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Message: [QUOTE="sun, post: 4693403, member: 11664"] Some of last year's starters showed that they weren't elite players in at least one aspect of the game or other. Yet fans are still listing them as potential starters this year. That's somewhat understandable because we haven't seen new & the improved returning players yet. But it's entirely possible that some of the 2nd string players are more talented than the 1st string which we don't even know who either the 1st or 2nd string players will be yet either. But the point is that in many cases there can be multiple players who are relatively equally talented. There's a lot of excuses made, about criteria & evaluations postulated about how starters are selected. I can't say with any certainty that the selection methods always correlate to actual game performance. Sometimes yes, other times no. The problem is consistency, or inconsistency of young college players. And that's what it will often boil down to in the end is consistency. I just don't always buy the argument that one player will always play better than another. In every sport even among professionals they have many different ways to track & measure performance. But they use past performance to predict future performance which is still like gazing into a crystal ball. But consistency cannot always be predicted especially when it involves different match ups, different combinations of players, and so many other variables. To say that PT is earned in practice is not always true & accurate. Practice is not the same as a game, it's a regular routine among the same players all of the time. A player can have the best practice and not play as well in the game, & vice versa. I think it boils down to which players that Geno trusts. But no one really wants to admit that Geno doesn't trust some players. They would rather say that it's because of practice. But if some players have more equal ability then Geno would be more likely to substitute more players. It depends whether they can display enough consistency to earn trust. If UConn loses a game unexpectedly then perhaps the inconsistent players would be more noticeable. For some set plays experience counts, but then in other instances being able to play 1 on 1 counts can count more than a set play & experience. Or being able to perform another function on the court counts too. Every player will have some advantages & disadvantages if & when they're played. Then there's how much MOV does Geno think that he needs in order to win a games instead of using more subs. What does Geno's expected MOV have to with how well a 2nd or 3rd string player does in practice? [/QUOTE]

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