Secret Scrimmage v Harvard

[Bonk]

Weird we haven’t heard much yet. Took about 5 minutes after Nebraska’s to see a box score and full write up.

Hurley's prob not done making them run sprints yet

 

[intlzncster]

Weird we haven’t heard much yet. Took about 5 minutes after Nebraska’s to see a box score and full write up.

gag order.

 

[StepbackCity]

Our 1999 team almost lost to Marathon Oil.

Syracuse lost to a D3 school one year, I think, and went on to play in the Final Four.

Nothing here should be either encouraging or discouraging.

Yeah we also lost to Wagner. Wait.

 

[Sphinx]

Harvard had six men last year who played 25 minutes or more per game. All six return this year as juniors or seniors. This is a smart, well-coached group of veterans against which this UConn team, at this stage in its rebuilding, had little real chance. If you had told me before the game that Gilbert would play effectively against this group, I would have taken that as a solid positive, considerably outweighing any negative.

 

[crazyUCfan23]

Our 1999 team almost lost to Marathon Oil.

Syracuse lost to a D3 school one year, I think, and went on to play in the Final Four.

Nothing here should be either encouraging or discouraging.

Lemoyne 2 or 3 years ago

 

[Travelman6]

Rapidly pushing the panic button.

 

[smoothcriminal]

Saw him outside behind gampel around 4:00 getting into his car. The look on his face screamed can’t believe we just got our kicked by a bunch of nerds . I had to remind him that we lost to Yale on the same court not too long ago.

Praying for better days.

 

[gtcam]

It is what it is BUT they better get better by the time they roll into MSG vs Cuse
Time is ticking....................................................
I have great hope for DH

 

[Storrs South]

 

[TitleTown]

To ease any panic:

UConn, Yale, Quinnipiac will play ‘secret’ scrimmages on Saturday

I don't understand why there would be any panic? We have known for a while that this was not a very good basketball team. There have been some lofty, and unreasonable, sweet 16 expectations placed on them by some on this board, but that is just not fair! This is a team that is just not very talented or very big, IMHO a 20 win season and an invite to the NCAA tournament is a successful season for UConn this year,

 

[intlzncster]

I don't understand why there would be any panic? We have known for a while that this was not a very good basketball team. There have been some lofty, and unreasonable, sweet 16 expectations placed on them by some on this board, but that is just not fair! This is a team that is just not very talented or very big, IMHO a 20 win season and an invite to the NCAA tournament is a successful season for UConn this year,

Gonna need more than 20 wins from an AAC team this year if you want to dance.

 

[intlzncster]

To ease any panic:

UConn, Yale, Quinnipiac will play ‘secret’ scrimmages on Saturday

Still, coaches can stop the game in-progress to go over technique, fundamentals, etc. And, since video of these secret scrimmages tends to leak out to future opponents, the coaches are more apt to run “vanilla” offenses and concentrate more on defense.

This is what I was asking earlier. Good to see it addressed somewhere.

 

[Tenspro2002]

No idea how much stock to put in this result, or how believable the report is, but regardless:

It's going to take Hurley more than a few weeks to coach up this group. Given what we saw from the previous regime, he's basically starting from scratch, with everyone from the incoming freshmen through Jalen Adams. Unlike the last few years, you can expect some improvement from this group throughout the year -- what we see in November is not going to be what we see in February.

 

[scotty0330]

Can’t believe anyone has any expectations after last year. A couple months go by and people forgot how often this team got blown out and was hardly competitive in many games. A new Adams and a post grad from the A10 are not going to make this team good overnight.

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

Let's not forget what this team looked like in the last game against SMU in March.

 

[Huskyfan4evr]

Has anyone confirmed the loss yet or is it just the one person saying it?

 

[AntG168]

I think a lot of this seasons expectations are based on many of us believing we should not have been that bad last yr. And that the coaching and culture contributed greatly in last yrs results

 

[UC990411]

I heard we lost by 14 and Alterique was the only one who did anything offensively. My source is just about as solid as can be.

Edit: my source is the same as caronimos

 

[Balker]

Has anyone confirmed the loss yet or is it just the one person saying it?

Just the one guy so far. But don’t let that stop you from throwing the season away. It’s all over.

 

[Guapo]

This (if true) is the same as the Red So losing to Baltimore in spring training

 

[TheChamps990411]

Lol! I couldnt care less about the outcome. Im not worried about how we play in October i start my concern in Nov and only begin to worry in January lol! Means absolutely nothing. Just glad my boys are back on the court.

 

[Stinger92860]

Just the one guy so far. But don’t let that stop you from throwing the season away. It’s all over.

One guy who was joking

 

[Chief00]

Can’t believe anyone has any expectations after last year. A couple months go by and people forgot how often this team got blown out and was hardly competitive in many games. A new Adams and a post grad from the A10 are not going to make this team good overnight.

Chief00 has consistently said the focus is on recruiting for 2019/2020 season.

 

[pj]

Can’t believe anyone has any expectations after last year. A couple months go by and people forgot how often this team got blown out and was hardly competitive in many games. A new Adams and a post grad from the A10 are not going to make this team good overnight.

A McD's AA (Gilbert), a top 100 recruit (Wilson), a few post-grad transfers, a new Adams, and a bunch of big men becoming sophs rather than freshmen -- I think we can reasonably expect significant improvement. Not overnight, admittedly.

 

[navery12]

Chief00 has consistently said the focus is on recruiting for 2019/2020 season.

Well I'm glad we're not recruiting for the season that started a few weeks ago