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Hurley is probably looking at JC and thinking, "I can't understand a word you're saying. Can you slow down?"
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From Borges.
At least one of those transfers — Diarra — has really opened Hurley's eyes so far.
"Just how his personality has helped," Hurley noted. "His confidence and joy, his self-belief, a real competitive spirit, could be really great for our team. He's not a guy you have to try to talk into playing well. He thinks he's the best player on the court every time he gets on the court. You just know he's going to have a role that's going to really impact the team."
How UConn men's basketball coach Dan Hurley will manage roster built entirely with his recruits
For first time in Dan Hurley's five-year tenure at UConn, this year's players have all been recruited by him.
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Not surprised Hurley loves Diarra's energy and activity on defense. Definitely the other end where he has some of the same limitations as Gilbert is the question mark.From Borges.
At least one of those transfers — Diarra — has really opened Hurley's eyes so far.
"Just how his personality has helped," Hurley noted. "His confidence and joy, his self-belief, a real competitive spirit, could be really great for our team. He's not a guy you have to try to talk into playing well. He thinks he's the best player on the court every time he gets on the court. You just know he's going to have a role that's going to really impact the team."
How UConn men's basketball coach Dan Hurley will manage roster built entirely with his recruits
For first time in Dan Hurley's five-year tenure at UConn, this year's players have all been recruited by him.www.nhregister.com
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“Danny why the eph are you going with the hard hedge all the time? You are going to be running these big guys ragged and then just get beat back door. You’ve got to mix it up a little bit.”
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My favorite quote:
"My favorite type of player is guys that are excellent players, guys that make the game look easy, incredible talents at the offensive end," Hurley said. "That's my No. 1 favorite. No. 2 is guys that go hard like (Diarra) does. He goes hard. He's got to be a little more cerebral with some things. As attacking and aggressive as he is, he's probably got a little more cerebral (playing) to the attack. But I'll take it all day long. He's all over the court. He pops when you watch his play."
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Another article from The Day about Hawkins and Newton.
Since the season ended last March, Hawkins has been working on his ballhandling, moves off the dribble, playmaking and defensive skills.
“I’m trying to become a two-way player,” he said.
Hurley is in favor of that happening. He wants Hawkins to be more than just player with a sweet looking jump shot.
“We need him to play both ends of the court,” Hurley said. “But we just want him to be as prolific a scorer/shooter as he can be this year. Anything that he gets a look at, we want him firing.”
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Since the season ended last March, Hawkins has been working on his ballhandling, moves off the dribble, playmaking and defensive skills.
“I’m trying to become a two-way player,” he said.
Hurley is in favor of that happening. He wants Hawkins to be more than just player with a sweet looking jump shot.
“We need him to play both ends of the court,” Hurley said. “But we just want him to be as prolific a scorer/shooter as he can be this year. Anything that he gets a look at, we want him firing.”
Newton, Hawkins building chemistry on and off the basketball court at UConn
Storrs – Tristen Newton and Jordan Hawkins are more than UConn basketball teammates.
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Point guard remains hazy.Another article from The Day about Hawkins and Newton.
Since the season ended last March, Hawkins has been working on his ballhandling, moves off the dribble, playmaking and defensive skills.
“I’m trying to become a two-way player,” he said.
Hurley is in favor of that happening. He wants Hawkins to be more than just player with a sweet looking jump shot.
“We need him to play both ends of the court,” Hurley said. “But we just want him to be as prolific a scorer/shooter as he can be this year. Anything that he gets a look at, we want him firing.”
Newton, Hawkins building chemistry on and off the basketball court at UConn
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Newton working on nuance of PG position, but said coach wanted PG (Newton) and SG (Hawkins) to room together. But also from yesterday, Hurley is envisioning Jackson facilitating and Newton and Hawkins as scoring wings.
Seems likely Newton will be point guard in starting lineup (and likely bring the ball up after made baskets), but Jackson will be in charge of a lot of facilitating and run a lot of ball screens in half court. Cole played off ball a decent amount, so this isn't a huge change for our offense or anything, and this seems to mostly track with previous comments Hurley has made (and how Newton has played in the past).
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I really don’t understand the consternation over point guard at this point in the season. We have a lot of quality players, and guards who have done this. It won’t be until we actually play quality teams that we find out anything for sure.
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Because point guard is the most important position on the floor and we lost our first team all-Big East point guard.
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Because Danny made a seismic shift in personnel and roster style that most think will pay off and really needs to. Any musings that there might be a chink in the armor with so many unknowns are worthy of consternation. But yes, nothing will be known until the ball bounces. I'm just trying to prepare myself because I enjoy it less when my expectations are too lofty.
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LOTS of consternation, quite frankly.
If the worst case scenario is that Newton is the nominal point guard then that doesn't seem like a pretty bad situation and the worrying is mostly just people worrying because they're unhappy unless they have something to worry about.
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It’s easy to associate ECU and AAC with “bad” but we can’t forget Newton was a 17ppg scorer last year.
If he’s our starting PG with Diarra coming off the bench and AJax an option at point forward, I’m sleeping well.
Last year we had RJ and guys that transferred to FAU and UMass. Newton/Diarra/Andre is an improvement any way you slice it