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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4285248, member: 3535"] It's (Geno’s philosophy) cultivating a culture to win. That's the winning culture. As I stated in my last paragraph- when is it that you know that “you don’t have it” a certain position? This current Geno culture on the other hand allows him to get "Paige Bueckers." With Paige Bueckers and those top number 1 recruits, he gets- you can cultivate them to get you farther along than you can with posts that need to brought up with clay. Last year his 3 players in the paint were Liv and Griffin and Edwards. Liv and Griffin would need so much cultivation that Geno would have had to sacrifice wins and getting past Baylor to get them to have anything near an impact which is highly doubtful anyway. Just because a player puts on a UCONN jersey doesn't turn her into Wonder Woman. Not all players progress enough. . And with Edwards she was the number 23 ranked recruit. (It seems many of us have concerns with DeBerry, Brady and Patterson and yet all 3 were more highly rated than Edwards so what can you reasonably expect from a frosh?) SO there was a good chance AE was flawed at some spots. She didn't get much time at all for the Canadian team to boot because there are flaws. As a frosh if you cultivate her more it probably meant you were giving less time or less offensive runs doing what the team does best- and that is have your guards - who were former number 1 recruits’ score. IMO that's what good coaching does- it plays to a strength to get as much wins as the coach can while working to make the other positions “good enough” until they show more. IMO this year they showed a lot considering the injuries. I was very impressed with Ae the last month or so. Which is why you had for example the Indiana coach speak how physical UCONN was. That’s progression and cultivation. [/QUOTE]

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