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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4771641, member: 3535"] Some fans express a point that regular season doesn't matter it's all about March. DO we really think Geno, and the Staff, and all the players, and how they talk about having the toughest schedule as a pride thing for a reason, and want to be on TV which also shows off to the H/S recruits but most importantly the nation and your family what UCONN "is," that big games vs the elite teams are big? - But he and everyone is okay to lose if he can prevent it? To a small degree- certainly. But 10 players? Overall he is going to play his 10th player important minutes when he could have had his best player and/or the 5th and 6th and 7th player’s stretch a few more minutes- he is going to deny that just for the reason of "March?" There is a reason why the 5th, 6th,a n 7th players are that higher on the depth chart vs the 10th player. Because they are better. And at the same time when Geno goes into the locker-room and always demanding the best of his players- he doesn't play Paige or Azzi or Caroline as much as he could have - and he is going to look them in the eye after a loss with knowledge that he did his best? I doubt it - big time. I believe there was a comment made a time after one of the games Azzi's frosh year- the team was decimated by injuries and they lost- which was expected - and she said something like her and her teammates were balling in in the locker-room. She said they felt like they were the worst team in UCONN history. But these players have grown up through ranks of Grammar school and High School and come to the pinnacle of WCBB - play on Nat'l TV - so excited -knowing nothing but winning a ton and they came to UCONN to do the same - and the entire team is going to be happy and the coaching staff proud that at least they stayed close and the game was close???? Once these players are deemed "healthy," I highly doubt Geno is going to take the chance of sacrificing games just for March when in fact you can't guarantee fi fully healthy you'll even get to the Final Four in March with the way the tourney of one-and-done is set up. IMO the jaded UCONN fan that thinks title-or-nothing and is okay with losses- but I don’t; believe for a second coaches and players and university and all they've built to represent what is UCONN - won’t go all to win once determined certain players are healthy. If you are a UCONN fan- and you love basketball especially UCONN WBB-- you don't; care if UCONN loses to South Carolina again? Or loses to Notre Dame again? I know the comment could be "not if . . ." But "what if . . ." the Doctors and the players all say Paige and Azzi and Carolien are 100% healthy? UCONN should trust the game to a 10th player instead of the? Let's not play Edwards and extra two minutes because Amari might block a shot? [/QUOTE]

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