Marquette Post Game Thread

[Husky Dad]

Tough to watch the team melt under the lights. The shots didn’t fall, missed foul shots, Jackson fouls out. Great players but one of them has to step up as the leader, someone who wants the ball at the end, who makes the shots when the others are missing. We need to move from group of talented players to a team with a willing leader. Jury is out on Hurly, he can recruit but it took him too long in the second half to get the defense to step up. Have to move from playing well within things going their way to being able to play when it isn’t all bouncing their way. UConn was more talented but well coached teams win.

 

[upstater]

I don't get the criticism on Hawkins shooting the 3 at the end. He had 2 seconds to shoot and did not get by his guy. Stepping back with 2 seconds left isn't the problem at the end of game. It's what happened before the 2 seconds that was a problem.

 

[UCfor3]

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

To their credit they have been waiting for this

It was all about poor execution down the stretch.

Some of it of course, but not all. One of our best shooters bricked 2 open looks. That is not poor execution. Guy just missed. Sucks but it happens. Newton, Hawk, and Andre all didn't play well and we lost by 2 to #6, the conference champ. The last possession was a disaster on several levels for sure though.

 

[KingAG]

He needed to call that timeout, that’s all. The move to zone was smart and successful. Even when the clock got to 5 and Newton couldn’t get anywhere, call a timeout and draw up a play. That is the stuff that he needs to fix, he tends to be an observer sometimes.

Touchè. I don’t think he was observing there though. Newton missed Sanogo wide open in the paint. The play was there, they just didn’t execute. Hindsight is 20/20. Disappointing result though. I wanted this one. I still think we’re the best team and it sucks. Hawkins has to have a quick mental turn around. We have to get out of the 1st weekend

 

[Edward Sargent]

I did see him yell at his own guys at some points which is quite the rarity.

Yeah he gave Sanogo a WTFWT at one point when he was guarding Kolek

 

[Senor Blue]

Got a good shooter 2 wide open looks.

Joey Coldcuts needs to hit those.

 

[mike012]

We were favorites for a reason. Should have won but blew it. Why you play the game.

 

[SportsFan88]

I did see him yell at his own guys at some points which is quite the rarity.

Yea he definitely got in sanogo and newton’s face

 

[wingsfan055]

Disappointing is my feeling right now about this team. UConn has the best raw talent in the BE and came up "fourth" in both the BE regular season and Tourny. Definitely not one of Hurley's best games, especially down the stretch. There is a difference between Good and Great and thats where this team is at - just good. Cant pull out the close ones when it counts. We saw this numerous times during the losing streak and we see it again tonight. We were near 5 point favorites against Marquette for a reason . A great team would have won this game.

 

[NJHusky]

Hawk tried to get free the whole night but he was draped. He should have gone to the rim, that I fault him for.

Shouldn’t the coach tell him and run plays to do so?

 

[GHSWolverines]

I’m not sure how to describe what Jackson did tonight, but it looked like he never had played defense it his life. He can’t take himself out of games like this

He does not know how to control his emotions

 

[pj]

This is our ceiling folks……one win in the BET

Anyone confident about next week??

The ceiling for the 2014 team was two wins in the AAC tournament.

 

[DW1361]

He needed to call that timeout, that’s all. The move to zone was smart and successful. Even when the clock got to 5 and Newton couldn’t get anywhere, call a timeout and draw up a play. That is the stuff that he needs to fix, he tends to be an observer sometimes.

I don’t know??? Did they have a time out?

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Got a good shooter 2 wide open looks.

Joey Coldcuts needs to hit those.

There was like half a second on the shot clock when Joey got his first 3. The possession was really bad.

 

[HooperScooper]

What's up with one thread for after game discussion?

 

[caw]

I’m not sure how to describe what Jackson did tonight, but it looked like he never had played defense it his life. He can’t take himself out of games like this

I said before I didn’t want him on Kolek, it’s not a good matchup for Jackson.

 

[YoungFree]

Luck was the Hawkins three. Their threes were mostly wide open shots that hit nothing but the bottom of the net. Hawkins was not on his man for one of those very easy threes.

Huh? That shot at the end of the shot clock with 2 players in his face like a zillion feet from the basket....that was luck

 

[giddyup]

Yesterday didn’t happen? Those weren’t bright lights? The atmosphere was insane. And we played probably our best minutes of the season while hitting huge shots to close it out. Shots just didn’t fall when we needed them to. That Kam Johnson prayer was amazing coaching by Smart. And Hurley is an idiot for drawing up plays that got his best shooters WIDE open looks in the last 3 minutes, a raging idiot. Right?

Not even close to accurate, but it requires critical thinking. At the minimum, the last possession was botched so badly it’s unbelievable.

 

[BiggieSmall]

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

It’s crazy because UConn Twitter complaining about the zone. The zone got us back in it. They couldn’t hit anything with Donovan in the paint. They hit a three when we put Hawk and Adama back in.

 

[DaveHuskiesFan]

You’re nuts. Why was Hawk on the floor down the stretch when he was stone cold and disengaged? Why wasn’t Clingan on the floor when he made a huge difference and shut them down? Why wasn’t Allyne, who was hot, not on the floor? Why no TO? Why playing for 3 instead of 2 when 99% of coaching days drive the lane? Yes, they got 2 good looks and missed. The last was atrocious and that last look mattered. You call TO, put in Clingan, you drive or dish to Karaban or Allyne, and puns the boards. Hurley is no clutch HC. Never has been.

Why was our best player in the game at the end of the game?

This is the dumbest collection of humans on the internet. And you’re the president.

 

[SubbaBub]

Hawk non-factor

AJ non-factor

Terrible defense all game

Yet still had a chance to beat a top ten team at the buzzer.

This team still controls its own fate and doesn't need to play perfectly to win.

 

[freshler40]

They got every shot they wanted. They didn’t have to make any tough shots

Newton should have driven to the hoop on the last possession, not end up in the corner and then pass with little time left to Hawkins. We only needed two points to tie! Strange decisions at key points.

 

[HitDog]

I was fine with no timeout. And should’ve passed to Adama

 

[mauconnfan]

Nope, he was cutting and using screens but you don’t think Shaka knows he’s one of the country’s best shooter? That was their defense on him

Everyone’s defense as of late not just Shaka? 12 for last 43. He’s just not making shots quite sure he dropped a few pegs with the next level.

 

[DW1361]

Huh? That shot at the end of the shot clock with 2 players in his face like a zillion feet from the basket....that was luck

Not sure what play? The guy who shot from almost half court was wide open and he had to put it up and he certainly was capable and proved it with nothing but net. That was not luck, just a guy who put up a pretty shot.

 

[gsmooth]

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.

That’s what bugged me the most. Marquette, hats off to them, their offense is really good. They outplayed UConn’s D on many possessions, which sucks, but I can accept it. It is the mental breakdowns on D where two guys are going to one player and leaving a player wide open for 3 that had me pulling my hair out

 

[VAHuskyFan]

That is the worst shooting game we are going to see from Hawkins. 1-8 from three. And if he was shooting a little better tonight it would have been 0-8 bc he doesn’t get the bank on the first shot (which was off by a country mile).

You gotta pull for him to just move on and put it behind him.

 

[FreeKlaiber]

example of hurley being a bad coach is his use of the 2-3...not that he used it, it actually WORKED with clingan in middle- its the fact how much did we use it all yr? 5 minutes? how can you not try it during yr, if you might use it in most important game of yr?....

or try the 2 bigs together in a 2-3- battle test it during the season....nope, same man hedge screen crap every game...

or if youre gonna have joey c in there to take 2 big 3's in closing minutes, explain how he didnt warrant a minute against seton hall?

just underutilization of clingan, & refusal to put him on block (psst hes 7-2, post him up danny)

great recruiter, mediocre bench coach

 

[UConnKev]

 

[UConnSwag11]

Nobody here is content with mediocrity. That's why I want more out of your posts. Gotta get some new material with your hate, it's always the same 5 cliches repeated over and over

It’s not hate. It hasn’t been since I started posting in 2009. I love watching the team and the university. I’m just not going to lie to myself with some moral victory thought

It gets repeated because it doesn’t get fixed. We have the same conversations after every loss, every year.

There was changes this year after our horrid slide and that was great, but you get judged by your wins and loss. We have nothing to show for 5 years.

Why did Diarra play when every game he was out we were rolling? He’s been bad. Why did Clingan play 4 minutes in the first half? He only played 6 in the second half and he changed the game. Then he never came back in and we looked lost. That’s coaching. Our defense let let shoot almost 50% from the floor and 40% from three.

Missing free throws and open shots aren’t on the coach.

I’ve never seen you and some other posters, ever have one criticism of Hurley’s in game coaching. Ever.