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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 3956124, member: 1131"] I've never heard a Geno interview where he got into the technical aspect of basketball (especially offense) as deeply as he does here. I was impressed by how much he has picked up from NBA sources, especially Mike D'Antoni. It certainly convinces me that he is always adding to his personal repertoire, and that he is doing it from professional basketball levels rather than other college coaches (apparently including college MBB coaches, since he doesn't mention any of them). I can't imagine how difficult it must be to teach college players how to make all the real-time decisions that (he says) the best basketball players can make. I like the story about how he showed Renee Montgomery some film of D'Antoni's teams, and she expressed confidence that she could play that way. Evidently she could, because it resulted in an NC in 2009. He briefly talked about the Arizona game. He said that AZ "blew up" a lot of UConn's normal offensive action, as is to be expected when you get to a Final Four game. The UConn players were young and didn't know how to adjust what the defense was doing, or so he said. Considering that there were three juniors plus Paige on the floor for UConn, this is disappointing, but that is why the 2021 team is not the equal of the UConn NC teams of the past. I can certainly understand why players who come to UConn quickly realize how much they still have to learn, no matter how good they were in high school. Well, at least some of them learn that. Others who are great athletes (like Megan Walker) never fully learn, which limits their achievements in college. It also helps to understand what he may have been thinking with the Morgan Valley hiring. Morgan was apparently one of those who was a serious student of the technical aspects of the game, so he probably expects that she will "get" the points that would go over the head of another assistant coach. [/QUOTE]

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