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Message: [QUOTE="superjohn, post: 5127646, member: 1522"] Team has all sorts of problems. The biggest is we foul constantly. Biting on every pump fake, reaching, crashing into guys. It needs to stop. We're not guarding the perimeter nearly well enough. The defense is an absolute mess. We got picked apart by a dribble drive team of athletes yesterday. We got picked apart by a slow halfcourt team of modest/subpar talent today. We had two drives this game for buckets, Nowell's drive in the first half and Solo's drive in the second half. That may be more than we had last game. Inability to take guys off the dribble is a huge problem because we're not getting any of the movement we got last season. I love Alex but just a putrid performance from him. He was a ghost out there. It was always insane some on the board said he could be the best UConn player ever. He's a great connector and a three point shooter but he was our 5th best player last season. I was hoping he would make a leap this season and be a go to player/leader. He took one 2 point shot the entire game, that's pathetic and he's not living up to the hype of a first team all-American. The good, there was barely any but Liam is obviously really good and he's a gamer. Nowell played great in the first half. This has been an awful start to the season for Hurley. He tried to make Mahaney the point guard and it didn't work. It looks like he's moved on from that already and in the process Mahaney's confidence looks to be crushed. He was all out of sorts again early and then never played again. Hurley hasn't figured out a lineup yet and guys don't seem to know their roles. No two ways about it, this has been an awful trip to Hawaii and this was an awful loss today. This is the type of loss that can come back to bite you if you're fighting to make the tournament at the end of the season. I'm going to hope for a win in the 8th place game and then try to enjoy my turkey and pie. [/QUOTE]

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