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I don’t mind it too much, and I agree with your larger message. Just prefer keeping that part out of the media, that’s all.
I understand that. I think some of it is Hurley playing into his role as heel of CBB. Does he need to be doing it after losses? Probably not. But I’ll take it with the success. If it starts hindering our success I’ll sing a different tune.
 
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I understand that. I think some of it is Hurley playing into his role as heel of CBB. Does he need to be doing it after losses? Probably not. But I’ll take it with the success. If it starts hindering our success I’ll sing a different tune.
It won’t hinder success, he’s not the type to get complacent. I also don’t want him to be the heel though lol.
 
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Tarris was 3/3 fg's. How the hell does he only get 3 shots tonight and why weren't we getting the ball into him? The guy is an automatic bucket when we get it to him on the block, the problem is we don't get it into him nearly enough. Guy is shooting 69% this season.
 
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Pretty standard coaching 101 - not sure why anyone would be annoyed by it.
Karaban will be doing enough self-flagellation over the next few days. A good coach is there to pump confidence in him. Rare is the coach who can do it by talking about multiple rings
I think we forget these are just kids, many with a ton of pressure to make it to the next level and become wealthy, who can lose confidence in a second. Danny does a good job instilling self-confidence. Its why players want to come here.
 

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Yeah man we can’t depend on Diarra to be our end of game shot maker or Karaban for that matter. They do not have the talent to be those guys.

The role should go to Liam when he’s healthy, Solo, and maybe even Stew. Those guys have the talent to score over guys in difficult situations. But Diarra is a super confident guy. Which can be a great thing and can be harmful at times.
Fwiw, Hass had the clutch gene at A&M.


As a sophomore last season at Texas A&M, Diarra hit not one, not two, but three shots that either tied or won the game for the Aggies with 10 seconds or less left to play.
 
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For me it’s all about how they react next game now. Not a huge deal at all if they come out with their hair on fire against the Hoyas. Don’t think this will be easy they are very similar to what we just saw will try to beat our defenders one on one and they are very talented in compared to the last few years.

Very important game, not saying a must but don’t come out first half and stink up the joint again. Get all over them both ends have a real good first 20, let’s stop chasing for the last 20.
 
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I've taken my 75 year old Dad (who we might say is just generally a fan of Big East basketball) to two games this year, tonight and Gonzaga at MSG. He's pretty sure Stewart is a star:<)

I completely see get what Danny is hoping Ross turns into by seasons end because it's a piece the team desperately needs, but man it just doesn't seem to be slowing down for him at all out there. Whoever called him a "spazz" first absolutely nailed it.
 
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My first thought was dump it in to Reed at the end, I hope Alex doesn’t lose confidence over this.
It didn’t seem like they even considered Reed. Twas my argument that they should have had Samson in there because if they were going ISO drives he would have been an option on the lob.

Issue with Tarris is he does do some boneheaded things, today we saw it as he passed the ball to no where. Those spaced out moments make it hard to rely on in live die possessions. I’m noticing that on occasion he’s bodying up his defender to the outside of the rim when the advantage is to get open towards the rim. It’s like he’s looking for physical contact for the hell of it, very weird.

His underutilization offensively is perplexing. He’s shooting 68% from the floor and creating a lot of those shots himself. In a game like this could have also tried to draw a few fouls in Dixon.
 

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Fwiw, Hass had the clutch gene at A&M.

That’s fair. I’m just not confident in him being the guy with deep tournament expectations.

He’s been great running the offense, but if he was going to be the guy this year Hurley would’ve started him at the beginning of the year.

I don’t mind the loss today because we’re continuing to see other guys develop on things they need to for the end of the year.
 
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Tarris was 3/3 fg's. How the hell does he only get 3 shots tonight and why weren't we getting the ball into him? The guy is an automatic bucket when we get it to him on the block, the problem is we don't get it into him nearly enough. Guy is shooting 69% this season.
I’ll say it again: DH got out coached by a potato tonight. Not his best effort.
 
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sigh

This is when I miss times when players were taught how to play basketball and not how to run plays.

A Kemba, Bazz, Boatright, Price had the right to change plays and improvise as they saw fit because Calhoun trusted how well he coached them to make plays themselves.

We have some great great plays, but we should also keep developing guys to rise above the Xs and Os when necessary.
Well. It’s an open 3. But Hass is shooting 27 percent this season and 30 percent in his career, and he forced a 3 to try to win a game that was a poor shot. So that’s still in his mind I’m sure. And maybe he just said “nah” on his own even if DH would have approved.

Like I said, I’d have been ok with it. It would have been an on balance clean look and he can make them. And my thought would have been if he missed that you can’t ask for a better look, and we don’t have a bucket getter who can make something out of nothing who Hass would be denying the chance to win the game for us. But we also don’t know what happened in the huddle. It might not have even been a play so much as Hurley might have implored them to get into a set and attack the basket and then work inside out or get on the glass, not knowing we’d be that open off the inbounds.
 

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That’s fair. I’m just not confident in him being the guy with deep tournament expectations.

He’s been great running the offense, but if he was going to be the guy this year Hurley would’ve started him at the beginning of the year.

I don’t mind the loss today because we’re continuing to see other guys develop on things they need to for the end of the year.
To be clear, I fully agree with you. Just didn't want to overlook the fact that he does have a positive track record with respect to late game heroics.
 

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Dixon played like crap and exposed as nba failure he will be.
Dixon got his points. He has the game and smarts to realize that if he's being well defended and having a tough shooting night, he simply needs to be Dixon and get to the line. 9-9. He got 23 tonight, just off his average of 24.7.

Watching his game tonight reminded me of another big time PITA - DeJuan Blair. Same size, pretty much same game.
 

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Agree but so do Solo and Diarra. Alex can’t take anyone off the dribble suddenly so maybe time to start posting him up. People guarding him are too athletic on the move so change it up he’s good around the basket. HD can’t continue to come up empty for the first 20, 2 in a row needs to end fire and leadership needs to be immediate. Was it Adam’s that started real slow in the past? Also shouldn’t have given up that wide open 3 for a weak take to the rim.

Solo once again huge shots the kids clutch on that end. But watch the game got beat on the other end as much as he scored it’s an issue. He also missed a huge box out on weakside when we were up 2 and needed that rebound, can’t happen that end is important too.

Need Liam dramatically I’m afraid. Can’t lose to them with Dixon at 6-20 should never happen. Interested in this teams response!

Oh almost forgot thanks Jaylin for showing up to play. Well done!
We sold out on Dixon with double-teams every time he touched the ball. This was like the anti-Purdue scheme. The rest of their team shot 18/35 or 51%. We had a few chances to win this game, so I don't question the gameplan, but I don't agree with your statement about "Can't lose to them with Dixon at 6-20 should never happen." We picked our poison.
 
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AK wasn't fouled on either of them. He got bailed out and then bricked them.

On the drive 44 reached in and whacked AK on the arm pretty hard, almost made him lose the dribble.
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Solo putting together a more complete offensive game.

With McNeeley out, we have nobody that can create offense besides Diarra.

We need to run more offense through Reed. We go long stretches where we ignore him.

Nowell deserves minutes as backup pg. He instantly looked better than Mahaney in that role.

Alex needs to reign his game back in. No lumbering drives. No deep or off balance 3s. Just be a solid role player and don’t force things that are outside your capabilities.

Continue to start Stewart and give him consistent minutes to develop. Let him work thru inconsistency/mistakes. This team desperately needs another offensive threat.

Mahaney/Ross minutes may need to be distributed elsewhere.

Late game play calls left a lot to be desired…Diarra has repeatedly shown he cannot execute in those situations and we ask Alex to do things outside of his strengths.
 
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Dixon got his points. He has the game and smarts to realize that if he's being well defended and having a tough shooting night, he simply needs to be Dixon and get to the line. 9-9. He got 23 tonight, just off his average of 24.7.

Watching his game tonight reminded me of another big time PITA - DeJuan Blair. Same size, pretty much same game.
Blair was not a 3pt threat. Completely different game.
 
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AK's 2 FT wiffs w/the game on the line is quite shocking. Especially after such a great comeback from a 7 point halftime deficit. On to G'town... GO HUSKIES...
 
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It didn’t seem like they even considered Reed. Twas my argument that they should have had Samson in there because if they were going ISO drives he would have been an option on the lob.

Issue with Tarris is he does do some boneheaded things, today we saw it as he passed the ball to no where. Those spaced out moments make it hard to rely on in live die possessions. I’m noticing that on occasion he’s bodying up his defender to the outside of the rim when the advantage is to get open towards the rim. It’s like he’s looking for physical contact for the hell of it, very weird.

His underutilization offensively is perplexing. He’s shooting 68% from the floor and creating a lot of those shots himself. In a game like this could have also tried to draw a few fouls in Dixon.

Reeds pass was fine Solo hardly ever cuts to the basket hardly a boneheaded play Ball was open but he left nobody’s fault, it happens. And not trying to give Reed more chances to bull his way in like Dixon did to us is on the staff, they needed to try to hammer it in but didn’t run anything for him. Strange to me because Bauyke couldn’t handle him without fouling out ( not sure they would call anything on him though because he was consistently a hack and ended up with 1 foul ).
 

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