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Message: [QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 2988935, member: 7874"] Geno starts a[B][COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)]n exceptional[/COLOR][/B] freshman (Christyn Williams) [B][COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)](because he has no other choice)[/COLOR][/B] who averages 34.0 minutes and freshman Olivia Nelson-Ododa plays an average 10.4 minutes [B][COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)](why so few for a player who will be needed for the NCAA tourney?)[/COLOR][/B]. They’re coming along nicely.[COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)][B] (Williams is. Ododa is not.)[/B][/COLOR] I’m not sure why Liv doesn’t get more minutes [B][COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)](I'm with you here.)[/COLOR][/B] but I assume Geno is trying to teach her something. I'm not a “Geno is God” person but the guy is one of the best in the business at developing [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)][B]high level [/B][/COLOR]talent[COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)][B] (He said the worst coaching job was in high school trying to teach the unskilled and untalented. Perhaps his attitude toward the lesser skilled players on his rooster is still the same. Thus he is not so good at developing the lesser lights.)[/B][/COLOR] so I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt here. Sometimes playing a kid who’s not ready can do more harm than good, as far as confidence goes. [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)][B](Playing the bench players with say three starters provides fruitful learning experience. In the IT industry new recruits are typically thrown into a deep end project but with mentors, not unlike game experience with starters. I can't imagine a project team of newbies. It would be chaos which is what happens when the all the bench players enter the game together or with only one starter.)[/B][/COLOR] Regarding the two sophomores, Megan Walker (31.0 min) starts and Mikayla Coombs (11.6 min) also see time on the court. [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)](So the young players are getting into games. [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)][B](Coombs 139 min., Irwin 138, and Ododa 146 in the mean time all of the starters average 31 to 34 min. We saw their legs go in the Baylor 4th qtr 17-10)[/B][/COLOR] Mikayla may not get into tight games because she a liability on offense. She’s actually been on the court several minutes before I’ve noticed her in a game because she hasn’t impacted it in any way, something Geno does not want. [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)][B](But needs to tolerate so the kid can develop. Does he think she will cause UCONN to lose an AAC game?)[/B][/COLOR] Mikayla gets the same coaching as everyone else so I [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]assume[/COLOR] she’s deferring to the upperclassmen. If so, she needs to get over that. [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)][B](How? By playing more.)[/B][/COLOR] Junior Kyla (13.8 min) will get a lot of minutes in AAC play. She and Molly (8.4 min) were recruited as role players. Kyla is the stronger player, skills-wise, and she’ll get into games early where some of the others won’t. I can’t imagine anyone really complaining about Kyla’s minutes since they seem just right to me. She’s no [COLOR=rgb(41, 105, 176)]slug[/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)][B] [/B][/COLOR]but she’s no Kelly Faris, either. The one that puzzles me is Batouly (5.8 min). [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)][B](Yeah! A puzzler.)[/B][/COLOR] She just seems like a Div I player to me and nothing she’s done has been bad, she just seems raw. I don’t know if it’s a physical issue but she makes me think of the wonderful Brittany Hunter whose physical limitations kept her minutes down. [/QUOTE]

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