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This team cannot win without Carlton. Period.

Another poster said this after the Cinci loss; Carlton looks like he’s taken 50 sleeping pills before the game. It’s true. He has zero exuberance. He is the antithesis of Akok who openly celebrates everything positively and excites his teammates. Josh’s utter lack of any emotion, jumping, dunking, love for the game, etc should be why he comes off the bench. AG, CV and all others show heart even if they have problems of their own.
 
FourRings said:
Another poster said this after the Cinci loss; Carlton looks like he’s taken 50 sleeping pills before the game. It’s true. He has zero exuberance. He is the antithesis of Akok who openly celebrates everything positively and excites his teammates. Josh’s utter lack of any emotion, jumping, dunking, love for the game, etc should be why he comes off the bench. AG, CV and all others show heart even if they have problems of their own.
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My wife has been saying he looks like he’s asleep.
 
Everyone remembers the way he came on last year right? What was that and why so different now? Seriously.
 
We can’t win with him or without him....PERIOD. Hopefully Dan Hurley message to Carlton somewhat got to him today and he can give us something.
 
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So Sid has been in the dog house .. but honestly, other than the three ball, what do we gain by exiling Sid and giving Polley so many minutes? Sid is active on the boards on both ends and attacks with aggression. The way he played today doesn't look like someone that should have been relegated to not even taking off his warm-ups the last few games.

And I was far more impressed with Whaley than JC today. I don't dislike JC, but he just seems two steps behind the rest of the game.
 
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FourRings said:
Another poster said this after the Cinci loss; Carlton looks like he’s taken 50 sleeping pills before the game. It’s true. He has zero exuberance. He is the antithesis of Akok who openly celebrates everything positively and excites his teammates. Josh’s utter lack of any emotion, jumping, dunking, love for the game, etc should be why he comes off the bench. AG, CV and all others show heart even if they have problems of their own.
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I was right about something. Mark your calendars folks.
 
I think uconnbill is right; he needs a fire under his butt!

As far as I'm concerned, in order for this team to be successful we need Josh to be all he is capable of being in terms of a sizable defensive presence in the paint, a formidable rebounder, a scorer- and a good passer. When he is "on" other things start clicking for the team. The whole team needs to get some fire and intensity, with Josh being one of its leaders. He needs to own his clearly defined role on this team for this to be a season of progress and moving forward for the program. There is literally no one else capable of filling his shoes at this present time. Josh is not the most agile center around but he does have talent; he just needs to play smart and inspired basketball.

I think Coach Hurley benching Josh against USF for most of the game was his way of trying to light a fire under his butt. We'll what happens on Wednesday against Tulane.
 
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Palatine said:
If opponents are too physical for us with Carlton in there. What chance do we have without him?

Hurley has to commit to Carlton and push him to get better.
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He's really bad, there isn't much to commit to. He's physically weak, he turns it over, he can't jump, and he flips the ball up at the backboard hoping it goes in. We're stuck, he's not a starting center at this level and Whaley would be a nice player for Niagara. We have no point and no center, our two true talents are freshmen. It's not a good situation.
 
LIuconn said:
Husky, we didn’t get Kofi. Can only dance with the one you brought
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wow gee. thank you so much for your analysis. i wonder how you came up with the fact that we never got Kofi.
 
UConnSwag11 said:
Whaley outplayed him by a mile. We lost bc of Akok getting two fouls, Hurley pocketing his timeouts, Hurley not making any adjustments, Hurley making subs 3-4 players at time, not playin your best and athletic players, etc. Akok cannot come out of the game unless he’s exhausted. We also need two ball handlers on the floor at all times and push Vital to the three when he plays. We don’t play the right lineups at all. Gaffney should play more as well as he can push the ball and is aggressive
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Unfortunately we do not have reliable ball handlers or high IQ guards on our team. Until the light bulb turns on for our upperclassmen it’s going to be tough sledding.
 
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Chief00 said:
It all goes back to how limited we are recruiting with the KO investigation overhang. It’s hard to compete with the purity standard we are holding ourselves to.
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Our next investigation will come out of your Bone Yard posts. You have expressed this enough
 
Palatine said:
Don't believe me. Watch the second half over and over. We needed a second center this past recruiting period. We didn't get one. Water over the dam. If we don't play Carlton, we are a donut. There is no other option.

Hurley decided to make a point today. To send Josh a message. Decided it was more important than winning. We'll find out if it was the right move. But once Carlton went out the game was -- it was OVER.

Josh has been crushed the past two games. He is playing scared. Frightened. Hurley has said that he isn't coaching well enough. That Carlton hasn't gotten the ball close enough to the basket. Today he got it closer and couldn't finish. His confidence has been destroyed. His focus was drek. He rushed. He was waiting for something bad to happen. He is waaaaaaaaaay outside of his comfort zone.

But take him out and we have no chance. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Null set. That's the truth.
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Can they win with Carlton? Have to ask that question as well.
 
Calhoun would have sent this message a long time ago, I have no problem with sitting kids at all. If they're not man enough to grow up and learn, then we're not winning with them to begin with

Hurley has to start sending more messages to more players more often. You want time? Bring it and stop making the same mistakes game after game after game
 
What I’m afraid of is that Josh has reached his basketball potential and skill limit.
 
I don't think there is a big gap between any of the top 10 players right now, so no one is irreplaceable. I do think Hurley needs to better match the game plan to the talent UConn has.
 
Team has zero chance without an effective Carlton, big guy in the middle. . We have no backup center to him and please don't tell me it's Whaley or Sid or Akok because we need them but those guys are not centers. That's like a baseball team saying we're going to play without a shortstop.
 
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ASweet3781 said:
Hurley got the credit for Josh winning MIP player in the league last year.

Guess he has nothing to do with what we are watching this year.
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Right it has nothing to do with what is happening this year. In the interim, Josh has put on 25 pounds of muscle (?) and plays like a 160 center. he has skills that he doesn't know how to use and no center to develop them against. I haven't been to practice but I'll bet he dominates because he is a team unicorn. He is the only size and heft present. I'd like to get some football player to come in and beat on him a while. Teach him how to inflict his will upon someone. You can't learn that in games.
 
HuskyBoi said:
wow gee. thank you so much for your analysis. i wonder how you came up with the fact that we never got Kofi.
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He is right. You came up with the "obvious" guy who would make the difference who will never wear the uniform so who cares? Let's talk about what we have or what we don't have. Call me a moron again but LIUConn is heading in the right direction.

We are better against smaller foes with Whaley playing because Josh can't leave the middle and be effective on D. And despite his size advantage on O he is suddenly playing 6'6 when posting up and never leaving the ground to score the ball. This is a kid who made us excited about his improvement the last 3rd of the year last year. With a summer to add muscle and more game, explosion to his repertoire how could we not hope we'd have a better product yet watch the games. He runs uninspired dragging his feet never lifting them unless he's actually running. Hardly ever see him explode to a post to get the ball it's a lean against his defender and try to push him out of the way. Move dammit show us you care about this team. Like someone said above this is on the staff too, what was missing during the summer and pre season? He's not the same kid and he shouldn't be, he should be better!!!!
 
CTBasketball said:
What I’m afraid of is that Josh has reached his basketball potential and skill limit.
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Maybe he did last year but he's not even THAT guy now CTB. He's regressed dramatically how?

I agree with everyone, we need him to be that guy or the one we hoped for which showed up vs Indiana. But heck, he's not the only one who we can say that about. Why?
 
mauconnfan said:
Maybe he did last year but he's not even THAT guy now CTB. He's regressed dramatically how?

I agree with everyone, we need him to be that guy or the one we hoped for which showed up vs Indiana. But heck, he's not the only one who we can say that about. Why?
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Also very true mau. Also I’d rather him be consistency average (10 and 7 say) vs. inconsistently have a good game here and a few clunkers.

This team needs a wake up call.
 
ucawn said:
Yea we need good Carlton not I can’t jump 3 inches and miss every single layup and get out rebounded by a white guy carlton
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What does skin color have to do with anything? Wow, racist folks in the yard.
 
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