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Message: [QUOTE="UCfor3, post: 4131052, member: 567"] Hurley's practices are notoriously tough. Hurley Sr and JC, both have been at and witnessed many practices and a National Championship assistant in Tom Moore who coached under JC is on the staff. I would think they would point out to Dan Hurley if he wasn't focusing on the correct things. Perhaps the players turn into mashed potatos because we struggle so much in certain areas, specifically offensively and ball handling, and that is magnified at the end of games when teams have timeouts, set strategic and specific defenses, and players are get rests during those timeouts and really dig in to get stops. Young people make mistakes, especially when they are deficient in areas. Polley I think was a brain fart, Gaffney tripped over his own feet. I guess nobody ever tripped under JC. I have to think Hurley does a box out/rebounding drill. We are a good rebounding team but neither of us are at practice. Again he is not without blame but our roster as constructed leaves little margin for error and the players struggle in these situations as well. BOTH players and coaches have to get better. This is like the Hawkins turnover against Auburn. A bunch of the know it all armchair coaches screaming for him to be in the game. Hurley was "cooling" him. He comes in and turns the ball over and Auburn puts the game into another OT. The same people were like " I guess that's why you don't have a freshman in there, oopsie." Last night people were acting like it wasn't a common practice to give a rest to your best player when you have a cushion as opposed to a deficet. Pretty much everyone does that. Cole hit 2 shots(admittedly a hot streak for us last night). He wasn't going berzerk NBA jam style. Our run had as much to do with WV going cold and playing sloppy. I do agree Cole should have been inserted after the timeout by WV. Hurley got free time for Cole with that timeout and got unnecessarily greedy. [/QUOTE]

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