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Just a good team doing what they do down the stretch against a lousy team with no clue how to play offense. Good effort to hang in there for awhile but that's it.
 
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Shockers may have fallen back a few spots in the rankings seeing as how bad they were against our terrible team.
 
Keep playing Larrier, Anderson, Adams and Vital together that will work except it hasn’t all season. Cobb doesn’t play a minute in 2nd half for no reason. Why not try Williams can’t be worse than DO.

Larrier 3 rebounds and played 40 minutes most at the 4.
 
Yes this falls on Ollie w recruiting, but we literally have only 3 guys who can play right w Gilbert out. Overall talent disparity is staggering right now.
 
Very good game plan and effort. We just were out talented. I can accept that. Overall this was a very good game by UCon . We stayed very competitive with the #8 team in the country. We’re just not as talented as the upper 4 teams in the American Conference.
 
It's pretty simple. We went like 3 of 15 from three. That's the difference. They shot it at a 40/45% clip from three.
 
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All in all, I like the fight the team showed, and I even liked Ollie’s decisions today. But the team is bad, and it’s offensive sets just do not work. They are a bad team in almost every sense of the word. It’s hard to find a bright side at all. This program needs big change.
 
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As a long time fan, I find this continued slide into irrelevance most distressing,
 
Another double digit loss, this time at home. How much more must we take?
 
Lol I just have to laugh at how real unreal some are. If you are still holding out hope we are a tournament team I don't know what to tell you. All I can hope for is that we learn how to play basketball and that towards the end of the season we feel like we have something to look forward to next season. If Ollie is let go then we move on. If not you hope out chemistry built and momentum carries over. Any other expectations for this season are silly imo.
 
I’d love to know why Ollie continues to believe that Whaley and Onuorah have any business on the floor.

Three starters failed to score a single point today. You gotta start Anderson - understood - but the other two, good god, stop screwing this up on purpose.

Any idiot off the street would do a better job of rotating players than our head coach.
 
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UConnStats said:
All in all, I like the fight the team showed, and I even liked Ollie’s decisions today. But the team is bad, and it’s offensive sets just do not work. They are a bad team in almost every sense of the word. It’s hard to find a bright side at all. This program needs big change.
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I'm not sure there are offensive sets. Nine assists on 24 field goals.
 
UConnStats said:
The poor shooting will always be our downfall. Not only do we constantly miss, but the missed shots leads to transition buckets for the other team.
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Our shooting is our problem, not Ollie's coaching. Ollie's recruiting is why we are now a mid-level DI team. You can't win against top level teams with the personnel we have. High level DI teams put two or three players on the floor who can stroke outside shots in their sleep on a consistent basis. Our best players can't do this. Even TL is only consistent with wide open looks. His play from the outside off the dribble is poor most of the time. Adams, Anderson, and Vital can't hit the one dribble 16 foot pull-up with any consistency - even the announcer today said you should play a different sport if you are a guard and can't do this! Our bigs are obviously sub par for a good DI team. Ollie's recruiting is the problem - not his ability to coach a team. Also, team chemistry and collapses in play become a problem on any team when you are outmatched by talent every time you play. Any coach, at any level, knows the struggles of trying to win when your personnel is always over-matched. Why he can't recruit - I don't have the answer.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
Realistically, that is what it will take.
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Realistically, next year will be our breakout. Help is on its way, our freshman are getting good minutes, and we won't have to start 3 transfers.
 
We just have no shooters. It is so frustrating because there are a lot of shooters on mid major teams and I’ll never understand why we don’t go get a couple of them.
 
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