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Memphis Post Game Thread

Obviously, everyone was going to overreact whenever we had our first loss. Look at the length of this post-game thread! Where is everyone when we win? Not an Aaron Rodgers fan but R E L A X. It's early, we will learn from this (you could argue it was needed), we got hosed on the calls, they shot lights out, and most importantly, let's not forget every game this season we will get every team's best shot+. They want to slay the dragon and will go all out. No other team in the country faces that level of push from their competition. They were harassing us all game and got away with it. We will be stronger for it and more prepared for March than any other team because of this dynamic no matter our seed.
 
UConnJim said:
According to EvanMiya stats, the two lowest rated defenders are Ball and Mahaney and they are the starting backcourt. Today, it showed as they could not stop their guards.

Spencer was rated as a very poor defender at Rutgers, but he improved considerably at UConn so there is still hope for Mahaney. Ball is a sophomore who didn't play a lot last year, so I would expect improvement as well.
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I have all the confidence in Ball. He has all the tools - no clue why he struggles. Mahaney? no chance he jumps like Spencer. Spencer had Clingan behind him and got to take the lesser defensive assignment due to Castle and Newton. Diarra coming in helped as well.

There won't be a single game this year where Mahaney is not guarding a player who is one or more of the following attributes: bigger, stronger, quicker, or more athletic. Sometimes all 4 like today. Doesn't have the team defense behind him to make up for his shortcomings.
 
CardiacAndre7 said:
Another example of what @superjohn referred to earlier. Hurley has said this so much about being defending/back2back champs and getting calls. First of all, slightly delusional, second of all, we likely don’t get calls sometimes because refs don’t like Hurley. There have been reports of it. I expected him to own up a bit, I am disappointed.
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They’re supposed to be professionals. And they’re supposed to be being graded on their officiating which in theory should affect postseason assignments. Honestly they liked like a high school crew in OT. The sport deserves better than petty vendettas. Step up, Commissioner Val. And don’t be useless for a change, NCAA.
 
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CardiacAndre7 said:
With the way they are playing, we aren’t gonna beat good teams with Mahaney and Samson starting. Maybe they come around, but being cute with the lineups should probably stop now.
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It obviously needs to change. I'm a big supporter of Mahaney because I know he's better than what he's shown but when he's on the court with some of these lineups it makes us look fairly unathletic. We play faster with Diarra on the court but I want Hass to remain our disruptor off the bench and Samson clearly needs to join him coming off the bench for the speed lineup. The problem is Mahaney's best role is off the bench as well but as a scorer/shooter.

I'm not sure what the fix is but I want Liam, Solo, and Jaylin on the court together with their length and athleticism. Ross too but he's still raw. Nowell needs a fairly long look at point guard or we need to go more positionless I think. Liam and Jaylin both can handle and pass. Can we do things without a traditional point guard for long stretches?
 
CTBasketball said:
Mahaney will be fine but he needs to be off-ball, he does not initiate and drive the ball like we need him to.

Need someone to drive the ball.
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Mahaney can't play defense. The season will go as far as he allows us
 
Down 13 at the end and coming back.....thats a scream and out of chair moment.....the ot...meh.....that can be fixed easily.
 
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TheHorde said:
They’re supposed to be professionals. And they’re supposed to be being graded on their officiating which in theory should affect postseason assignments. Honestly they liked like a high school crew in OT. The sport deserves better than petty vendettas. Step up, Commissioner Val. And don’t be useless for a change, NCAA.
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Well…So is Hurley.
 
TheHorde said:
They’re supposed to be professionals. And they’re supposed to be being graded on their officiating which in theory should affect postseason assignments. Honestly they liked like a high school crew in OT. The sport deserves better than petty vendettas. Step up, Commissioner Val. And don’t be useless for a change, NCAA.
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What you said makes sense…it’ll never happen.
 
I also don't think Hurley cares about losing a game in Maui in exchange for blowing his lid to get the team to realize they were playing slow and disconnected. I just wish the verbal abuse was toned down and he put pressure on the refs instead of verbally assaulting them for two hours.

Behavior today reminds me of when he just started with UConn and said he was going to have to go crazy and to get the team to match his energy until he had a team culture where the the players did it on their won. I think the last two years he had a team that would do it on their own and right now he's going back to being the one to do it. Times have changed though and he's held to a higher degree now because he's not the scrappy up and comer program builder any more.. rather the reigning champ with all the attention on his program.
 
CardiacAndre7 said:
Well…So is Hurley.
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Hurley deserves the benefit of the doubt from us after winning two titles and going through stuff like this before. If he feels that this is playing the long game to get a more fair whistle I’m more than okay with it costing a game in November. We are asking for fairness not a whistle in the Huskies’ favor.
 
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I tried to talk myself out of it but knew this game would be tough and potentially a loss.

Lose 4 starters, AK I knew would be fine, SJ and HD are great complementary players but don’t come close to what we lost, sophs stepping in with very little big game experience, newcomers trying to learn the most sophisticated offense in college hoops, playing four early games where we weren’t tested whatsoever, etc. I was nervous about this one but at least we learned that teams aren’t going lay down because of the name on our jersey. Win or learn….back to work.
 
AntG168 said:
That’s not all he said. It’s one excerpt from a whole press conference. The refs were atrocious. He also gave Memphis a lot of credut
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I can't find the press conference, does anyone have a link?
 
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superjohn said:
It obviously needs to change. I'm a big supporter of Mahaney because I know he's better than what he's shown but when he's on the court with some of these lineups it makes us look fairly unathletic. We play faster with Diarra on the court but I want Hass to remain our disruptor off the bench and Samson clearly needs to join him coming off the bench for the speed lineup. The problem is Mahaney's best role is off the bench as well but as a scorer/shooter.

I'm not sure what the fix is but I want Liam, Solo, and Jaylin on the court together with their length and athleticism. Ross too but he's still raw. Nowell needs a fairly long look at point guard or we need to go more positionless I think. Liam and Jaylin both can handle and pass. Can we do things without a traditional point guard for long stretches?
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Agree on Nowell. I'm not sure if it matters who starts at center, today was not a game for SJ. Samson can be effective against smaller quicker teams and we need to protect Reed from fouling out.
 
Padutch5 said:
Why not. Lead official is Steve Driscoll who has a long history of terrible and inconsistent calls again UCONN. Will be interesting too see how he treats us in Big East games this year.
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Pat Driscoll and he may be the best ref in the game. He is not the ref to blame
 
JMick said:
Mahaney can't play defense. The season will go as far as he allows us
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We can't base our season on Mahaney learning how to become a very good point guard and improving a ton on defense. Newton is simply bigger than him, more physical, and was getting 5 assists per game before he came to UConn and he had the advantage of playing alongside Spencer and Castle who had size and could play point, and Jackson the year before who had size and could play point.
 
Year after year, basketball refs make bad calls based on assumptions, and that “over the back” was a prime example. That said, calling an official a “f— joke” is worthy of a T and would get you tossed from other sports.
 
Glastonhusky said:
Agree on Nowell. I'm not sure if it matters who starts at center, today was not a game for SJ. Samson can be effective against smaller quicker teams and we need to protect Reed from fouling out.
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Samson will foul less in a bench role he's used to. Spark plug.

Reed's style of play is much more suited to be the 25mpg guy. He's also just a lot more talented.
 
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