Yeah I definitely do not love Gaffney and Polley in this play. Gaffney should have cut. Given that everyone on Seton Hall knew we wanted to dump down to Sanogo and failing that have Martin create , how about an off ball screen and lob for Jackson?
Flesh out the stat please. Against MSU, if I recall, there was a terrible and crucial no call when Cole was mugged. What could he have done to change that? Against SH, there were two defensive possessions that were actually pretty good but still resulted in 4 points for SH down the stretch. The play where Whaley fouled was an excellent defensive stand. Richmond’s last basket was actually pretty well defended, he was off balance and his shot fell anyway. The UConn possession that everyone is focussed on was preceded by a good possession. So if we win both of those games what does it say about Hurley? Go through both the close games we won vs those we lost and then figure out how in the overall flow of the game and the last few minutes what he failed to do. Did he do the “right thing “ and did it fail? Maybe you’re right, but without flesh it’s just a stat. I think his teams throw out very few real clunkers and the SH game could’ve been a total no show under the circumstances. That’s worth talking about, too.
You want me to watch 24 games again and tell you why we lost 18 of them at the end? I'm not going to do that. If you watched all these games you saw us run the clock down only to have our 5'10 guards drive into trees turning it over, you watched us run clock to not get a shot off. If you can't see there is a terrible pattern there and it's problematic that's on you, numbers don't lie.
Sorry if you don’t like counter narratives.
Not a failure but a flaw that should have been noticed and addressed. We have been lacking shooting, scoring, creating and playmaking for years. Way too early to draw any long term conclusions on this years freshmen class. Think they will still be really good. Just maybe not this year although Hawkins will continue to evolve. Counting on freshmen, unless they are the Duke or Kentucky kind of top 20 guys, to fix your existing woes are a fools errand.
Numbers are numbers. Are my examples wrong? They are included in your stats. I did bother to look at a few things fa. Granted I don’t remember how tge games played out, did you know that in his 2nd UConn year with a basically young team we lost several close games including 3 OT games to ranked teams? Could be maybe that we were competitive at all days something.
We get it Bring back KO
Or he gets sent back to Rhody? Maybe? Pleeeeease????