Post Game thread

[nychuskyfan]

How do you adjust to having poor players? Take the team off the floor and leave the arena?

How did the USF coach adjust with a far less talented team? Love Hurley, great hire but let’s be honest - he’s not off to a great start on the court. Fortunately his most important job this year (recruiting) is off to a great start.

 

[6xChamps]

Polley is a good player, he just doesn’t fit well as a 4, and especially isn’t a good fit as a 4 when our 5 can’t rebound

 

[UconnU]

USF is entirely made up of transfers. I think they had like 1 player who didn’t transfer in or red shirt last year. This is flat out embarrassing. We have a veteran team, albeit a veteran team that has never won but a veteran team none the less.

 

[Psolo12]

I just want one big man who's a grinder down low and works in the weight room to get stronger and takes pride in playing defense and rebounding. If I was 6'10 250 like Carlton and was getting thrown around like a rag doll I wouldn't be able to live with myself.

 

[gampelcrazies]

Hard to get out coached when you don’t have a good roster

 

[Towney007]

We just got cleaned on the boards.

I mean what guy is he going to put into the game that's gonna change that? Our bigs stink.

 

[Hi-Low]

USF is entirely made up of transfers. I think they had like 1 player who didn’t transfer in or red shirt last year. This is flat out embarrassing. We have a veteran team, albeit a veteran team that has never won but a veteran team none the less.

They looked like men though, we have a bunch of boys.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

If Yakwe isn’t healthy by Saturday UCF will beat us something like 92-67

 

[Pmac923]

If we don't play full court ball with our 3 or 4 guard lineups we will continue to lose. Our guards are having to rebound and give help with severe mismatch problems against 6'8 guys that can handle. Id like to see more pressing otherwise we will get burned down low and continue to foul. We need to have Sid and Carlton on the back end of our press and just KEEP running.

Playing a zone here and there may help... our fouls are causing us to have too many rotations. Find 8 guys and run with them!

And I'm sick of the pressure out on players at 40 ft only to get burned inside the 3 pt line...it does us nothing but have to give help and open up the offensive glass! Pack it in and make teams make some shots!

 

[AdamaNation]

No excuse for them playing this badly but our frontcourt is disgustingly bad, probably the worst in the entire country. It certainly isn't our only problem but it's by far our most glaring along with our mentality.

Hurley has a proven track record or turning around sinking/sunk ships. It doesn't happen right away but I'm confident it will happen. He will be bringing in his type of players and more talented players.

He better and I hope so. Or these 840 games wine at 1020 against central Wyoming state on Facebook. I can’t imagine ticket sales blowing up for many games this year against the other teams not picked last in the aac. Recruiting will die on the vine. I’m so damn sad and I’m a 45 year old father of three. I should never have bought all this UConn swag at bob’s after 2015.

 

[selles]

Polley is hurting this team. Has 1 rebound in 3 games. He has to hit threes and he hasn’t been. Can’t play D.

Hurley can’t do much with this roster. Just like Ollie. Oh well season over. We will have a losing season again. I don’t care what anyone says. This is not a good USF team. Scrappy yes but not good.

Polley doesn't move his feet. That prevents him from playing defense and rebounding. He's not the quickest guy in the world, but it's more than a quickness issue. He simply doesn't move his feet at all. It's mind-boggling.

 

[Tenspro2002]

USF is entirely made up of transfers. I think they had like 1 player who didn’t transfer in or red shirt last year. This is flat out embarrassing. We have a veteran team, albeit a veteran team that has never won but a veteran team none the less.

Is bad prior coaching and bad prior experience worse than none at all? Quite possibly.

 

[bmo22]

Not sure I understand what Hurley’s substitution strategy was tonight. Seems like he was subbing just to get guys minutes instead of subbing based on who was playing smart and with effort. When the energy is that low and guys are making boneheaded plays left and right (turnovers, not boxing out, etc.) I wish he would call a timeout and lay into a guy. Tough love gets a player’s attention (example: Jim Calhoun). My dad texted me during that five minute stretch at the start of the second half saying if he was Hurley he would have called a timeout and said “the next guy to throw the ball away is walking back to CT”.

With that said Hurley can’t make the 3 go in for Polley or stop the free throw shooter from getting the rebound, but c’mon. He has to set the tone that this kind of play is unacceptable at UConn. Mistakes like that against Nova are understandable, but at the end of the day this was USF and we still had the better players.

 

[zls44]

2nd half of Villanova: 19-0 run.
2nd half of USF: 22-7 or something.

He fails to make adjustments after the half. Sure the players are also playing like complete losers but come on man.

I do agree, two games are a large enough sample to make wild judgements on his ability.

 

[AdamaNation]

I can't wait for Jalen to be gone and for someone who actually cares to be the leader of this team.

Regarding the Jalen hate. Keep in mind the coaches selected him preseason POY. They all see something.

 

[AdamaNation]

He better and I hope so. Or these 840 games start at 1020 against central Wyoming state on Facebook. I can’t imagine ticket sales blowing up for many games this year against the other teams not picked last in the aac. Recruiting will die on the vine. I’m so damn sad and I’m a 45 year old father of three. I should never have bought all this UConn swag at bob’s after 2015.

 

[auror]

Not sure I understand what Hurley’s substitution strategy was tonight. Seems like he was subbing just to get guys minutes instead of subbing based on who was playing smart and with effort. When the energy is that low and guys are making boneheaded plays left and right (turnovers, not boxing out, etc.) I wish he would call a timeout and lay into a guy. Tough love gets a player’s attention (example: Jim Calhoun). My dad texted me during that five minute stretch at the start of the second half saying if he was Hurley he would have called a timeout and said “the next guy to throw the ball away is walking back to CT”.

With that said Hurley can’t make the 3 go in for Polley or stop the free throw shooter from getting the rebound, but c’mon. He has to set the tone that this kind of play is unacceptable at UConn. Mistakes like that against Nova are understandable, but at the end of the day this was USF and we still had the better players.

Have you gotten the impression that Hurley is the quiet and reserved type? You think he didn't yell at anybody?

 

[JMick]

Regarding the Jalen hate. Keep in mind the coaches selected him preseason POY. They all see something.

Hurley said a lot of good things about him too before he got here. Jalen has all the tools in the world. He doesn't have the desire.

 

[Palatine]

Lackadaisical, if you prefer. Calhoun might say they lack intensity. They are not crisp. They need a heart transplant.

Watch the lazy passes. The failure to box out. No hard screens. Constantly beaten to the rim.

Riddle me this Batman. Who on this team would you describe as "tough?" Or mentally tough?

 

[zls44]

How did the USF coach adjust with a far less talented team?

by cleaning house last year and improving the roster- hey, speaking of...

 

[KingAG]

Is Jalen Adams really all that "talented" or can he just do cool things every now and then? His whole career he's been touted as this super talented player but he's never lived up to that billing. He isn't really all that athletic, he can't shoot, he's a lazy defender, he plays with no energy or passion. What is he great or elite at? I'm not even sure he's better than CV at this point. My expectations for him have plummeted. Simply because for the first time in his career I don't even believe he's capable of being more at this point. And the sad thing is i dont believe he thinks he is either

 

[Catsailor]

Oy vey!

 

[Psolo12]

Regarding the Jalen hate. Keep in mind the coaches selected him preseason POY. They all see something.

Not true, he was selected unanimous first team all conference. B.J. Taylor was selected preseason POY.

 

[GHSWolverines]

Yetna had a great game. Boy the old guard F%$#&@ up on that one. Cobb is terrible and Carlton should transfer to one of the other state schools. Come on coaching staff... we need 2 bigs next year!

 

[Jay-Bone]

Polley is a good player, he just doesn’t fit well as a 4, and especially isn’t a good fit as a 4 when our 5 can’t rebound

He does some nice things offensively, but he's too slow and can't move laterally to defend the 3 position and too weak and too passive at rebounding to play the 4. He should be used as the hot hand, and thats it. Not 30 mins when he can't buy a shot.

 

[dtrumpet]

I miss JC's quick hook too, but with about 10 minutes left in the half, he had 5 guys with 3 fouls. Not much wiggle room on who to play.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Lackadaisical, if you prefer. Calhoun might say they lack intensity. They are not crisp. They need a hear transplant.

Watch the lazy passes. The failure to box out. No hard screens. Constantly beaten to the rim.

Riddle me this Batman. Who on this team would you describe as "tough?" Or mentally tough?

They at least had that drive earlier in the year. Adversity against big boy teams seems to have completely and totally erased that.

 

[UconnU]

Polley is hurting this team. Has 1 rebound in 3 games. He has to hit threes and he hasn’t been. Can’t play D.

Hurley can’t do much with this roster. Just like Ollie. Oh well season over. We will have a losing season again. I don’t care what anyone says. This is not a good USF team. Scrappy yes but not good.

Bet your ass Sid is starting over him next game after this performance. Not to say that’s going to help us because Sid has his own issues he looks lost out there half the time.

 

[BlueDogs]

This team has the loser stink engrained in them and it starts with a team leader whose folds like a cheap suit every time. Hurley can’t have Jalen leading this team. He lacks the mental toughness as was on full display tonight.

 

[Jaybird65]

How did the USF coach adjust with a far less talented team? Love Hurley, great hire but let’s be honest - he’s not off to a great start on the court. Fortunately his most important job this year (recruiting) is off to a great start.

The only adjusment he made was going to rim once they saw how the game was being called the 2nd half. I’m not sure I would say USF was a far less talented team than us based on the last 25 minutes of this game. This team is not showing it is that much better than the past couple of teams as far as talent goes.