Great post game from Ian with Hurley.
Dan Hurley:
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DH mentioned every cemented headed thing I saw live that was going on and needs to be corrected. Best move he made personel wise was benching AJ and his ridiculously dumb passing and sloppy ball handling for most of the 2nd, even though he needs him with Martin out. Plus Adama still posting up way to far from the hoop which leads to poor % fadaway shots and more time for the opponent to trap him, which he still won't look to pass out of. ADAMA your to damn strong to let them force you out, that far away from the hoop !
And Hawkins taking the same kind of forced offense that Alterique and Vital learned under KO, which it took CV half way through his SR year to get it and learned to become a winning player. While AG never learned.
The 2 things from a coaching view, is if your gonna put these small ball teams on the schedule then learn to play a match up zone where you don't play right into their hands ! Stop letting them spread you out and allowing them to take your bigger players away from the hoop and leaving the paint wide open, while they use their small ball match-ups in their favor, by beating Uconn off the dribble, over and over and over and over, SMH !!!!!
Secondly is DH needs to take serious look at what they are running on offense, because the opponents know they are easy as hell to trap, especially when the guy with the ball picks up his dribble 30 feet from the basket (Duh!)
He might want to take a look at some of the teams he's playing where everything
isn't congested with constant screens and hand offs ( to guys who can't dribble) that's putting the ball in the wrong players hands to far from the hoop and allowing traps while the other 4 Uconn players are to busy running away and around, to set screens, and they have no fr#$ckin clue what's going on with the ball (Earth to Uconn it's being trapped !)
He probably could take a look at Uconn's offenses while guys like Bazz or Kemba were running it. Did you ever see them handing off to a big 30 feet away then have to run around a bunch of screens just to get it back, so he could get the offense going with no time left on the shot clock ???......I don't think so ! No they orchestrated the offense facing the basket like a QB with the screen action being run by the other guys until they either delivered a pass, beat their man off the dribble or a combination of both. Seemed pretty efficient to me . END OF RANT !
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This is the game where Diggins, Johnson and Springs have to play big minutes.
