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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 2880097, member: 250"] [URL='http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-sp-geno-auriemma-looking-forward-to-20181015-story.html']Geno Auriemma Says UConn Losing Wouldn't Be The Worst Thing For The Huskies[/URL] "Fifteen or 20 years ago there was only one thought in my mind: We need to win every single game to prove that we’re great,” Auriemma said. “That’s all I thought about. ‘We need to go undefeated to prove that we’re great because great teams don’t lose.’ The last couple years I’d go into every big game on [URL='http://www.courant.com/topic/sports/espn-HOC792-topic.html']ESPN[/URL] going ‘Man, I hope today’s the day we get our ass kicked,” just so that we can feel what it feels like to have to regroup a little bit. “Then with six or seven minutes left in the game we always find a way to win and I don’t want to lose, but there’s a part of me that’s like ‘Enough of this preseason No. 1 this, favorite to win this.’ After awhile you get numb to all that… Every once in awhile I would like to have our kids look at something and get [upset] about something, but that doesn’t happen.” “I don’t think we’ve had a team that’s going to be challenged defensively as much as this team since I can remember,” Auriemma said. “It’s been a long, long time. I actually don’t remember… I don’t. So we’re going to have to invent some ways to figure out how to stop people. We basically have to change our style of play a lot this year. We can’t just do business as usual. We just can’t.” Managing expectations? Motivation? Or a hard truth? [/QUOTE]

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