As of now we’re in the tournament. I have no doubt this team will beat Nova and probably Marquette at home too. They get up for those games and those teams aren’t particularly good either. We’ll see.
Ok, we can agree to disagree. Not saying the refs were good, I’m just saying there were a lot of other reasons pointing to this loss.
He gets lost far too often. He also never gets the ball thrown into him on the block and he's being jerked around on playing time. Hurley decided Samson is the starter no matter what, he heaps effusive praise on Samson constantly despite his shortcomings and Tarris has largely become an afterthought. If he's in the game he's only eating by getting the ball himself on offensive rebounds.
Yep Ross is a level above what he should be playing and Stewart is just a jump shooter who only takes 3s. Neither is good defensively. I do disagree on Ball as he has started to drive more but he has to make those layups.
See if this weren’t an ongoing problem I would understand that but the inability to inbounds the ball has been an issue forever.
The offense is really not tailored to our strengths right now. I agree we need to get the ball inside more for easier shots. We only have one really creator with the ball and he is hobbled on one leg right now. Just a bunch of jump shooters who if shot is not falling we are in trouble. Though if Tarris doesn't play good D he is coming out. Hurley is like Calhoun. He doesn't really care what you bring on offense unless you are some great offensive player like Ray Allen but if you don't play D you aren't getting minutes.
My question is , is Stewart only a jump shooter because that’s what he’s being asked to do? I think there is more in there.
We expected Stewart to be really good this year. What have you seen this year that makes you think he will be “really” good next year?
Nah, some of those late KO teams got absolutely shelled and were just going through the motions.
I felt as angry as I did watching the Shamon Tooles/Darius Rice game in 2003.
If, that call on Ball was called (99% of the time it is) the tarnished word would not even be mentioned. I have been watching UConn since the Tony Hansen days and I've seen many bad losses in that time. This can be one of them. But to tarnish the brand, it does not. I guess our next recruiting class should just portal then.
Yeah he never looks to drive or try to post up which I think he can do. We need him to step up offensively as we are challenged when not making our outside shots.
His progression as a shooter is real. I believe he needs a longer leash to play through mistakes. I still think he’s gonna be really good for us
The lack of development in the sophomores, point guard depth issues after swinging and missing on Mahaney/Nowell, and over-reliance on Samson are the roster construction issues that keep coming up in these losses.
This loss sucks no doubt but we are not a bubble team yet. The bubble is horrible as usual this year. If UNC is a bubble team right now, we are comfortably in. Winning at Creighton was huge in hindsight
We got over the top great performances from Ball then McNeeley. Without that we lose both games.
Hurley has found one truly great PG, two decent ones and then not much of anything else. It's a bit concerning.
They were losing to teams with similar or better talent levels and with a poor coaching staff, this 2024-2025 team has no business losing to that SH team, they are awful. It's not even like SH played above their level or out of their minds, they had 50 points with a minute left in regulation.
That's the problem. We need stellar play from one of them to compete against better teams, and if not then we cannot make mistakes and play solid defense against the meh teams.
It’s getting one with major players leaving.
Absolutely not, you gotta watch more CBB
Dont be shocked if you start to hear Danny must go chants.
