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Message: [QUOTE="MD#12Fan, post: 2585652, member: 8636"] Nice way of thinking about the apparent "drop-off"! A quandary in my mind is: (my own philosophical issue- I'm a "Guru-of-Go" proponent) Should an up-tempo team "slow-it-down"? Obviously for shot clock situations, but I've seen UConn accept easy shots early in the shot-clock regardless. They won't hold for the last shot. They run their offense and take the first great shot that they get. I love that. Then trust the defense. What if a game becomes a "slugfest", do we continue to push tempo or settle in to the opponent's pace? That's the quandary. ND for 3 quarters, then UConn's pace and Z's best game as a Husky showed up. Paul Westhead, Guru-of-Go, believed in the one pace, that's it. Even if shots were not falling, eventually the opponent would tire and you would pounce. The "we saw them grabbing their shorts and we knew we had them". A couple of times I have seen this team get tentative when the pace slows. Good barometer- Katie Lou. A shot she just fires routinely, she hesitates... Suddenly shots that are usually uncontested or weakly contested are challenged with a bump or contact. (Pheesa last year against MSU) Passes become forced. How about this: NO ONE can match UConn's tempo. Fact? Other teams may be able to match UConn is a slow tempo game- MSU, Baylor. Let's push it! Go Huskies! [/QUOTE]