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Message: [QUOTE="tomcat, post: 2660547, member: 961"] So work on the layups and get them right. There are so many reasons not to dunk during a game: 1. If you make it, you rile up the other team, whose players feel they've been shown up. May not matter in a typical UConn game, where the margin is high, but in a close game can motivate the opponent; 2, I you miss it, you've embarrassed yourself and if you miss it at a time in the game when it counts you will be guaranteed to be accused of grandstanding at a time when your team needed the sure basket that a layup should bring. This would not be an accusation in the men's game, but it certainly would be in the women's. 3. If you take it when your team is far ahead, you will be (rightly) accused of piling on. [/QUOTE]