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Message: [QUOTE="visitingcock, post: 3721037, member: 6872"] Addressing your last paragraph: (1) three games can be critical to a season; (2) a quality backup can provide rest periods before the critical last 5 minutes against a quality opponent (3) there is the "practice factor." It help development of skills and tenacity if you are practicing every day against someone whose talent is on/near yours. I think this practice factor has always helped UConn in its periods of dominance. The starters practiced against players who would/could start for other contender teams. Probably 95%+ of the time, the starters were facing a practice player who was better than the game opponent they were goin to face that week [/QUOTE]