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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 5148543, member: 3535"] It’s a bit subjective to define the definition of “does UCONN need OFFENSE from the post . . .” without face-to-face. To what degree? Just my interpretation is if the point is do they need to establish a post-game then no way. That’s an illusion. I know we’d like to think or hope you give more time to Jana and Ice then they will be better prepared . . . The problem is that’s the same thing all the elite teams say too about their players (in other words they will get better too.). And the opposing teams we see as an example try so hard to get the ball out of Paige’s hands. So, the answer would be to dump the ball inside to the least efficient players? We all have own ideas of a winning formula but imo that is not a winning formula. Instead I often agree with Geno and I loved what we saw Tuesday. That’s the formula. Just like a great baseball pitcher that starts and goes a bunch of innings establishing his fastball then later on he uses his off-speed stuff. Or the football teams that establishes the run so they open up the pass or vice-versa. UCONN was doing last night what needs be done and that’s establishing their fastball (3pt shooting.). It was no accident that Geno spoke after the ND game for his team to work to get more 3’s. That is establishing his team’s fastball; their strength. You don’t move away from your strength. You embrace it so that you could try to impose your will your strength on the other team. We all know that in basketball one player can carry a team. Because we all witnessed Iowa do it not once but twice. And without a post-game last year. And they were pretty close vs. the much more athletic and much taller SoCar team. And there is no way no way no way that the Iowa team should be a better perimeter team than this version of UCONN if healthy. If it can be accepted that one player means so much, then UCONN has 2 or even 3, don’t they? So yes one player can be off. Two players can be off, but all 3? If Azzi is healthy and has enough time to get into form, then if they were so bad that the Offense gets bogged down to being no good, then how great were they anyway? When you add in the probability that by late February/ early March they would be showing the type of play we’ve seen vs Louisville and Iowa State, then what team won’t go all out to extend their defense to an extreme level that when for example when Paige does pass the ball inside to Ice or Jana or Griff they will be able to take at tops a one-dribble and shoot an inside shot without someone all over them? But not like a post move where Jana is taking 2-4 dribbles spinning one way or the other or like Edwards last year able to dribble hard one away or the other etc. It took a while for her to get that way. To think Jana or Ice will be able to do that with a game on the line expectation that you focus plays for them to do this in NCAA Tourney vs elite teams is an illusion. Bottomline is that you don’t take the ball out of your multiple superstars hands because of fear they might not be good enough vs others that haven’t given you any indication that they could come through. They shouldn’t be the focus of dump-downs but of receiving passes in order to take quick inside shots. So, instead of relying on lesser players to make moves vs a combo of either more experienced and/or better players, instead you as the coach challenge your superstars to be better. And by them being better because they are superstars working together, then you open up the game for everyone else including the posts. Therefore with the posts, thehy need to be able to score but not as a focus in halfcourt sets. If the Golden State Warrios could be all-time great team with Durant and Curry not featuring height or low post play, then at the lower level of college hoop. the women should be able to do the same. [/QUOTE]

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