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Message: [QUOTE="polycom, post: 4120641, member: 5613"] Please point me to where I've shown that I'm panicked about the prospects of this team? It'll take you a while to find them because they don't exist. This thread is merely to point out to the people who think this current iteration of the team is final four bound/competitive with the teams that are currently performing the best to look at the games we've played and watch the games and want to talk about basketball. Instead you and many other decide to not even discuss basketball and just well because our shirts say UConn and their shirts say something else we'll be competitive with anyone. That's fine, it's just not reality. For the 4th time or 5th who knows at this point, we are good team that is flawed in ways that will show themselves against good athletic teams. That doesn't mean that aren't going to the tourney and that we won't make a run. It just means we aren't as good as the best teams in the nation and they'd like beat us by 10+ given that. Watching this game there were many instances were UConn guards were letting guards from MD directional U turn the corner in a 5 out set which allowed help to come and basically their option was foul or give up a layup, a handful of times we did both. If our hope is to compete with the tops teams during half court defense in 5 out we can't give up a layup, to someone who is 5 10, that's just not reality. On the coaching side of things, Jordan Hawkins took I believe 5 shots maybe 4, of those 5 shots two were ISO dribbles (even though hawkins handle is terrible) into a contested shot. That's just poor coaching, Hawkins had 2 open looks, 1 of which he knocked down 1 he missed, Hawkins should be getting more than 2 open looks a game... [/QUOTE]

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