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Message: [QUOTE="UCfor3, post: 4614946, member: 567"] I love how people think saying stuff like Andre taking bad shots is some solution to something. Pointing out something general and actually fixing it are two completely different things. To take it a step further. Just saying he should be playing closer to the basket isn't a solution either. Everyone thinks they are Dean Smith on a message board. Truth is 99.9% of the people on here, including me, wouldn't have a clue how to deal with stuff at this level. I'm not talking about the dial down attitude with the refs stuff. I'm talking about basketball accumen. Making the simplest observations like "play better defense" or "stop shooting" and then thinking "Yay, I'm a coach. Our coach doesn't know how to fix this but I could." Is embarrassing. Next time you have an electrician or plumber at your house, tell him you know better than him how to do his job. See how it goes for you. There are some people on this board that have good basketball knowledge. I really appreciate what those people offer. There are also a lot of us that think we have good basketball knowledge. I myself am "ok" but certainly limited. I watch a ton for years and played when I was younger but never coached or anything like that. I am not equipped to fix a team that just lost 6 of 8. I would have to be delusional to think that. With that said, coaching basketball at UConn is not the same. Noticing a problem or making an observation is not the same as performing triage on an entire offense in real time or in practice for that matter. It's easy to see what's not working. I often can do that. I also would be a stammering idiot if everyone was looking at me for a solution during a timeout. The one thing I could say is that I was correct about (as were many others) is that we needed more shooting and better guards to win big on this level again. The 3 point shot and spacing are too important in todays game. This was just an observation and required no X's & O's or coaching knowledge. I also am aware that Hurley and his staff also knew this. I wasn't smarter than them or knew something they didn't. [/QUOTE]

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