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AntG168 said:
Auburn. There were more but I don’t have the time or energy to search.

Also I agree the tournament is the ultimate prize.
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Auburn was good. They were missing Jabari for it though.

In conference it was pretty much beat the scrubs and lose to the top guys.
 
Palatine said:
Hurley ran a perfect play against Seton Hall and Karaban got a wide open three. Nobody near him. He misses.

We cut it to one and then have two successive TOs. The moment has been too big for them.
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That was it. Win or lose, it was that. Not winning team plays.
 
Marbles90 said:
Agreed. This fan base is so spoiled. We are getting better every year, recruiting keeps getting better year after year. We got a taste during November/ December but we still have some adjustments to make. Maybe we get it back in March and make some noise. Maybe not. But regardless, we are on the right path.
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The second half was the most encouraging half of coaching from Hurley….maybe in his entire tenure at uconn.
Other than the ill-timed time out, he really coached his ass off and made a difference.
There is hope he can keep it up.
 
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HuskyWarrior611 said:
Auburn was good. They were missing Jabari for it though.

In conference it was pretty much beat the scrubs and lose to the top guys.
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No they weren’t. It’s amazing how some of you have the most negative recollection of everything. To the point you make up stuff to not give Hurley credit. It’s not necessary, he’s failed enough times to have something legit to criticize
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
Auburn was good. They were missing Jabari for it though.

In conference it was pretty much beat the scrubs and lose to the top guys.
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Jabari played. It was Allen Flanigan that was out. He wasn't that good when he came back from injury anyways.
 
AntG168 said:
There’s a crowd here that attributes everything that happens in the game to “coaching”. They aren’t right or wrong I just don’t think others like myself see the game the same way. I’ve come to the conclusion that we’ll never agree. We do this same “coaching” dance after every loss.
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So then the players are losers? Is that your contention?
 
UGo said:
8 too many he was horrible tonight and he Is one for my favorite players!
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This what happens when we have guards that can't do anything. Which is a reoccurring theme lately. Our highest percentage guys get the least shots for guards who can't make a bucket, but whatever....
 
auror said:
Jabari played. It was Allen Flanigan that was out. He wasn't that good when he came back from injury anyways.
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Ahhh sorry about that. Never mind then. I remember somebody being out.

Let’s hope this isn’t like last year though with impressive non conference wins to then falter in conference and flame out in the tourney. These past 2 games are good building blocks.
 
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I'm happy to see more even tempered rational posts. Not just crying. I'm excited for next game
 
I was under the basket courtside an hour prior to game and 2 things jumped at me immediately. Xavier shoot around was loud and full of energy with lots of made shots and high fives. Very loose and lots of smiles. Uconn looked asleep, quite and very little interaction between players. Take that for what it's worth. 2nd, Claude, hunter and Jones are NBA big and athletic. Only Jackson looked as big and athletic. Newton, karaban and Hawkins looked like string beans next to them. Just my observations.
 
Had X rattled with the comeback. With JC coaching we would have blew by them. Seton Hall beat us coming back from down 17, no excuse for not finishing the job. End game fundamentals - rebounding, making foul shots, avoiding turnovers, don’t goal-tend, etc. Without Hawkins catching fire it would have been a blowout.
Yes, good effort coming back. Yes, X is very good, but they lost to DePaul, so are beatable.
When the head coach makes $2.9M, expectations are very high. He hasn’t proven to be a winner in big games or March tournaments.
Miller getting his team an extra TO with the Freemantle foul count was superb gamesmanship on his part; Hurley was out coached again.
All that being said, we have good kids who play hard. Just not smart in crunch time. Success for the season would be making the BET final and Sweet 16. Below that would be a disappointment giving the collective talent level of the players.
 
UGo said:
8 too many he was horrible tonight and he Is one for my favorite players!
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Clingan’s has had a bad stretch of games.

With this team as soon as a player plays great a few games in a row, and we anoint them, they go into a multi game funk. Every time.
 
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August_West said:
So then the players are losers? Is that your contention?
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Losers? No, they’ve been pretty successful. As has Hurley at UConn. My contention is that it’s just not that black and white.

1. Xavier is damn good. That matters
2. Our players don’t really have the experience or abilities to make big plays down the stretch. The ability I’m most speaking on is the ability to take your man off the dribble and put pressure on the rim/paint.(Part of that is on Hurleys roster construction)
3. Hurley adjust too slow sometimes
4. Our team is full of streaky shooters. Who all seem to go cold at once.

There’s more. But there is no one reason. When someone claims after every loss it was because of coaching it’s lazy. Because I could say coaching got us back in the game.
 
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Drfla said:
Yeah. Miller was a great coach at Arizona. Tons of talent and he went nowhere with it.
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Well, he went somewhere.

To Xavier.
 
EastConn'er said:
Game was over before they started to play. Hawkins was horrible until 10 mins left. He runs hot and cold. Mostly cold with poor shot selection. Did you not notice us being down 15-18 point before half time?
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The game was very much not over. It was a 1 point game with 5 minutes left.
 
Palatine said:
That didn't matter at the end. Our inability to play well when the game is one the line mattered.

How many times do we have to cut the lead to one only to freeze up?
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It does matter what happened at the start. We got into a 11 point hole and should not have. If we just had a 5 or 6 point deficit at the start we would not have been in a losing position in the end. Points are cumulative a point at two minutes in counts just as much with two minutes to go. IMHO
 
UConnSwag11 said:
Yes, agreed but there are two halves and the first half the defense that was out there was horrendous. The kid is too big and too talented to be getting those minutes
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Love DC but he did not play well tonight.
 
one year not even one year and Sean Miller already runs this conference, I had them winning big east before season cause I saw it at Arizona. He makes a huge impact, people saying he did nothing at Arizona. 2 elite 8 loses to Wisconsin who beat a 38-1 Kentucky team, idk y people are acting like he lost to a scrub. Yea in 2017 is his only blemish as they lost to a Xavier team, but Chris Mack worked under him and knew his tendencies.
 
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