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Message: [QUOTE="gtcam, post: 4224851, member: 2844"] I understand that you feel you know basketball above and beyond everyone here on the board and you may very well. I respect your opinions and observations, no matter how narcissistic they may appear to come off from time to time- we all do it at times without meaning it. I thought McDermott coached a great game - he came in without a PG, he knew UConn would try to exploit and he knew that UConn would key on his Hawkins. So what I see is he tries to get someone else to be the killer and that was Kaluma. It worked because Kaluma took the dare and made it work for almost 20 minutes. He allowed his Hawkins to see if he had his outside game going and if not would still feed him the ball but make him the feeder which his Hawkins did all game with very good results. McDermott also brought in someone who UConn probably didn't prepare for - the Georgian guard who became disruptive and gave effective minutes. He knew Dan Hurley would allow Sanogo and Whaley to hard hedge and he used his big man to become a target by going places where UConn bigs weren't going to be able to recover. McDermott coached the game as 2 different halves and won both. In the end, they hit free throws and UConn didn't - something very few talked about. UConn is a better team than Creighton but Creighton has been coached to do some of the little things that make a difference in games such as these in a conference like the NBE. Right now, McDermott is a better X's and Os coach at this level than Dan Hurley. It's experience and something that Dan Hurley will hopefully gain but there is a noticeable difference in this point of time. Lets hope UConn rebounds from this, beats DePaul (Whaley and Polley having huge nights on their night) and does some serious damage in the NBE tournament. [/QUOTE]

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