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Message: [QUOTE="Max47, post: 4489215, member: 11972"] I enjoy the "entertainment" here. With respect to the "Clingan + Sanogo" discussion/debate I think today's Hartford current article [B]"Dan Hurley wants to get Clingan’s minutes up after UConn men were out-toughed in loss to Providence; notes from Huskies’ second straight loss " [/B] Pretty much says it all with respect to early in Hurly's basketball coaching DEVELOPMENT acumen. [I][B]"Hurley employed the two bigs in short stints on multiple occasions against Providence, but later said they hadn’t practiced it and that at times the alignments were “not pleasing to the eye.”"[/B][/I] I admit I'm not a basketball coach but if I knew that I was going to have a 7'2" top 50 class of 2002 High school prospect I would have been designing practices and plans the day after his signing. Clingan is raw. From a developmental perspective you can run practices until hell freezes over but there's absolutely no substitute for the stress and pressure of playing in high-level games. Sanogo is one dimensional. He's neither 5 or 4 at least right now. He just a big man (bull) who can spend forever in the paint, dink and dive and has a pretty good's 5 foot shot. Trying to throw them together without any kind of preparation is coaching moronic. [/QUOTE]