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[QUOTE="Ricker, post: 3856519, member: 1245"]
Creighton beat Nova by sticking to what they do, shooting, and playing their 'A' game.  St Johns beat Nova by sticking to what they do, defensive pressure, and doing it well.  We need to predominately play 2 bigs and make them sweat out adjusting to us.  Why let them play the way they are comfortable?   I agree that Bouk, Ajax, Martin, and Whaley are a great mix and will see time, but I doubt those guys as a group can avoid foul trouble.  Polley can probably match Swider.  But they will have trouble matching us in the paint without fouling.  Watson was out fast with 2 fouls last game.  How big would it be to get Robinson-Earl to the bench by the 14min mark.    Before the 99 championship game Khalid was asked how UConn could hope to match up to Duke.  He looked back and said they are going to have trouble matching up to us.  That should be the attitude.  I agree with [USER=114]@NJHusky[/USER] that Hurley's comments are concerning because he is running from that point of view already.  I go big early and take the ball into the lane with drives, feeds to the post, and offensive rebounds.  See if the refs help us at the outset.

I forgot.  No wasting fouls with moving screens or bumping guys when hedging hard.  Hurley needs to coach the hell out of not doing those things
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