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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 4478246, member: 9844"] I think some of the reactions to Caroline including mine, were based on the limited information that was provided regarding her surgery. If for example the normal recovery from this type of injury would take well into the season before getting close to normal, and that was indicated at the time, then many of us would not be disappointed at where she is now. But that kind of information was lacking, and for myself, I fully expected Caroline to be substantially better than last year by the first game this season. That was based on little indication the timeline for recovery went into the season, a surgery that didn't seem to be major, and the realization that I didn't know that Caroline was playing with a hip problem last year. Of course, none of us know the true health details with Caroline or any other Uconn player for that matter. The team and players keep that internal which is their right, but that also means that fans can get the wrong impression, and sometimes unintended criticism of that player can be the result. Maybe the surgery wasn't as successful as anticipated, I don't know, but the lack of information or periodic realistic updates along the way allows expectations to get pretty far away from reality. If a player feels she has to defend herself by revealing the health issues that are affecting her play, and set more realistic expectations such as "I still have a long way to go" then it seems to me the policy of keeping the public in the dark had an adverse effect in this case, if indeed this rate of progress was expected all along. [/QUOTE]

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