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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 2931691, member: 1131"] I don't think either Tina or Geno would agree with you about that. Her freshman year ended with her being embarrassed by Sylvia Fowles in the Elite Eight, where UConn lost by about 20 points to an LSU team that they had beaten by one point in Baton Rouge about six weeks earlier. It wasn't until Tina's junior year that she got a grasp of how hard she had to work not to cheat her talent. I remember (even after Tina's freshman year) when Geno made unfavorable public comparisons between her and Maya and Renee, saying that he had a wing and a point guard he could count on, but not a post player. I think Tina is actually the prototype example of SLOW development of a post player. Stef had less talent, but got to a 90% usage level in her freshman year. I don't think Tina got to that level during her entire time at UConn. I remember another Geno line where he talked about Carl Sagan (astronomer) discussing how light from events in distant galaxies takes millions of years to reach the earth so that we know about them. He predicted that when Tina was married with children, she would finally get the message that Geno was trying to impart to her. Fortunately, it didn't take quite that long. I do agree with you about Tiffany Hayes having an excellent freshman year. [/QUOTE]