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I can understand that thought process, but you could also argue he just played for a 3 win team and might be looking to play for ncaa tournament quality program. If that were to be the case, I doubt he plays starters minutes for UConn, again he's not a threat outside of 17 feet which severely...

Davis comes across as more of a backup PG than a starter to me. To put things in perspective he grades out slightly better than Gaffney in the halfcourt, has a higher turnover percentage, and doesn't offer much scoring outside of 17 feet (34% on midrange jumpers and 16% on three pointers)...

Newton is an intriguing option, the amount of size we would have on the perimeter defensively is enticing enough. Defensively he grades out slightly better than RJ on synergy, 72nd percentile vs RJ's 68th percentile. Excels in pick and roll defense (90th percentile), hand offs (75th...

One thing to note with a minimum 70 possessions our starting lineup with Polley in place of Whaley is first in net rating (3rd offensively and 58th defensively) in the country against top 100 teams. When the matchup warrants it this is a lineup great lineup to have in the back pocket, good floor...

Interestingly enough our starting lineup with Polley replacing Whaley is #5 in the country in adjusted offense against top 100 competition, the threat of shooting obviously helps open the floor up for driving and post touches for Sanogo. Replace Sanogo with Whaley with the same lineup and we're...

Agreed, again kinda comes down to preference of offense vs defense in terms of how you look at it. Our identity has always been defense and physicality so you can understand Hurley's decision on that. Defensive rebounding is quietly becoming an issue for us as of late, it's a talking point in...

Agreed, you get worried about this type of stuff when you look across the roster and don't have the counterpunch for their gameplan we did we just didn't get it done. The polley/whaley next to Sanogo decision is an offensive vs defensive one and when Whaley is making 4 threes that makes that...

We had a much easier time getting Sanogo the ball when we replaced Whaley with Polley because of this. Ideally this was the type of game you see more playing time for Hawkins and Polley so the threat of their shooting opens up the paint for Sanogo. Hawkins rushing his shots in the first half...

No it's an accurate statement, we're 8 games into the year and competition against weaker opponents make it easy to say look he's playing well but in the Bahamas where we played high level competition his lack of progress was evident: 1 for 11 from the floor 0 for 5 from three 5 assists vs. 6...

You can go to cbbanalytics.com, it's where you'll find those maps for the team each individual player, lineup logs, on/off combos, etc. free to sign up to

Teams do fire away from 3 against Maryland, the data is meant to be interpreted as 305th worst ratio (higher average = worse ranking) of 3 point attempts to field goal attempted ratio, the NCAA average is 37.4% Maryland's defensive average is 41.8% meaning 41.8% of opponents shots come from 3...

Offensively it's going to be important to watch how many three pointers we attempt, Maryland as you said loves to switch, they'll switch almost everything one through 4, depending on their lineup one through 5. With their defenders sitting in driving lanes, it's going to be easy to fall in love...

The concern here is this is a team that hasn't exactly played in any high tension March tournament games prior to last week, it takes a certain level of execution and toughness (physical and mental) to win these style of games, it's a different type of basketball. Against an experienced team...

Considering we gave up 17 offensive rebounds (which is the main reason we lost on Friday) and were outrebounded by 17 against Creighton, I wouldn't say that's an unreasonable take by Bilas. Maryland is going to be a tough game that will force us to execute in the half court, they won't be...

After watching the first six and half minutes of the game with Whaley and Sonogo out there how can you possibly advocate to play them together MORE in this game, we were getting shredded defensively. Once we went to Whaley at the 5 and started switching Nova struggled to get clean looks, Whaley...