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One of the strangest endings ever

uconnfan68 said:
Who puts a walk-on in for the win?
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The way coach Hurley was consoling him afterwards tells me the play didn't go quite as planned. I don't believe Aiyegbusi was the intended shooter but we'll have to see what coach says in the presser.
 
hasheemthedream said:
Starting to think Gilbert bets against Uconn every game based on his play down the stretch!! How could you be the starting PG at the college level and not be able to knock down a free throw. Not to mention turn the ball over every other play.
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At this point, the team is going nowhere this year. Gilbert played 36 minutes, Gaffney 14. Time to flip that around and let Gaffney get alot more experience so he'll be ready to run the offense next year.
 
polycom said:
lol so we are defending a coach putting in a walkon, not having him inbound the ball and take a game tying jump shot in a conference game. This is what you are defending lol. We got what we deserve.
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He was in the game to foul couldn’t get subbed out and you have your best in bounder pass the ball in when you have no timeouts bc if we get 5 second call we lose so you would have a walk on pass the ball in thank god you don’t coach
 
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Okafour rings said:
At this point, the team is going nowhere this year. Gilbert played 36 minutes, Gaffney 14. Time to flip that around and let Gaffney get alot more experience so he'll be ready to run the offense next year.
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I think the fact that Gaffney dribbled out of bounds limited his time until everyone else fouled out. It seems like he panics on the road, then again he was cool as a cucumber in the final minutes. His handle is really suspect, yet he seems like he can score.
 
Excalibur said:
And a bunch of idiot armchair qb's get exposed again.

Unless the same idiots think we drew the play up for him . . .
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Nope, wasn't his fault. He got a good look though, but it just didn't fall. Might have been legendary if it had!
 
Excalibur said:
Having him inbound the ball would be a fireable offense. You're just looking for something to criticize -- and failing.
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but having him take the shot with 7 seconds on the clock is fine and dandy oh well he missed? Lol okay.
 
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polycom said:
but having him take the shot with 7 seconds on the clock is fine and dandy oh well he missed? Lol okay.
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He caught it, pump faked, looked to pass, nobody open (since they weren't guarding him) and then put up the shot. You're clueless. "Run offense" -- thanks for the laugh.
 
polycom said:
but having him take the shot with 7 seconds on the clock is fine and dandy oh well he missed? Lol okay.
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What would you rather have a wide open shot or a turnover pass to the other team or a 5 second call? Tough question
 
Giants2019 said:
What would you rather have a wide open shot or a turnover pass to the other team or a 5 second call? Tough question
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Excalibur said:
He caught it, pump faked, looked to pass, nobody open (since they weren't guarding him) and then put up the shot. You're clueless. "Run offense" -- thanks for the laugh.
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So you both are satisfied with a walk on shooting a game tying shot with 7 seconds on the clock. That’s fine. I’m not. I’d rather one of the scholarship players you know the ones who are in school for their basketball ability to get the ball and shoot it. I’d also like for our coach who we play 3M+/year to make sure we aren’t stuck in the exact situation we were in.... with a ice cold walk on shooting a game tying jumper. But what do I know I’m just a random guy on the internet.
 
polycom said:
So you both are satisfied with a walk on shooting a game tying shot with 7 seconds on the clock. That’s fine. I’m not. I’d rather one of the scholarship players you know the ones who are in school for their basketball ability to get the ball and shoot it. I’d also like for our coach who we play 3M+/year to make sure we aren’t stuck in the exact situation we were in.... with a ice cold walk on shooting a game tying jumper. But what do I know I’m just a random guy on the internet.
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Nelson-esque straw man there.
 
polycom said:
So you both are satisfied with a walk on shooting a game tying shot with 7 seconds on the clock. That’s fine. I’m not. I’d rather one of the scholarship players you know the ones who are in school for their basketball ability to get the ball and shoot it. I’d also like for our coach who we play 3M+/year to make sure we aren’t stuck in the exact situation we were in.... with a ice cold walk on shooting a game tying jumper. But what do I know I’m just a random guy on the internet.
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You have proven how little you know with some of your comments in this thread.
 
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LIUCHusky said:
You have proven how little you know with some of your comments in this thread.
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Cool. Next you’ll say if we replace the walk on for Carlton you’ll still want him to shoot it with 7 seconds left
 
polycom said:
It makes less sense having him take the shot with 7 seconds on the clock. Run offense. Don’t have a walk on take crucial shots.
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might not seem like it but inbounding the ball from the corner is harder than making a wide open shot, it just is. but idk why gilbert, gaffney, adams, akok, and whaley werent the 5 guys on the floor
 
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The Hurley slappys on this board (and there are plenty of them) are priceless. It is inexcusable that a walk on was in the game and even more inexcusable that a walk on took the game-tying shot. If that happened at the high school level where a kid who never played took a game tying shot at the very end of the game it would be inexcusable. This guy is getting paid $3 million a year. If by now people can't see something is off with his coaching it can only be because they can't face reality. Some of the bigger questions are why has this team regressed from Charleston and why has Gilbert regressed as a player under Hurley.
 
Dan Hurley's explanation:

“We were trying to get Temi into that opposite corner and just hope that they would take that fourth defender and occupy him, but they did a great job of using those four guys to take away the three guys we had in action,” Hurley said. “They’re smart. They didn’t play Temi and funneled the ball his way.”

 
SwingDog said:
Dan Hurley's explanation:

“We were trying to get Temi into that opposite corner and just hope that they would take that fourth defender and occupy him, but they did a great job of using those four guys to take away the three guys we had in action,” Hurley said. “They’re smart. They didn’t play Temi and funneled the ball his way.”

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V and you weren’t because no one in this board would cover any walk on including Andre Drummond! And none of us are Calvin Sampson. That was a rookie move.
 
Giants2019 said:
What would you rather have a wide open shot or a turnover pass to the other team or a 5 second call? Tough question
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Any other regular player was a better option for that situation. Terrible decision.
 
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