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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 3424677, member: 7492"] So let me see if I understand this-We are 19-2 with those losses being to the top 2 teams coming into the year with 1 Senior, 1 Junior as our top returning players, plus 2 promising sophomores and we are ready to admit failure? I despise revisionist history so please everyone go to Wikipedia and look at the Bird/DT years, the Maya years and Stewie's freshman year to see close games, losses and struggles. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Will this team make a final four? Who knows for sure but we are certainly in the mix. Points of clarity for some-De'Janae Boykin was 6'2, not especially a post player who also has not shined particularly well at Penn State or WVU and would not have solved our "big" issue. Moriah is not a generational player like Maya. If she was/is so good, she would be on the National team who needs a backup point guard. She had the great benefit of playing with Breanna Stewart. It's GENO not Gino (please [USER=1220]@willtalk[/USER] you're too good and knowledgeable of a fan to make such a gaff). Recruiting the last 6 years- [LIST] [*]Chong was a single recruit due to no room on the roster, [*]Boykin was never a fit at UConn, playing time was not the reason she transferred. [*]We lost out on Cox as our focus with Crystal Dangerfield. No one else was being considered as I recall. We had Azura at the point as well so maybe we needed to overrecruit but that's not Geno's/CD's style. [*]Meg's class had an immature AEH, a nice kid but slow Lexi who was at best an above average 3 pt shooter and a shot challenged Mikayla. None would have really helped us as we currently are configured. To say different is not logical. [*]We lost Charlie Collier after having her. That one hurt. [*]So did losing Boston and Amihere. [*]Next year we have Edwards and Piath coming in. Edwards is clearly a strong and talented big coming off the bench player. Piath will be a work in progress but if she works hard, who knows. [/LIST] Can Liv make the Junior jump that Meg did? Can Christyn find her shooting touch and driving "savoir faire" the rest of this season or over the summer? Can Aubrey get comfortable with our offense and a mid-range jumper? Those are the fare questions to ask that will make us Elite and clear cut to contend. That said, we can still contend this year, just gotta believe...:) Other than that "Serenity Now, serenity now" [/QUOTE]

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