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Message: [QUOTE="boog204, post: 3861823, member: 880"] There is a bit of a misnomer here about our vaunted "40 minutes of hell." It was really one and a half years of that. The press we so vividly remember causing turnovers and getting layups and everything else was 89-90. We averaged 13 steals and forced 21 turnovers a game. Every year following that was a gradual decline in those numbers and our press became a passive 2-2-1 that was designed to take you out of your offense as opposed to turn you over. Teams shot almost 44% against us in 89-90 because our press was more aggressive. By the mid 90s, when we truly became great with Ray and Donyell, we were putting teams under 40% consistently. Once we had the shotblockers, we stopped pressing all together and just became a balls to the walls man D team. I guess my point is that we are selling JC short if we say that we just relied on pressing to turn defense into offense. That was one year. His offense, especially in the half court was never pretty, but it put guys who could make plays into a position to make plays. Hurley does not have those guys. Bouk obviously is a triple threat player, but who else is? Martin, maybe. But he is not a guy who you rely on at this juncture to be a primary scoring option. Cole is too small, Jackson is not ready, Polley is one-dimensional, etc. Simple fact is that we need better players who can run iso stuff like JC relied on for so many years. We knew when getting Hurley that this was a JC-esque guy who would get his players to run through walls. We were not getting an offensive mastermind. His URI teams relied on good guards making plays. We have one guy who can do that and he's missed 1/2 the year. [/QUOTE]

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