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Whaley- 0 pts, 0 reb, 0 ast

I think the issue is that is wasn't really Whaley, but apparently a stand-in. (anyone know who that's a picture of? looks like maybe a 'Nova jersey?)
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navery12 said:
I guess they could have gone with Akok at the 5, but it was after Sanogo picked up his 2nd so one of them needed to play with 2
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It was unrealistic, but I was hoping to see either Johnson or Springs get some first half PT once both Sanogo and Whaley had 2 fouls.

As far as Whaley's struggles this season, injuries and medical situations we're unaware of could be at play. I still contend though that the massive change in role is having some effect. Spending your whole career as a 5/traditional 4 and then being sent out to play on the perimeter has to throw a guy for a loop.

He'll still come up big for us many times this season. His huge performance in the Bahamas was not his swan song.
 
many of us, playing along at home, and when a situation looks like 'time for a sub,' like to guess who should be coming in. when, i think it was adama, picked up a foul, the situation demanded a sub. instantly, and understanding a bit aboot coach's program thinking, i thought isaiah was the pick. he was.
isaiah is fine, and as mentioned by someone here earlier, an important component for winning team defense. forget his stats, just watch the flow.
 
Obviously this was a particularly bad offensive game for Whaley, but he played a lot of solid defense in the second half.

That said, unless IW becomes a better shooter from 3 pt, I don't think he should be a starter on this team at this point in the year, and I suspect Dan Hurley will make a change soon. He was knocking some 3's down early in the year, but it's clearly just not a strength for him.

It's a much better offensive team with Akok or Polley in the 4 spot giving Sanogo another good outlet and a better drive threat. Whaley should be playing backup 5, and 4 on occasion right now.

He is also solid if you get zone looks and need someone to spot up at the free throw line, but I don't think we'll see much zone in the Big East this year.
 
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Balker said:
Obviously this was a particularly bad offensive game for Whaley, but he played a lot of solid defense in the second half.

That said, unless IW becomes a better shooter from 3 pt, I don't think he should be a starter on this team at this point in the year, and I suspect Dan Hurley will make a change soon. He was knocking some 3's down early in the year, but it's clearly just not a strength for him.

It's a much better offensive team with Akok or Polley in the 4 spot giving Sanogo another good outlet and a better drive threat. Whaley should be playing backup 5, and 4 on occasion right now.

He is also solid if you get zone looks and need someone to spot up at the free throw line, but I don't think we'll see much zone in the Big East this year.
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His release from 3 actually looked a little better last night, but everything just rattled out. I'm predicting a comeback tomorrow night for IW.
 
I thought Whaley moved better on defense this game and played solid stretches of defense.

I didn't get bring him in late in the 2nd half. I know Johnson is raw and young, but I thought when there was 34 or 44 seconds until the final tv timeout for the half, it would be a good time to give him a minute. The worst, he stinks it up and you take him out a possession later when you get the timeout or he buys you a few minutes and gets a bit of experience.
 
I’m not sure what his role is on this team. With Martin, Jackson and Sanogo we have enough grit and rebounding. Makes more sense to have Polley take those minutes to spread the floor and provide some shotmaking.
 
I suspect we will see a better performance for the return game at Butler.
 
CL82 said:
That Richie Springs outplayed him?*

* Relax, relax… It’s a joke!
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I don’t know where the minutes would come from for Richie, but I always liked him. He’s really good around the rim and he has a pretty good build. He can get after you on defense too. To me, he could be the definition of a good Hurley role player.
Chief will always remember Richie as a voice of reason within the Bouknight inner circle. For James sake, I wish we had more of those.
 
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Sometimes when you have depth, youre going to see some games where guys dont put up the numbers you would expect. Everybody cant play up to their season averages every single game. Charlie Villanueva scored 0 points in the National Championship game vs Ga Tech. Not comparing Whaley to CV, but It just goes to show that not everybody can go off at once. That stat always surprised me because that game was a blowout.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
Maybe I'm being too insecure, but I'm taking this thread as a dig against me starting Whaley last night in @MyDorona's Big East Fantasy Basketball League.
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Ouch. Sanogo's been killing it for me. Averaging 19/16/1/0.7/4 on 51% shooting over last 2 weeks. (Only the FT% killing me).
 
auror said:
Ouch. Sanogo's been killing it for me. Averaging 19/16/1/0.7/4 on 51% shooting over last 2 weeks. (Only the FT% killing me).
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I'm so pissed I drafted Nate Watson over Sanogo.
 
auror said:
Ouch. Sanogo's been killing it for me. Averaging 19/16/1/0.7/4 on 51% shooting over last 2 weeks. (Only the FT% killing me).
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Tbh, that 51% should be higher considering where he's shooting from. He might miss more bunnies than Martin.
 
Waquoit said:
Tbh, that 51% should be higher considering where he's shooting from. He might miss more bunnies than Martin.
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Tbh, he draws a lot of attention and always has 1 or 2 guys all over him. I'm thrilled that he has been passing out of double teams recently. The passing and blocked shots are both recent additions to his skillset.
 
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Shamon30 said:
I didn't really like him being put back in with 2 fouls in the first half. I think we'd have seen a better 2nd half from Whaley had he not picked up #3.
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I noticed that as well. That is the first time I can remember any Uconn coach putting any player with two fouls back in to the first half of a game. I wonder what Dan Hurley was thinking.
 
dennismenace said:
I noticed that as well. That is the first time I can remember any Uconn coach putting any player with two fouls back in to the first half of a game. I wonder what Dan Hurley was thinking.
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Do you mean any UConn coach ever going all the way back to Calhoun? Because that's definitely not true.

We're well below average in the category this year, and I think with the depth we have it shouldn't hurt too much. But it's one of the biggest issues I have with coaches is the automatic benching of a guy with 2 fouls
 
There's a lot in this article about trying to get Whaley going.

It’s been a tougher stretch lately for Whaley, culminating in one of his emptiest stat lines in the past three years on Tuesday, when he picked up three first-half fouls and finished without a single point or rebound in 10 minutes of action.

“Isaiah’s going through a tough stretch of games here,” Hurley said. “We didn’t start winning here until that guy got on the court. We need him to be his old ‘Wrench’ self here. (Thursday) is the perfect time.”

Whaley has had some health issues. He had a scary fainting spell after a game in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament and got hit hard by COVID-19 a couple of weeks ago. He felt sick in UConn’s Dec. 21 win a Marquette (four points, six boards in 31 minutes) and was one of UConn’s final players to get out of COVID isolation prior to the Huskies’ return to action in a Jan. 8, overtime loss at Seton Hall.

“I didn’t have as much time to get back in shape,” Whaley said. “I was really winded that whole game.”

Whaley finished with five points and three boards in 23 minutes.

“He had a tough Christmas break, he’s been trying to get his legs under him,” Hurley said. “One of our top priorities right now is getting that guy back to who he was. Getting him back to his identity, getting that intensity level raised. It’s never gonna be a huge statistical thing for him. He’s a guy whose defensive intensity, just the way he plays, kind of in a ‘glue guy’ way, is what makes him so great that can’t really be measured by numbers. But one of my top priorities is to get him going.”

www.nhregister.com

UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley: ‘One of my top priorities is go get Isaiah Whaley going’

While UConn men’s basketball super senior Tyler Polley has been hot lately, coach Dan...
www.nhregister.com www.nhregister.com

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UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley: ‘One of my top priorities is to get Isaiah Whaley going’
 
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