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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4803744, member: 3535"] I missed this before. For sure there are games we can win comfortably. And that is the perfect reason and time to give the minutes to the players you know are your better players in tight games. This team has little experience playing together. Why wouldn't UCONN want to give their best player's more time on the floor together? Comments have been made how the team hasn't played enough together - so now we're go to take out better players that need as much time as they can get vs an inferior player? And this has nothing to do with "fracture." In part it has to do with if the coach can't be taken for his word, then wouldn't it be plausible to assume a critical player might transfer afther the season is over? This isn't transferring speculation of a player but of a philosophy if a coach breaks his promise when tell players that Practices and Performances" matter when it's clear you play what some suggested Amari 25-30 minutes that it doesn't. Even 10 minutes if she isn't as good-- why? Why not give much of those last 10 minutes to Ice and better players especially if Patterson is better and she comes back? We've seen very few minutes of Ice and Edwards playing together yet it's clear Geno thinks Ice is quite a bit better. And last year Patterson was better and she needs minutes., And we've seen how critical Aubrey has been at the 4. These 4 players haven’t played one reg season together yet it's smart to have 3 of them sit for an inferior player just because she is 6'6? Height by itself is one of the most overrated points made on here. Last year how many 6'6 players did Iowa have when they beat SC? How many 6'6 players did LSU have when the won the title? SO, bottom-line is that we’re supposed to put a worse player in the game instead of playing the better players that prove it day over day in practice in which those players are desperate for playing time together. However, when we struggle or lose then one of the comments universally accepted is that the team hasn’t played enough together and yet playing the lesser player is one of the causes. So yes we lose a ton if playing Amari if she isn’t ready and not as good as the others . [/QUOTE]

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