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Message: [QUOTE="Pudge, post: 4205568, member: 364"] We only won by 5; and certainly gave some optimism thoughts to the Pirates that they could pull off an undeserved W. The number of things done well was significant in the arc of a Team improving towards good things in March. ONE. Sanogo since Christmas has improved markedly in passing from the inside to bucket opportunities. At least 3 in last night's contest; he has improved remarkably. Hurley has both Jackson and Whaley up top making great entry passes to Sanogo or others or zip passes to our better three point shooters. Refined. We started this path awhile ago; last night they were solid. Hawkins is tougher and a better defender. That is obvious. Offensive rebounding? Dogs - we have immersed ourselves in radioactive dye or something that this is our identity. Just better than other teams. Cole remains a guy who can get tough buckets and run the offense; but it is obvious that Jackson has been given far more of a role to run the ball and allow Cole to play off the ball. Resulting in a number of hoops. And Andre Jackson may get 4 or 5 assist; but if this was Hockey he would have twice that number as he often is the key attack pass that then leads to another pass for hoop. Yes. Clever creative passes that ended in turnovers was less last night evolving into great looks on a higher probability UCONN flow. Gaffney 2.0. He has looked at times in the last few games to be the best he has been this year. Not last night. However the BY criticism has ratcheted up. As I found out and one or more others on Twitter: the family (in the presence of his sister) is sensitive to your criticism. I think some of you have crossed the line to cruel. He is an experienced college guard and has value to the program. He can shoot - expect 30-35% three point and get to the hoop; he can run the club for stopgap 4-7 minutes when Cole sits or with Cole. It is less of role than he was projected as this season began. Some of that is because Andre Jackson has raised his profile in ballhandler; a unexpected development by me. Finally: praise for Whaley. I love what he brings - while the three leading scores get the ink in the media game summaries. [/QUOTE]

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