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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4270870, member: 3535"] Maybe what coco is trying to tell you is that you are never going to get it if you think it's Geno's job to make everyone better especially in the NCAA Tourney? His job is to win. As a fan you have favorite players and styles of play and can focus too much on those players and styles. As a result in this case you seemed to have glossed over other players. You didn't mention how Paige has gotten better with extra minutes, how Azzi has gotten better. How AE has gotten better. How CWill has gotten better. How Evina has played so well off the bench overall. How overall this year Liv has gotten better from her prior 3 years. UCONN just beat the number 3 team in the country. Some of the UCONN players had to get better for this to happen. And as a result, they achieved their team goal and aren't as interested in the minute allocation of every player goal than a fan might otherwise be. And they don’t get as better if you don’t play them a certain number of minutes. You are just haphazardly assuming giving the players you like more minutes will result in a victory. The point I made about Jada Boyd (the bench player) and NC State was that during regulation she was minus 4 in the plus-minus-minutes-stat. Well suppose they gave a few minutes to the starter instead? Maybe they win and UCONN loses, right? So why are you assuming that CD - a freshman - was going to shine when for example you see her blow to easy layups vs UCF? You knew she would automatically play well after that? Sure CW also missed some layups too but are you suggesting that freshmen in NCAA Tourney conditions will always play as well as they did during the reg, season? And if it is CD vs Azzi who do you feel is more reliable? If the answer is Azzi then why wouldn't you want more passing type of players to get the ball to Azzi? In regards to CW, another poster mentioned CWill also missed layups. But as we know if we are going to look at the past to justify the resume of CD in some manner, then CWill certainly has a much better resume if you look at last year, right? She performed vs much much better vs tougher competition, didn’t she? [B]If the goal is to make everyone better then why not play every player an equal amount of minutes? Anyhow, what Geno is telling you in a way is that it isn’t fair to Paige, Azzi and CWill for example that he is to take away minutes from those players that he feels are superior for the style he wants to coach. For example he is telling you that CWill is a better defender than CD. Maybe even a better passer. He is definitely telling you that Evina is a better passer. The question is—are you going "to listen" that the 11 time National Championship coach and 14 time consecutive Final Fours coach is having some trepidation that one of his freshmen doesn’t provide the passing and./or defense vs 4 year and 5 year seniors that helped the team go to the FF last year? Are you going “to listen” that if he feels he has superior players he will play them mega minutes (just as every championship wcbb does including Stanford from last year with their pg and Lexie Hull)? If you are wrong you shrug your shoulders and are sad as a fan if UCONN loses but plays the players you want. But if Geno makes the move you want and they lose and let’s say before FF then he let down every player and coach on his team. But he didn’t let them down if he is coaching to a style he nearly always coaches to and they win (ie Final Four.). [/B] [/QUOTE]

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