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Message: [QUOTE="NycUcWbbFan, post: 5286092, member: 13453"] For what follows, it is helpful (at least to me) to think: [LIST] [*](a) this year is hopefully the last runoff year of the effects of the biblical injury plague; [*](b) there is a final-four/elite eight level rotation which affects around [URL='https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/connecticut/women/2025-schedule.html']15% of UConn’s schedule[/URL]; [*](c) outside of (b), it is a larger rotation during competitive minutes of games which UConn is expected to win; I think we may have plausibly a (5)+6 rotation in this category. [/LIST] The injury runoff affected (c) rotation players this year: Ice, Jana, Aubrey, Azzi which is a big part of the reason why UConn’s team peak postseason form didn’t emerge until after the TN game. [LIST] [*]the injury plague has directly affected Ice and Jana’s development and in the case of Ice, her offense at the (4), since she has had to play out of position for her collegiate career thus far. [/LIST] Next year, Providence-willing, is a normal year in Geno’s newish-oldish MO, where because he has more rigorous practices with a healthy full roster, he is expected to have developed a super-majority of his roster for his rotation; [LIST] [*]a full roster implies an evenly distributed 4-4-4-3 (or some combination) yearly classes, where each class is a core nucleus in their senior year at the latest; [*]a yearly (5)+2 / (5)+3 rotation for most games implies that a large portion of even the senior or junior classes are not rotation-worthy which is long-term untenable with having a full roster; [*]having a larger rotation in most games — larger than Geno and CD utilized in prior seasons when he didn’t have top-down quality in a full roster — in a 40-minute fast-pace mix-match play is just a natural (necessary and sufficient) consequence of having a sustainable full quality roster. [/LIST] I also would consider a player part of a rotation if she appears in the competitive minutes of games. And not whether she has played a minimum of x minutes over a season. [/QUOTE]

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