on the face yelling at my TV, but some changes came a few possessions too late for sure.

He needs to get better. Particularly with halftime adjustments IMO. Seems like we come out WAITING for their adjustment to adjust instead of anticipating and making our own.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I have said it in several places, but the fact that there is not a single road win in the games among Providence, UConn, Marquette, Creighton and Xavier is weird, and does not feel like a coincidence.