Sanogo wants more PT

[Huskymagic]

Got it, is that why Sanogo and Carlton have the lowest offensive ratings on the team and Whaley is third?

I'd rather all 3 play 30 minutes over BAdams. Nonsense ratings system if Adams has higher offensive rating than any of those guys.

We should have played big with Carlton and Sanogo down the stretch. That would have freed up Polley on the perimeter to splash some threes. It also would have limited Posh driving to the basket.

You need to adjust to play to the best guys that give you a chance to win.

Our big guys are the strength of this team as of now. That is crystal clear.

PS: You don't try to play another team's style to beat them if it is not naturally your own style as well. Identity wins not copycats.

 

[Gutter King]

The issue is Hurley took out the best player in the game and the hot hand in Sanogo. End of story. Not sure what you’re not understanding here.

Exactly. Hurley most certainly did not ride the lightning today like some of us.

 

[aburks41]

You mean the strength that scored two more points and played a total of 7 more minutes in that game than they did today? HUGE difference

Dude, our offense goes through our big guys. I'm not sure what you have missed the past 3 years from watching Hurley's offensive scheme. The big guys touch the ball on every single possession. When your best big in the game is on the bench, you will lose. It's not rocket science. A middle school coach could tell you this

 

[DayDayTFS]

Y’all are reading wayyy too far into this one. Meltdown city

 

[Gutter King]

Dude, our offense goes through our big guys. I'm not sure what you have missed the past 3 years from watching Hurley's offensive scheme. The big guys touch the ball on every single possession. When your best big in the game is on the bench, you will lose. It's not rocket science. A middle school coach could tell you this

I'd argue they don't touch it deep enough. They do run it through the bigs, but is it really in a position they can do something with success? We need to feed these guys down low with intent to fully exploit the advantage.

 

[cohenzone]

He should feel that way today. And maybe 1 or 2 other games. But today was egregious.

We don't speculate about transfers here. Jusr say I'd understand if he did but hope he sticks around.

Hurley needs to shape up or lose his team.

Overreact much? Lose the team? The leagues high scorer unavailable. Their 2nd loss. Both losses are wins with made foul shots. He definitely misused Sanogo, but saying he’ll lose the team? I suppose that if he’d sat Polley - he should have - and they still lose with Sanogo, then some would say sitting Polley would cause him to lose the team. It looked like a bad coaching move today. It’s one game. I’m glad the kid thought he should have played at the end. But he probably should keep that between himself and the coach.

 

[BParkDog]

What I hear: "Competitive kid wants more playing time and wants to be in the game at go-time."
What others hear: "Kid wants to transfer."

 

[aburks41]

What I hear: "Competitive kid wants more playing time and wants to be in the game at go-time."
What others hear: "Kid wants to transfer."

"coach wont put competitive kid into game so competitive kid looks for a program that will"

 

[McLovin]

What I hear: "Competitive kid wants more playing time and wants to be in the game at go-time."
What others hear: "Kid wants to transfer."

You could be right, and hope you are, but we live in a "me, me, me, now, now, now" society. I think a lot of us our conditioned at this point to assume that if someone publicly airs their frustrations with their playing time / team situation it's not a good sign. Both at the college and professional levels, across all sports.

 

[Marat]

I think Hurley was too focused on having guards on floor to defend on the perimeter that's why Adama was not put into the game . He talked about that in pregame video yesterday. Yes its disappointing that Adama was not in there after the 12 min mark.

 

[navery12]

"coach wont put competitive kid into game so competitive kid looks for a program that will"

People have been very nice about it but seriously stop trying to speak him transferring into existence

 

[husky429]

Overreact much? Lose the team? The leagues high scorer unavailable. Their 2nd loss. Both losses are wins with made foul shots. He definitely misused Sanogo, but saying he’ll lose the team? I suppose that if he’d sat Polley - he should have - and they still lose with Sanogo, then some would say sitting Polley would cause him to lose the team. It looked like a bad coaching move today. It’s one game. I’m glad the kid thought he should have played at the end. But he probably should keep that between himself and the coach.

I'm not sure you understand what "losing your team" means

 

[cohenzone]

I'm not sure you understand what "losing your team" means

I know exactly what it means.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Of course not. The strength of this team is bigs especially now with Bouknight out. He isn't going big and he's now pissed off the most talented offensive big we've had in probably a decade all while trying to recruit one of the best bigs the state has probably ever produced.

It amazes me that people don’t see this. With no Bouk we have below average guards and wings, but way above average centers and forwards. Guys who are a matchup nightmare for most other teams. When we go small, we sit some of our best players and play our weaker players. When we go big other teams are forced to play their weaker players.

Hurley has got to stop acting like he’s at URI where all his best guys are guards. If Hurley had the 2005-06 UConn Roster Boone would never play and Rob Garrison would get 25 minutes a game.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

So when Hurley countered Marquette’s BIG lineup in the second half with two bigs of his own when they were down 18, letting Marquette dictate the game, leading to a massive comeback, was that coaching malpractice?

Or was that acceptable Because we won? I’m guessing the latter and you’re being extremely results oriented and in turn, a walking contradiction.

You think smaller is better in basketball. Got it.

 

[husky429]

I know exactly what it means.

Well then you're just wrong. Bad coaching decisions and inability to take ownership leads to losing buy-in. We're a long way off from that but he better be taking some steps privately to right the ship.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Well then you're just wrong. Bad coaching decisions and inability to take ownership leads to losing buy-in. We're a long way off from that but he better be taking some steps privately to right the ship.

If you are a very tall kid with the initials DC you just saw a coach say that all a team needs to do to eliminate you from the game is go small. We won’t betray our beloved man defense and go zone for a few minutes to thwart that strategy. It’s a problem. If we don’t have a one in four out zone in our defensive arsenal that’s inexcusable.

 

[cohenzone]

Well then you're just wrong. Bad coaching decisions and inability to take ownership leads to losing buy-in. We're a long way off from that but he better be taking some steps privately to right the ship.

The first thing that pops into your mind after one game with a questionable personnel choice is he might lose the team. Maybe after 4 or 5 games. Remember. there will always be only 5 guys on the court at a time. If he sends in Sanogo and benches Polley, and if they still lose, he looks bad if hindsight shows we maybe wouid’ve been better off with a shooter

A total overreaction. Give the guy some credit. He’s missing one of the hardest players in college ball to defend and they could be 3-0. Sanogo should be quiet in public.

 

[Tenspro2002]

The problem is Hurley too rigidly sticks to his script.

Obviously the script for this year is to play Sanogo for stretches at a time, let him learn playing behind Whaley and Carlton, and then be ready to dominate next year when those guys are gone.

The end of game script is to win with ballhandling, athleticism, quickness, and flexibility on D. That's not a bad idea in general, but it clearly wasn't working today.

 

[uconnfan68]

Not speculating. Just stating that when your best player is saying he feels he should be on the floor, that is not a good sign. Who wants to play 10 minutes a game when you are the only unstoppable player on the court?

We only have 3 “guards” (with no JB only Cole, Gaffney, and maybe Adams), so at least 2 bigs need to play. Martin and Polley and Whalley having to guard the 3pt line against guards won’t work. Try a different defense if you have to.

 

[polycom]

If we play zone for 5 mins at the under 16 we win. Polley doesn’t have the foot speed to guard anyone on the court

 

[jibsey]

Gotta keep Sanogo happy and on the team. That kind of physical specimen doesn’t come to UCONN that often and he’s only getting better. I’m looking to the next 3 years.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

WRONG. Sanogo is not a moron. He sees that Hurley has a huge bias towards guards, and will play backup guards over good big men. Why would any forward play for a coach that does that?

If the coach isn't learning from this, you're probably right, but give this teachable moment a chance.

To me, too many conclusions are being drawn here on too small a sample. You'll get your chance to be right if you turn out to be.

It was a bad game for Hurley, and I was excited by Sanogo's confidence.

Season 3, game 9, in a rebuild.

 

[Ricker]

I've got 2 complaints. Keep in mind we were up by 14 in the first half and hitting on all cylinders, rather than rotating a player in, Hurley basically makes a mass substitution and kills the momentum and they start back. Why would a coach completely bust a lineup that was working? Second half Adama is kicking St John's butts offensively AND defensively, and I said in the chat that the only person that could shut him down was Hurley. The next dead ball I said "expect Hurley to take him out", he's playing too well. On cue he took him out and a couple of guys said it was reasonable because Sanogo looked gassed. I hate the move. Some posters have had complaints because he doesn't kill the other team's momentum with time outs, but in his defense, he really knows how to kill our momentum. It was clear that Polley wasn't shooting daggers, playing D, or rebounding, but he stays with it. Anderson is laughing because he knows his team had no answer for Sanogo. A expect him to privately give a shout out to Danny.

 

[superjohn]

I've got 2 complaints. Keep in mind we were up by 14 in the first half and hitting on all cylinders, rather than rotating a player in, Hurley basically makes a mass substitution and kills the momentum and they start back. Why would a coach completely bust a lineup that was working? Second half Adama is kicking St John's butts offensively AND defensively, and I said in the chat that the only person that could shut him down was Hurley. The next dead ball I said "expect Hurley to take him out", he's playing too well. On cue he took him out and a couple of guys said it was reasonable because Sanogo looked gassed. I hate the move. Some posters have had complaints because he doesn't kill the other team's momentum with time outs, but in his defense, he really knows how to kill our momentum. It was clear that Polley wasn't shooting daggers, playing D, or rebounding, but he stays with it. Anderson is laughing because he knows his team had no answer for Sanogo. A expect him to privately give a shout out to Danny.

The wholesale momentum killing substitutions have been a problem since he's been here as has taking out the hot hand. He's great running the program and building us back up and he seems to be improving at running stuff during games but he still leaves us scratching our heads with this stuff.

 

[Captbluefin]

Hurley has always favored upperclassmen and guards.
This is not Wagner or URI and the caliber of guys he is bringing in are much better.
You can let seniority dictate who plays. Also playing 3 guards when the only really good guard you have is out indefinitely is begging for games like today to happen.

The better the talent Dan Hurley bring in the more he has to adjust his thinking and not be stubborn.

 

[aburks41]

The wholesale momentum killing substitutions have been a problem since he's been here as has taking out the hot hand. He's great running the program and building us back up and he seems to be improving at running stuff during games but he still leaves us scratching our heads with this stuff.

I wish a guy like Moore or Kimani would step up and say something. There’s no way they haven’t noticed this either, right? It kills us every single game. And he always does it! If every UConn fan can see it, how does a guy making $3million a year not see it?

 

[UConn_Top_Dog]

This is just a weak look from a guy with so much intensity. I'd expect a comment like this from the previous regime, but sad to see if coming from the current staff. They need to reevaluate how they prepare their game scripts and focus being the team that dictates the game, especially when you have an unstoppable force like Sanogo was today. The fact he couldn't figure out how to exploit St. Johns small ball with Sanogo playing out of his mind inside is a little scary and eyeopening. Instead he let us our poor perimeter defenders get exploited by St Johns.

If Adama played maybe we could have mixed in a 3-1-1 match up zone to slow the drives and keep our bigs out of foul trouble?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

If the coach isn't learning from this, you're probably right, but give this teachable moment a chance.

To me, too many conclusions are being drawn here on too small a sample. You'll get your chance to be right if you turn out to be.

It was a bad game for Hurley, and I was excited by Sanogo's confidence.

Season 3, game 9, in a rebuild.

My chance to be right when I identified Hurley's over-reliance on small lineups after the Hartford game and got a multi day banning. Now I am just pointing out the obvious.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

If Adama played maybe we could have mixed in a 3-1-1 match up zone to slow the drives and keep our bigs out of foul trouble?

5 out is actually a terrible offense for shooting 3's, and any coach that is not a moron can defend the perimeter against a 5 out easily with a 3-2 or 3-1-1 matchup zone.

Edit: I would stretch a basic 2-3 though if I was the coach. defenders could easily close out to the corners, and the top of the zone could cover the 3 other shooters easily since it is hard to properly space with a 5 out.

Honestly, I would be ripscalito if I was Hurley and another coach humiliated me like that. Anderson laughed in Hurley's face by going 5 guards, and honestly, it was disrespectful. Unfortunately, Hurley was not capable of doing anything about it.