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“We’ve been just super soft, like a wet tissue, guarding dribble drive,” Hurley said. “We’re doing a really bad job off the ball in ball screen defense, a lot of times it has very little to do with the four players involved in the ball screen, it’s the player on the two sides, the low man often times, letting us down. And then just the toughness, the ability to win one-on-one battles, we’ve been bad individually guarding people this year.”
“If we guard like that, we will not be a team that can win this league, regular season or the (tournament), and we will not be a team that can make a deep run in the (NCAA) Tournament,” Hurley said. “Now, listen, Donovan (Clingan) is one of the most impactful players in the country at both ends of the court, his numbers don’t do justice to how much of a difference he makes.
“But our defense has got to take a major step up from here on out or else we will not be contenders at anything, we’ll be pretenders.”
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Why Dan Hurley compared UConn’s defense to a ‘wet tissue’ after decisive win over DePaul
Containing the dribble drive has been a concern. Spencer, Newton and Karaban are each not good at staying in front of their man. Last year the team seemed to get better at it later in the season. Joey C., as one example, couldn't guard a chair early in the season and by the end he was serviceable. Can Hurley work his magic this year to make them a better defensive team?
“If we guard like that, we will not be a team that can win this league, regular season or the (tournament), and we will not be a team that can make a deep run in the (NCAA) Tournament,” Hurley said. “Now, listen, Donovan (Clingan) is one of the most impactful players in the country at both ends of the court, his numbers don’t do justice to how much of a difference he makes.
“But our defense has got to take a major step up from here on out or else we will not be contenders at anything, we’ll be pretenders.”
Why Dan Hurley compared UConn’s defense to a ‘wet tissue’ after decisive win over DePaul
UConn’s defense made strides in an 85-56 rout of DePaul, but head coach Dan Hurley says there needs to be improvement on that end for the Huskies to contend.
www.courant.com
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Why Dan Hurley compared UConn’s defense to a ‘wet tissue’ after decisive win over DePaul
Containing the dribble drive has been a concern. Spencer, Newton and Karaban are each not good at staying in front of their man. Last year the team seemed to get better at it later in the season. Joey C., as one example, couldn't guard a chair early in the season and by the end he was serviceable. Can Hurley work his magic this year to make them a better defensive team?
