Marquette Post Game Thread

[kansashusky]

Hooooo boy I hope you are right. That would quadruple dan Hurley’s tournament win total in his whole coaching career. Bold prediction!

Triple*

 

[CardiacAndre7]

IMO Dan Hurley is NOT on the hot seat. Not close either. You guys remember where this program was when he started? You remember our record the year he took over? I do - we were 14-18. We are now trying to figure out if we are a 3 or 4 seed going into the NCAA Tournament and also have a great class coming in with good pieces already on roster. Yeah we lost, but it was by 2 to the number 6 team in the country and our best pure scorer going 2-11. We lost a toss up game, it happens. We have the pieces to make a nice run. We are capable.

Everyone knows where we were and how much we’ve improved. But we need to win when it counts. If we don’t this year, the talk gets louder.

 

[jibsey]

Yes, we set literally hundreds of screens a game and Hawkins runs off double screens to get 3's non-stop. This is just an incredibly dumb take

And Hawk was very closely guarded tonight. He didn’t hit his opportunities but he tried to free up. I credit Marquette. The good news is that we have answers on our roster that give us a chance for a good run.

 

[gsmooth]

The Taliek-esq made 3 by Jones at the end of the shot clock was a killer. We had just come back to tie the game and then he hits that shot.

Sure but to be fair Hawk banked a 3 in that had no business going in. It evened out

 

[uconngb]

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

Hurley has proven this 3 years in a row. Tell me I’m wrong

 

[Hi-Low]

But this is the best team Hurley has had and may ever have at UConn. There's no such thing as a step forward year in college basketball with one and done players and the portal. You need to win now with what you have as you can just as easily be worse next year, your competitors can get better, recruits not gel or any combination of these. It's a different world now. Like Apollo Creed said, "There is no tomorrow!" or Eminem said, "You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow, this opportunity comes once in a lifetime." I encourage all players to listen to Eminem before every big game. The ultimate hype and focus song. Sieze the moment, or let it slip by.

I'm confused...is the season over? This season has been better than last but by no means is anyone satisfied. Let's talk next week.

 

[JohnFSilver]

Okay, who recruits the players, creates and instills the philosophy, picks the coaching staff, calls the plays, picks the subbing pattern, calls the timeouts, and gets paid the big bucks?

It’s year 5. He’s gotten every player he wanted.

If you call a time out with 5 seconds left, Marquette is so quick, they will just switch every pick.

Calcaterra had 3 wide open 3s. Hawkins had twi as well.

Gotta knockdown shots.

Next weekend, if they get the same shots they probably will win.

I think both teams played well. Does anyone not like the shots UConn got last 3 minutes? And those came with really amazing ball pressure.

UConn doesn’t have a breakdown player and an elite ball handler. Give credit to a very good Marquette team .

 

[UCan3]

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.

Umm the Player the Year candidate from Marquette seemed to find ways to get open. I didn’t see to many double teams on Hawkins unless I missed it.

I agree the defense was good but he needed to be better tonight,

 

[Dibbie]

OK, Xavier would have beaten us a 3rd time tomorrow. I’m not so upset anymore

 

[ElGreco]

Hawk lost a lil bit of money tonight

He had zero fouls. Hurley should have told him to force a couple of 3’s late and try snd draw fouls.

 

[JohnFSilver]

Dan Hurley is not on hot seat...period.

Lol. Hurley is nowhere near the hot seat. Haha. How do people come up with this stuff?

They would need 3 years of no NCAA for him to go.

 

[jibsey]

IMO Dan Hurley is NOT on the hot seat. Not close either. You guys remember where this program was when he started? You remember our record the year he took over? I do - we were 14-18. We are now trying to figure out if we are a 3 or 4 seed going into the NCAA Tournament and also have a great class coming in with good pieces already on roster. Yeah we lost, but it was by 2 to the number 6 team in the country and our best pure scorer going 2-11. We lost a toss up game, it happens. We have the pieces to make a nice run. We are capable.

He’s recruiting well and getting good transfers. For people who are unhappy think about being St. John’s, Cuse, Georgetown. We are a top 20 program and probably staying that way with what’s coming. What do people want?

 

[upstater]

I'm going to say something crazy: Xavier has a much better chance to advance in the tourney than Marquette. Of course, with a 2 seed, Marquette might have an easy path s it gets the 7-10 game in the 2nd round. But the BE does these teams no favors. Watching a lot of college ball, this is not a team that can compete with the best in the US. Kolek wins POY in this league, which is insane to me. He was in the Atlantic 10 and shot under 40% and under 30% from 3???? He deserved the award, but I think this league was overrated this year. 6 wins from playing DePaul, Butler and Georgetown for all the top teams.

I know in my brackets no BE team will get past the S16 except for UConn.

 

[HCCForever]

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 is good but he missed a shot at the end as well. Joey C missed at least 3 under 5 minutes. I believe that Newton and Clingan both missed the front-end of 1 and 1's as well under 10. Need to be better in close game. But still enjoyable to watch and kind of nice to have that tight feeling again watching a MBB game.

 

[Jimdish255]

And Hawk was very closely guarded tonight. He didn’t hit his opportunities but he tried to free up. I credit Marquette. The good news is that we have answers on our roster that give us a chance for a good run.

Marquette has a guard that would be the missing link for us. We are 1 player short of being consistently very good if not great. It's who we are right now and all the screens in the world aren't going to change that. We can win some games but guard depth and quality wins championships.

 

[upstater]

He had zero fouls. Hurley should have told him to force a couple of 3’s late and try snd draw fouls.

He drove a few times, did not draw fouls, lol.

I think we need to accept that UConn will not draw fouls on drives in the BE for the forseeable future.

Andre Jackson's 4th foul was comical given what we saw earlier.

 

[T-Squared]

The period in the 2nd half when Marquette had three of their best players on the bench with 4 fouls each was the time that the Huskies could have taken the lead and control of the game. It’s disturbing that they did no such thing.

 

[kemba]

Everyone knows where we were and how much we’ve improved. But we need to win when it counts. If we don’t this year, the talk gets louder.

Goes from 27 people on twitter and the boneyard to 38 people on twitter and the boneyard. The rest live in reality.

 

[Pmac923]

I think this team is very good, but yes I agree they are not great. With great UConn teams I didn’t worry about match ups and the draw. For this NCAAT I am worried about bad match ups

I’m not worried about draws. Focus on getting clean looks for your first team big East talents. Stop living by the 3 ball. Run, run, run. Play Clingan. We beat ourselves. Have we lost any game this year when we played well? I like the starting lineup of Newton Hawkins Alleyne Sanogo Karaban . Bring Jackson off the bench. It worked in Oregon. We should consider going back to it .

 

[SEbluebood]

Better get us now

Seriously!! They got us before, today and someone will get us next week if we can’t score more than four points in the last six minutes of a NCAA tournament game. So far, the “clutch” gene has not shown itself to be present in the DNA of this team. Promises of a brighter future are empty until they actually happen!

 

[T-Squared]

He killed us on the floor, didn’t do a thing to help and played bad defense. He was more frustrating than Hawk because he’s an upperclassman and should eventually get things right, but never did.

Disagree. The lack of scoring from Hawkins was much more detrimental.

 

[uconngb]

Sanogo was -11 in 30 minutes.
Clingan was +9 in 10 minutes.

Been like that all friggin year

 

[JMick]

I just don’t understand the argument of we were number 2 at one point.

you can't understand it because it's incomprehensible. big syracuse T-shirt energy.

 

[superjohn]

I'm going to say something crazy: Xavier has a much better chance to advance in the tourney than Marquette. Of course, with a 2 seed, Marquette might have an easy path s it gets the 7-10 game in the 2nd round. But the BE does these teams no favors. Watching a lot of college ball, this is not a team that can compete with the best in the US. Kolek wins POY in this league, which is insane to me. He was in the Atlantic 10 and shot under 40% and under 30% from 3???? He deserved the award, but I think this league was overrated this year. 6 wins from playing DePaul, Butler and Georgetown for all the top teams.

I know in my brackets no BE team will get past the S16 except for UConn.

Lolz.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Goes from 27 people on twitter and the boneyard to 38 people on twitter and the boneyard. The rest live in reality.

What’s your response/feeling if we lose in the first round again? The last two seasons we’ve been incredibly flat in the tournament, another one and it’s not a coincidence anymore…

 

[HuskyinWRNY]

Tough game, their defense was swarming

 

[3rdbass]

I'm still baffled why we didn't get the ball to Sanogo in 2 of last plays. One were Hawkins had Sanogo wide open down low and decided to give it to Newton further out with the shot clock winding down and the last play of the game neither Newton or Karaban passed the ball to an open Sanogo down low and instead gave it to Hawkins with only 2 seconds left on the shot clock. Not having Jackson in at this part killed us and normally I'm not a fan but Sanogo was the only person scoring and we needed to get it down low. We just needed a 2 and not a 3. Ugh.

 

[gsmooth]

Hawkins was having a bad night, yes.
But some posters actually wanted him, the leagues top scorer and teams top scorer, out of the game the last couple of possessions ?

No coach would or should do that to their top scorer.

Exactly correct. Can u imagine the reaction if UConn had the last 2 possessions and Hawk was not in the game? People on here would skewered Hurley for not hi in the game

 

[uconngb]

It means nothing without any hardware and no NCAA tournament success. There's a ton of pressure on Hurley to make it out of the first weekend next week. We certainly have the team to go much further it's why so many people are picking us for the final 4 but he just has to make it out of the first weekend which shouldn't be difficult to do with this group.

If we flame out again some serious soul searching needs to be done. The guy can recruit, but March is ground hog day over and over and that’s all that matters around here. This is getting tiring, we ain’t Providence.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Disagree. The lack of scoring from Hawkins was much more detrimental.

Hawk was on the floor and gave it his all, Andre limited himself by bad defense and bad decision making