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Interesting article, and total BS. Morgan knows and Geno knows and we all know that there is absolutely nothing that Butler, Chong or Eckmark could do between now and the dance that is going to get their butts off the bench in anything from sweet sixteen on. Collier, maybe, but prolly not. That just ain't the way Geno runs his tournament games. Never was, never will be. As Cubs fans are fond of saying, "wait til next year".
Interesting article, and total BS. Morgan knows and Geno knows and we all know that there is absolutely nothing that Butler, Chong or Eckmark could do between now and the dance that is going to get their butts off the bench in anything from sweet sixteen on. Collier, maybe, but prolly not. That just ain't the way Geno runs his tournament games. Never was, never will be. As Cubs fans are fond of saying, "wait til next year".
From the article:
What happened at Friday's practice at the Werth Champions Center was something they would have liked to avoid.
Collier and Samuelson along with sophomores Courtney Ekmark and Natalie Butler took the floor for a defensive drill against the Huskies' practice players. The four were out there for five minutes. Then it was 10, 15 minutes. Finally after close to 20 minutes, UConn coach Geno Auriemma had seen enough.
"They generally take forever to get something right," Auriemma said. "k.
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I don't know whether that statement was meant to be rhetorical or not, but as a factual statement about UConn's Final Four history, it falls a bit short. The most obvious exception is 2000, when three bench players (Kennitra Johnson, Tamika Williams, and Asjha Jones) all got at least 18 minutes in the National SemiFinal against Penn State, and those three got 14, 23, and 22 minutes in the Final against Tennessee. In 2001, when UConn lost to Notre Dame in the National SemiFInal, Johnson and Williams got 20+ minutes coming off the bench, and Maria Conlon got 9 minutes. In 2002, a team rather similar to 2016, Jessica Moore and Conlon got double-digit minutes in the SemiFinal, and Moore got 11 minutes in the contested Final against Oklahoma.Interesting article, and total BS. ... That just ain't the way Geno runs his tournament games. Never was, never will be. As Cubs fans are fond of saying, "wait til next year".
or that Bria Hartley was a bench player on the 2013 championship team (behind Caroline Doty).
I disagree. I look back and see Kaili McLaren, who was anything BUT a starter, playing significant minutes in a National Championship game. Not digging on Meat, who I think may have had the best court vision of any player we have put on the court (yes, better than Bird, rivaling Taurasi), just one point with many others to back it up, if you watch the games.Interesting article, and total BS. Morgan knows and Geno knows and we all know that there is absolutely nothing that Butler, Chong or Eckmark could do between now and the dance that is going to get their butts off the bench in anything from sweet sixteen on. Collier, maybe, but prolly not. That just ain't the way Geno runs his tournament games. Never was, never will be. As Cubs fans are fond of saying, "wait til next year".
They are but the team is playing to be #1 when the season closes.I thought Uconns bench was a top 25 team?