Official Obliterate the Orange Game Thread

[UCDaveD]

Will you continue to post tonight when we make this a game? Or will you disappear?

Making it a game? Is that the standard we've sunk to? Yuck.

 

[Jaker]

we got this, settle down peeps

 

[John]

It's basically just an open secret at this point.

Can we stick to something crazy like, you know, basketball?

 

[mauconnfan]

Yeah but we thought at least one big guy would step up. They all look lost.

Cobb looks good rebounding passing and even scoring but his Help D is reminiscent of yesteryear

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

Yeah but who are our punchers?

Its all about Jalen. Hes our only hope for success this season. Larrier will always get his points but Jalen is the only capable of taking us to another level.

 

[Horatio]

Please stop w the ref crap. If you couldn't tell who wasn't the better team on the floor you are a moron. Ollie needs to go. NOW

There is nothing to save. He has ruined this program.

Ok. That's your opinion but I'm not on the game thread to fight the " boneyard fire Ollie Civil war" right now. And why do I have to be a moron?

 

[TRest]

It's basically just an open secret at this point.

Hope he's at least good at something

 

[HooperScooper]

Eh - my only saving grace for this game is Cobb. He's really good and useful. Him, Adams and Diarra (and Gilbert, but he's injured) are the only guys i'm really into on this whole team. I mean I guess Vital, too. He'll be a good off-the-bench type player for a few years, but whatever. The rest of this team is a total disaster.

I'm just so completely sick and tired of having the argument with people. The players aren't good enough.

I'm not crazy about the job Ollie's done either, but you can't look at tonight and notice that one team is a big time hoops program and the other team is just clearly not.

I agree. Watching this game drilled it home for me. UConn just doesn't have enough talent. And Syracuse isn't even that good.

 

[JMick]

at this point if you support Ollie you either know him personally or are 100% clueless

 

[CL82]

Sheesh the rush to be the biggest critic of the program is sickening. No one is happy with the product but give it a rest.

 

[superjohn]

Its nice to think that our raw big men are the problem but the real issue is that our supposedly great backcourt/wing rotation has no composure at all and are killing us.

Great backcourt/wing rotation? We have Adams and Larrier and neither is great. The other 3 aren't even mediocre at this level.

 

[Walker11]

So you think DB is going to let UCONN fade into nothing? I don't think so. They will work a buyout with KO.

People at even higher levels of DB are concerned with keeping their jobs. Listen, I am not saying that I don't engage in the same wishful thinking I ascribe to you but I don't see it.

 

[mauconnfan]

We are absolutely worse than last year but Auggie and others are great fans because they call out fans who want the program to be relevant again.

Thought you were taking time away? Try it again pounding your chest is unbecoming

 

[3rdbass]

Its all about Jalen. Hes our only hope for success this season. Larrier will always get his points but Jalen is the only capable of taking us to another level.

The problem is Larrier has to play better if we want to be a tourney team this year.

 

[Milo65]

The 2014 team had two undersized guards, two wings who were skinny and could shoot and a rotation at center. Yet Boat and Bazz could create, dish, and lock down defensively. Our guards can’t do that and they are our best players.

 

[UConnJim]

Benedict knows and Ollie's seat was hot going into the season. The seat has melted with the product he's put on the court this season.

Anyone who didn't think that with the roster we had coming into this season that we wouldn't struggle to start the year doesn't know basketball. Grad transfers, jucos, freshmen bigs, 3 players back from injury. And we are playing tonight without our PG.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Please stop w the ref crap. If you couldn't tell who wasn't the better team on the floor you are a moron. Ollie needs to go. NOW

There is nothing to save. He has ruined this program.

The refs are worth 6-8 points of the current deficit. Easily. They are not even trying to keep it fair. It’s ACC against garbage in their view, and ESPNs.

 

[CL82]

Should I start drinking?

You haven't yet? I question your commitment.

 

[UConnDan97]

Some of you are making this too complicated.

UConn with 6 more turnovers.
UConn with 7 less rebounds.
Uconn with 9 less free thirties.

Take care of the rock. Bang on the boards. The refs will start to even out in the second half, like they always do after a halftime chat with each other...

 

[jorge34]

He has 11 points. If he wasn't playing we'd be down 20.

And who cares. Start over, ain't going nowhere with him. I counted at least half a dozen times cuse blew by him while he was standing flatfooted on d. He plays when he feels like it on offensive end of the court. Tired of him, supremely talented bonehead.

 

[polycom]

Will you continue to post tonight when we make this a game? Or will you disappear?

You think we’ll make this a game? Unless Jalen goes unconscious I see no shot. Secondly, I’ll absolutly be here. Doesn’t change the fact that Ollie is not ready to coach at the major D1 level

 

[Tenspro2002]

The score is not as bad as it looks.
We HAVE to come out with the first punch here in the last 2nd half or else we are donezo.

When is the last time we delivered the first punch in any context?

 

[3rdbass]

People at even higher levels of DB are concerned with keeping their jobs. Listen, I am not saying that I don't engage in the same wishful thinking I ascribe to you but I don't see it.

Ok I think KO will see the writing on the wall for himself and the school and will work out something amicable. I'm sure it won't be super cheap but it will allow the two of us to part ways.

 

[Walker11]

Great backcourt/wing rotation? We have Adams and Larrier and neither is great. The other 3 aren't even mediocre at this level.

Thats my point. Weren't you higher on Adams than anyone? Larrier is limited. People on the board were outraged that UCONN wasn't being listed as a top 10 backcourt in the country in the preseason and the reality is that the talent is more limited than expected.

 

[spudzj6]

I feel like we relate to the directv commercial way too much. Some people just like wet grocery bags, some people just love spilling hot coffee on themselves, some people just keep expecting UConn to play to a level above their talent...