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What is your take on Hurley and the Refs?

What answer best describes your opinion on Dan Hurley and his confrontational attitude with refs?

  • It's no big deal

    Votes: 32 18.0%
  • It energizes the team

    Votes: 26 14.6%
  • It intimidates refs into giving him a call

    Votes: 8 4.5%
  • It only makes Hurley look foolish

    Votes: 112 62.9%

  • Total voters
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I think it was the early fouls that set him off.

It was not as you described. Players had arms up, not bodying the driver at all, feet moving.

The driver initiated contact and got the foul call. This is why we had so many starters on the bench so early in the game.

On the other side of the court, Memphis was hacking, using hands, 2 hands to push, everything we've been told needs to be called.

You can adjust and play the game the Memphis way and then you won't get called for fouls, but it's such a bad kind of basketball. No idea why the refs prefer to give the advantage to teams that isolate and drive over teams that want to run offensive plays.

That's how it as last night.
This is exactly correct.

Then they are forced to play softer defense because the fouls are piling up, which is then what people pick up on and blame the loss on.
 
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I am surprised by the number of hothouse flowers we have on this board.

I stand with Coach. Period.

When losing hurts more than winning feels good, you have guys that are wired differently. Michael Jordan punched his own teammates in practice. Calhoun had one of the shortest fuses in the history of the sport. Larry Bird had a temper.

Truth is, if the team showed half the fire that Hurley showed we wouldn't have been in that predicament to begin with. We played like crap in the last cupcake warm up and we played sloppy on both ends of the floor yesterday and he won't accept it and neither will I. Keep doing exactly what you're doing, Coach.

I'm 95% with this. I only object to the second part of his postgame quote about deserving a better whistle (yes it's 100% correct but needs to remain unsaid) and what appear to be jawing at the officials after Ball's tying basket.
 
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To me he needs to know better than that. You don’t put you team in that position with time running out. No excuse for those kinds of histrionics. You want throw a fit in the first half, have at it. This is a return to 2022 Hurley who cost his team games with his nonsense. He seemed to have it under control. Now it’s back.

I see shades of Bob Knight in some of his actions which would be kind of sad. Great coach remembered as much for throwing chairs and physically attacking players as his 3 National Championships. For a long time he got away with stuff until he didn’t. It would be very sad to see Hurley go down that path.
No. Absolutely not. Getting T‘d up for opening your mouth is a coaching flaw. Physically attacking players is a personal flaw. Not a comparison that it’s fair to make.
 
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You get foul calls when you attack the basket. Memphis was attacking the basket at will because our perimeter guys can’t stop penetration. Whether they were warranted or not, calls come that way. We really didn’t attack the paint much because we don’t really have players that can break down their guy 1v1.
 
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When you teach excellence you demand excellence in return. We can talk all we want about “knowing the situation”, etc but that’s not how people like Danny, Steve Jobs, etc are wired. Liam did an excellent job of high-pointing the rebound exactly how you’d teach it, the ref’s blew the call. Where it will always be a journey for Danny (and us as fans) is expecting perfection.
The refs were horrible.
 
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The reffing was quite egregious. It's obvious his heart is in the right place; he's very passionate which is great but Hurley needs to learn to control himself. It's not entirely his fault we lost but he played a part, he doesn't get to use refs as an excuse and shouldn't complain about them the way he did to the media.

I'd imagine he'll mellow out after this for a while

A lot of neutral observers are painting Hurley to be some classless monster which is equally ridiculous and just bitter jealousy. Hurley isn't the first coach to get into it with the refs
 
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You get foul calls when you attack the basket. Memphis was attacking the basket at will because our perimeter guys can’t stop penetration. Whether they were warranted or not, calls come that way. We really didn’t attack the paint much because we don’t really have players that can break down their guy 1v1.
Excellent post
You actually watch the game thank you
 
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You get foul calls when you attack the basket. Memphis was attacking the basket at will because our perimeter guys can’t stop penetration. Whether they were warranted or not, calls come that way. We really didn’t attack the paint much because we don’t really have players that can break down their guy 1v1.
Reed was mugged underneath on multiple occasions. We were feeding the post and not getting calls.
 
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Wait, you’re saying Dan Hurley is a front runner? The guy who navigated us to back-to-back titles. I swear the BY is not real.
He’s a front runner because he didn’t abuse officials when he was winning games by easy margins
He obviously doesn’t have the team he had the last two years so he goes back to abusing officials
That’s exactly what the front runners
He’s on good behavior when things are going well and as soon as it doesn’t, he isn’t
 

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I am surprised by the number of hothouse flowers we have on this board.

I stand with Coach. Period.

When losing hurts more than winning feels good, you have guys that are wired differently. Michael Jordan punched his own teammates in practice. Calhoun had one of the shortest fuses in the history of the sport. Larry Bird had a temper.

Truth is, if the team showed half the fire that Hurley showed we wouldn't have been in that predicament to begin with. We played like crap in the last cupcake warm up and we played sloppy on both ends of the floor yesterday and he won't accept it and neither will I. Keep doing exactly what you're doing, Coach.
It has nothing to do with being a hot house flower. It has everything to do with winning. Coach cost us the game. Period. He needs to do better.
 
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Hurley is who he is. He’s a great coach and he’s crazy and obsessed. He’s going to lose his Shh sometimes. It cost us the game yesterday
 

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I love the passion, hate the timing of this T though. Also, I think Ts should be announced and explained, that first one is and was a real head scratcher.

I do wish he’d try tempering the insults/language, hard to defend him when he’s just straight up swearing at the refs all game. Leave that to us!

Those two elbow calls are a real WTF though.
 

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