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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 3537973, member: 1673"] In this latest page of discussion I see the most persuasive arguments yet both for and against Harrington. My own bias is that, if the result in the tournament is the same, and good basketball is being played during the regular season, I rather see four year players being developed than transfers. However, I am fine with a transfer coming in if it makes a difference in the tournament. The only trouble is one cannot be sure when that makes a difference. In fact, I cannot now think of a year when we know a transfer made such a difference in our tournament results. Anyways, that is my bias, now for the logic of the situation. GoCardinal brings up a compelling argument in favor. The one thing Carrington might bring that we have been lacking is emotional leadership. Her rebounding? Covered by multiple guards. Her slashing? Covered by multiple guards ... if it fits into the system. Emotional leadership? That has not been covered for awhile. On the other hand, though oldhuskie was making an argument in favor of Carrington, he points out that "insurance" should not be a reason for bringing her in. She's more Stevens than Adebayo. She likely expects to be a major contributor wherever she goes and it would be a disservice to her to use her as insurance, regardless of how comforting that may be to the BY or coaching staff. Unless ... if her injury has lowered her expectation to be a major contributor, then she might be OK with a limited role. Yet we know Williams, Westbrook, Makurat and Bueckers all have reasonable expectations to be major contributors. It could be that Muhl would be reasonable to expect to be a major contributor as well. With six players having those expectations, and two of them transfers, even with a three guard line-up that is a likely recipe for bad team chemistry. No doubt being the emotional leader we have needed would more than compensate for that problem, but I would expect Bueckers to exert herself as the emotional leader as soon as possible. [/QUOTE]

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