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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 2878893, member: 250"] Motivator or simply the obvious truth? This one got by me last Friday and I don't recall seeing it here. “We’re a lot thinner than we have been in the past,” Auriemma said. “We’ve got to make sure that we get more than just the returning three starters from last year.” “When you think back to what our bench looked like when Lou and Pheesa were freshmen, and what it looks like today, it’s completely different,” he said. “To be able to find more contributors other than the three starters from last year is going to be more of a challenge here than it has in a long, long time. “We’ve got players that are going to have to embrace specific roles,” he said. “That’s evident already. You’re not going to ask Kyla (Irwin) and Molly (Bent) and Mikayla (Coombs) — who didn’t play hardly at all during the summer and almost the whole end of last year — to come in and go, ‘Hey guys, when I sub you guys in, I don’t want anything to change between Lou, Pheesa, Crystal and you guys.’ I mean, that’s not realistic, not even one bit. I just think that’s the reality of it.” Of course there are just 6 players mentioned here and I'm not exactly buying "we're a lot thinner". [URL="https://www.nhregister.com/uconn/article/Auriemma-says-role-players-need-to-step-up-for-13303827.php"]Auriemma says role players need to step up for UConn to be successful[/URL] [/QUOTE]