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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 3395111, member: 1131"] Your last sentence seems to imply that Kyla and Anna contribute nothing to UConn's offense. That was, in fact, almost true in the Baylor game (never mind that it was equally true in that game for Liv and Aubrey), but going into that game, Kyla was 12-for-18 on 3-point shots, and she got at least three open 3's which she took and missed in that game. I don't know whether it was just a random occurrence or if she got nervous because of the gravity of the game, but there was no reason to predict that prior to the game. Kyla also usually makes good passes and avoids turnovers, so it was reasonable to expect that she would do that against Baylor, but for the most part she didn't. Really, the question you pose is whether on Thursday night (not next year or the year after), Geno could reasonably have expected Liv and Aubrey to contribute more to the offense than Kyla and Anna. In fact, in the third quarter Geno tried the experiment that you and Big Mick seem to be advocating. For about the first 8 minutes of the third quarter, he played Liv and Aubrey along with the three scorers, and the result was that the score changed from 35-34 Baylor at halftime to 53-46 Baylor with about 2:09 left in the third quarter. Neither ONO nor Aubrey scored or did all that much else to commend themselves to Geno during those 8 minutes (although Liv got a couple of blocks and some rebounds, but failed on several shot attempts against Cox), and the lead widened. Then Anna and Kyla came in at that point, and the quarter ended where it began with a 55-54 Baylor lead. So Geno had some reason to think that the team played more effectively with Anna/Kyla than with Liv/Aubrey in the lineup. This is just another reflection of the typical fan's focus on athletic talent over all else, largely because it makes the game more fun to watch. But a good coach like Geno knows that athletic talent is not a get-out-of-jail-free card that should cause him to overlook all the shortcomings in someone's play. He is right about that. [/QUOTE]

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