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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3907106, member: 1414"] My main criticism of Hurley as the same as it has been. I think he’s the right guy, but he keeps approaching the game like he’s at URI. You do not match 5 out teams by going small. You play a zone and dominate the paint until they are forced to put their crappy big in. They play small because their bigs suck or they don’t have them. Instead he puts in our 7th and 8th best guys and leaves one of our best players on the bench. Then he continues to let teams pull his rim protectors outside. [B]We lost every game we played to that type of team[/B]. Creighton 3 times, Nova, St. John’s, and now Maryland. I do not understand why he does it. If this team doesn’t have a zone in its arsenal next season we aren’t going anywhere. UConn is UConn in part because it can attract skilled bigs. Use them. Other teams don’t have them. They are a valuable weapon on both ends. The offense is a mess. I don’t expect him to fix that. Calhoun’s offense was a mess. Ollie‘s offense was a mess. I don’t recall a UConn team that didn’t rely on players beating their man instead of running structured offense. Still won four titles that way. In short: Dan has to be a lot more flexible and change his damned system to fit the players he has and the league he plays in. He seriously needs to spend an hour talking to Belichick, who changes his defense every game. [/QUOTE]