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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 2066276, member: 3535"] 1---- I don't think so. Unless there are injuries. It's not about Kyla. It's about the other post players. Who is she going to beat out of - Stevens, Collier, Gabby, and Camara? That is 4 post players of which Gabby and Cocllier are already a/a quality and you've heard abut Stevens -- and Camara was a blue chip recruit in h/s and played well for Ky her frosh year, so who is she going to beat out? Maybe she can beat out Nat. But she can't vs the others, right? If the move is to pull Gabby from the post -- why would you do it? She is already a tremendous a/a right now. The game isn't soley done for only Gabby to improve. Right now you'll already have Kia, Danger, Lou and Walker. And I wouldn't count out for example Coombs. If you put Gabby in the backcourt and thus allow Kyla more minutes at the pf/c position - you are taking away minutes from Kia, and/or Lou, and/or Danger and/or Walker. Is she really better than these players in that you would feel a need to use more of Kyla instead? 2--- Why wouldn't you want the starting 5 to develop more of a synergy together rather than play them only 15-20 minutes? They'll have Stevens for example to work with. Wouldn't you want at the very least to give her about 25 minutes working with other players? And you think for example having all-americans such as Gabby, Lou and Collier is a good idea "sitting them" for only 15 minutes because you want to give lesser players who aren't as good more minutes? Why should they be punished for not even being allowed to play half a game or less? Because they worked too hard and are too good? Recently we heard from last year a player deliberately missed a free throw so she wouldn't get pulled from the game- just for an extra minute or two. We've heard Lou tell Geno that even though she had been sick - she "wanted to play" not just a few minutes. We've heard Geno remark that Kia wants to play and he joked that he had her penciled in for 2nd round of the tourney and he said he'd though he would use her hockey experience on him after he said it. The stars want to play. You start rewarding players that aren't as good as the stars close to equal minutes, for one thing you aren't maximizing your team and secondly more minutes to the less deserving vs the stars - you'll gradually see the super recruits start to go to other places. A super recruit - many don't mind playing 28 minutes-- maybe 25 you can get away with. Ones who have knee issues are okay with less. But you start giving them 15 minutes a game instead of 25+ -- so they can watch players not as good as them get almost equal minutes, that "ain't gonna fly." The UCONN bench next year can be fine if starters get about 125+ minutes. Three bench players gets 45-50 minutes. Keeping in mind for a top 8 player that some games that player will be hurt, feeling under the weather, in the dog house for a day, then another player or two will get those minutes in that game thus bumping up their average per minutes while the one player that did not play it won't affect theirs. Anyhow - here is an example of what can be done: Red shirt one player. One player gets 4 minutes. Three players get an average of 7 minutes. And you do have a strong bench 8 deep between the starters (125) and three bench players (50). [/QUOTE]

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