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UConn coach Dan Hurley & guard Solo Ball after the Huskies' 2nd straight Maui loss. #UConn #Colorado
Nov 26, 2024
Hurley noted more officiating issues.
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and Tad mean they played an inspired
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game and and a great second half so um
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you know credit to them obviously we
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didn't expect to find ourselves in this
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position um out here based on where
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we've been but this is where we are um
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just defensively in the second half you
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know just you know really really bad
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we've been bad out here
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defensively um you know then obviously I
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think the you know the foul trouble has
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taken its toll too
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for
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solo Sol what did uh what Colorado do
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from your perspective to get himself
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back in the game was a lot of it
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centered on the fact that Samson and
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terce obviously they inheritance in foul
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trouble for the second straight day it
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was definitely a collective effort
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defensively we wer there we were in the
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right spots and they got a lot of open
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shots that we couldn't prevent so I
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think just focus on the defensive end
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and that's the big goal for us in the
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rest of the
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season and so just to follow up on that
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what are some of the things that you can
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try and take from these last two games
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defensively Colorado mentioned obviously
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you guys are incredibly physical
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defensively which does lead to some of
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the F Trum one of the things you can
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work on for yeah coach definitely talks
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about putting more pressure on the def
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or on the offense and and not letting
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them just do whatever they want and they
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kind of just got to wherever they wanted
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today and that's what hurt us
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today anything else so G given the
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success obviously this program's had uh
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how difficult might it be to just
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continue to stay positive especially
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with the new guys who obviously haven't
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won yet um you know is that something
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that you're going to pick upon your
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shoulders to try try to keep things
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positive after after these two losses
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yeah definitely um it's difficult uh
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being in this position but as a team we
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just got to be able to lift each other
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up and move on to the next game cuz we
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have a long season to go so of course
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two tough losses but it's about how we
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recover from these and get
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better all right thanks
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solo a lot any any have anything for
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Coach Dan I guess the iry
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you know the Liam gets the over the back
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yesterday and today didn't get called I
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mean uh I guess that's a somewhat
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subjective call but what did you think
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about that one today that non
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call you
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know I mean that's
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not it has a big impact obviously on the
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game I don't know if it's if it's col
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over the back we obviously go to free
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throw line at that point point and made
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we shoot a one1 I don't even know what
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the foul situation was at the time um it
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just speaks to how these last two days
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have gone for us that um you know
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yesterday um you know the biggest play
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of the game was in over the back um you
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know that was called against us and then
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today um you know it was more egregious
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cuz you know the the kid um you know
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basky pulled Willam on down I saw the
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replay of it it's obviously you know
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it's it's ironic but that's not why I I
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think our defense has been just so
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Dreadful um just so Dreadful out here um
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you know and we had opportunities um you
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know I was just just surprised by just
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how um we should have been fresh in the
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second half with with
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Alex sitting most of the first half with
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h son sitting a large part with with
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with Sam in F trouble obviously um you
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know it just uh it's been a tough two
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days how do you
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uh better Coach Samson and
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Terrace could certainly draw the
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conclusion that had they not been in
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foul trouble in any of these games you
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wind up winning them so I don't it's
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some of it scheme some of it's defensive
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discipline how do you evaluate
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fixing I appreciate Tad saying that
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we're physical but we're not physical
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you know we're we're we we we we play
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hard um there's some undisciplined fouls
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um you know I I some of them are you
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know like Samson's first foul to start
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the second half where he picked up his
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third one really quickly you know I just
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don't know uh you know is that a foul
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you know in a game with so much grabbing
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and so much holding and and you know but
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some of it is you know is is sloppy
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undisciplined technique and you know
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some of it I just think in basketball
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you know some sometimes just you know
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you're not getting a you're not getting
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a great whistle I don't think that out
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here we've we've gotten
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um a great whistle it just hasn't kind
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of bounced our way out here that way but
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um you know killed us to have so many
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guys in foul trouble during the
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game coach I know uh you know Alex was
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in fou TR early on but just seemed to
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not find offensive r down his trets they
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have a little bit for three what do you
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do to try to to get Alex involved more
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and to to be much more aggress well I
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mean he he got really involved he only
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played a couple minutes in the first
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half and then he got he got great shots
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in the second half um you know guy's a
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guy's a you know two-time national
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champion and just had a had a tough
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shooting night I just kept telling them
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you know uh just keep firing all right
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last question
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and sort of the two- part number one is
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Liam it looked like he was grabbing at
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his hip or his lower back or something
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and then secondly uh you do get a time
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out of 5.9 seconds left you have one
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more possession what were you hoping to
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get coming down time out there yeah I
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think we were we were um you know we
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were hoping well I don't know what the
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status was he he went out for a little
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bit something with his with his hip um
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I'm not sure what that's going to look
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like um obviously you know we had five
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perimeter on the court so were you know
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just trying to create a little movement
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and fake a pitch and you know give Liam
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the option to either you know back cut
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his guy on that empty side if he felt
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like he was being overplayed or kind of
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you know play back to the ball get
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downhill drive it um you know oros had
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the option to if if Aiden um you know
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back cut there from the corner to drive
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it Baseline and try to get to the rim
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and uh you know obviously it didn't play
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out that way yeah
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moved host in the starting line and how'
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you think about the way he obviously he
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got two quick fouls but you know played
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well I guess throughout the end but Ahad
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comes in too what did you think of those
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two at the point guard spot I you know
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Ahad in the first half I liked uh you m
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in the second half um you know he you
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know he was uh you know showed his
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inexperience but I I mean he plays with
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some physicality out there I think he's
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going to be a good player um I think we
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have to play him um um you know we
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listen we could not afford Assan and
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Alex uh to be in valou trouble in the
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first half they put us in a in in a very
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compromised position by sitting that
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whole first half I was I I was really
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impressed with how we played considering
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that first half and at halftime I felt
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like well we were going to do what we do
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at Yukon which you know get it to double
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figures and then surge in that game and
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it just uh um you know it just it didn't
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happen for us but um you know it's early
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and we're going to have a uh a lot of
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chances to uh you know to get these ones
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that we've given away we're going to get
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a lot of chances uh to get these back
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thanks coach
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