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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4276758, member: 1131"] I don't think BostonCanuck is giving Geno (or any top-level coach) credit for tailoring his offense to suit the talents of his team, rather than being doctrinaire about doing things "his way" regardless of who is on his roster. How could Geno possibly have played a post-dominant offense with the roster he had this year? Or, really, any year since Tina Charles graduated? Stewie was not that kind of a player, and he didn't use her that way. It would have been a shame (and a waste of talent) if he had tried to use Stewie as if she were Tina Charles II or Aaliyah Boston. You mention Notre Dame in 2018-19. Muffet certainly tuned her offense (which isn't basically very different from UConn's) to feature the talents of Arike Ogunbuwale. Christyn was supposed to be a player in the same mold as Arike, but it hasn't quite worked out that way. Do you really think that if Geno had Arike, he wouldn't have used her in the same way that Muffet did? Stanford also runs a very similar offense to UConn's, and they have done OK, including an NC last year and the Final Four this year. But Brink does not dominate their offense, nor does Haley Jones. It's a share-the-ball, read-and-react system very similar to Geno's. Also, I don't think Aliyah Boston's college choice had anything at all to do with offensive systems. It was a much deeper, personal connection between her and Dawn, transcending basketball. And why do you think Paige chose UConn? I think that had everything to do with the fact that she liked how UConn played basketball when she watched them on TV, sharing the ball with no one being selfish. I think the same thing appealed to Caroline Ducharme. I think the real difference between Geno / Muffet / Tara and many other coaches is that those three, in particular, are indisposed to one-on-one play and emphasize unselfish team play. That may lose them some recruits (not including Boston) but gains them just as many who are just as talented. WNBA offenses are more like what I think BostonCanuck prefers -- a "star system" focused around maximizing the individual talents of superstar players (like the NBA). That makes more sense when the density of stars is so high, but even so, players from UConn / ND / Stanford do very well in the W and make the adjustment, more so than players from many other schools. Besides A'ja Wilson, who has South Carolina graduated that has made a big impact in the WNBA? [/QUOTE]

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