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[QUOTE="eebmg, post: 2492511, member: 7548"]
I think what happened to NB is similar to the current freshman experience. You take top 10 players from HS who are head and shoulders above the rest of their competition and plop them into UConn where they are maybe the 7th or 8th best player and that can do alot to a psyche.  It takes real confidence as Geno has said to deal with that and not just simple confidence built  from stats. Now that NB finds herself back on a team where she is the best player, she can play freely. For example, why care if you make a mistake at GM  when your teammates will more likely launch up a poorer shot. On UConn, if she made a mistake, it could be crippling since 
she probably would think that if I passed it back to my teammates, they would do alot more than I could. Yes. Psycho-babble but so what.

It is probably harder than ever to identify true alpha personalities on the recruiting (or transfer) trail since the confidence of today's players seems to be more and more tied to offensive numbers and the historical nature of UConn grows in size every year from what used to be a simple  National power to a mythical goliath whose standards can crush even elite players.
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