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Message: [QUOTE="hjoerring, post: 2980291, member: 3630"] I listened top the Baylor post-game conf. Their coach said it all-- defense. She placed her 2 best defenders on our 2 best players (offense),and it allowed Brown to roam around for shots and boards. KLS and Collier had to work for every basket. Similar defenses- starting with MSU- against Collier + KLS have spelled trouble for the team. Collier has to be mindful of rebounds as the primary re-bounder and defender for the team, plus her minutes and size. KLS has problems shaking tall, quick and strong defenders who are charged with shadowing her the entire game. In the last F4, Geno quibbed about getting her more shots-- more screens(?), but that may not work against the teams that matter. Of course she is going to the basket more ala Stewart. But Stewart's possibilities were and are at another level (as we see from Seattle). It is the 3 other players who have to bring their A-game. Lastly, while you (Tony) are far from guilty of this one is tired from the repeated cacophony of voices about the bench development. The coaches have no magic formula into making other than they are developmentally. The idea inherent in this faulty logic is: if such and such player had such and such minutes during games starting with game1, then they would be ready to contribute off the bench. Said another way: if I were a horse .... I don't see a bench player on the Uconn bench who was capable of coming in and contribute in any meaningful way. But more. Given the weakness of our conference these early games are 100 X critical for us because it is really the only time we have for playing a top 20-team. So we have to win them. ND, Baylor and others can risk an early season loss and make up for it later on. Were we to lose to LV and win our conf. games by 50-points I would be at a loss to see us deserving a high seating. Now, because we can win by 50-points it would make sense to play more players meaningfully. [/QUOTE]

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