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Message: [QUOTE="cohenzone, post: 2563016, member: 504"] I was kidding, kind of. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that if a freshmen gets playing time based on practice, that a tweak during the game as opposed to benching doesn’t seem a crazy possibility. Lots of ways to build confidence. Obviously his record speaks for itself. On the other hand,well past halfway into this season, he only plays one sophomore regularly and one freshman with widely varying significant time, and a transfer by a fairly promising freshman. The two kids benched yesterday were hs AAs and, granting Geno wants kids to play the way he wants, the point about relaxed unheralded freshmen is only that our kids do have talent, but they might be trying too hard to do what he wants. Most of his star players who he has said take a long time to figure out his system did get a lot of time on the floor their first year. From this year we lose two All American type players and maybe Stevens. This year’s freshman class teaches us that we have no idea if the newcomers next year will fit in early nor do we know if this year’s struggling freshmen will make a big sophomore leap. I hope they all stick with us. This year certainly looks good, but last year Crystal got a good bit more floor time than any of this year’s freshman. One test of his comfort level with players in non-garbage time is Kyla. She looks like she knows what she’s doing. Not star quality, but someone who might be able to rest a starter for a few minutes here and there without blowing a 15-20 first half lead. [/QUOTE]

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