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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4122492, member: 3535"] Huh? Rubber hits the road? The road’s been torn up by Geno. And even last year, didn’t the rubber hit the road vs South Carolina and vs Baylor? Secondly, as you are questioning about the bench; you can claim after nearly any close loss that you could at least point to 1 bench player (or 1 starter that was off) that didn’t pick up enough when that starter was out. We can use that excuse all day. So the question I would like to ask you is how do you know it’s the bench that is the problem and not the quality of the starter(s)? For example, some UCONN teams have won ttiles with 7/8 player benches. How many do you think would’ve scored 3 points in a quarter? Further, if I were to look at the history of UCONN’s titles, excluding the two DT years of her junior and senior year, you could argue that the quality of the best 5 players on the title teams were either 4-1 or 5-0 superior than any of the past 3 teams, couldn’t you? It’s there for us to see. So why assume it’s the bench that’s the problem and not the starters? Third, you mention about needing a breather. Sure some players do. But in that close game that doesn’t mean there can’t be a starter or 2 that plays 40 or very near it, right? For all the talk of Stanford having a super bench Williams played 40 in back-to-back FF and Finals games. The prior year Baylor had 2 players play 40 in the title game. The prior year ND only played 6 players (talk about no bench), and they had 2 starters play 39 minutes in the title game. So these are title teams that do paly starters near 40 minutes if not all, right?. We can’t just ignore that, right? Are we suggesting Paige Buckers isn’t good enough to play 40 while other title teams have proven that 40 minutes is okay for some of their players? [/QUOTE]

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