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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4569579, member: 3535"] You're not understanding my point. First off, he, Hurley, "told you" in a way that he wasn't so interested in playing a power inside game by the fact he didn't use the two bigs together even though it was obvious that Marquette was struggling with them defensively, correct? Secondly, most importantly, I am not arguing with you in regard to Hurley not telling the team to get the ball inside. However I am saying that he probably didn't tell his team to as a number 1 priority to get the ball inside to Sanogo. There is a difference of what you said by saying "don't throw the ball inside" vs what I'm saying of "prioritize getting the ball to Sanogo." . 1--- Anyone can replay the last 2;14 and see that UCONN did not have a priority to get the ball to Sanogo. Around the 2:14 mark that possession notice how Hawkins has the ball while Sango drops from 15-20 feet on right side to the opposite side of the lane. Newton initially goes away from Sango to his right. Then he comes back left. If he takes 2 or 3 more dribbles he hits Hawkins with a pass and then Hawkins has a great angle to get the ball to Sanogo who has somewhat established position on the left side. Instead Newton picks up his dribble and makes a pass that forces Hawkins more toward the middle- away form Sanogo. Then Hawkins does his one-on-one thing and when he goes left instead of looking to pass to Sanogo, Sanogo clears out and then we see what happens; a crummy shot by Hawkins. [B]If the priority was to get the ball inside then Newton would have made it a point to deliver the ball to Hawkins in a better position so Hawkins could dump the ball to Sanogo[/B]. [B]And if that didn't work Hawkins could have dribbled not away from Sanogo but toward him[/B] then picked up his dribble (and made the low post entry pass), and the other point is that Sango would never have cleared the lane if he was the #1 priority. [B]He would have held his position so Hawkins could deliver him the ball. [/B] 2-- Then . look at the play around 1:00 - 1:15 left. Karaban catches the ball and you can see from the video that Sanogo has the defender pinned on his back. An absolute clear path for Karaban to deliver the ball to Sanogo for a probable dunk.[I] Instead Karaban doesn't even glance half-a-second to Sanogo. As soon as he catches sit he throws it to another perimeter player [U]away from Sanogo.[/U][/I] [B]If Sanogo was the #1 priority then at the very least Karaban would have looked inside. You can see Karaban never had the intent to look inside. [/B] 3-- Sanogo and Clingan were 12-17 from the floor. If Hurley was so interested in exploiting this he could have brought in Clingan at the time the crummy ft shooter from Marquette took his one-and-one ft if he didn't want to call a timeout. Or as I stated just call the damn timeout. Instead he chose not to go with the bigs. To not run a play for Sanogo. T[B]hat tells us combined with the other 2 above that during final 2:14 that the number 1 priority on Offense was not set to get the ball to Sanogo. These are 3 instances in the final 2:14.[/B] It’s not what you replied to me with that Hurley told his not to give him the ball. [B]It's that the Offense wasn't #1 intent/priority to give him the ball. That's the issue. [/B] [I]But he was UCONN's best Offensive player last night. And in the final 2:14 whether Clingan is in or not, UCONN didn't give our best player the chance to score. Sure it's on the players to some extent. But it's clear Hurley did not put the #1 top priority to get his best player the ball in a position to score (or to make a pass off a double team) during the final minutes.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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