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Message: [QUOTE="Son of Robert, post: 2920998, member: 7415"] Lot of good stuff here Chief. Their point guards played very well; at times they were both together on the floor in the 2nd half. The two bigs Cook and Garza are legit; they showed the current weakness in our frontcourt. Our guards did not play as well as we have seen. Defense, shooting, ballhandling, Eric Cobb was our best player out there. One turnover in 23 minutes. 7/8 from the floor for 16 points, 7 boards. Interesting stats: the boxscore reads UConn 15 turnovers, Iowa 18. 10 assists vs Iowa, 22 vs Syracuse. 9 more fouls than Iowa. Outrebounded by 12. Isaiah Whaley needs minutes. Very good defender, rebounder, more playing time please. Hurley played small ball most of the game; it wasn't working. We skewered our former coach for this. These two games demonstrate to me the culture and team identity curve that this team is on. These 2 games show that we are in the process of becoming the team Hurley envisions. We played at a high level against Cuse with the mindset and effort clearly visible, but we were not able to sustain/reproduce that the next night against Iowa. I could tell in the first two minutes, never mind the refs foul calling, we did not have the juice. A team capable of a tourney run will play with maximum zip night in and night out, the extra tough mindset and effort always there. I am confident we will get there. [/QUOTE]