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[QUOTE="bags27, post: 2420363, member: 6761"]
Perhaps the very fact that teams can get close to UConn at the end of regulation or to OT demonstrates that those teams are having a very good day and/or UConn is having a bad one. You really can't put this on Geno. He's not shooting, passing, rebounding or playing defense. He's coaching during the final minute of regulation and/or during the 5 minute OT how he did during the previous 40. When the other team is more motivated or shooting better, there's no sudden strategy that's going to change that. Did Geno "win" last year's FSU game when the final shot hit the rim and bounced off? Would he have "lost" it if it had gone in? Would he have "won" the MSU game if that shot had missed and UConn goes on to win in 2 OT?

BTW, calling the 2014 loss to Stanford "costly" is a bit of a stretch. It cost UConn absolutely nothing except a winning streak, while it gained them a psychological edge for that season. The whole winning streak fetish (not aiming this at you, Frenchy: it's all over the BY) is a bit weird. Geno himself is obviously uncomfortable with it and the only banners in Werth are NC ones.
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