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Message: [QUOTE="PAHusky, post: 5199236, member: 3807"] Mahaney has scored 16 points total in the last five games, I'm not holding my breath. Diarra is a gamer but he's down to one leg at this point. Are these things possible? Sure. Likely? Not at all. The two major flaws of this team are the same as they've been since Maui - they suck on defense (terrible perimeter defense and no Clingan-like presence at the rim to cover for that) and there's no one on offense whose strength is getting a bucket out of nothing. Liam is probably the closest but I think he's just an extremely good complimentary piece like AK rather than a primary scorer. AK tried to assume the mantle but he can't drive at all and his shot has abandoned him, so paradoxically the more he presses the more he gets away from the things like cutting etc that made him as good as he can be on offense the last few years. His cuts - and the offense in general - don't really work right now though because no one is afraid of a UConn playing taking them off the dribble or hitting big shots in their face, so they can stick like glue to their man. At this point Dan Hurley's sets are useless motion and empty cardio - everyone is running to the same spot but no one can score, so they run through the motion until the shot clock winds down and something gets jacked up. [/QUOTE]