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[QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4396287, member: 12088"]
I’m not on the same page with you, [USER=8506]@MSGRET[/USER]. I only talk about point guards and the skills they need to succeed. I don’t care for all the posts pretending Nika has these skills — that’s Nika-hating. Folks say that because they don’t believe she can improve. I believe in her.

And I think you’ve misunderstood what Geno meant when he said the team is better with Nika on the floor. This was always a trade off, since he knew the team could become flat and listless, and she brought some spark. But the cost was that we lost some offensive potential. Geno’s been very clear about this in word and deed. Benching her in the 4th quarter of big games is as clear as he can be on this topic.

Nika’s biggest fans — like me — want to see her on the floor at the end of big games. But for the last two seasons, Geno has seemed not to value her spark enough to put her in at those moments. The best team we can field would be the one with Nika — armed with new offensive skills — on the floor at the end. Short of that, I’ll be sad to see her on the bench when our best team is out there.
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