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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 3740483, member: 3535"] I still don't understand the points made here about there being "a refute" that you need a deep bench other than what has been said on here - "that UCONN will go with at least 7 in big games." I don't recall one post stating UCONN will only go with 6. Or that UCONN will run most of it's starters for more than 30 on average for the entire season. Yes it takes an unusual team to win with fewer players -- but isn't that why we are so excited this year and the next few? Doesn't UCONN have up to 5 players that are A?A caliber? OFC not all 5 or 4 or probably 3 will make it to at least 3rd team - but nearly every year they have something unusual which is why UCONN has the consecutive FF streak and so many titles over 25 years. And how unusual is the ND team vs most of our past teams? UCONN gets super recruits so ofc they are unusual. Even this year. Nor do I understand the point that you say Geno runs up the score (run up the score is a very subjective term) - is he doing it actually and if by your definition he is - is it bad? If it is bad yet you want press as much as possible? And as olddude pointed out ND basically had 5 players. How can it be so unusual then if UCONN had 2 bench players getting 30 between them, and 5 starters get an average of 28 minutes- 140-- so that is 170 minutes. Give the last player on the bench 5 - then it means player 8-10 get the balance of 25 split near even. How is that unusual or too hard on the starters? Not saying do it this year-- no idea how this team is going to break out as- but if we've seen a ND team do it-- with 5-- and UCONN usually has a team stacked with amazing talent-- why can't UCONN have 7 main players and the rest under 10 minutes as an option? Again- not saying do it-- because we don't know but it is an option. What I just said can be "refuted?" Last 2 points -- superstars need their minutes. They are more important than the 8th and 9th player on the bench. If you want to keep landing the number 1 recruits then you had better give them near 30 minutes as UCONN has done. After all UCONN has won 11 titles and 9 of them come from DT, Maya and Stewie. Ofc they need other players but the bench players need the superstars more, right? Generally (not all the time) a superstar can go longer, right? And don't the superstars usually play more minutes in big games? That's bad? I still don't know where you and others stand on this (That the superstars or much higher caliber player than the bench player get big minutes in big games?)- but are some posters suggesting Geno has been doing things all wrong, or that he is no longer on top of what is going on? "[B]Highly regarded players" 1st and foremost are potentially players like Paige and Azzi. If they live up to the hype of super-elite-play- is the point being made that in big games only give them "30" minutes? [/B] [/QUOTE]

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