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Message: [QUOTE="CocoHusky, post: 4108224, member: 5823"] [USER=73]@Tonyc[/USER] I think you title needs a little fixing but I understand your point. This is actually a very strong follow to your prior post where you indicated that the substitutions are what causing the team issues at this point. The starting 5 has achieved remarkable offensive cohesion in the first two game of the season as evidenced by the shooting and assist numbers. Of all people Paige is the only starter to have a sub 50% shooting game and the assist numbers from the starters have been off the chart-17 against Arkansas and 22 against Minnesota. On the court it shows and Christyn mentioned this in her post game interview yesterday. If you are a starter and you get yourself open you are getting the ball and that's a beautiful thing. Defensively there was a dramatic improvement in the defense in the second game. Dorka, Liv and Aaliyah are using their length and moving their feet very effectively. Don't think it will matter in this next game but what we might see is the starter going longer in the game eg., UCONN starters playing the first full quarter without substitutions. I'd also predict that Geno goes to a rotation 1 Sub at a time so as to have 4 starters on the floor at all times. Cohesion like this is very hard to achieve and harder to sustain. [/QUOTE]