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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 2519663, member: 1131"] It's relatively rare for me even to read a full post by hoophuskee, and even rarer for me to agree with it. But your original post earlier in this thread is one that I can definitely endorse. There is a big difference between mental errors (which are controllable) and physical errors (which usually aren't). Missing an assignment is a mental error; getting beat by a fast player with the ball is a physical error (or maybe just a physical limitation). In major league baseball, managers used to be able (maybe they still are) to fine players for major lapses, and the basic expectation was that fines would be imposed only for mental errors. If a second baseman drops the toss from the shortstop and ruins a double play, that doesn't generate a fine. If he forgets to cover second base (or if a pitcher fails to cover first base on a grounder to the right side of the infield), that is a mental error that might generate a fine. Geno can't fine his players, so instead he yells at them and often calls them out in public. I'm not always comfortable with the fact that those conversations aren't kept private, but that is his way and everyone knows it, including (I'm sure) Azura even before she came to Storrs. I think in this case she would acknowledge that she made a serious defensive mistake, and that it's part of a pattern that she needs to correct. And I think she will. I'm pretty sure that KLS, Napheesa, C. Williams, ONO, and recruits going back to Maya and Diana all knew that Geno did that and would do it to them if (in his eyes) they earn it. They also know that when they fix their issues (which they will), he will publicly give them full credit for having done that. Undoubtedly, there are some talented players who know they wouldn't want that treatment and who don't come for that reason. But as Geno has said, "The players you don't get don't hurt you." He went on to say that the players that he does get who don't fit into the UConn program are a much bigger problem. [/QUOTE]

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