Calhoun Rips Team, Lauds Fans
By Zach Smart
Hartford—Anyone who’s ever had the pleasure of encountering Jim Calhoun following a UConn loss will tell you the same thing over and over again.
He’s a positive, calm, and serene individual who always takes ample time to answer any questions (he’s a firm believer of the phrase “even the genius asks questions”) the media peppers him with.
Yeah, right.
And Mike Tyson never once lost his cool, Woody Allen isn’t a pervert, and smoking XXX video vixen Eva Angelina is a virgin.
Calhoun ripped into his team following their lackluster performance during Monday’s 74-63 loss to no.11 Georgetown.
“I want to congratulate coach Thompson for coming in here and giving us a bigger lesson on how to play basketball with enthusiasm, execution, and energy,” said Calhoun, the longtime game general.
“Quite frankly, we got beat by a solid 20 points. I really want to thank our fans for trying to help bring it back into a game, but they seemed to want it more than we did.”
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Calhoun continued, “We had looked like we had never seen a matchup zone before, we play nothing but matchup zone. 11 out of 12 games we play against matchup zone. Our size was certainly one of our disadvantages tonight.”
Suddenly, a reporter popped the question about Hasheem Thabeet’s lackadaisical evening. Thabeet was outplayed by freshman Greg Monroe, who scored 16 points, and simply did not have it Monday.
“I’m not going to comment on any player, you saw what you saw,” Calhoun tersely replied.
“The freshman played great.”
The reporter may have been confused as to whether Calhoun was referring to Monroe or Kemba Walker, who scored 14 points.
So, when he interjected by simply asking, “Monroe?” Well, it was like challenging a pitbull to a barking match.
“I do know his name,” Calhoun said, irritably as he grilled down the reporter. I actually did do a scouting report.”
Calhoun continued, “If guys are going to the hole that many times, you’re going to have problems. Whether you like every call or don’t like a call, is not important to me. People getting into the lane are going to create difficult situations. And we had no help from our big guys on hedges. Georgetown did a great job executing.”
Calhoun talks at a rapid pace, with a Boston drawl so thick you might ask him to repeat what he’s saying.
That happened early in the press conference, and Calhoun refused (to repeat his words). Oh, and the Georgetown team he talks about is pronounced “Gawgetown.”
Calhoun has done great things during his time at UConn. He’s won national championships and turned boys into men, made me-first individualists into team players and winners. So, the coach who said he still gets butterflies to play Bryant College was not pleased.
“All the things that could’ve happened tonight, I didn’t expect to play just as poorly as we did. In comparison I think Georgetown just took full advantage of everything, did a wonderful job…I didn’t know if their body language was quite the same as the crowd’s. There was a couple guys like AJ, still fighting. A couple of the other guys were upset about individual totals or bad calls or whatever else kids get upset about. This was very, very poor performance for us, opening Big East game, sold-out crowd and for us to perform like that. For us to play that poor…I apologize, I just don’t know how we can play that poorly. I hated our body language early, during the fleeting moments I liked it, and detested it.”
“I don’t even understand what team I was coaching tonight. Once again, I can’t tell you the amount of disappointment I personally have. When it’s all said and done, I’m the guy coaching this team. Coach Thompson’s team, they were meant to go steal a home win they knew exactly what that meant. And we knew exactly what it means to hold court at home, to home serve. We didn’t just home serve, quite frankly we were hammered pretty good in every aspect of the game.”
The Hall of Fame coach isn’t playing around. He’s the foundation of the program and has been through the battles.
Kemba Walker, who admitted he “can’t really repeat” what Calhoun said in the locker room, believes the verbal pummeling will give his team motivation to work harder against Rutgers Jan. 3.
In senior captain A.J. Price, his teammates’ words resonated.
Hartford—Anyone who’s ever had the pleasure of encountering Jim Calhoun following a UConn loss will tell you the same thing over and over again.
He’s a positive, calm, and serene individual who always takes ample time to answer any questions (he’s a firm believer of the phrase “even the genius asks questions”) the media peppers him with.
Yeah, right.
And Mike Tyson never once lost his cool, Woody Allen isn’t a pervert, and smoking XXX video vixen Eva Angelina is a virgin.
Calhoun ripped into his team following their lackluster performance during Monday’s 74-63 loss to no.11 Georgetown.
“I want to congratulate coach Thompson for coming in here and giving us a bigger lesson on how to play basketball with enthusiasm, execution, and energy,” said Calhoun, the longtime game general.
“Quite frankly, we got beat by a solid 20 points. I really want to thank our fans for trying to help bring it back into a game, but they seemed to want it more than we did.”
Read More...Click Below!
Calhoun continued, “We had looked like we had never seen a matchup zone before, we play nothing but matchup zone. 11 out of 12 games we play against matchup zone. Our size was certainly one of our disadvantages tonight.”
Suddenly, a reporter popped the question about Hasheem Thabeet’s lackadaisical evening. Thabeet was outplayed by freshman Greg Monroe, who scored 16 points, and simply did not have it Monday.
“I’m not going to comment on any player, you saw what you saw,” Calhoun tersely replied.
“The freshman played great.”
The reporter may have been confused as to whether Calhoun was referring to Monroe or Kemba Walker, who scored 14 points.
So, when he interjected by simply asking, “Monroe?” Well, it was like challenging a pitbull to a barking match.
“I do know his name,” Calhoun said, irritably as he grilled down the reporter. I actually did do a scouting report.”
Calhoun continued, “If guys are going to the hole that many times, you’re going to have problems. Whether you like every call or don’t like a call, is not important to me. People getting into the lane are going to create difficult situations. And we had no help from our big guys on hedges. Georgetown did a great job executing.”
Calhoun talks at a rapid pace, with a Boston drawl so thick you might ask him to repeat what he’s saying.
That happened early in the press conference, and Calhoun refused (to repeat his words). Oh, and the Georgetown team he talks about is pronounced “Gawgetown.”
Calhoun has done great things during his time at UConn. He’s won national championships and turned boys into men, made me-first individualists into team players and winners. So, the coach who said he still gets butterflies to play Bryant College was not pleased.
“All the things that could’ve happened tonight, I didn’t expect to play just as poorly as we did. In comparison I think Georgetown just took full advantage of everything, did a wonderful job…I didn’t know if their body language was quite the same as the crowd’s. There was a couple guys like AJ, still fighting. A couple of the other guys were upset about individual totals or bad calls or whatever else kids get upset about. This was very, very poor performance for us, opening Big East game, sold-out crowd and for us to perform like that. For us to play that poor…I apologize, I just don’t know how we can play that poorly. I hated our body language early, during the fleeting moments I liked it, and detested it.”
“I don’t even understand what team I was coaching tonight. Once again, I can’t tell you the amount of disappointment I personally have. When it’s all said and done, I’m the guy coaching this team. Coach Thompson’s team, they were meant to go steal a home win they knew exactly what that meant. And we knew exactly what it means to hold court at home, to home serve. We didn’t just home serve, quite frankly we were hammered pretty good in every aspect of the game.”
The Hall of Fame coach isn’t playing around. He’s the foundation of the program and has been through the battles.
Kemba Walker, who admitted he “can’t really repeat” what Calhoun said in the locker room, believes the verbal pummeling will give his team motivation to work harder against Rutgers Jan. 3.
In senior captain A.J. Price, his teammates’ words resonated.
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