What happened? He was sitting in the front row. He didn't seem to protest. Ejected by referee, not security.
James was probably pissed since he warmed up, but they wouldn't let him play. Same as his coach in Charlotte.What happened? He was sitting in the front row. He didn't seem to protest. Ejected by referee, not security.
One problem was that Cole picked up his 3rd foul and when Gaffney came in the team seemed disorganized and rudderless. I am wondering if Gaffney is in psynch with his teammates because the body language I saw on the rest of the team exuded confusion and disorganization with guys not knowing what to do with the ball.I wish DH and his passive 2nd half offense( with soft lob passes to guys who aren't movin to the ball or hand offs 25 feet from the hoop), would have got ejected too. How many balls were stolen and TO's (looks like 14 in the half , SMH !) did they give up in the 2nd because his team won't even look at the rim until they have to force up some BS !!! Does this tool even understand why he let Xavier back into this game ???
True about Gaffney being the biggest enigma on this team, when we recall that Uconn didn't start winning and playing better at the end of his FR year until he replaced Gilbert as the starter and played with much more poise running the team. Somewhere along the line he seems to play completley unsure of himself and has lost feel of the game.One problem was that Cole picked up his 3rd foul and when Gaffney came in the team seemed disorganized and rudderless. Generally speaking- UConn has not had a backup point guard
Yeah just listened to the entire presser. DH talked about the weak passing and passive offense by trying to force specific things that aren't there. So at least he's being honest and took responsibility about not even getting shots off and getting it stolen being self inflicted. So yeah this was all on him and had little to do with Gaffney who wasn't even in the game. When the following happened all right at the start of the 2nd before the 1st TV timeout :Hurley took note of that in his presser and said the same scenario was evident at the beginning of the game and he suggested there would be changes in what they will be running.
With any offense you have to have guys who can execute and much of this offense is read and react. Read and react relies on guys having very high basketball IQ and are very instinctual. One way to look at the issue is that the players are lacking aggression to execute, another is that they are tentative because they are having difficulty in the read and react process. My feeling is the UConn guys are all basically a coachable group and that if they see enough different looks eventually they will figure out what they need to do to attack the defense that is being used to counter what they are doing. Driving to the hoop in these situations is easier said then done- as you said there are seams in the defense that the guys need to attack, but sometimes the seams close up very quickly against the better teams and the driver is then in a situation where he is prone to offensive foul or TO. Something great is not necessarily going to happen. I think a problem UConn has is that Cole and Gaffney are not great pure penetrating guards and they need large seams. Cole does have an interesting and clever assortment of change of direction and spin moves, but with small seams in the defense those moves do not help as much as pure explosion to the basket, something Kemba had in his UConn days, but which Cole may be a little short of.Guys have to have it in their mind to search out seams and attack.
Good points, but the hot potato 20-25 feet from the hoop still handing it off to bigs with under 10 secs ( which happens alot) should never happen. Because eventually it's gonna need to be in a guys hands who has some ability to drive it, mainly your PG (Cole as 1A or probably Martin as 1B or Gaf when he's in, AJ can a little, but scares me more than any of them with some of the bizarre things he does off the bounce). Not still playing catch with Cole circle around some screens hoping he gets it back and is then forced to drive anyway and put up a some hail mary shot under 5 secs.Driving to the hoop in these situations is easier said then done- as you said there are seams in the defense that the guys need to attack, but sometimes the seams close up very quickly against the better teams and the driver is then in a situation where he is prone to offensive foul or TO.
Interesting if you watch James (black jacket) in the courtside seats, in the 1st half at the Uconn hoop, he looks like he's standing on the court everytime Uconn scores....What happened? He was sitting in the front row. He didn't seem to protest. Ejected by referee, not security.
What happened? He was sitting in the front row. He didn't seem to protest. Ejected by referee, not security.
So here's the media "Gaffney follow up" on what we discussed KSTW.True about Gaffney being the biggest enigma on this team, when we recall that Uconn didn't start winning and playing better at the end of his FR year until he replaced Gilbert as the starter and played with much more poise running the team. Somewhere along the line he seems to play completely unsure of himself and has lost feel of the game.