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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 5055096, member: 5436"] It was actually more frustrating then that, [USER=10653]@StllH8L8ner[/USER]. Sanogo was dominating in the paint early in the 2nd half too. We went up by 8 with just over 12 minutes left in the game. Dan took Adama out of the game at that point right after Adama had one of his rare assists that year on a basket by The Wrench, then scored his 3rd basket of his own in the half and it was clear to anyone watching that St. John's had no answers for him... And then Dan never put Sanogo back in the game. We maintained the 8-point lead down to just below the 9-minute mark, but then St. John's started cutting into the lead and we had no answers. They were killing us with their slashing game to the hoop while effectively keeping us playing passive on the offensive end, as we had no one on the floor who was a consistent threat in the low post with Adama on the bench. We ended up losing by 4. I remember I was literally screaming at the TV and to one of my best friends on the phone as I watched the game at my brother's house about stemming the tide of St. Johns' run by getting Adama back in there, and yet Dan never did. I felt exactly the same as you after that game... I could not figure out why Dan got so hardheaded about not putting Sanogo back into that game when clearly he was our only guy who scared St. Johns that day. Very weird, and totally, exasperatingly frustrating. In his first few years here there were times Dan showed he could be very hardheaded, and sometimes it was objectively to his and the team's detriment. However, it has obviously all worked out and the only thing I would change about Dan's time as our coach was the premature end of the 2019-2020 season due to COVID as I would have liked to have seen if that team was able to parlay their late season surge into a run in the AAC Tournament, an NCAA Tournament bid and see where we went from there. [/QUOTE]

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