UConn males’s basketball coach Dan Hurley has by no means been one to cover his feelings, and never even the sunshine on the Maui Invitational may calm him down on Monday.
Three minutes into the Huskies’ first sport on the Maui Invitational, Hurley picked up his first technical foul of the season. With UConn encountering a flood of early foul hassle, Hurley had already seen sufficient of the referees.
The Huskies, two-time defending nationwide champions, are dealing with their first large check of the yr within the Memphis Tigers. Whereas it could be anticipated for a workforce — even the No. 2 workforce within the nation — to wrestle early on in such a sport, Hurley wasn’t searching for excuses. Not that he ever does. This is what he needed to say after UConn beat East Texas A&M by 35 factors final week.
“Yeah, so, um, yeah simply comically dangerous,” he mentioned. “Second-half rebounding, up to now under our commonplace. Ball safety all through the sport, it has been a very long time since we have been that dangerous. … At occasions we performed onerous, however as soon as we bought it to 37 with 12 minutes to go, it was a debacle on the market.”
Hurley additionally wasn’t thrilled with seeing his beginning heart, Samson Johnson, choose up his second foul in three minutes. quarter-hour into the sport, the Huskies had 10 workforce fouls with freshman Liam McNeeley and sophomore Solo Ball each selecting up an early two.
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UConn is predicted to contend for one more males’s basketball nationwide championship this yr, however its put up play must be discovered for the workforce to succeed in its potential. Johnson was the proper sub for Donovan Clingan final yr, and Clingan was the proper sub for Adama Sango the yr earlier than.
If Johnson cannot keep on the courtroom, it is attainable that Hurley should put him again in his previous place off the bench in favor of Michigan switch Tarris Reed Jr.
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