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Message: [QUOTE="Hurleyman216, post: 2823799, member: 3517"] Right, you know what else sends a bad message? Hanging your head and giving up 10 minutes into a 40 minute game after getting down 10-15 points because you’re giving minimal effort. I think more than anything CV was trying to be a spark to light a fire for the rest of the team. Did you ever see his post-game interviews after a loss? I’m sure you did since you were hangin with KO and the staff in the locker room. The kid never once acted like he was playing for himself. The message was always “we just didn’t have it today, WE need to get better.” There were a large number of games last year where we were down 15 points and CV was still playing his heart out while the rest of the team quit. Maybe celebrating after a 3 being down 15 points doesn’t look good, but as a fan I love him trying to fire up the team for a comeback. Christ, I can’t even imagine how much uglier some of our losses would have been last year without this kid. And for the record, if you have the choice between a layup and a dunk, you dunk it 100 times out of 100. It has nothing to do with positioning or anything else, if you can dunk it, you dunk it, period. You can post your rebuttal to this as I’m sure you will, but re-posting something stupid doesn’t make it any less stupid. I will say in advance that there are some situations where you don’t dunk because you are on a fast break using your body as a shield to keep the defender from blocking you, but any time you lay the ball up vs. dunking you are increasing the chances of missing due to a bad bounce, weird spin, defender deflection, etc. For someone who labels them self as a “coach” and is so tied into the UConn program you don’t seem to have a very good grasp on UConn or basketball in general. Weird, I would have thought you would have picked up something from all those years of hanging out with JC/ end of rant [/QUOTE]

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