Pitino: How to get Harrell going on offense

Earlier this week, we reviewed Louisville forward Montrezl Harrell's frustrating game against Duke and discovered a few things.

He posted up once in 38 minutes. He got the ball three times along the baseline and once at the elbow. And overall, the 6-foot-8 All-American had just six paint touches in Louisville's 63-52 loss to Duke.

Rick Pitino explained after the game that his star forward -- and the team's second-leading scorer -- simply has to post up more. On Wednesday, he expanded on the topic a bit more on his radio show.

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He was asked for his thoughts on Harrell's response to a question asking how he can get his offensive mojo back. Harrell said that finding the answer wasn't his job, and that it was Pitino's job.

(And full disclosure: An ESPN 680 producer asked Harrell the question, not a writer as Pitino suggests below.)

"Any time you lose, a writer will go up to a player and say, 'You're not playing as well. You didn't get the ball a whole lot,'" Pitino said. "Well, he needed to post up more to get the ball ... Montrezl Harrell, we want to play like Kenneth Faried. We don't want him playing like Kevin Durant. We want him blocking shots, grabbing rebounds, scoring points on the offensive glass, scoring points on 16-foot jump shots, out-running people on the break, posting up."

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Pitino later said that Harrell's offense is built around offensive rebounding, getting out in transition and then finding a gap in the defense after a guard drives.

But UNC's Brice Johnson provided an interesting scouting report on Harrell, and it suggests that, going forward, teams will defend Louisville's best big man in similar fashion to UNC and Duke, two teams that held Harrell to nine and 10 points, respectively.