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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 4393720, member: 10"] Not surprising since Hurley has said he'd do that. [I]Conventional wisdom dictates that Tristen Newton, the high-scoring senior who [URL='https://www.ctinsider.com/uconn/article/UConn-men-s-basketball-transfer-Tristen-Newton-17246644.php']transferred from East Carolina in April[/URL], will be the Huskies’ starting point guard. Maybe so, but Newton may be more valuable as an elite scorer who can take the ball to the hole and/or knock down 3’s. Hassan Diarra, the [URL='https://www.ctpost.com/uconn/article/New-UConn-men-s-basketball-guard-Hassan-Diarra-17247703.php?t=b7dcf4e9cc']gritty New Yorker with the clutch gene[/URL], would figure to be Newton’s back-up at point. But again, that’s narrowing down Diarra’s abilities a bit too much. “The beauty of guys like Tristen and Hass,” said Hurley, “is they can play on the ball and get you into stuff, create for others, but they’re comfortable playing off the ball, letting Dre take it and create in transition, or create in the ball-screen game, where Dre is a really outstanding passer and creator.” Ah yes, Dre. That’s Andre Jackson, the versatile, 6-foot-6 wing who can also man the point. He may not match Pistol Pete Maravich, one of his idols, as a ballhandler, but Jackson proved last season that he can facilitate on the fast break, find his big man on the low post and get his team into its offense. [B]“Dre will be on the ball a lot,” Hurley promised. “He’ll be facilitating around an outstanding 5-man (Adama Sanogo) and three other guys who can shoot and score. It’s going to create driving lanes for him, and passing options.”[/B][/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ctinsider.com/uconn/article/2022-23-UConn-men-s-basketball-roster-report-17254988.php[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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