That he only plays 11 minutes a game is the point. They have no depth so he has to get some minutes, but 11 isn't much. Our 7th and 8th guys (Johnson and Diarra) are both getting almost 19 minutes a game as reference
No Ernie Cobb (Stamford)?
They are going to be bad until they fire autry, he is dreadful. They have plenty of talent. No offensive scheme and zero team effort. Everyone out for themselves
It might, but it's not skewed as much as you'd expect. He's at 21 minutes when Clingan was out and 18 when Clingan plays. And that applies across the board anyway, Timberlake's minutes were up yesterday because McCullar was out
Just about every team in the current ACC has coaching questions. The only coach who looks like a shoo-in for HoF is Tony Bennett. Larranga might have a shot, zip titles, but a solid coaching tree. Hamilton is good, not great. Davis is already in his 50s in first year and won't have enough time even if he proves out to be consistently good. The rest of the group... as Dennis Eckersley once famously said about the Pittsburgh Pirates, "It's a hodgepodge of nothingness."
I feel like at this point we want UNC and Kansas to lose. We are fighting for a protected seed, and the media is going to love Purdue and Houston no matter what. Our narrow loss to KU will never be a Q1 “quality” loss, and our win over UNC will never be a high quality Q1 win. Let them slide comfortably to a 2 or 3 seed so we can comfortably be a 1 or 2
That entire board is so delusional. And it’s simply delicious watching them fall further and further into the toilet bowl of irrelevance… while you and and harmonize to the sweet tune of….
Their "Boneyard Unintentional Hilarity" thread hasn't been posted to since October. Even then, the last year of posting had been just lamenting how good (or lucky) UConn has been compared to them.
There was some wailing and gnashing of teeth after the UNC MSG game. To be fair, there's a subset of posters there that are generous to us with praise there when they see good basketball.
I agree. And Hamilton at 75 and Larranga at 74 are not going to be around much longer. That leaves Bennett, Brownell (Clemson) and Keatts (NC State) as the only coaches that have more than 5 years at their current job. Scheyer and Davis are the names everyone knows because of what they inherited. I do think Scheyer and Davis are going to be successful primarily due to their attractiveness to recruits, but also because the ACC as a whole lacks depth. A bunch of teams that once battled for high seeds in the NCAA tourney now strive to just be respectable.
We don’t have much of a rivalry with them anymore obviously but they were always my most hated team. I’d rather play them every year then Mississippi valley state. Even if they suck it’d still be fun to beat them up.
I meant to say each will never not be quality Q1 loss/win respectively
We as in UConn mens bb and their fans. You still have to have some of that bullet lodged in your craw.
I could be wrong but at the moment, I believe we would need a serious collapse to not land in Brooklyn, regardles of what region we would be placed in. As long as we remain in position to receive a one seed (regardless of whether it's the first or fourth) we'll allso end up on a path to Boston.
Post game thread had 80 ish comments…..here we have that in 10 minutesFor your viewing pleasure. They're beyond the anger and frustration phase and settling nicely in to indifference.
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What are you going on about? Yes, we means UConn. The player referenced, if you couldn't guess, is Cam Spencer.
I have a hard time seeing KU landing a 1 seed. They aren't playing at that level.
not during the tail end of the Ollie era. Winning breeds fan interest.
Having fun with you. Yes UConn dodged the Timberlake bullet. I'm aware you're a loyal UConn fan and being a UConn fan are very happy UConn dodged that bullet. But Kansas is your second team and you do root for them to win when it's not at the expense of UConn. So you didn't completely dodge the Timberlake bullet. His bad play at Kansas helps UConn and that makes you happy. But when you watch Kansas he has to make you cringe.
ESPN promo-Ing the hell out of that game like they always do. “Battle for supremacy of Top 10 teams that lost to Georgia Tech! Saturday night on ESPN!”
I wish Timberlake had been good, honestly. I'm thrilled UConn got the vastly better player in Cam, but I certainly wish Timberlake was at least Joey C level.