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Message: [QUOTE="gsmooth, post: 4490188, member: 9355"] With all the various threads, this kind of sums it up. I would include also, the defense has taken a step back and they need to learn how to defend the staggered screens and maybe change up the pick and roll defense to handle the slips and the rolls to the baskets off of these. Why? Because they will see plenty of this especially from Creighton. Hurley built this roster with 3 pt shooting in mind to be excellent but it has been far from that in Big East play. In the Villanova game they shot 9/30 from 3 for 30%, but really they should've shot better than that considering how open those 3s were and that Nova sold out to deny the entry passes to the post. UConn has missed a lot of open 3s including the PC game. If 3s aren't falling there has to be a Plan B and Plan C. That is something Jim Calhoun emphasized in his book a Passion to Lead. It's common life advice from other sources as well, but rarely put into action, generally speaking. Let's face it, they haven't played poorly in the Big East, but they really have not played all that well either. They were in a close game against Butler with 9 minutes remaining. For comparison, PC blew the doors off Butler and was up 20 in the first half and that game was never close. And UConn struggled with GTown at [I]home[/I] being down by 8 with 10 minutes to go. Here's hoping UConn breaks the hex against Creighton and turns around their underwhelming Big East play. It's only January 7th, and 14-2 is still a very good record. [/QUOTE]

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