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Message: [QUOTE="sharris952, post: 2382529, member: 7956"] While I appreciate your support, I stand by my arguments. One, when you have immense talent, it makes your coaching and schemes work much better. I coached women's basketball for years and have a frame of reference for this type of phenomenon not saying that you do not. Brianna Stewart is a transcendent talent, and easily helps players to become better around her. She was a huge factor in those 112 or so wins as Geno has stated himself. Also we remember that Maya and also Diana Taurasi were those type talents. Now I grant you that Geno is a Picasso of a coach with a keen sense of psychology and coaching ability to win some years without those type players, but without them he is vulnerable to some other top teams which is how they lost to Miss. St. While SC has not beat them, other than their first meeting, they have played UConn to multiple 10-12 pt games, with SC holding UConn to its lowest point total in those years when they have been blowing out almost everyone else by 20-30pts. Last year's UConn team did not have that transcendent type talent so a neutral court loss to a few teams with like talent was not out of the question no matter how much UConn fans may have believed so. I know as a coach that when you have a winning tradition, some lesser players can over perform while trying to uphold the standard. I thought this was going on in many of UConn's close games last year. Katie Lou was supposed to be the star, but she was fading fast towards the end of the season. That left UConn vulnerable and they eventually paid for it. SC was one of the teams that led UConn 4th qtr, this year, (bad offense, coaching et al, as you all claim) so I am sure, Dawn, Kim M. and obviously V. Schaeffer (60pt. loss) wanted another crack at them. Nothing last forever, therefore UConn may have won those rematches or they may have lost. We will never know, now because they did not get past Miss.St. Kaela Davis was and remains a poor shooter @GT, @SC & [USER=6898]@Wings[/USER]. @SC Dawn was able to get Davis to play remarkable defense in stretches=Damn good coaching! Victoria Vivians is also poor shooter if and when Vic gets Vivians to play the kind of defense that Dawn got Davis to play we can renew the conversation. The UCONN game last year was SC 23rd game of the season. Any player having trouble adjusting to a new role after 22 games is probably never going to get it. Allisha Gray needed no adjustment time @SC and she was well prepared for NCAA tournament and the WNBA. But y’all never get the Dawn detractors to admit that Dawn might have had a lil’ something to do with that. [/QUOTE]

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