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Message: [QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 4486809, member: 10"] Hurley isn't stupid. But I wish he pushed Jackson earlier. [I]In the Huskies’ last few games since Big East play began, opponents have left Jackson, UConn’s dynamic captain and an elite defender, wide open on the offensive end, turning extra focus onto Adama Sanogo in the paint. Shooting isn’t one of the many strengths in Jackson’s game, though it is improving, and he seemed to take the space as a personal slight, earning technical fouls for chatting at the Georgetown and Villanova benches. Against Xavier, he just kept shooting – and he made four of his first nine -- and was two assists shy of a triple-double. “The way he was playing, he was on his way to a fabulous game,” Hurley said. “There are some things that we’re gonna try to take advantage of when people play off him that we’ve had two days to practice, beyond him just shooting 3s... We need him to be aggressive, I think, trying to score at the rim more. He’s such a great athlete and he’s got such great size that we get enough 3s from our 3-point shooters, we don’t need to take the ball when we have it at the rim and throw it back out to the 3-point line. When we’ve got a chance to put pressure on the rim, we’ve got to do it so we can get to the foul line or finish.”[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-mens-basketball/hc-sp-uconn-mens-basketball-looking-to-get-back-to-identity-after-loss-20230103-20230103-2jgo3z3ponfgdltm7lerqdbi4e-story.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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