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[QUOTE="SCGamecock, post: 4374420, member: 6132"]
[B][SIZE=13px]I explicitly did not talk about "talent" in the post because I wanted to focus on what happened that night.  Too many of these "talent" discussions  start off by talking about what the player was ranked in HS- Your prior post is certainly guilty of that.  The reality is that some HS players don't live up to their ranking and any player at this level can have a good or bad night. [/SIZE][/B]

..and this is fine and dandy, but my specific post was in reference to a poster commenting about SC having better talent than UConn. That’s simply not true. Perhaps one team rose to the occasion (twice) and the other didn’t, but if only one team’s talent came to play and the other’s didn’t.. then that would seem to be the fault of those players and those coaches. Geno gets credit when he gets elite players and they play at and beyond their level, so he also gets credit when those same players don’t play to their level. But if those same players don’t play to their level that still doesn’t negate the fact that UConn has/had talent on par with South Carolina. And some here would argue beyond.
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