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[QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 4458414, member: 37"]
To belabor the point I've already been making in this thread I believe the coaches are trying to transform Newton's game away from a scoring guard to a passing guard.

He's had to be the primary scorer on offensively challenged teams. The coaches want to expand his tool belt.  The triple double was fools gold.  The coaches and team were working on other aspects of of the teams play so Newton continued doing what he did best.  Now they are working on driving and getting assists to our bigs.

You see it with Hawkins, Andre, Diarra and Joey C as well.  Joey is the player who has demonstrated he's best at it currently.   But the others will be there.  I've noticed a lot of fans in this forum want Andre to drive to the basket.  I think he's deliberately avoiding that to set an example for the other players working on this aspect of the game.  Andre is a team first leader.  Probably the first one since Rickey Moore who is less invested in his personal stats but does anything the coaches asks of him.

They could have pulled Newton or told him to revert to his style but they stuck with the game plan on national tv against an NCAA 8-9 seed.   That's how good this team is.  Most teams don't have that luxury to work out their kinks against above average opponents for the entire game.
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