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Hurley Needs to Find Lineups w/ Sanogo & Clingan

Drummond just underperformed during the one year that he was here and did not live up to our high expectations.
 
There will be times were Danny plays both, I would not change a thing. If it ain't broke to try to fix it. As long is there is no internal drama with players and their playing time - again don't change a thing. It's working right now
 
prankster said:
Imagine if we had 2 exceptional PGs, and they were being effectively platooned, would we be craving the opportunity to see both on the court at the same time?
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I know, right? Playing to exceptional point guards at the same time? That would never work.

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In the first 30 minutes of game time play Sanogo 20 minutes with Clingan coming in for 10.

The last 10 minutes of game time play both, along with Andre and whichever two players have been hottest from 3pt land.

Hammer the opponent.
 
Playing them each an average of 20 minutes works better. The reason we are so much better offensively is our spacing. Don’t want to toy with that.
 
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Seems like an embarrassment of riches problem. Do I drive the Porsche or Bentley today. Life is hard.
 
Let's see your largest kid is one of your best passers right? You're other big has shown a little bit of a struggle versus longer defenders so on occasion why not play them together to take the larger defender off our best scorer, and have our big who can pass the ball throw it over the top to him? I do realize this makes us play zone but not to try this on occasion baffles me based on the skillsets of the 2. Certainly not saying for long stretches but hammer it down some throats and change the dynamic to keep them honest. With this attempt you will need 3 shooters as well but again, I'm all for seeing if it works against certain teams.
 
prankster said:
As I have watched the games this year is that we are very good and very deep. No let up all game, and our opponents are ready to tap out some time in the final 5 minutes of the game.

Iowa State had the air going out of their tires at the end of that game. You could see it.

Sanogo is a load to deal with. At least 2 of the defenders are on heightened alert to switch, defend collapse and double (triple?) on him every minute he is in.

Then he sits and DC comes in. And the game continues but now at a higher altitude.

Exhausting to have to play that way. And as the game winds down, and the defenders are starting to really suck air, Sanogo comes back in, refreshed and ready to speed things back up.

And the defensive game plan is in pieces.

There may be some opportunities to present that dominant double post look, but we have a tremendous endurance advantage platooning them as we are doing now.

And until we start to have issues with this approach, we're I Coach Hurley, it would take some triggering event, a game where this current approach demonstrably failed, to get me to change.

Imagine if we had 2 exceptional PGs, and they were being effectively platooned, would we be craving the opportunity to see both on the court at the same time?

After all, you can only score once on each possession, no matter who is on the floor together.
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Exactly my point. Also you can put Ajax on opposing teams PGs and cause a major disruption for them offensively. I can think of two examples where Uconn benefited greatly from great defense against opposing PGs like Ricky Moore in 99 and Bazz and Boat as a combo as we all saw what they did to the Harrison twins and the Florida kids in the semifinal in `14.
 
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