Post game news conference Hurley and Whaley

[deedougie]

 

[McLovin]

Damn. Love that young man. Not sure if the NCAA required a player to take questions or not, but kudos for him for being the man to step up.

He’s the guy, with CV, who helped accelerate the culture Hurley was trying to build by a year or 2.

He’s going to have a great professional career (basketball or otherwise). So much skill on the court, maturity and a true leader.

But if he wanted to put his professional life on hold for a year and come back for one more journey.... him and Cole as our Captains, we may just sail to a 5th ‘ship.

More Pork Chops, please.

 

[ASweet3781]

I thought it was interesting in Calhoun's recent interview he made a point in saying Hurley does not have a young team. He seemed to not like that being used as an excuse because UConn was not young and they had the best player on the court usually (BOuknight).

10 seconds in and Hurley credit's Maryland's experience lol.

 

[Tenspro2002]

I thought it was interesting in Calhoun's recent interview he made a point in saying Hurley does not have a young team. He seemed to not like that being used as an excuse because UConn was not young and they had the best player on the court usually (BOuknight).

10 seconds in and Hurley credit's Maryland's experience lol.

The best players are young, but Hurley can't exactly come out and say that.

But these guys also still don't have a lot of experience on the big stage. Part of that is how rough shape the program was in, part of it is bringing in transfers to paper over recruiting failures by the previous staff, part of it is we didn't have a Tournament last year.

 

[BigEastCT]

Dan nosweetsixteen Hurley

 

[BlueDogs]

Dan nosweetsixteen Hurley

Yet to prove he can’t get it done when it matters. Lots of show but not a lot of go.

 

[UConn Do It4]

Anyone else more upset after listening to Hurley there?

Reporter asking any question:
Hurley: “We knew...” “We knew...” “We knew...” “We knew...”

A week to prepare on what you supposedly knew and that was the coaching job we get? I’m not exactly sure why I’m surprised we lacked any sort of offensive game plan yet again, but I honestly can’t remember the last time a performance made me this upset.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

i dont think i can listen to it right now

 

[bazzdog]

Anyone else more upset after listening to Hurley there?

Reporter asking any question:
Hurley: “We knew...” “We knew...” “We knew...” “We knew...”

A week to prepare on what you supposedly knew and that was the coaching job we get? I’m not exactly sure why I’m surprised we lacked any sort of offensive game plan yet again, but I honestly can’t remember the last time a performance made me this upset.

Knowing and doing are two different things
If you don’t put the ball in the hoop you don’t win
It’s pretty simple.
We’ll be in the final 4 in a few years. Relax.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

I thought it was interesting in Calhoun's recent interview he made a point in saying Hurley does not have a young team. He seemed to not like that being used as an excuse because UConn was not young and they had the best player on the court usually (BOuknight).

10 seconds in and Hurley credit's Maryland's experience lol.

Young and experienced in meaningful games are not the same.

 

[Fishy]

Make layups at even a remotely reasonable rate and they win.

Hurley can do a lot, but he cannot make a layup for them.

 

[formerlurker]

Make layups at even a remotely reasonable rate and they win

No article on the game needs to say more.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Anyone else more upset after listening to Hurley there?

Reporter asking any question:
Hurley: “We knew...” “We knew...” “We knew...” “We knew...”

A week to prepare on what you supposedly knew and that was the coaching job we get? I’m not exactly sure why I’m surprised we lacked any sort of offensive game plan yet again, but I honestly can’t remember the last time a performance made me this upset.

No.

If we made a few more shots, he says "we knew Ayala would be a problem and that defending 5 out teams is a challenge for our traditional bigs, but we really turned the mismatch to our advantage at the other end and really overwhelmed them with putbacks on the offensive boards", and you don't have anything to complain about.

 

[Vuce]

Yet to prove he can’t get it done when it matters. Lots of show but not a lot of go.

Who do you want as coach from who is available?

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Should Hurley have coached guys to make layups better and an 80%+ FT shooter to not go 2-6 from the line?

If we shoot 75% from the line and make 50% of the layups we missed, the game is a W. We didn't, and we deserved to lose.

 

[Jaker]

Honestly, Hurley needs to man up.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Yet to prove he can’t get it done when it matters. Lots of show but not a lot of go.

Yet to prove he could reach a sweet 16 with...Wagner and URI? Is that supposed to be a criticism?

This is his second postseason with UConn. Second. After digging out of Ollie's ditch.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

They got dominated by a team that dictated tempo and style of play. The advantages that UConn had going into this game were not even marginally exploited. Acting like it’s some sort of fluke that they lost because they missed a bunch of layups is wild.

 

[McLovin]

Anyone else more upset after listening to Hurley there?

Reporter asking any question:
Hurley: “We knew...” “We knew...” “We knew...” “We knew...”

A week to prepare on what you supposedly knew and that was the coaching job we get? I’m not exactly sure why I’m surprised we lacked any sort of offensive game plan yet again, but I honestly can’t remember the last time a performance made me this upset.

What did you want Hurley to say? The guys played so bad they couldn’t make a layup? Thankfully he’s not Beohiem and doesn’t just throw his players under the bus.

 

[UCfor3]

Make layups at even a remotely reasonable rate and they win.

Hurley can do a lot, but he cannot make a layup for them.

Or a foul shot.

 

[ConnEd]

I really like a lot of what Hurley is doing. And the team is headed in the right direction. They were fun to watch this year. That said, to say that you can't really draw anything up for a defense that switches is just pure BS. My daughter's 5th grade team has an inbounds play that will get them a good look - or at least advantageous position - if the defense switches (or not). And the place to do this is with off ball screens - which Hurley seems to mostly use 20'+ from the hoop.

 

[TRest]

Who do you want as coach from who is available?

He doesn't know, just likes crapping on Hurley.

 

[HooperScooper]

No.

If we made a few more shots, he says "we knew Ayala would be a problem and that defending 5 out teams is a challenge for our traditional bigs, but we really turned the mismatch to our advantage at the other end and really overwhelmed them with putbacks on the offensive boards", and you don't have anything to complain about.

A putback is only a putback when it goes in the basket. They really didn't have many of those.

 

[BlueDogs]

Who do you want as coach from who is available?

Dan Hurley. I just want to see a better version of Dan Hurley.

 

[3rdbass]

Yet to prove he could reach a sweet 16 with...Wagner and URI? Is that supposed to be a criticism?

This is his second postseason with UConn. Second. After digging out of Ollie's ditch.

Second postseason? I must have missed the first. LOL! This is one and only postseason with UCONN.