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Message: [QUOTE="VA Blue Dog, post: 5221799, member: 10449"] UCONN 2024-2025 is a slow unathletic team especially evident on defense. After watching St. Johns and Marquette it seemed like we were in slow motion. Quite a contrast visually. St Johns battles every play. Always looking for the double team or trap. Not afraid to over commit because they know they are quick enough to challenge the open man on the far side. This all out, every play doctrine is engrained in their minds by Pitino. In the Marquette game, after Marquette had finally made a three after 12 straight misses, when the camera went to the huddle Pitino's first comment was to blast his players "You just gave up an open three". For UCONN to win against a good team, assuming we can maintain parity at the 5, we need two of the three; Alex, Liam or Solo, to have a good game offensively. [/QUOTE]