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Message: [QUOTE="and one, post: 4120919, member: 10475"] Of all the teams in various sports that I actively root for, UConn wbb is the only women's team and the only one I spend much energy worrying about the bench players. Sure, I always hope a bench player will develop into a real contributor but I don't worry about which players will feel bad about not breaking into the significant minutes rotation. Thanks to BY, we get so much information on every recruit that we feel we know them before they get to campus. We generally (or mostly or always) like them personally and get emotionally invested in them all. None of us want to see any of them fail to live up to our expectations. By the nature of any completion, whether in sports or in our line of work, some rise to the top and others take on lesser roles. Nika is really likable and has a gritty on court attitude. I have in the past been high on her and still think she can become a valuable player. I honestly hate seeing her in the bench because, well, I like her. And the same for Mir and Aubrey and all the rest fighting for playing time. I want them all to succeed. The reptile part of my brain knows this cannot and will not happen and it saddens the more evolved part is my brain. A coach gets to know players personally and skill-wise better than the fans do. Yet they know that their job is to play the players most likely to win games. Geno likes things about Nika's game and will give her an opportunity to succeed. He doesn't have the luxury of getting too emotionally invested in how the players react to where he puts them on the depth chart. [/QUOTE]

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