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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4769281, member: 3535"] :) IMO your entire post is nothing more than more excuses for Amari in which nothing you said is based in fact but in a Christmas Wiah you want to see because you want see bench play. HE plays her. You just choose to ignore the games she plays in Blowouts - apparently you hold no value in that. Along with it seems apparentthat you hold no value in Practices. If you did hold value in these things then you wouldn’t be saying Geno isn't playing her in the context that you are. Adn yes she a relief pitcher. It's why many relief pitchers 1st start out pitching in blowouts. And to suggest as you seem to/want to do is ignore buidling up in practices in the off days for rleeif pitchers along with learnign to pitch while playing in blowouts has little-to-no reality. To further this. it seems that if a bullpen's top relief pitcher loses many games while Amara has shown she can't even handle the Big East, to exclude her from criticism imo is over-the-top. So why exclude her form losses. I only palyed H/S ball. If there was a game our team ls to even my H/s coach would crsuh any bench palyer hwo felt they weren;t accountable in some manner. Yoru view imo is more of compuer game. Also, being taller doesn't mean being better. If it did, the tallest teams would always win. When your criticize the staff without substance it’s a hollow criticism. It's apparent in your very 1st statement that the team is better with her than without her. While later you complain she isn't playing. SO how does your statement have any meaning other than you making it up all because you vastly overrate bench play? If she plays finesse but there are player superior to her that paly finesse then how does it make even an iota of sense to not play the superior finesse players? -- Yet again you throw out the caveat [B]"as long as she does what she has been instructed to do." Then you follow up with comment having nothing to do with being instructed to do what to do and say "You think she'll be just fine>' [/B] That's comforting to you but not to me. I don't believe for one second that Amari is doing what she has bene instructed to do. If she was, she would be playing. For you to make an implied excuse that she probably is (which is why in part you criticize the coach unfairly) imo is another example of being over-the-top. And again there remains an underlying implied myth here that just because she is tall and you give her minutes she will be a terrific scorer. And that is also completely ignoring her defense assuming size can cover anything. Again – the tallest teams don’t always win. That’s not the object of basketball and it is just made up if anyone thinks that. :) [/QUOTE]

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