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Message: [QUOTE="Javafan, post: 4597403, member: 11668"] (Contd) MY RECOMMENDATION: a) GAME ENERGY LEVEL No matter how great and valuable a player is, her energy level is [B]adversely proportionate[/B] to her playing time on court. I.e., the longer she plays the declining energy level will be as time go along. A chart can be drawn for "Energy level per person per ongoing play time". Let's say if we divided a normal game time of 40 minute into 4 time duration: 0-10 minute as A, 10-20 minute as B, 20-30 as C, and 30-40 as D. The energy level for a person in A will be higher than in B and gradually declining down for C and D. My point is: In any game, if the match is very close, the most critical time zone is zone D. The team with HIGHER energy level in zone D has a better chance to win. In general, if in each time zone we can have the collective Energy Level better than the opponent, that will be the ideal case. The most important time zone is zone D. It seems to me, Geno knows about this but never really [B]heeds it.[/B] If the "bench players" will never deem "ready" to put in the game, [B]why recruited them in the first place?[I] [/I][/B]They must have some thingS to offer for the team. If not, the coach and the coaching staff didn't really do their job to put them in "effective" use ! ! [B] [/B] [B] [/B] [I]I should stress here: I don't mean to DRASTICALLY change what geno's doing, just to put some thought to think about.[/I] b) Liberal substitutions of the [I]bench players* [/I]; Liberal substitutions [I]OUTSIDE OF THE SYSTEM [/I]; Liberal use of [I]TACTICS instead of STRATEGY.[/I] etc,etc,..... * Bench players in here means those players deemed not qualified to put in the ROTATION. To list the [I]Liberal Substitutions[/I] in here is to think and execute OUTSIDE of Geno's proven successful SYSTEM. For instance, Use some bench players to [B]INDUCE[/B] PERSONAL FOUL from opponent's key players. Train some of the bench players to do the trick during practice! Other example of liberal use is to deliberately execute the [B]QUASI-PICK-UP GAME( 3x3[/B] for instance) regardless of what position(G or F) she is usually assigned to or the substitution required the same position. Let the 5 players fight it out by their INSTINCT ! If the substitutions disrupt the SYSTEM, so be it, it's temporary anyway. c) [B]Offensive DEFENSE [/B] A lesson from the defeat to tUSO today is their brilliant OFFENSIVE DEFENSE. I was rather expecting Geno would do the same thing against them in 2nd half or at least the 4rd Qt. Alas, Huskies didn't do that, not wholehearthedly anyway. Geno quite often prides UConn's defense. NOT today, tOSU handcuffed us by their OFFENSIVE DEFENSE. Again, I don't mean to DRASTICALLY change what Geno's doing, just to put some thought to think about. [B]I honestly believe, with Geno's brilliant BB mind, he already knew long ago what my nothing-new thought here albeit NEVER [I]heeds [/I]it but to steadfastly execute his SYSTEM.[/B] I am DONE with NCAA T 2023. I don't care to watch the remaining games. I ONLY care to watch our beloved HUSKY LADIES play and win beautiful games ! ! ! [/QUOTE]

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