Official Heckle The Hawks Game Thread

[Hamms30]

Monmouth 15-26 from foul line.. phew!

 

[upstater]

The Columbia game was an abomination.

This game was against a team with decent players, and UConn playing without its best PG, was not expected to blow these guys out. Seaborn has scored near 20 in big wins against top P5 teams.

 

[pj]

This team needs all the playing experience they can get. Great idea to get extra minutes in against the scrub opponents.

 

[NielsisGood]

Huge win in that its not a terrible loss. Assuming we figure it out down the line, avoiding losses in these past 2 games is enormous. Now we just need to get to the part about figuring things out...

Really worried how this team will handle that stupid Cuse zone. Those Jalen drives won't be there nearly as much and that was about all we had today.

 

[intlzncster]

Huge win in that its not a terrible loss. Assuming we figure it out down the line, avoiding losses in these past 2 games is enormous. Now we just need to get to the part about figuring things out...

EOD we need to get as many wins as possible on this side of the schedule, as these guys are so green playing together.

There's an opportunity for this team to gel later in the year, provided the season hasn't been sunk. You can see it over stretches here and there.

 

[RGay2006]

Bring on Da Cuse!!!

It’s not going to be pretty.

 

[Kitaman]

Seahorn was on fire...

Notice a pattern yet coach? How many games in a row has a player torched Uconn? At least this time they kept him quiet for 15 minutes.

All credit goes to Anderson.

 

[NielsisGood]

The Columbia game was an abomination.

This game was against a team with decent players, and UConn playing without its best PG, was not expected to blow these guys out. Seaborn has scored near 20 in big wins against top P5 teams.

The spread was still 8.5 which suggests a somewhat comfortable win.

 

[BugsyCT]

At least KO sounded like a rational head coach this time in the post-game. Didn't put them away, gotta get better, etc.

 

[RGay2006]

Tough game, this Monmouth team should be ranked

 

[upstater]

The spread was still 8.5 which suggests a somewhat comfortable win.

The spread was wrong. I knew that going into the game. Someone commented here that they took Monmouth for easy money. While I've never bet against UConn, I definitely didn't disagree with his assessment.

 

[sportsart]

If KO can't teach his players how to stop mid major players from getting lay up after lay up, then he needs to go coach at a mid major.

We are not a mid major.....yet.

 

[Travelman6]

Ya, he did sound more critical. I would even say Uconn or any high major team is allowed one close game against an inferior team every once in a while, hence his comments last time. But twice? No, just no.

 

[intlzncster]

Really worried how this team will handle that stupid Cuse zone. Those Jalen drives won't be there nearly as much and that was about all we had today.

Gotta hope our streaky arse shooting is on. Jalen, Vitale, and Larrier bombing at the same time...Not holding out for it.

KO gotta put Larrier/Cobb at the foul line of that zone. Larrier to shoot, Cobb to pass. Mix it up.

 

[KodiacKemba]

Syracuse ain’t looking pretty either right now

 

[MASSconn]

Ollie isn’t getting fired this year get over it and he shouldn’t get fired this year.

What's your counter argument? Other than being in denial

 

[JMick]

this game wasn't nearly as bad as the Columbia and Stony Brook games. I do wish someone on the bench would force Ollie to take timeouts during opponents runs, though. happens way too often

 

[Walker11]

Really worried how this team will handle that stupid Cuse zone. Those Jalen drives won't be there nearly as much and that was about all we had today.

Cuse sucks too. It is going to be an abomination of a game, 55-52 esque.

 

[Jay-Bone]

Our 10 best offensive minutes of the season there. Also best offensive start. Silver linings I suppose. At 29-20 we looked like a decent team.

 

[intlzncster]

The spread was still 8.5 which suggests a somewhat comfortable win.

I think we had two stretches over about 7 minutes where we didn't have a bucket. That'll do it.

 

[NielsisGood]

Gotta hope our streaky arse shooting is on. Jalen, Vitale, and Larrier bombing at the same time...Not holding out for it.

KO gotta put Larrier/Cobb at the foul line of that zone. Larrier to shoot, Cobb to pass. Mix it up.

If I were Ollie I would be running Larrier at that foul line spot and to shoot immediately. I have a feeling Ollie won't stress getting his shot off quick from that spot and the result is a bunch of contested brick jobs.

Jalen or Vital will need to be feeling it from 3, no question.

 

[NielsisGood]

I think we had two stretches over about 7 minutes where we didn't have a bucket. That'll do it.

Sure but I'm just talking about the "expected game result". Though any serious UConn fan could have seen that spread and say that's too high.

 

[intlzncster]

Syracuse ain’t looking pretty either right now

They're playing the #2 ranked team in the country. We were playing Monmouth.

 

[intlzncster]

this game wasn't nearly as bad as the Columbia and Stony Brook games. I do wish someone on the bench would force Ollie to take timeouts during opponents runs, though. happens way too often

Takes them way too late. King Rice showed how it's done on one of our early runs.

 

[HooperScooper]

Cuse sucks too. It is going to be an abomination of a game, 55-52 esque.

Like last year? That may have been the ugliest game for 2 teams I've ever seen live.