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Hurley’s Deepest UConn Team

HW611 said:
Don't know if I saw Stew or Jayden Ross in this at all. Hope they're okay injury wise.
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Ross is injured but should be back soon from his foot injury. Stewart played so I assume he's in there somewhere
 
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husky429 said:
Then why are we still running it? (Psstt the answer is because it works far more often than not)
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Have you read Hurley’s comments about last season? He was so disgusted with some things he almost quit, yet you are saying the high hedge worked when it clearly kept one of our top 2 players on the bench too often and produced less than stellar results.
 
Chief00 said:
Have you read Hurley’s comments about last season? He was so disgusted with some things he almost quit, yet you are saying the high hedge worked when it clearly kept one of our top 2 players on the bench too often and produced less than stellar results.
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If we knew Reed was not going to regularly commit fouls 25 ft from the basket then I like the way the high hedge limits the options the ball handler has after coming off the screen. But if the big man you need to stay on the floor seems to pick up fouls then you have to consider if it should be used.

The big has to be aggressive on the hedge or it just does not work and when Reed is agressive he seems to pick up those nickel dimers (respect to Raf) on the perimeter. I would prefer to see him picking up those fouls fighting for rebounds or protecting the rim.

We just can’t have Taris picking up bad fouls this year so I think we need to protect against that as much as possible.
 
Inyatkin said:
Crazy, I know, but how we performed on defense is not necessarily a result of the style of defense we played. It could just have been poor execution.
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But doesn't it work both ways? The execution was poor because the style didn't fit the personnel. Having Aidan trying to be Patrick Beverly 25 feet from the hoop was never, ever going to work. We obviously knew that Solo, Jaylin, AK, and others were poor defenders in isolation. So we had them play ultra-aggressive man D, they were folding chairs, and our rotations were hideous. The board went soft with all the fouls called and freaking out. The fouls were legit and more often than not were due to our defenders trailing and trying to catch up after getting beaten off the dribble.
 
Chief00 said:
Have you read Hurley’s comments about last season? He was so disgusted with some things he almost quit, yet you are saying the high hedge worked when it clearly kept one of our top 2 players on the bench too often and produced less than stellar results.
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Yet the coaching staff continued to call the hedge for SJ and Tarris - mind boggling at times.
The hedge hurt UConn early in the NCAA tourney Florida game.
 
gtcam said:
Yet the coaching staff continued to call the hedge for SJ and Tarris - mind boggling at times.
The hedge hurt UConn early in the NCAA tourney Florida game.
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The high hedge from a Center 'can' be useful to push the ball handler back out beyond the arc, cut off their vision from their center, and allow your guards to recover.

The problem is, when the Center thinks they can take a poke at the ball, they tend to get fouls more than steals.

SJ's issue was once he went up to the line, he acted like a full time perimeter defender - totally vacating the post to where AK or Liam had to abandon their guy to try to stop someone from driving.

Tarris was better but had the tendency to lower his hands and swipe for the ball. Got one steal which was amazing, but 3-4 times got a foul called on him which sucked.
 
boog204 said:
But doesn't it work both ways? The execution was poor because the style didn't fit the personnel. Having Aidan trying to be Patrick Beverly 25 feet from the hoop was never, ever going to work. We obviously knew that Solo, Jaylin, AK, and others were poor defenders in isolation. So we had them play ultra-aggressive man D, they were folding chairs, and our rotations were hideous. The board went soft with all the fouls called and freaking out. The fouls were legit and more often than not were due to our defenders trailing and trying to catch up after getting beaten off the dribble.
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The Center hedge was the first boulder in the defensive landslide chain reaction. Never mind it put the other team in the FT penalty and bonus early on.
 
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jibsey said:
If an opposing center is a 3 threat what is the strategy?
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If it's someone like Ben Gold you can just switch it. Or yeah just play some variation of hedge and have the big recover to the shooter. A deep drop is probably the worst option against a popping big.
 
IndyLives said:
I'm just saying when it comes to Tournament play or against elite teams, give me the players who can make a bucket or get a stop during crunch time. You usually don't get that from depth players. It's why we lost to Florida last year when it mattered. Depth can only get you so far.
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We lost to Florida last year because their guy - Walter Clayton Jr. - made shots, and our guys didn't. Had nothing to do with depth whatsoever.
 
DRBackup said:
We lost to Florida last year because their guy - Walter Clayton Jr. - made shots, and our guys didn't. Had nothing to do with depth whatsoever.
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He made some incredible shots and our D was pretty good, but not really good on him. But yes, we failed to score down the stretch as well.
 
Lafayette said:
He made some incredible shots and our D was pretty good, but not really good on him. But yes, we failed to score down the stretch as well.
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DRBackup said:
We lost to Florida last year because their guy - Walter Clayton Jr. - made shots, and our guys didn't. Had nothing to do with depth whatsoever.
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If we could have figured out how to rebound an opponent's missed free throw the outcome of that game may have been different.
 
DRBackup said:
We lost to Florida last year because their guy - Walter Clayton Jr. - made shots, and our guys didn't. Had nothing to do with depth whatsoever.
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Maybe the right defender would have made a difference. Castle would have.
BTW, one final word on the high hedge. If you cut the high hedge at the right time in Florida, it grows back real fast.
 
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DRBackup said:
We lost to Florida last year because their guy - Walter Clayton Jr. - made shots, and our guys didn't. Had nothing to do with depth whatsoever.
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I agree, while a nice to have, depth is often overrated by our beloved Casual Fans. Usually eight (8) or less guys win the game.
 
Chief00 said:
I agree, while a nice to have, depth is often overrated by our beloved Casual Fans. Usually eight (8) or less guys win the game.
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Basically a valid sentiment, but there is also a quality/quantity piece to be considered, as well.

As mentioned previously, potential matchups against the opponent count for a lot, as well.

Haven't seen them play, yet, this year, let alone against a quality opponent. Nonetheless, I get the sense that the quality of our talent runs deep this year.

We are going to be a match up nightmare, and a deep one at that, to a number of our opponents. (He said, hopefully.)
 
prankster said:
Basically a valid sentiment, but there is also a quality/quantity piece to be considered, as well.

As mentioned previously, potential matchups against the opponent count for a lot, as well.

Haven't seen them play, yet, this year, let alone against a quality opponent. Nonetheless, I get the sense that the quality of our talent runs deep this year.

We are going to be a match up nightmare, and a deep one at that, to a number of our opponents. (He said, hopefully.)
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I agree it helps practice competition and is a safety net from injury impacts. I will agree too that if we have foul trouble, depth helps and it may be useful in handling specific matchups.
 
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