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Message: [QUOTE="sun, post: 4180192, member: 11664"] UConn basically has enough players to field 2 complete teams. Before the season is out, I'd like to see the "2nd team" play a quarter against a weaker Big East team to see if they can maintain a lead. That would help allow the bigs including AE to be evaluated. If they can't perform adequately against a weak team then how they can be expected to replace a starter if a starter goes down in a big game. And the evaluation would allow for some serious follow up coaching by Jamelle. And that's also how UConn can try out another player at PG, to see who can best play the position if Nika goes down. When the bigs played during the Butler game, my impression was they weren't playing seriously and giving it their best effort. They were being allowed to take some wild shots. I think that they should enter the game and seriously try to play their best. Piath did to some extent, but the rest of the team didn't seem to be taking it very seriously. It seemed that to some extent, they were being allowed to enter the game just for the sake of playing. AD was taking ill advised shots that weren't characteristic of a serious level of play. That's not what evaluating a rookie's skills is about. [/QUOTE]