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Message: [QUOTE="Phil, post: 2431741, member: 66"] I do. Anyone who has followed UConn basketball for any length of time knows that one of the keys to the success of the Geno/CD/Shea/Marisa crew is the ability to understand that it is a team game. Yes, they are excellent at development of individual players – few better, but they didn't get to where they are today by developing five great one-on-one players. They teach help defense, so players can defend aggressively, knowing that there is some help behind them if they get beat. They learn how to double selectively, and for very short periods of time, so the opposition thinks that multiple players are being double-teamed. On offense, the motion offense is not intended to get any one specific player open, but to run the opposition ragged until one player, it doesn't matter which one, gets an open shot. These techniques are successful, and help explain why we are always among the leaders in both offense and defense, but as fans, it may be hard to tease out exactly what led to that open shot, or why the opposition settled for a contested shot. As fans, we want to talk about our team, and there's only so much you can say about team offense and team defense without repeating yourself, so we do want to talk about individual players, and there's nothing wrong with that. Canada is the face of UCLA, and when you add in her penchant for razzle-dazzle, it is inevitable that we will want to discuss her performance. It is only natural that we would also be interested in how her counterpart on our team does. Yes, there would be a problem if we talked only about one-on-one matchups, but we don't. I don't see a problems with discussing those matchups, and long as we recognize (and I think we do) that there's more to the game than the sum of 5 one-on-one matchups. [/QUOTE]

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