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Your in the wrong place to be asking that question. Do you think on a U Conn board that anyone is going to agree with you when your questioning their God or any of his Disciples?( Been there done that) Good luck. Any real person with knowledge of the game knows these 2 deserved to be on the team just as much as they know Geno would not be coaching the team if he had no say so and it was up to a committee to decide who he had on his team. He is a control freak.That would never fly. That being said there is not a lot of time to get the team to gel and play as a unit. Having coached the former U Conn players and some of the other girls on previous Olympic teams makes the adjustment easier. Even if those 2 are better the difference in talent might not be enough to over take the experience of the other girls who have played for him in the past. Plus he probably felt some of the older players who had been there before had earned their spot and valued their leadership. When i coached baseball coaches did this. There were new kids that were more talented then other kids all ready on the all star team. But coaches would go with the if it ain't broke don't fix it approach and stay with the players they had who knew their system. My son was on a 3 time state title team with a coach who did this. The reality is Geno is the coach and he has had success with his system so its hard to question him. If they lost that's another story. If he is the one coaching he should be able to run the show his way with his players .He is the GOAT of women's basketball.I am astonished by the nastiness of these posts. In no other sport would two of the finest players in the country, perhaps the two finest front court players in the country, get left of the Olympic team, and it would not generate controversy.
I think that it is because it implies that, perhaps, the deity that is Geno Auriemma made a decision that might not have been perfect that posters here have lost their collective mind.
That would account for the fury with which posters here have reacted to what would normally be a perfectly rational question, and a perfectly rational issue.
But to those who are not blinded by their worshipful view of UConn's coach, these players just demonstrated by winning the pro league championship that they deserved to be not only on the Olympic team, but probably starters on the Olympic team.
You might raise all sorts of bizarre questions- Parker isn't a team player, she won't play defense; Ogwumike is lacking in some strange, mystical, unspecified way- as to why they were passed over.
But the simple truth is that that decision looks curiouser and curiouser. And it calls into question the judgement of the Olympic committee, and their entire selection process.
Amen.