when the number one player high school player in the country can barely see the floor that's worth talking about..Geno treated her like a puppet on a string.....the minute she made a mistake she was pulled with no idea when she would get back in a game...from my perspective it led to an up and down season for a player that could have been so much more helpful to the team in a game like last night......I'm sure I could find many freshmen that played in meaningful games for their teams who learned a lot and are ready to go next season.....if I were Walker I simply wouldn't know what to think about the future at UConn......
Yes MW would have played and accomplished a lot more at most other schools. But this is not some other school, it's U Conn and it's not some other coach, it's Geno.
What drives me nuts here is everyone loves and wants the excellence, the culture, everything that thirty plus years of success brings but then they want Geno, CD and the other coaches to essentially pamper or make special rules and exceptions for certain players. You either get one or you get the other. It is or should be damn clear that you follow the rules, expectations, efforts or you don't play. If you can't then this isn't the place for you to thrive.
Yes, anyone can be critiqued and criticized, and should be but this issue which I hear over and over and over again about MW and occasional other players, just doesn't make sense.
Geno I feel got out coached in both the last two semifinals and actually may well have cost his team the game. Especially regarding staying so long with CD and the smaller lineup when it was as clear as day, that AZ and the zone was what brought them back into the game and then an 11 point lead which became 7 at half time. He also doesn't seem to have his teams well prepared for overtime games as the record is so darn stark.
I won't now go on and on, but the MW talk (which I'm sure won't stop) and how he hampered her development is not anywhere near the major problem.
Again, this was a great team and season and for the second year in a row they lost to a team almost everyone thought they should beat. Some of course is in the players but the head of the ship , sure gets much of the credit and then deserved much of the blame. And yes, ND deserves a huge amount of credit for there following MM's game plan and even after losing two five point leads in regulation and in overtime still did what they needed to do. The credit for that goes to MM and the players.
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