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Message: [QUOTE="Tonyc, post: 4531128, member: 73"] I gotta ask myself how does UConn continue to go on winning when being tired, overworked, not to many breaks, exhaustion, injuries and plain out running on fumes. I know Ive been exhausted at times and tried to continue to play a sport and at some point it just doesnt happen like it used to happen. Listening to Coach Megan Duffy remarks last nite about how they watched the UConn SC game and saw how physical SC played UConn makes me wonder if that didnt add to UConns play last nite. I think it did because I dont think it helped. When your tired and you get beat up well I guess you can understand what kind of condition your in when you go to play the next game. Its been a tuff 2 seasons. Injuries have had its toll on UConn. UConn has overachieved. Lets face it. Playing 5 players for as long as we have may have caught up with us. We have looked like a NC team and there are game where our physical and mental tuffness have caught up with us. We're tired, exhausted at times and mentally drained. Add to that the physical play and its like getting beat up when your tired. I think tonite it caught up with us. Marquette played their game well and we had our chances and didnt cash it. We appeared to not have the energy and this isnt the first game we looked that way. The longivtivity of our records have been broken but the heart of team has not. This is no longer about the records which at some point would have to fall the rest of this season is about getting healthy and bouncing back. We've been bouncing back all season. Now we need to get our legs back, our minds clear and our injured healthy. We have shown resilience, guts, fight, determination but the time comes when you body and brain tell you they need a rest and we havent been able to get the proper rest we need. Without rest and its just a matter of time before things dont go the way they used to. I hope we can regroup because Georgetown Creighton and Nova will be a fight and the BE tournament follows. We have gone a long time without key injuries. It caught up with us. We've had an unbelievable run. Now we have to be concerned about our injuries and more importantly we need a rest. We have 7 games left and not alot of time to rest. Caroline seems to be almost ready to come back. Azzi is not far off. Two freak contact plays put them on the bench a few weeks ago. Will that happen again in a physical game? If it does what does that mean for UConn. With what we've been through and what we've been able to accomplish is truly amazing over the past 2 seasons. It aint over yet. We need to get healthy and stay healthy and we dont know how long that will take and we dont know with the tuff luck we've had if that time limit is a few weeks or a few months. As much as we thought our tuff luck with injuries was over it aint over. We still have to be concerned about how serious the injuries are and can we get heathy and stay healthy. We've been talking about next season. Next season could be unbelievable if we're healthy. We have 3 AAs recovering from some tuff injuries. We have an AA bench this season. When will they be able to play healthy again? Folks we have to love what this team has done, and understand they need our support and encouragement. We are fortunate as fans to witness what this group has accomplished. They are warriors who just dont quit. They are winners in every sense. They have done all they can do and all they have been able to do is enough. [/QUOTE]

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