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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 2873940, member: 1329"] Hurley is not Bob McKillop. [LIST] [*]Hurley has never had a top 50 offense in the country. [*]Hurley's first years at both Wagner and Rhode Island had WORSE offenses than we had last year. [*]Ollie in his career averaged out to a top 100 offense. Hurley's average is 147. Median 158, Ollie median 81. [*]Hurley's teams at Rhode Island averaged out to be the 254th(!) best 3-point shooting teams. [*]At Rhode Island, he had 1 season in the top 100 of 3pt%. They still were in the bottom 25% in points from 3pt because they didn't take many. [/LIST] There's a talent level difference from those spots and UConn, especially in Hurley's initial turnaround years. However, we're not exactly at a vintage Calhoun talent level (we don't have a single top 100 recruited big and our only such wing will be a freshman). Hurley also had a nice trend with the offense at Rhode Island, so maybe he's getting better and/or he was showing what he can do with better talent (or more suited talent). But they still didn't shoot well even when the offense got better several years in. Add that to our demonstrably poor shooting talent and I'm not optimistic we'll light the nets on fire this year from outside the paint. Obviously would be hard to be worse than last year's 287th, though. [/QUOTE]