Do you think for a second that outside of the foul shooting that Maryland had anything at all to do with our poor performance? Not all of it of course but you don't think their defensive effort had any effect? To me an F game is bad across the board. We did some things decent. They played good defense and we couldnt make a shot to save our lives. Nova did a similar number on us.
I thought we were absolutely horrendous across the board, the only good thing was offensive rebounding because we missed so many shots and then kept missing the layups off of our offensive rebounds. I always think the other team has something to do with it but I knew we were in trouble very early in that game because we were walking the ball up the court.
I agree with the uptempo pace. All season in fact. Even JC mentioned it in that interview. It's my biggest complaint on Hurley. If we are going to recruit athletes like AJax, we need to turn them loose a little. I think Hurley thought he could manage our poor shooting by playing a slow, low scoring style and play defense and rebound. Kind of how an NFL teams tries to play ball control and run the ball a lot to hide a mediocre QB and keep their defense off the field. Problem is it made our margin for error razor thin and we just didnt have the shotmakers to play that style. We would inevitably have stretches or in this case entire games where we just couldnt score. We are just too easy to defend in the half court. We have 2 threats. Bouk and Adama. Sanogo is always in foul trouble. Teams can also converge on him and have little fear of our 3 point shooters. Bouk gets their best defender and help. Teams are aware of him always. They also dare him to shoot the 3 and he was subpar from there this season. The only thing I disagree with is I dont think we are good enough to have the luxury to throw our C game out there against any 10 seed and expect to win. Maybe we could squeak one out but Maryland, while not world beaters, played a tougher schedule, beat better teams. They had wins against Wisconsin, Purdue, Illinois, Rutgers, Mich St. We beat USC 4 months ago. It was a 7/10 game. The spread was like 3.5.
He got R. I. to the tournament twice and won a game each year as an underdog to schools from power conferences ( Oklahoma with a college player of the year candidate, Trae Young) and Creighton. It's amazing how little knowledge many posters have about college basketball in general...... but have no problem sharing how little they know by asking ?? that they could simply google and educate themselves before posting nonsense. What's that old saying...... If people think that you're an idiot stop posting before you remove all doubts.... yup that's the saying.
Now you are talking in circles. Last week, you were arguing Cole is a good to great defender. Now its Hurley's fault because Cole was unable to stop Ayala(or anyone for that matter)on the defensive end and really struggled even getting into an offense on the other end. Maybe you should shift the blame. At some point, the kids simply didn't execute. This was one of those games. The stats prove it. They suggest that we weren't dominated at all. It suggests we sucked on the floor.
F recruiting. He sucked when he had superior talent in the AAC. Before the march run he under achieved with Bazz and Boat as well. He wasn't a great coach. He had some great isolation scorers who caught fire and made him look better then what he was. KO was never the answer. And i was a KO guy. But sure being in the AAC we shouldve expected a drop off, but we didnt drop off, we collapsed. And that's all on KO
idk why this is hard to understand
Agree with all of that. We might have the most athletic wings in the country in Bouknight and Jackson, Martin ain't too shabby and yet Hurley refuses to run. It's so evident we are a different team when we run. Our halfcourt offense gets completely bogged down against good teams, it's not too hard to defend a team in the halfcourt when they don't have outside shooting threats. Hurley's inability/refusal to run and make in game adjustments is a troubling trend. Coaches like players can and should improve, he still has a lot to work on.
I was critical of Hurley in the game, but they absolutely tried to run against Maryland. You could hear the coaches yelling to push it. But there was nowhere TO run, because as expected, Maryland made a lot of effort to get back on D with 4 guys on every possession.
Seriously. Just watch the game. By the time a rebound was in hand there were 3-4 Maryland guys already back on D. That's what Maryland always does, and they were extra careful about it this game.
I’ve been saying this to myself all season. I hate the way we just refuse to change up the defense sometimes.
I don't expect a team to have two poor games in a row in their two most important games of the season to date. This team beat nobody who was ranked (except a UCS victory very early in the season) and merely won games they should have. I know KO and he wasn't recruiting off of YouTube. After the Maryland game, based on the national commentators and newspapers, UConn has not earned any respect, it's "star" fizzled and the HC looked like a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming semi.
But he can have them practice what to do on offensive rebounds. Bring it back out, set it up and make Maryland play defense again. It's not like UConn hasn't had a problem with layups all year (look at 1st Creighton game shooting stats and this game, the Pips (i.e. anyone not named Bouknight) shot the same).
Are you gonna listen when every time you say this people tell you he has Tom Moore for that role? My guess is you still won't
Not according to some people on here. I won't point out again who those posters are.
While you're on your monthly defend KO by muther-ding Dan Hurley why don't you take up a collection or start a go fund me page on Facebook to help finance KO 's lawsuit against UConn and try and help him get his old job back so he can complete the total destruction of our once proud program..... seriously