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Message: [QUOTE="#12in21, post: 4168043, member: 10763"] Not a big fan of Geno's Oregon post game presser. He, as some have pointed out, fell on the sword saying this is the worst coaching of his career. But the tone said to me that those were more words for the press than his actual belief. When he in essence said that 'the guard play sucked and the reason for that was none of the good guards are playing', that rung truer to me to what he was actually feeling at the moment. I get he was frustrated by how the team performed, but rather than showing frustration that his players didn't show up and play like he knows they are capable, he in his statements, indicated he doesn't feel they are capable. I just hope his private communications individually and at practices express more disappointment and are aimed at motivating improvement than reinforcing that he has given up on some of them and at best they are pacesetters until he 'gets his real team back'. I fully accept that Paige and Christyn have shown they are the best guards on the team, Azzi potentially may be up there as well but so far she hasn't played enough at this level to say that. If Geno had said 'our best guards weren't playing in Oregon' no argument but he said 'our good guards weren't playing'. Both Evina and Nika have shown in the past that they have real value to the team, they have contributed and have worked their butts off to do so, so I hope what Geno said publicly at the presser is not his true feelings about them at this time and certainly how they are experiencing their relationship with him and the team. I most definitely have not given up on either of them and believe they will bounce back from a bad game. My hope is that Geno believes that as well, if not he may be right about his comment about the coaching. [/QUOTE]

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