Marquette Post Game Thread

[FfldCntyFan]

Kolek is so good….

So good that I hate him. ( not really)
If he was in a Duke uniform, then I’d hate him(really)

Kolek should have fouled out with a little over a minute left. We had at least four fouls called on us after a defensive rebound with far less contact than Kolek trying to shove Newton out of bounds.

That said, our basketball IQ (or, more specially lack thereof) killed us tonight. We could have won going away. With two significant players having very off nights if we were just a little smarter.

 

[Scoe]

3 years and no BE finals it’s not good enough

 

[Scrappy3]

No blame We had chances many x. I wish we won but we didn’t. Marquette not better but they won. Good luck to them

 

[Stinger92860]

Poor free throw shooting also. Dan Hurley why no timeout the end? Too many minutes for hawk and AJ. And changed to Zone way too late

 

[superjohn]

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

Hugely disappointing game from him. He really looked like he turned the corner and was dominating games for long stretches but then late second half yesterday happened and this game happened.

 

[DW1361]

Me thinks he was told Jordan was to take the last shot and was afraid to take it. Only down two and Hurley draws up a three? Why didn’t Newton take the shot when he has space with more than three seconds on the clock?

 

[CardiacAndre7]

5-24 from our back court. This story happens too often. These guys just don’t have any headiness to end games.

 

[SwingDog]

Horrible last possession. It appeared nobody knew how much time was on the clock. We had plenty of chances with several missed open 3's from Calcaterra (one he should have taken closer to the rim) and also some misses from Hawkins. As hot as Marquette was from 3 and how ice cold we were, we lost by 2 points. We didn't play our best, and Marquette's stifling defense had a lot to do with it, but it was a great game to watch.

 

[Fishy]

We needed two points in the last four minutes and no one could figure out how to get them.

Great. Just great.

I assume Danny can use that time out next week, right? Do they carry over? Can we redeem it for cash?

 

[UConnSwag11]

That didn't matter at the end. The end was player execution.

We wouldn’t have had to worry about that be we had Marquette on their heels and had the momentum. We have had this conversation the entire season about Hurley and his choose of not playing Clingan

 

[Bazz4A]

Lol are people really blaming Hurley for this? They lost because the core guys sucked. It happens - give us a 4 seed and let’s go.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

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

Adama was dominating down low and getting boards. Stop.

 

[Gutter King]

Hawkins 2-12 Newton 2-10.

And one of those was a way off target bank. At that point you think that he might use that fortune to roll to a huge night. Or it was a sign of things to come. Off night, bad timing for it.

 

[uconnbill]

The bottom line is you can't miss wide-open shots and should have penetrated which UConn can't seem to do.

That is a tough loss now onto the NCAA's hopefully as a three seed

 

[Scoe]

Joey had 2 very very open 3 the last 2 minutes you gotta make them Marquette did.

 

[T-Squared]

You can’t take the timeout home. What on earth is Hurley thinking? Just terrible execution. Hawk and AJax didn’t step up when we needed them. They were both very, very poor. We just don’t have a killer instinct.

Hawk: a no-show. Marquette totally took him out of the game.

Hurley: I can understand Hurley wanting to see if UConn had a spacing advantage when Newton pushed the ball upcourt, but it was obvious that they did not, so calling a TO was necessary to set up a good final shot.

 

[JMick]

A timeout gives the defense a chance to set up too. Going off the rebound lets you get a look in transition, semi-transition, a broken play, whatever. I don't mind that.

What I do mind is Jackson and Hawkins showing up small again. These guys are running out of time to show that they're winners.

If we were trading buckets back and forth and in rhythm down the stretch I'd agree. But we were lost the previous 4 possessions.

Call a timeout. Do your job and call a play. Give the guys some direction and put the loss on your play call or execution of the play

 

[Stinger92860]

Another Dan Hurley swing and miss during post season

 

[upstater]

You guys are blaming Newton for 2-10 but at least 5 or 6 of those shots he was hammered hard. You're not going to make a shot when you get clobbered

 

[martyn]

Why didn't anyone EXCEPT Hawkins take the last shot, after the game he had.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

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

If our players outside of Clingan hit free throws at a normal rate we win. There were a number of additional things we could have done to make it a win.

 

[superjohn]

Joey missed two open shots, it would have been great execution if they went down.

No it wouldn't have. We were scrambling and those weren't good options. Hawk needed to take the midrange shot on the first one.

 

[Edward Sargent]

Absolutely nothing good happened when Tristen went to the basket. Nothing. He had a horrible game. As if he went through the motions.

Very concerning since he lost a start yesterday.

Newton was mugged ever time to the hoop he wasn’t the problem

 

[UConnSwag11]

Before the game Hurley said he owns msg. We have nothing to show for it. Incredibly frustrating

 

[CardiacAndre7]

A timeout gives the defense a chance to set up too. Going off the rebound lets you get a look in transition, semi-transition, a broken play, whatever. I don't mind that.

What I do mind is Jackson and Hawkins showing up small again. These guys are running out of time to show that they're winners.

It also gives you the chance to draw up a play. And Marquette’s defense was already set up, so that doesn’t matter here.

 

[uconnever]

Also Joey C had two WIDE open looks in the end to put us ahead, but it’s Hurley’s fault he missed them

 

[storrsroars]

Why didn't anyone else take the last shot?

Not Hawkins' night, find a hotter hand, which was 4 other guys.

 

[Palatine]

Me thinks he was told Jordan was to take the last shot and was afraid to take it. Only down two and Hurley draws up a three? Why didn’t Newton take the shot when he has space with more than three seconds on the clock?

Nothing was drawn up. They rebounded the foul shot and kept the ball in play.

The previous possession was drawn up and Joey got a wide open three.

 

[uconngb]

Nm

It’s March, it’s close, we lose

Anyone surprised??

 

[kobebeanbryant]

the last 5 possessions it seemed like we had no plan at all on offense.