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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 3874008, member: 175"] UConn had to squeeze in more games this semester due to covid breaks, so they’ve had a lot of three games in five days stretches, and five in 10 days. I think UConn has had only one day off between games nine different times and Iowa never had any like that until a three in five days stretch last week (the final game being Michigan two days after getting whomped by Maryland, which was their best game of the year - one for the “go figure” department). What I thought was weird in this latest one is that on Thursday at Creighton, Geno gave Paige a couple minutes rest at the end of the third and then had her face guard Carda all over the floor in the fourth. UConn was up big, so he basically had her run around like crazy for nothing on the first game of a 3 in 5 days stretch. There could be a number of reasons for it - Geno might have been sending her or the team a message about defensive commitment. Or curiosity in seeing how she could handle it. Or maybe he was trying to build her conditioning for the postseason - trying to get her to fight through tired legs now so it won’t feel foreign in the BE Championship game or the Elite Eight. That would be a little odd, she already sort of did that once with a strong game against Seton Hall two days after the 45 minutes against SC. But it’s been a strange year without normal strength and conditioning routines and normal cycles between games, and the staff maybe thought it would be to helpful use live game action in place of wind sprints. I could be overthinking it, though. More likely, it’s something simple like she talked back and Geno punished her by saying “oh, so you want to go back in? Fine. But now you have to go chase that kid around.” [/QUOTE]

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