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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4286878, member: 3535"] It is a false narrative. You can't just ignore they were hurt. And you are using stats of 5.7 as if it is some hard number as if Dorka was only going to see 19.8 minutes in a game like this? Geno put in DeBerry for God's sakes! :):) And look at last year- Geno used Liv, Edwards, and Griffin at the same time against them for a short time but this UCONN frontline was better than last year, wasn’t it? C'mon-- you can't be throwing this 5.7 rebound stuff and pretend it has an iota of meaning. But okay- if you want to pretend – then let’s dive more into the weeds:[B] If you are using averages then why not assume first off that Dorka would have played more than the 19.8 minutes (she averaged during the season), which means more rebounds for her than the 5.7, right? In addition, why not assume that Liv would have gotten more minutes than the 23 (which was less than her season average by the way) because there was a less of a chance that she would have been in foul trouble as early as she was, right? And why not assume that her injury also contributed to not as many rebounds and possibly more fouls? If you disregarded her injury, which it seems you are, because you make no mention of it, you might as well say any injury should never affect any player. Is that what you’re saying? Or are we only hard on UCONN? And why not assume as they did vs SC last year that they might have done the same this year by playing Liv, AE, and Dorka together for a time? Heck, he was desperate enough to put in DeBerry, so he wouldn’t have used Dorka and Liv more in this game that demanded size and rebounding? And if you agree with any of these things then you also have to assume that some of the defensive rebounds they get and maybe even a few ORebs (granted it wouldn't be much ORebs) are numbers that you have to take away from the SC stat sheet that you are currently quoting while adding the number to the UCONN totals, right?[/B] Yet you've just decided to exclude every bit of the bold above and just look at the 5.7 rebounds? And you are trying to say you aren't pushing a false narrative? So, you seem to be suggesting that injuries don’t count if true? . Size doesn’t count? Experience doesn’t count? And the coach (despite being desperate enough to bring in DeBerry, and last year use his 3 bigs for a time vs SC) would have sit idly by watching his team get destroyed on the glass despite the combined factors of experience and size would’ve helped while being hampered by injury??? If you disregard all this, how can you possibly suggest any stat you are using isn’t creating a false narrative? [/QUOTE]

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