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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4635406, member: 1131"] It's also possible that the coaches and management of the Canadian national team considered her absence last summer to be an indication that she was not fully committed to them, and decided that her roster spot should be given to someone (even if less talented) who was fully committed to the national team as her top priority. Decision makers have been known to think that way. I recall that about 10 years ago there was a similar situation with Erin Phillips, an Australian guard whose national team wanted her to commit fully to them, even if it conflicted with her WNBA schedule. For one Olympic cycle, she did that and still sat at the end of the bench on the Australian Olympic team. When they asked her to do that again for the next Olympic cycle, she told them to pound salt. Needless to say, she was left off their Olympic roster. [/QUOTE]