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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 2591971, member: 1131"] Where is the "DISLIKE" button? Let's see: the year after next, it's possible that the starting lineup will contain the #2 (C. Williams), #3 (Crystal), and #4 (ONO) players in their respective high school classes, all beyond their freshman year blues. It may also contain the #1 and #13 players if they get their act together. It may contain an Australian star (we should know about that in a month or less). Crystal is likely to be the best point guard in the country in her senior year. That is without considering the contributions of that year's freshmen, whoever they are (which admittedly are unlikely to be decisive). If all of the roster players are the right kind of people and teammates, then based on everything Geno has said, he will enjoy coaching them, even if their raw basketball skill is less than what UConn fans are accustomed to (and that remains to be seen). Geno has said that the trigger for his retirement will be when he cannot recruit players who buy in to the UConn way of doing things. If he gets those kinds of players, he will enjoy coaching them, even if the result is a 5-loss, non-Final Four year or two. And I still think that Kyla and Molly will make some kind of significant contribution to the team both next year and in their senior years. There have been a lot of very successful UConn teams on which players like that have been starters as seniors-- think of the Mel Thomas years (never mind the Kerry Bascom years, which I was not in a position to observe in real time). [/QUOTE]

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