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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 3943375, member: 9844"] With much of the discussion being Geno won't bench a returning starter, let me make a point and raise a question. First he benched a starter this year. Anna was a starter and was injured, but clearly by the time she came back she had lost her starting position and was demoted to number 8 in the rotation. I'm not sure it didn't happen a second time, because I don't think we really know who the returning fifth starter is! Is it Nika or Aaliyah? You could make the case Nika just lost it because of injury, and she is the incumbent. Or perhaps because Aaliyah played well down the stretch (except for last game) and Geno said she was complimenting Liv so well, she may have taken that spot away from Nika. We will probably never know because Nika wasn't fully healthy, but if she had been, who would have been the 5th starter? If it would have been Aaliyah, then two incumbent starters would have been replaced this year. [/QUOTE]