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Message: [QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 2782673, member: 87"] I definitely see and agree with all your points. There is no doubt Frank's absence had an effect and there is definitely bias here towards UConn's quality. I feel like my assessment is fair though. The entire product Syracuse put out there last night was subpar. There is always the dichotomy of is it the players or the coach who caused the negative outcomes. You can't excuse either of them, but the coach is the guy who establishes everything from the basics on up. So when the entire team comes out and has no real game plan that can deal with what the opponent is sure to face you with, when they lack energy and lack discipline that is a reflection of their leader. On the actual game coaching side - there is the game plan (already mentioned) and there are the adjustments made. I won't fault or credit a coach for player performance in terms of missing a shot or bobbling a ball, but if the coach is not doing things to set his players up for good shots and is not correcting players who are taking terrible shots on their own, that is on him. So last night - I don't blame JB if our guys miss an open jumper, I do blame him that we had no offense that could generate quality shots (a tiny a percentage of our shots were what I would call quality shots). I give no credit to Hurley that his guys were jacking 35 foot shots that happened to go in, because those were dumb shots. It was the Tom Brennan offense - total idiocy that on 90% of nights hands us the win because shots like those are usually turnovers. But since last night was their night hitting those, I do blame JB for not adjusting his defense out and bothering those shots. [/QUOTE]

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