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Message: [QUOTE="PAHusky, post: 4530178, member: 3807"] This team plays its best when Newton plays well. I wonder if his quiet demeanor means he's taking a little longer to settle in as the bellwether for our team. Some of those passes last night were beautiful. Dan Hurley is still struggling to figure out how to play AS and DC/distribute their minutes correctly. I'm getting less critical as the season goes on in that regards, as I'm not really sure there is a good answer (and, strangely enough, I think it's because both are so good they deserve minutes, but don't work perfectly together). I have been overly critical of Jackson recently but I think he was marginally better offensively last night getting downhill towards the rim (even if he didn't go up strong with it enough times). May be an unpopular opinion, but I really love the idea of bringing him off the bench to lead the second unit. I think he works best with the ball in his hands and surrounded by shooters/a really smart kid in Clingan, and I think when he plays with the starters he and Newton can't both have the ball and that stalls out the offense (neither is comfortable playing off ball). It's selfish and self-defeating but I get a tiny bit disappointed when Hawkins plays as well as he does game after game - I love him as a player and would kill for another year of him but if he keeps playing like this he's not long for Storrs. This team is schizophrenic. They can still make a deep run regardless of seed still, but I think getting as easy as possible of a first round NCAAT match up is critical. I think this team runs on pure confidence, and if we get the monkey off our back in the first round I think the ball starts rolling. [/QUOTE]

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