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Message: [QUOTE="LoboDays, post: 3933221, member: 11080"] The ability to punch back comes from training and practice. This team is not trained that way. They are coached to run a very clean and choreographed offense and a disciplined defense with no contact and minimum fouls called against them. This team will always come in second in a street fight. Last night they had no plan B. They continued to play a losing plan and never adjusted. Was it a failure in coaching? Partly. Was it the players not being able to see and adjust to what was happening on the floor? Partly. I’m less inclined to chalk it up to “ a young team” or “immature” as Geno said in the post game presser. But more inclined to both credit Arizona for a great game plan, especially on defense. And the inability to adjust. This game wasn’t only lost on the floor. It was lost in the coach’s chair. I remember a sequence in the 4th Quarter with UCONN still close enough to catch up and both of Arizona’s bigs with 4 fouls each. UCONN with the ball and both ONO and AE were hanging out around the 3 point line rather than being underneath to draw a foul or have an uncontested bunny. I Know they probably would have missed the bunny but you can’t abandon that strategy since the guards had been rendered all but useless. The game has changed since Geno had his string on NC’s. The players are bigger, stronger and more talented. Better teams can bully their way to success now. Geno needs to adjust to that and have his team able move to a different plan when They are getting beaten up. If you are fortunate enough to have someone like Paige on your team, let her take over by doing what AM did last night against them. Give her the damn ball and let her make it happen. Last night, Paige must have ran 100 miles without the ball trying to get open based on the same offensive scheme they use against Butler and Sister Mary’s School for Wayward Girls ( they’re in the BIG EAST right?) . The game has changed. Change with it or perish. [/QUOTE]

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