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[QUOTE="Rakkasan, post: 4143592, member: 11716"]
Couple of thoughts:

--Marquette will be telling if lessons were learned.  Shaka focuses first on D.  Will Danny anticipate and practice or be surprised again on game day.

--Not focusing on O is Danny's MO.  At URI his teams played intense D but it was only when an extremely talented EC Matthews and crew matured did the offense work.  Saw the same with Bouk (and without Bouk) last year.  Say what you will about Cooley but Friars ran plays out of TOs and in the half court.  Not all the time but enough that it seemed organized and adjusted depending on D presented.

--Luke was an asst at X.  X runs some nifty O sets so surprised there isn't more creativity in the half court.  The cuts run at the Friars worked really well.  I would expect more of those.  Get a team on their heels looking for cuts and it opens up driving lanes for the athletes that Uconn has.

Huskies play strong D and have good athletes.  They are not consistent shooters though.  What gets adjusted and rolled out at Marquette?  I think Uconn loses in a tough environment at MU and then is staring at Top 25 X, on the road,  0-2 with 0-3 looking at them.  That is not far fetched.  How Hurley responds may be the balance of the season.
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