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at today's practice. What did Geno have the team doing? Playing 5 on 0 and asking the players to use their imagination: http://elmcitytoeaglevillenhr.blogspot.com/2014/01/uconn-working-on-half-court-offense.html
When I got out there Bria Hartley was out there with reserves Kiah Stokes, Brianna Banks, Saniya Chong and Morgan Tuck. Three straight times Stokes hit a layup when Auriemma bellowed "so we're taking the easy way out? The same guy scores every time, that's taking the easy way out.'"
When Tuck hit a foul-line jumper on the next possession Auriemma applauded and then brought in the other four starters to replace the four reserves.
"It is easier to run offense when you are playing 5 on 5 than it is playing 5 on 0," Auriemma said. "Some of the best teams we have had were really good at running our stuff with no defense. We could do it for a half hour sometimes, that 2002 team, Rebecca's team, teams that have been around for a while, Maya her junior year. It is hard because you have to have an imagination because when you are playing 5 on 5 the guy guarding you is going to dictate what you are doing. But if there isn't a guy guarding you, you have a tendency to go catch it and throw a pass and you go 'you know you just hit the guy guarding you in the face with a pass. It makes every cut thy make, everything they do a lot to their imagination and that is kind of how basketball is, you see something that you might do right now. It is something I have always done with my teams and some teams are better at it than others."
When I got out there Bria Hartley was out there with reserves Kiah Stokes, Brianna Banks, Saniya Chong and Morgan Tuck. Three straight times Stokes hit a layup when Auriemma bellowed "so we're taking the easy way out? The same guy scores every time, that's taking the easy way out.'"
When Tuck hit a foul-line jumper on the next possession Auriemma applauded and then brought in the other four starters to replace the four reserves.
"It is easier to run offense when you are playing 5 on 5 than it is playing 5 on 0," Auriemma said. "Some of the best teams we have had were really good at running our stuff with no defense. We could do it for a half hour sometimes, that 2002 team, Rebecca's team, teams that have been around for a while, Maya her junior year. It is hard because you have to have an imagination because when you are playing 5 on 5 the guy guarding you is going to dictate what you are doing. But if there isn't a guy guarding you, you have a tendency to go catch it and throw a pass and you go 'you know you just hit the guy guarding you in the face with a pass. It makes every cut thy make, everything they do a lot to their imagination and that is kind of how basketball is, you see something that you might do right now. It is something I have always done with my teams and some teams are better at it than others."
