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polycom said:
Brad Stevens is not Hurley. This can’t be a real post. Brad Stevens is an elite coach so is every other coach people are comparing to Hurley. Hurley has show he can build programs he has not shown he should be in the same conversation as elite coaches, this narrative needs to die.
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Those Calhoun comparisons from Day 1 were nothing but trouble.
 
8893 said:
And those who take any suggestion that Hurley is not Jesus as an outrage are those who had Ollie out the door from day one.

I’m just waiting for us to be able to discuss our current players and current coaching without hearing how any deficiencies in any of them are Ollie’s fault. I believe Hurley was the right hire and that things will get better; I just expected the actual coaching to be visibly better and so far I’m not seeing it. Our offense has not improved, nor has our mettle or consistency.
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To fix that stuff takes time. Effective coaching is shown over time. We haven’t even given this man a full season. The players are struggling to break bad habits right now. I fully expect them to be a different team come February. This is a process. And right now we’re just in the ugly part. Danny has some growing to do as do the players. But I’m 100%confident he’ll figure it out and have us back to being UConn. We just need to remain patient
 
UConn990411 said:
I’m fully confident in Hurley’s ability to turn this program around, but I think it’s fair to be concerned about this team consistently getting smoked to start the second half. That’s becoming a pattern that quality coaching should address.
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To anyone who questions the team's effort because they got blown out in 3 consecutive second halves: There were multiple dudes diving on the floor with a minute left despite being down double figures. We're getting blown out in 2nd halves because we're a worse team than other teams, so as more possessions happen, we're more likely to show that.

We've actually started getting blown out in 1st halves against the Florida schools. It's not an opponent halftime adjustment thing.

As for Hurley, you can't bleed adjustments from a stone and there are stones in some of our players' heads. Can you be concerned he's not a wizard? Sure, I guess if you expected a wizard. Hurley is more Arthur, less Merlin. He's working with a square table of knights with different values currently.
 
It is fair to criticize Hurley on certain things for example the inexcusable USF loss.

Today there were some things that Hurley did that I liked...having Jalen completely off the ball definitely helped reduce turnovers as jalen’s handle has gone from below average to horrible.

Losses to bad in-conference teams just cannot happen. Today was an acceptable loss, though disappointing as any loss is.
 
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whaler11 said:
No of course I didn’t expect him to fix things in year one. I also didn’t expect the team to be this awful and be told he doesn’t own any of that.
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I don’t know what else to say to get my point across. What made you think this team would be good? Do you think we have the roster to be competitive in our conference right now? Get all the frustrations and complaints with Hurley out now because they won’t last more than another season.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
“He’s going through some struggles with his confidence,” Hurley continued. “But if Jalen Adams approaches every day the way he approached his last two, he’ll come out of this and he’ll start playing much better basketball. Can he take over games at the level that Aubrey Dawkins does, or B.J. Taylor? Obviously, he’s gonna have to prove that. But I loved how he showed up today.”
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He clearly has no clue how to reach Jalen but Jalen doesn't have a clue how to reach Jalen.

Hurley had a similar quote after Jalen's last atrocious 5 point performance and he did everything yesterday but flat out say Jalen sucks and needs to be better or he'll sit.

Don't think there are any buttons that can be pushed with Jalen at this point. He reminds me of the kid who was shaving in 7th grade and was bigger, faster, and better than everyone until he reached senior year and everyone passed him by.
 
Madmannsucks said:
I don't get it. Hurley can't coach these guys up because they are not his players? Sounds lame. I expected the team to be more competitive this season...so far they are not.
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well that's your fault then. We finished under .500 two seasons in a row and haven't had a real recruiting class in three years
 
Stainmaster said:
He's clearly playing the long game. It's had good results for him at both of his previous stops, and I don't think he feels inclined to stray too far from that.

The problem is, I don't know how many people have the stomach for that.
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I get it and understand the value in having your players’ backs, but I just don’t see how you can say Jalen showed up today with a straight face. KO was savaged for being too easy on his players, especially Jalen. He’d be killed for a quote like that after today’s performance.
 
Madmannsucks said:
I don't get it. Hurley can't coach these guys up because they are not his players? Sounds lame. I expected the team to be more competitive this season...so far they are not.
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Its not that he can’t coach them up. It’s that they’re flawed mentally and physically. Most of these guys aren’t his type of player. And if he was in charge 2 years ago they wouldn’t be here. They’ve been practicing bad habits for 2-3 yrs now. Hurley can’t break them in 5months. I promise you Hurley isn’t content or pleased with what he’s seeing. My expectations coming in were higher because I expected Jalen to be special. He hasn’t. So when you don’t even have a really good player on your team and you couple that with the worst front court in Div 1 ball, it’s hard to make lemonade out of that
 
Madmannsucks said:
I don't get it. Hurley can't coach these guys up because they are not his players? Sounds lame. I expected the team to be more competitive this season...so far they are not.
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The team stunk last year!!!! What made you think this year would be so much better????
 
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JimOllie said:
I don’t know what else to say to get my point across. What made you think this team would be good? Do you think we have the roster to be competitive in our conference right now? Get all the frustrations and complaints with Hurley out now because they won’t last more than another season.
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You said this mid September.

"I really don’t understand how anyone thinks this team won’t make the tournament this season. To say the talent isn’t there is absurd. The talent is there and now we have a staff who’s going to get the most out of it."
 
8893 said:
A healthy Alterique Gilbert and a better coach?
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And that will get us a better record, if bet money we don’t finish under .500 again. It’s still not enough tho. The greatest coach can’t win with bums
 
Walker11 said:
You said this mid September.

"I really don’t understand how anyone thinks this team won’t make the tournament this season. To say the talent isn’t there is absurd. The talent is there and now we have a staff who’s going to get the most out of it."
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In his defense that was before Jalen went MIA lol
 
JimOllie said:
I don’t know what else to say to get my point across. What made you think this team would be good? Do you think we have the roster to be competitive in our conference right now? Get all the frustrations and complaints with Hurley out now because they won’t last more than another season.
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I’ll never say he wasn’t the right hire, he was the best candidate at the time - but I pointed out some red flags during the process and got shouted down.

I get that you don’t think anything matters for three years... but I’d also not at one time you thought it made sense to put Ollie in your handle - so you aren’t exactly batting 1.000.
 
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Walker11 said:
You said this mid September.

"I really don’t understand how anyone thinks this team won’t make the tournament this season. To say the talent isn’t there is absurd. The talent is there and now we have a staff who’s going to get the most out of it."
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Funny you bring this up. Just told my buddy today how dumb I felt for saying I thought we’d make the tournament this year. Now it is clearer than ever to me that we don’t have enough talent at the moment
 
8893 said:
I get it and understand the value in having your players’ backs, but I just don’t see how you can say Jalen showed up today with a straight face. KO was savaged for being too easy on his players, especially Jalen. He’d be killed for a quote like that after today’s performance.
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Cant reasonably compare Ollie and Hurley, Ollie recruited Jalen so he should understand him much better than Hurley does. With that said a fair assessment of Hurley is that he hasn’t figured out how to motivate this team... can you blame him for that sure he is the coach. But at the same time he has a track record of improving programs but his performance in the here and now has been average to poor.
 
polycom said:
Brad Stevens is not Hurley. This can’t be a real post. Brad Stevens is an elite coach so is every other coach people are comparing to Hurley. Hurley has show he can build programs he has not shown he should be in the same conversation as elite coaches, this narrative needs to die.
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So...what you're saying is...Hurley is NOT Brad Stevens?
 
8893 said:
I think I watched a different game than others today. I’m blaming the flu. I just saw the post-game comments from Hurley and the team on the news and they are all downright giddy about their effort and performance today. I feel like I’m in the twilight zone.
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Hey anytime you can’t even threaten to beat UCF at home - that’s a win.
 
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whaler11 said:
Here is a fun fact.

On this date in 2018 UConn was 125 in the Pomeroys. Today they are 108.

With Gilbert and Wilson.
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Wilson is horrible... 1 player has made us somewhat better..I’ll believe that.
 
whaler11 said:
I’ll never say he wasn’t the right hire, he was the best candidate at the time - but I pointed out some red flags during the process and got shouted down.

I get that you don’t think anything matters for three years... but I’d also not at one time you thought it made sense to put Ollie in your handle - so you aren’t exactly batting 1.000.
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I made the handle as a high school senior after coming back from the 2014 Final Four. I thought Ollie was the king of the world. But listen, I’m not looking for an argument. We just have opposing views on this. I get your frustrations. It hasn’t been fun to be a UConn fan the past few years. I think we now have the guy to make it fun again, even if this season didn’t go as expected
 
whaler11 said:
Now Wilson is horrible. Didn’t take long to feed him to the sharks.
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Wilson was horrible for the first game he stepped on the court this season...
 
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