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Message: [QUOTE="Cuango, post: 4212216, member: 3834"] There’s not a single poster on this site/board who thinks Piath and/or DeBerry are not players! When they hardly ever get on court, they are often left out when someone is talking about prospective lineups etc for brevity’s sake. Now you may think that is wrong/insensitive/hurtful but suggesting that other posters don’t consider them players is imo, a bit over the top. As for Saylor and Mir, I think Saylor would have been a solid contributor by her junior year for sure, but obviously did not want to wait that long and/or was not particularly happy here. She seems to have landed on her feet in Arkansas where I hope she will have a great career. Mir, on the other hand was handicapped by her lack of an outside shot and Imo was more questionable as far as becoming a contributor here at UConn. She also seems to have landed in a better place for her talents. The transfer portal, while bringing its own issues, is overall Imo probably a good thing, though it obviously has a negative side as well. The Syracuse situation, I believe, will be relatively rare. An exodus like that will only happen when there is serious wrongdoing or complete incompetence! There is a flip side as well, as it allows almost instantaneous improvement for a struggling team. One year you are undersized with no floor general, the next you have a solid, sometimes experienced post and a competent point guard. I guess we’ll see in the coming years whether the overall effect is good or bad. You keep saying things are changing and Geno must change to keep up, yet we are currently on a streak of 13 straight Final Fours. I too would like to see more and earlier integration of our younger players but I think Geno will continue to win whether he changes or not. I think he has many reasons for what he does beyond whether they make basketball mistakes. For him game minutes are not allocated based simply on the player’s on court performance but rather a combination of performance, attitude, effort, and other intangibles that he sees as essential to becoming a well-rounded player/person. If that is true, and I believe it is, who’s to say if relaxing those requirements/standards might not blow up his whole system and lose what has made UConn the envy of women’s basketball for the past 30 years? I think I’ll just support him til he’s done! [/QUOTE]

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