It absolutely is about coaching. Like it or not, the coaching staff is responsible for everything this program does.
Whose fault is it that Gibbs has been playing out of position and being asked to do things he is CLEARLY incapable of doing?
Whose fault is it that the same stupid decision making keeps happening over and over with no repurcussions?
Whose fault is it that game in and game out substitution patterns feel like they're being made after referencing the Magic 8 Ball?
Whose fault is it that lack of hustle and lack of energy are accepted instead of punished?
Whose fault is it that we haven't got ONE call all year while the refs keep running us over, backing up, and running us over again?
Whose fault is it that we have more shot clock violations this year than probably in the last 1o combined?
I'm not naive enough to not see that Purvis' inability to make a layup and Hamilton's lackadaisical D is on the players. But a coaching staff has the ability to create a situation where the sum of the parts are greater than the whole in many, many ways. In this case, while we definitely have deficiencies that are difficult to hide (neither Kemba nor Shabazz are walking through that door anytime soon), there is talent that if utilized properly would have us in much better position. I could deal with last year, we were coming off the loss of one of the two great individual performers in the history of UConn basketball. I CAN'T accept this year though....this team has not improved at all over the course of the year, and we are once again going to be a non-factor deep into March.
There is no escaping the cross we have to bear with this lousy conference. But I repeat what others have said, and I've said for the last few years....if this conference is so God-awful, why aren't we dominating it?? The next two years will decide whether we continue to be relevant, or go the way of St. John's. Has to start with the head man on down.
Whoever said you'd take this back in 2012....I guarantee you wouldn't have taken getting swept by Temple, Cincinnati and losing to Houston at home with our NCAA hopes on the line. I just don't see the energy, the passion.
And saying to the media "we need to get tougher".....that don't cut it either. I'd like to hear one story about having a hard practice after a lousy game like Calhoun used to do. Or someone getting in a fight at practice. Something that shows this team has a pulse. Certainly didn't see that today. We were having our way, got punched in the face, and then basically laid down. That's unacceptable if you ask me, and I'm far from an entitled UConn fan....I started following them in the mid-1970s.
Whose fault is it that Gibbs has been playing out of position and being asked to do things he is CLEARLY incapable of doing?
Whose fault is it that the same stupid decision making keeps happening over and over with no repurcussions?
Whose fault is it that game in and game out substitution patterns feel like they're being made after referencing the Magic 8 Ball?
Whose fault is it that lack of hustle and lack of energy are accepted instead of punished?
Whose fault is it that we haven't got ONE call all year while the refs keep running us over, backing up, and running us over again?
Whose fault is it that we have more shot clock violations this year than probably in the last 1o combined?
I'm not naive enough to not see that Purvis' inability to make a layup and Hamilton's lackadaisical D is on the players. But a coaching staff has the ability to create a situation where the sum of the parts are greater than the whole in many, many ways. In this case, while we definitely have deficiencies that are difficult to hide (neither Kemba nor Shabazz are walking through that door anytime soon), there is talent that if utilized properly would have us in much better position. I could deal with last year, we were coming off the loss of one of the two great individual performers in the history of UConn basketball. I CAN'T accept this year though....this team has not improved at all over the course of the year, and we are once again going to be a non-factor deep into March.
There is no escaping the cross we have to bear with this lousy conference. But I repeat what others have said, and I've said for the last few years....if this conference is so God-awful, why aren't we dominating it?? The next two years will decide whether we continue to be relevant, or go the way of St. John's. Has to start with the head man on down.
Whoever said you'd take this back in 2012....I guarantee you wouldn't have taken getting swept by Temple, Cincinnati and losing to Houston at home with our NCAA hopes on the line. I just don't see the energy, the passion.
And saying to the media "we need to get tougher".....that don't cut it either. I'd like to hear one story about having a hard practice after a lousy game like Calhoun used to do. Or someone getting in a fight at practice. Something that shows this team has a pulse. Certainly didn't see that today. We were having our way, got punched in the face, and then basically laid down. That's unacceptable if you ask me, and I'm far from an entitled UConn fan....I started following them in the mid-1970s.
