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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 2749454, member: 6620"] - MM has acknowledged that having to go with so few players last season was a challenge. She simply had to keep them in, fouls and mistakes regardless. As such, she was coaching from a "half-full" approach, rather than a "half-empty, take a seat for awhile" tact. I personally liked it and find that favors an upper classmen-laden team, like the Irish will be this year. Players don't have to look over their shoulder to see if a mishap will result in a substitution. They can learn from it and move on. (MM did and will always "have a chat" over defensive efforts or lack thereof.) Will she keep that approach? That will be an interesting take. - Still, she's got to work in returning players (Patterson, Vaughn) and the frosh (Cosgrove, Prohaska, Gilbert and most noticeably, the point guard Nixon), not just for this year, but for next when only Young returns from the starters. - I'll be really interested in how much else Geno puts on KLS, given how well she excels at what she's doing. - As for those pick and rolls and two-person games with KLS and Pheesa, I think that'll work against some teams, but not others. The December game will be interesting in that respect. [/QUOTE]