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It's about defensive technique. This goes back to John Thompson and Jerry Tarkanian, before Pitino, but there are a couple things you do and you tend to avoid foul calls:

(1) when you get in close to the offensive player, bend your knees as the defender, hold your hands high, but get in close. This creates mis-dribbles and turnovers, sometimes even charging calls, if the offensive player pushes you off to create space for his dribble; and

(2) when you are in close to the offensive player, always swipe down, not across. And don't reach/ and, finally:

(3) in modern times, a lot of offensive players on the wing buy a foul by sweeping their arms with the ball in the hands into the defender to create contact and get the foul call. This is easier to do if the defender is playing with arms out, or arms 3/4 high. If the defender keeps their arms low when defending a guy on the wing, you're far less likely to give up a cheap foul to a guy's arm swing.

That's how people get away with "physical" man to man defense,

Good stuff. Very little of which Hurleys teams do well thus ultimately they get called for it.
 
Hurley is not going to get the benefit of the doubt. His actions now and in the past are costing his team. They’ve lost their swagger. They need a point guard to run things.
There’s working the refs while maintaining a level of respect and then there’s what Hurley does. He’s getting no benefit of the doubt and is hurting his team.
 
Lol. No. Watch them play. Fouling every possession is how they play. It's how Hurleys URI teams played too. Nothing new. Those URI teams racked up fouls just the same.
It’s all Hurley knows. Try HARDER!! Yell! Foul!! Dive!!!
 
With Hurley it’s always about toughness. What about coaching, fundamentals, poise and execution? He’s such a loser.

Yep he’s an awful coach. His team is undisciplined and poor and fundamentals. When your summary of what went wrong is out toughed you show you don’t have the ability to analyze, to adjust to strategize. His dumb team will hear his dumb message and come out next game and probably get a few technicals and howl and posture after some dunks. It’s not a long term fix and the reason they will once again fail to do anything in the NCAA’s. Hurley = loser
 
What was Holloway thinking at the end? You miss that free throw on purpose to make them throw an awkward 90 foot shot and not get an inbound pass.
 
What was SH’s big doing on the missed foul shot? He mugged the UCONN player over the back. That would have been called against SU. Huskie fans will be screaming they got screwed. Clingam needs to be playing more for UCONN. I hope Clingam knows we’re open for business next year.
 
What was Holloway thinking at the end? You miss that free throw on purpose to make them throw an awkward 90 foot shot and not get an inbound pass.
I don't think he tried to miss it, but they could have called a foul on #4 for SH. That would not have been good.
 

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