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[QUOTE="BEFAN, post: 5014670, member: 13063"]
By the way, I don't know where else to put this, but hats off to Dan Hurley.  When he was hired, I thought it was a pretty good hire, but nowhere near a home run.  His Rhode Island teams and his first couple UConn teams were always gritty and tough and you knew you were in for a rock fight.  But if your team could make enough buckets, and if your team play good D itself, you had a good chance to win.  I didn't necessarily see cohesive team play (e.g., the Bouknight team).  But then...WHAM!  Hurley did a complete 180 offensively, resulting in perhaps the most dramatic coaching makeover in college basketball history.  (Is there a comparison?)  The last two years, and especially this past year, the players all move, pass, and create as a single unit -- it was beautiful to watch.  One can say this philosophy was always in him, but he just didn't have the players.  But is that really true?  I think that narrative actually undervalues Hurley's willingness to change and adapt.   Coaches are a notoriously stubborn breed.
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