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Message: [QUOTE="superjohn, post: 4487309, member: 1522"] Get Clingan guarding the perimeter out of your head. He's a 7'2 guy who shuts things down near the basket...The Sanogo coming out to guard at the three point line all the time worked earlier in the season but teams are ready for it now. They've seen it and the Big East coaches know us. Whaley was great at it and Sanogo is just solid at it. I'm not saying completely scrap it but do a lot less of it if we're going to keep playing Sanogo 30 minutes and Clingan 10 minutes (which needs to stop btw.) Xavier was prepared for it and Sanogo was caught out of position all night and then we had nothing at the rim which is bothersome because we do have a great rim protector/shotblocker...Without Samson, with Clingan being benched, and with Sanogo out at the three point line we have zero rim protection. That's not UConn basketball and that's us playing to our opponents instead of using our size and athleticism to our advantage. Between Sanogo and Karaban we have 1 blocked shot in Big East play from the two starting bigs and we aren't even deterring shots at the rim. Tonight is a game I feel both Sanogo and Clingan should dominate, I doubt he decides to play them together at all so let's see a better allocation of minutes. Providence takes and makes a small amount of threes so I don't want to see Adama out on the perimeter and they can't matchup with Donovan's size. We'll see how it goes. [/QUOTE]