I'm still not convinced this team is as good as any of the UConn teams we've become used to seeing, but the schedule really really eases up after this weekend, and if we can find a way to claw our way to 3 out of the next 4, winning more than two thirds of the remaining games is not going to...
Same as when Karaban was guarding Edey. When you get whacked in the chest by the shoulder of the offensive player, some times you just have to go down and dare the refs not to call it.
Smith, like Doron, came in as a combo guard. Plus the team that Chris Smith joined did not have a talent level nearly equivalent to what the talent level at UConn would thereafter become.
I don’t think that NCAA rules regulate how players get paid by collectives, businesses and fans at all. All a question of what each individual deal is and what the parties negotiate.
You can be jeered at, but right answer. Anyone who thinks Hurley wants his players in the gym shooting tik tok videos instead of practicing 3s and foul shoots doesn’t understand Hurley yet. (And that’s not knocking Solo, who may have shot the video in between hundred sets of foul shots for all...
Will be interesting to see if they can string some good pitching performances together. Five quality games this week, four on the road. If they can get 3 of the next 3, they should be moving up a lot in the RPI. (Having said that, and being glad they’re now stringing some wins together, I’m...
I don’t know how valuable I think that kind of overall player ranking is, but it’s a striking number nonetheless. Now, realize how many of those 35 won’t be playing college ball next year and the thought that Hass won’t be one of the five best players on our team strikes me as truly bizarre...
This. 100 per cent.
Look, we’re UConn. It would be great for our athletic department as a whole if women’s hoops became as economically important to college sports as men’s basketball and they both elevated each other towards football importance. Let it happen. But if next year’s women...
You don't think Nick Timberlake was also told by Kansas he was going to start?
Reality is somewhere in the middle here (as is usually the case). I'm sure transfers -- especially those whom material NIL money is being thrown at -- come with an expectation shared by the coach that the goal and...
It was far from pretty or convincing, but it was 2 out of 3. Two very interesting weekday games this week, and then a huge series in the capital against Georgetown. If we can get 2 out of 3 there, 3 of our 4 remaining series are against teams that aren’t realistically chasing the Big East...
None of Hawkins, Jackson or DC started for Hurley as true frosh. It took Sanogo half a season to become a starter. And Karaban became a starter after the opening game when Johnson got hurt. The only frosh who walked into a starting spot under Hurley on day one was Castle, and he came here as...
We saw that in our recent history. Vance Jackson's father made it hard to build a team because his son ended up wanting to pick his own role rather than implement KO's vision. And Oriakhi's father whining in his ear all of the 11-12 season didn't help (although an unhappy parent is nowhere...
Getting to the Elite Eight takes half of the six wins it takes to win a Natty, and not the difficult half. Seven of eight coaches who make the Elite Eight don't win a Natty. Comparing that to KO is just not a good comparison.
So let's recalibrate. For the first time in forever, we're not playing for an at-large bid. So we're playing with two goals: to win the Big EAst regular season, and failing that to finish in the top 4 and make the tournament. The conference is clearly stronger top to bottom than it was in...
How great those UCLA teams were — they were great — and how easy their path to a title was compared to today are two different discussions. UCLA was dominant in talent and performance during those runs. But, if you have to play four really hard games instead of one or two, the odds that the...
It was easier than that. Only conference champions could make the tourney. Their normal run to the championship might be a Long Beach State or Montana in their first game, Arizona State or BYU in the regional final, Drake or Kansas in the national semi and then wouldn’t get the ACC, SEC or Big...
This. We should try much harder to only hire mediocre coaches who never accomplish anything and avoid this risk in the future.
(You really can't make some of this stuff up.)
I‘d say it differently. Hurley’s job is to show him why he should declare for the draft and why it’s just not rational to make the decision to come back. Absolutely. But not let him? He’s a young man with his own family. If for whatever reason you and I deem irrational he wants to come...
LMAO. Kevin Ollie’s coaching fell off a cliff after winning a national championship. Each half of that prior sentence is part of his resume — not just the second half. And, by the way, Kevin Ollie’s complaint against UConn was heard by a tribunal the two sides agreed upon which heard the...
People aren’t machines. His over the top level of intensity has brought us back to back championships. The flip side is it caused one turnover this year while he was leading the team to a repeat. Deal with it.
And/or that the players he and everyone wanted turned out not to be all that good.
Like the comparisons, but I wouldn't read too much into body language from a kid when he gets into a game only during garbage time. As long as he wasn't causing dissension within the ranks, and there is no...
Best was Spencer. He and Newton very close, but if you ask me best I lean Spencer,.
Most important/valuable was DC and it isn’t close. We are two different teams when he’s on the floor and when he’s on the bench. But as “best” to me implies skillful, he was not as skillful as others.
But...
I doubt it, frankly. Yes, the talent pool will be better by a handful of young players every year, but the fact that teams will look entirely different year to year as everyone leaves everywhere for extra minutes and/or money is not going to increase the popularity of the sport. The current...
If Flagg is truly a transcendent talent, like Anthony Davis was, they have a chance. If he’s just a potentially great future pro who is still going to be learning to play on a higher level, they’ll be really good but will likely fall short.
He shot close to 40% from 3 for the year, and a huge percentage of his 3s were not from the line but well behind it. I’d love for every player to get better at every aspect of their game, but his shooting is not near the top of the list.
We have people (rightfully) asking who Hurley is on the phone to today for next year. The first thing he needs to do is make sure Hass and AK and Ball and Stewart and Slamson are staying put. Filling holes in a team is one thing. Building another from scratch is something else altogether.
He played a great game and left no doubt that he is deserving of being national player of the year twice. Unfortunately for him, his teammates were not up to being carried to a national championship.
Vegas (at least ESPN Bet) just made us next year’s favorite at 9-1. One might as well try to make money by playing the lottery as predict next season before you know what rosters will look like, but ….
You would have either thought you needed a hearing aid or they needed to be declared mentally incompetent. What has been accomplished is not as much remarkable as literally unbelievable. And that’s before even factoring in the conference exodus that interrupted it in the middle.
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