Appreciate your input..Did not know that as a casual fan.. Can see corner postioning....Did not know about short corner vs dunker spot.. When Hawk attacked the rim for a dunk the other night..Assumed that was a "corner" originated move that ended with a dunk.. BTW.. Clingan helped with clearing the lane for the action.
I couldn't remember what you were referencing so I went back to find it. Happens with 14:48 remaining in the second half and you are very correct. Would have brought the house down.
Absolutely. Andre 25 feet from the hoop is basically useless. He should be down low as much as possible, where he can use his ridiculous athleticism and teams are forced to guard him. On rebounds where he pushes the ball 90 feet, he should try to just flush it more instead of passing closely to a teammate who can’t handle the pass. I can think of two of those for sure Saturday.
They may also have to identify the dunker spot as being just to the right of the foul line for Andre, I mean, Donovan The Giant. He only needed one step from that spot when he caught the pass from Hassan to reach the basket and dunk!
Nah not fix. Continue to do what worked last game. If he focused on that half as much as his three he’d be all conference minimum.
He's always worked hard as hell on his three and Hurley has always played him on the perimeter, it's late in year three and he still kills our halfcourt offense because he shouldn't be playing on the perimeter and shouldn't be jacking up threes.
Practice lightly contested layups, dump-offs, and alley-oops? Interesting take.
He's not capable of making wide open threes at 40%, that's the entire point. Coach has been using him wrong and teams have designed their entire defense around making UConn play 4 on 5 on offense. If Jackson is shooting those threes he's playing right into their hands and we've seen how poorly that goes for UConn.
Exactly!! People here have been talking about it for a month, maybe longer…sounds like Dan Hurley finally realized it
Did you notice Seton Hall eventually had to guard Andre closely as a result of how he moves off ball and with his screen setting? Threes are not always the answer man.
I didn't say they were. But they are something he needs to continue practicing unless you didn't notice how much harder it was for the offense to get open shots with his defender in the paint while he's at the 3pt line.
I said 40% of "wide open" threes. Not 40% of "all" threes. See point above about him being wide open at the 3pt line. Maybe you missed it because it was in bold?
If you didn't see it, he must not have done it. I'm sure if you saw a player go 2-10 from the free throw line, then post a video of himself practicing free throws you'd still have a complaint.
So he shouldn’t be working on his biggest flaw? You do realize that if he hits 1-2 threes at the beginning of a game that it completely changes how the other team plays? You also realize that’s good for us as a team, right?
Opposing coaches love it when he makes his first one, that can lull him into jacking up more which is exactly what opposing coaches want, it's why they back off 12 feet. For UConn to truly function at a high level offensively he has to find ways to score around the rim, he needs Hurley to put him near the rim. With his otherworldly athleticism finishing has always been his biggest flaw.
But it is CT and after living there for the first 27 years of life and moving to several other parts of the country over the lady 30 years has taught me that we CT folks can be fairly pessimistic about everything not just UConn bb.
