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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 4168328, member: 10"] There's a lot in this article about trying to get Whaley going. [I]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.”[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nhregister.com/uconn/article/UConn-men-s-basketball-coach-Dan-Hurley-One-16789205.php?t=2a32b6cb3e[/URL] [B][U]Free access link: [/U][/B] [URL='https://archive.is/JgA2i'][B][COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)]UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley: ‘One of my top priorities is to get Isaiah Whaley going’[/COLOR][/B][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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