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What's the point?

superjohn said:
You fight and scrap for 36 minutes every game and then give it to AG and CV to go 1 on 5. Same script every single game for years. What's the point of all that wasted energy when you give them the same keys to crash the car every single time. You will never ever get a different result.
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The point is the Young bucks are getting game experience for most of the game. And besides the Young bucks aren't shooting much better so put it in the hands of more seasoned guys. Makes sense to me. I'm also two days deep into hydrocodone after knee surgery....
 
superjohn said:
You fight and scrap for 36 minutes every game and then give it to AG and CV to go 1 on 5. Same script every single game for years. What's the point of all that wasted energy when you give them the same keys to crash the car every single time. You will never ever get a different result.
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Yeah because Gaffney was soooooo much better today. Get a grip.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
As consistent as you are.
If change was so easy, everybody'd be doin' it.
Just sayin'
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I'll always be consistent on bad basketball. Half the board was telling me off for a year when I was telling them Ollie has to go. I'll take it again when I keep telling posters we will lose every game we are position to win with 4 minutes left if AG and CV are the guys. I can't imagine Hurley is telling them to do what they do but he gives them the keys every time in this position and we lose every time.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
It's almost as if a coach should see the deference of other players and do something about it.
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And when they defer to Gaffney you get the last play before halftime or the late drive into precious that had literally zero chance.

At least Al’s late drive was a decent shot. In the very least when the center comes to help if UConn had a better front court that gets cleaned up and put in.

Gaffney shows signs, and will be a big part of the future, but he didn’t look anywhere near ready to be a big part of the present in this game
 
BugsyCT said:
It wasn't all them today. Akok and Bouk missed shots down the stretch too. And Carlton is . . . Carlton.
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Akok disappeared today. Gaffney laid an egg. Bouknight tried to make things happen along with Vital and Gilbert.
 
superjohn said:
I'll always be consistent on bad basketball. Half the board was telling me off for a year when I was telling them Ollie has to go. I'll take it again when I keep telling posters we will lose every game we are position to win with 4 minutes left if AG and CV are the guys. I can't imagine Hurley is telling them to do what they do but he gives them the keys every time in this position and we lose every time.
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We should take both of them out and play 3 on 5! We are only going to lose anyway correct?
 
superjohn said:
What don't you get about trying the same exact thing at the end of every game and it not working every game?
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Who else are you going to put in coach? Gaffney didn't do a damn thing today. NOTHING. I stick with my veteran players in that situation. I really don't care what you have to say.
 
BugsyCT said:
It wasn't all them today. Akok and Bouk missed shots down the stretch too. And Carlton is . . . Carlton.
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It wasn't Akok's day from the beginning. That happen's. He will be better.
 
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BNich said:
Akok disappeared today. Gaffney laid an egg. Bouknight tried to make things happen along with Vital and Gilbert.
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I think physically they were pretty much overmatched. The Memphis guys were bigger and stronger for the most part. Always seems like men against boys.
 
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superjohn said:
What don't you get about trying the same exact thing at the end of every game and it not working every game?
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The problem then is his only option would be to bench AG at the end - in which case you’re asking for the team to just turn the ball over. Gaffney very clearly is not comfortable enough to have the ball in his hands in a tight game. Hell he wants to get the ball out before he gets to half court.

Gilbert is quite literally the only guy that can take is man off the dribble. The only guard that puts space between his defender because they have to respect his handle and the drive. It’s what he does after breaking his man down that is his biggest weakness. But the fact of it is that he’s the only one.

When we had a guy that could break you down and then know what to do with the ball is when we won these types of games. Hurley desperately needs that from Cole, Bouk or Gaffney next year.
 
tykurez said:
The problem then is his only option would be to bench AG at the end - in which case you’re asking for the team to just turn the ball over. Gaffney very clearly is not comfortable enough to have the ball in his hands in a tight game. Hell he wants to get the ball out before he gets to half court.

Gilbert is quite literally the only guy that can take is man off the dribble. The only guard that puts space between his defender because they have to respect his handle and the drive. It’s what he does after breaking his man down that is his biggest weakness. But the fact of it is that he’s the only one.
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Very well said.
 
Just got done watching this game, and I will echo what has already been said. We had maybe 8 open shots all day and we missed them all horrifically. Do we even practice shooting? At least five times we had a nice look at a 3 missed it, which led to a Memphis transition three. Counted 3 or 4 times uconn made a nice pass but our big guys bobbled the ball initially, then got blocked into outer space. Memphis got probably 8 offense rebounds in the second half. Announcer focused on Memphis turnovers a lot, but Uconn was not far behind. Mind boggling fouling late and no one knows how to play offense with five minutes left in the game. Once again we beat ourselves mentally. Oh yea, and Carlton continues to do his best impression of a ghost
 
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navery12 said:
Our team had 20 turnovers and he had 0. That's the thing about good decisions, they're way less obvious than bad ones
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When you defer to other players because you’re timid and every shot you’ve taken in the game has been blocked it’s easy to have 0 turnovers
 
tykurez said:
The problem then is his only option would be to bench AG at the end - in which case you’re asking for the team to just turn the ball over. Gaffney very clearly is not comfortable enough to have the ball in his hands in a tight game. Hell he wants to get the ball out before he gets to half court.

Gilbert is quite literally the only guy that can take is man off the dribble. The only guard that puts space between his defender because they have to respect his handle and the drive. It’s what he does after breaking his man down that is his biggest weakness. But the fact of it is that he’s the only one.

When we had a guy that could break you down and then know what to do with the ball is when we won these types of games. Hurley desperately needs that from Cole, Bouk or Gaffney next year.
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You bench AG at the end. Why the hell is Hurley going back to what we had before? All Gilbert has shown he's comfortable at the end of games is forcing things and getting swallowed up by the trees. We've seen it in every single close game.
 
superjohn said:
You bench AG at the end. Why the hell is Hurley going back to what we had before? All Gilbert has shown he's comfortable at the end of games is forcing things and getting swallowed up by the trees. We've seen it in every single close game.
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I don’t blame your frustration I just don’t think the alternatives this year get us a better result.

I mean it’s too late in AG’s season and career now but Hurley should be having Taliek work all day with him on playmaking after getting to the second level of the defense.
 
tykurez said:
I don’t blame your frustration I just don’t think the alternatives this year get us a better result.

I mean it’s too late now but he should be having Taliek work all day with him on playmaking after getting to the second level of the defense.
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We simply don't know. We do know what happens with a AG Vital backcourt at the end of every close game.
 
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