HARTFORD – Silas Demary Jr. got his first introduction to the Dan Hurley in-season experience this week.

Hurley likes to use visual aids to hammer his point across. So, in addition to a film session that took multiple days “because there was so much footage of bad from New Haven ,” he says, he ordered posters to be hung throughout UConn’s practice facility depicting instances where players didn’t help each other on defense in the season opener.

Everybody was at fault, including Demary, the junior point guard who transferred from Georgia to save the Huskies from some of the issues that came back to haunt them from last season. Hurley analyzed him honestly in the postgame, calling him out for some “really bad individual defensive possessions.”

“The coaching staff coached me last ye

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