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(POST-GAME) @Connecticut, Mon., Jan. 18, 2:30p, FOX / 970 AM WNYM
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After yesterday's Game and Posh taking Conn guards to the Woodshed I'm kinda glad that Gaffney didn't come here when Mullin Recruited him . I'll take Posh everyday over any UCONN guard , excluding the injured Boutknigjht .
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Mario" post=413952 said:
I'm worried about Depaul in the sense that we wake a sleeping dog. Having said that, I like the way the kids are jelling. Cut down on the bad decisions/passes and turnovers, we can beat Butler.Las Vegan" post=413965 said:
To some extent, I think this team could use a boost from a home crowd.
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A family member who roots hard for UCONN (but also roots for us and typically comes to about 6-7 of our games each season) signed me up for the UCONN newsletter. I think he did it haf to annoy me but that's another story. In it Danny Hurley was questioned for taking out Sanogo with 8 minutes to go and not reinserting him:
WHERE DID SANOGO GO? Why didn't he play more? Sanogo dominated portions of the second half and with eight minutes left UConn was leading 49-41. Sanogo went to the bench and never returned. What the heck happened? Per Hurley, St John's went with a small lineup with Julian Champaigne at the center position and that made Sanogo unplayable. Hurley matched up with Isaiah Whaley at the 5, which is a lineup that we have been begging Hurley to go with. Here's the issue, UConn couldn't guard St. John's at all off the dribble and let Red Storm guards dictate the game offensively and defensively. We love Whaley at the 5, but on Monday there was no rim protection and the team defense was abysmal in the second half.
This reminded me of a conversation I had with Gene Keady a few years back at an event at the NYAC. I think Keady had enough of the chit chat upstairs and retreated to a bar on another floor. He was having a drink by himself and no one was paying much attention. It was really a great conversation. Keady is such a damned straight shooter that he is very hard not to like. Right away he said he was so appreciative to Lavin for plucking him out of retirement after Keady's wife had passed away. He said he wasn't doing very much of anything, and because of Steve asking him to join the staff, moved to NYC, got himself into better shape, and had even met a very nice lady. (It was a debt of gratitude of Lavin's part because Keady had hired him as a grad assistant when Lavin was starting out.
In any event, we started talking hoops and Keady said, something along the lines of "The goal of any coaching strategy is to make the other team react to what you are doing, not the other way around. When you do that, you are controlling the game, not your opponent". Great commentary from a casual conversation.
So, without question, Hurley ( or CMA, actually) put Sinogo, who was killing us, on the bench for a critical juncture of the game because we went small and Julian was killing them. Considering just about everything that CMA does was being questioned before the game, I would say pretty much without question, point Anderson.
WHERE DID SANOGO GO? Why didn't he play more? Sanogo dominated portions of the second half and with eight minutes left UConn was leading 49-41. Sanogo went to the bench and never returned. What the heck happened? Per Hurley, St John's went with a small lineup with Julian Champaigne at the center position and that made Sanogo unplayable. Hurley matched up with Isaiah Whaley at the 5, which is a lineup that we have been begging Hurley to go with. Here's the issue, UConn couldn't guard St. John's at all off the dribble and let Red Storm guards dictate the game offensively and defensively. We love Whaley at the 5, but on Monday there was no rim protection and the team defense was abysmal in the second half.
This reminded me of a conversation I had with Gene Keady a few years back at an event at the NYAC. I think Keady had enough of the chit chat upstairs and retreated to a bar on another floor. He was having a drink by himself and no one was paying much attention. It was really a great conversation. Keady is such a damned straight shooter that he is very hard not to like. Right away he said he was so appreciative to Lavin for plucking him out of retirement after Keady's wife had passed away. He said he wasn't doing very much of anything, and because of Steve asking him to join the staff, moved to NYC, got himself into better shape, and had even met a very nice lady. (It was a debt of gratitude of Lavin's part because Keady had hired him as a grad assistant when Lavin was starting out.
In any event, we started talking hoops and Keady said, something along the lines of "The goal of any coaching strategy is to make the other team react to what you are doing, not the other way around. When you do that, you are controlling the game, not your opponent". Great commentary from a casual conversation.
So, without question, Hurley ( or CMA, actually) put Sinogo, who was killing us, on the bench for a critical juncture of the game because we went small and Julian was killing them. Considering just about everything that CMA does was being questioned before the game, I would say pretty much without question, point Anderson.
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Beast , nice story about Keady ., His Record at Purdue , competing against Bobby Knight at Indiana for Recruits , Wins , etc was Extraordinary . A Icon of a Coach . I think it shows too,, a nice side to Lavin that often got overlooked here . Lavin wasn't able to deliver the Results and improvement we wanted . Mostly , not being more Competitive in the BE and delivering a BE Tourney Title or , NCAA win . But , as a generally good guy and likesble person . He's in the perfect job for him now . Great Commentator .