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Message: [QUOTE="Icehawk, post: 4131069, member: 10615"] I think Dan Hurley is improving - he TO'd around 1:50 or so where last year he wouldn't have. Was it effective? Maybe not but I'll take a baby step at least. I was a bit disappointed that it doesn't seem like he's prepared the team for these defensive changeups - a team going zone isn't some new-fangled thing invented last week, I'd think there should at least be a basic gameplan of what to do when you see your opponent changing it up. I love our team but they make some silly mistakes that you can't directly blame the coach for - I mean he should be working on them not to do that stuff but he's not a puppeteer :D And those missed 3s? That's on our guys and WVU putting up some solid D. With so little open 3s dropping it's a tough loss, but it's going to happen and while they hurt it is still a hell of a lot better than getting the doors blown off. I do think we got a bad missed call with Cole's final shot but c'est la vie, it's not like he's an absolute lock to 3/3 and the statistics gods swear it all evens out... eventually. The one thing I didn't get was near the end there were at least two inbounds with 20s or less on the clock they sent to Cole who was pretty far in the backcourt - we can't afford the 5s to advance from there, I get Cole tends to be the distributor\advancer on most plays but this just seems bad? I think it was once WVU zoned UCONN seemed to revert to their old ways of dribbling around\passing until the shot clock was way too short. I wonder if the crowd noise is part of why they had a few issues near the end being aware of the clock. Looking forward to the next one as always. [/QUOTE]

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