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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 1994450, member: 3535"] 1-- She can create a dramatic shift in the game 1st few minutes. Why delay that with a lesser player. In sports you're supposed to put yoru throat on another team's neck as soon as possible. Why you'd want to delay it- imo is way wrong. This isn't 1960's basketball any more. 2-- Since when is consistency a bad thing? UConn has won many championships going undefeated and as far as I know Geno never did what you're suggesting because there si no need to do it. 3-- Over the last few years UCONN has won with 6 ma and 7 man lineups. You aksed previously "do you believe UCONN could be any less competitive . . ." And now you say "Keep her fresh . . ." DO you believe Gabby will be any more of less fresh whether she starts or not? Unless you are also advocating dropping on the best player's on the team minutes to less than starter minutes as if she is a bench player from the last 2 years? 4- Now that we are in fantasy sports of "what if Lawrence got lese minutes' maybe if you were the coach instead of Bill Parcells imo you would have blundered away a game or two because you're so concerned about saving a player's minutes that you aren't thinking about cohesive units. were you a fan back in 2002? I can recall hearing how the players said they felt great great as a unit because they played with each other for so long. So next year we have Stevens and Camara and Walker and even we don't how Danger will be this year. You want to give all of them near minutes as the starters? We might have FOUR NPOY candidates. WHy not give the NPOY candidates and Nurse quite a bit of time to work with one another? To use your LT analogy - what Carl Banks. Look at the 1986 season. Carl Banks came on in 1986 at the end of the season and was a force. That's because he was playing with LT and learned how to play off of him. And the more you shy way from playing your best because you happen to think it's cool to have fun with lineups, IMO absolutely the number 1 recruits like Lou and Walker etc aren't going to want to play for you. Here they are busting their butt's in practices and outperforming others and they feel they can play 30 minutes no problem, yet an old-fashioned coach (I say old-fashioned because we certainly know Geno will give his players that deserve it big minutes and the younger coaches tend to be aggressive as well so it must be an old coach) might all-of-sudden allow lesser players the same amount of minutes, I'm sorry those star players gradually won't come. Don't you remember hearing last year that Geno found out that during a game one of his players deliberately missed a free throw so she could stay on the court even for a minute or two longer? These kids love to play. Please don't take away their competitive spirit of who deserves minutes all because you're scared a 20 year old might get tired. Think about what Geno says to the kids and what the kids ask of Geno. Isn't he probably telling them "You'll get minutes if you work hard." If you are a number 1 recruit or a number recruit etc and work hard and are the best on the team and among the best in the country, don't you think you have some right to expect that you should get more minutes than someone else that isn't as good as you? SO unless you have bad knees etc- why penalize that super player by only giving her a minute or two when you've seen with your own yes UCONN play it's starts 40 minutes in big games and win handily doing so? What's with this infatuation of "resting a 20 year old?" [/QUOTE]

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