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Message: [QUOTE="Cuango, post: 5235888, member: 3834"] So sad for JuJu. I wish her well in her recovery. However, as for Gottlieb, clearly she should have stepped up and calmed the crowd down! The Mississippi State girls did not deserve that anymore than they deserve what is reportedly happening on social media. It was clearly a routine basketball play and JuJu’s injury was not caused by anything the Miss. St. girls did! I think Gottlieb should have to answer two questions. 1. Why is the biggest star in College Women’s Basketball routinely still in the game late in the fourth quarter when her team is up 30-50 points? 2. Why is JuJu trying to drive to the basket through two defenders when she had a teammate completely open running to the basket. JuJu is averaging 35 minutes a game in a season where her team has 16 wins by more than 30 and five others by more than 20? Yes, she is a great player and everyone wants to see her score 28-30 ppg but I just think her coach should have done what coaches are supposed to do and rested her more when the games were clearly out of reach. I am not saying her injury is the coach’s fault but I do question whether Gottlieb has the strength of will to say to her star player, “The game is over, come sit and rest.“ No player of JuJu’s status should be in a game late in the fourth when her team is up by that much. As for the second question, (why didn’t she pass to her wide open teammate?) that imo opinion [B]is[/B] clearly Gottlieb’s fault! I’m guessing 90+% of all basketball coaches would immediately call timeout and sit that player on the bench while an assistant pointed out the error of her ways. However, it would not happen at all this late in the season as that would have been coached out of that player by now! If not, that player would be spending a lot of time on the bench. I cannot imagine a single player on the UConn (or LSU, Louisville, Duke, NC, SC, NC St, Kentucky, or even UCLA) roster, not passing the ball in that situation! Would passing the ball have saved JuJu from her injury? Perhaps. No one can say for certain but I do believe that there is great pressure on Gottlieb to facilitate JuJu’s stardom and I’m betting that is the reason for both the extended minutes in blowouts [B]and [/B]the lack of fundamentals that would lead to the kind of play that resulted in her terrible injury! I have no doubt that some will point out that our own Geno has been guilty of leaving his star players in too long. I would agree with them, though he has been much better this season with a fuller roster. I personally believe he learned his lesson when Paige went down in the Notre Dame game and has put that habit behind him. [/QUOTE]

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