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Message: [QUOTE="Skeets, post: 4822937, member: 10677"] Maybe I'm nit picking here but one of the areas UConn can improve is for the players off the ball to stop watching the ball to the extent that the person they are guarding gets open. You might not be able to see this on TV (of course TV is also watching the ball) it's more obvious if you are there at the game. Sometimes it's legitimate help defense, but too often (in my opinion) it's bad defense. If help defense is not needed, the off-ball defenders have to continue defending their man, not stand around and watch the play. A number of Louisville's open baskets in the first half were the result of "distracted" (for the lack of a better word) defenders. Louisville tended to miss those shots in the second half... Is this the biggest problem? No, but it's something that can be worked on. [/QUOTE]