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Message: [QUOTE="jake14mw, post: 4535942, member: 12344"] I really spend almost no time here criticizing coaches. There's a good reason why these guys have worked their way to coaching elite programs at the D1 level and I'm sitting on my couch watching. However, Hurley does have some very interesting things to work out here. I have never been much of a proponent of playing Sanogo and Clingan at the same time. Both of their games are close to the basket games, and I don't know how you effectively play them together. It's nice that Sanogo has 40% on his limited threes that he has taken. That doesn't just make him a perimeter player. He's hitting those threes because he's wide open with a 5 player not guarding him on the perimeter. If Clingan is in the game at the same time, Sanogo won't get those wide open threes. At the same time, I don't think this means that there are not some times where they can be effective together on the floor. There should be some. I was very surprised when Hurley was quoted mid-season that they had not worked on anything there. The big thing that Hurley needs to figure out is what to do with Jackson. Right now Jackson is obviously a huge liability on offense. Hurley needs to figure out a way to change that. There should be things that can be done. If he can't figure that out, then he has to play Jackson less. I don't think Alleyne or Diarra are the answer. They are okay, but their upside seems to be very limited. To me it's either JC or Clingan. We have to get JC contributing again at some level. So, two questions for Hurley - how do you get Clingan more minutes, and you have address the Jackson situation. It's not a simple thing, but I will judge his coaching by how he handles these two things down the stretch. [/QUOTE]

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