Marquette Post Game Thread

[yungdowork]

Pretty tough loss after we scrapped our way back in to it. On the other hand though, Joey had two good looks from 3 to win that game despite Hawkins and Newton combining to go 4-20 and Jackson having almost no impact.

 

[Jbirdp5]

Ain't no Shaka, Danny was out Smarted.

I think Hurley countered very well in the second half, the zone slowed them way down… we missed too many shots, you just say a cute line with nothing behind it

 

[jibsey]

Shooting 3s when we need 2 at the end.

We wanted the win, ok? we had looks and didn’t convert. On another note Hawk is hot and we beat them. As we did recently.

 

[uconnfan68]

Ain't no Shaka, Danny was out Smarted.

Just has clueless players. They got lots of open 3s. Poor communication.

 

[k-walk]

Somebody update the close game record

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Look at what Marquette shot from the field. We didn’t lose bc of Hawkins.

Well, if he just plays bad instead of awful, we probably win.

 

[Tyler2Rings]

AJax continues to be an enigma. Was he just too amped up? Tough to win with him on the bench 90% of the game

 

[navery12]

Got 2 great looks for Calcaterra and he didn't hit either one. Tough way to go out

 

[HobokenHusky]

The close game tightness has to be addressed somehow. You have to win close games in March.

It’s so clearly mental at this point, brutal to watch. We were down 2 with 2 minutes left and I knew the game was over.

 

[Spaceman213J]

Don't get why we didn't see DC again. No player fears Sanogo when he's on defense. Hurley could even have put both of them out there for a bit. Would like to know the +/- differential was when DC was on the floor.

 

[UCan3]

I said to my son in the beginining of the season, no matter how good you are, during the BE tournament and NCAA it is going to come down to the last couple of possessions.

If this was the first time it happened I woudl not be as concerned but we can say this is a trend now.

Why can’t we run a play for Karaban as he seems lhe’s the only one that wants the ball during crunch time! No one else does that much is apparent - square up Jordan! Why you falliing away!

And dang Clingan tonight, can he can learn to get a better handle on the ball? Most rebounds or loose ball he lunges and never comes up with ball. For every easy putaback he has, he should have 3.

 

[nomar]

Shooting 3s when we need 2 at the end.

He shot a 3 because we were incapable of getting the ball inside the arc within 11 seconds.

 

[uconnever]

Tired of posters saying it’s bad coaching. I saw so many lazy plays by us throughout and no communication. That’s not Hurley’s fault. I know you guys saw it when he grabbed Sanogo and Newton and said, what the duck are you guys doing?. They seemed tired from yesterday, just low energy.

 

[ctchamps]

Newton missed front end of a 1and 1 and we ran two great plays to get to a wide open Joey and he bricked them. The last one was after a timeout to set him up.

Otherwise great game by two great teams.

 

[JoeyBuckets]

Hawkins 2-12 Newton 2-10.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Well, if he just plays bad instead of awful, we probably win.

Not when our defense plays like that

 

[superjohn]

It's just one game. But unfortunately now we really need two wins in the NCAAT for this to be considered a successful season to me. I said in September we needed 3 post-season wins, and I still feel the same way. Gets that much harder with another quick BET exit.

Not feeling great right now.

If we don't win 2 games in the tournament it's going to be a terrible look. Fingers crossed we go on a run.

 

[BFieldHusky]

Not going to beat a top 6 team with Hawkins shooting like this.

 

[Colin G]

On to MM. Don't lie to yourselves this is a different level of achievement than other years. Sucks we lost. On to March. We control our destiny going forward. Hard to beat a team after they want revenge for kicking their A**. Lets get back to MSG again this year. Redemption time. Don't trash Hawkins he was being face guarded by a 6'9" lethal athlete. Could we have won this game? Yes. If we win even ONE game in the NCAA's we've gotten "over the hump" tough game but we don't remember losing in the AAC conference tourney in 2014 for a reason. On to the tournament. I love this team I love this fanbase I love rooting for this team and bottom worst case scenario we just watch a college basketball game that's as good as it gets. We lost vs a team that we match up with poorly.

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[connVA]

My only complaint is that we didn’t call a TO at the end.

Hawkins still has a lot to work on.

Two complaints- 1) If you’ve got a team that’s notoriously bad in end of game situations, why don’t you take the TO to get things organized? 2) What was going on with all the miscommunication on perimeter defense? Ton of wide open corner threes when one guy was caught trying to cover two shooters.

 

[YoungFree]

I think Hurley countered very well in the second half, the zone slowed them way down… we missed too many shots, you just say a cute line with nothing behind it

People keep mixing up player execution with coach planning

 

[Classof87]

Shooting 3s when we need 2 at the end.

100%. Overtime would have been fine w me, their core guys all had 4.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Everyone still out here for moral victories when we were the favorites coming in. Nothing to show for it.

 

[Scoe]

Team is allergic to greatness.

 

[UConnSwag11]

People keep mixing up player execution with coach planning

Who took Clingan out and didn’t play him again?