If you recall...in part of the first half and a good part of the second the Maryland PG was driving down the lane and either getting to the rim with good results or dumping it off to their big guy at the front of the rim for an easy score. They did that repeatedly.........we couldn't stop them. As good as Joe T was in last night's game, he couldn't stop their PG.
In the second half when Connor came in with the other subs.....they put a stop to that, AND the other overloads that Maryland was using. Earlier in the game when Fran was shouting from the sidelines our guys weren't responding or weren't getting it. When Connor was on the floor he was telling/pointing the other players to where they needed to be and he himself was moving to help stop Maryland's offensive efforts....sometime in that frame we pushed the lead out to 10 and Maryland had a stretch where they didn't score. This is essentially where we took control of and won the game.
I think that's type of thing that Hooper is referring to...and probably more that he understands that I don't have the knowledge base for.