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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 3876122, member: 3535"] Okay - Point 1 -- regarding DT- you don't think a freshman should be blamed to even a minor degree for not having a good game? I hope you aren't suggesting all freshmen are blameless? Otherwise what's wrong acknowledging DT was a frosh and she struggled but recognize leading up that game she had a terrific NCAA Tourney? It;s okay to acknowledge she was terrific leading up to the FF, correct? Unless you are suggesting that the HOF coach didn't use the Player of the All-Region properly leading up to the FF? And secondly regarding DT please point where I was wrong in my reply to alumminy69 regarding DT otherwise if I was right, then we have no beef re DT. Point 2 about Geno - In terms of your bringing up two games back in 2017 and 2018 -- hasn't any long-term successful coach in the history of the sport had games where you could point to that they didn't start well? It's not like this is prevalent for UCONN over these 20+ years. The prior years they did fine, and in 18-19 - which games didn't they start out well enough? They did fine in NCAA;s to start out vs UCLA, Louisville and ND and that was the worst team UCONN put out since pre-Maya. Don't they count? And you're using these 2 games as a barometer ? So when they went undefeated all- the other games in which they had good starts which would have been very, very many, they don’t count? And while you say "[I]improved preparation to start both games might have ended up with 2 UConn wins in regulation[/I]" -- sure if you are going to use point differential that's part of it. well how about other parts too? How about if maybe improved play for example from their guards (Nurse and Dangerfield) -- just 1 play- might have also been a difference? Why didn't you mention that? Or how about if Napheesa does just slightly better than 4-11 vs Miss State? All of her shooting woes is attributed to Geno? So imo it's not at all on the player but are you suggesting little-to-none on the player and nearly all on the coach? Because in your posts you give no blame/ not one bit- to the player, right? Both deserve blame but you seem to absolve the players of any of it and just go toward the coach and of all things you are referencing their undefeated reg season in which many, many of the game they probably had good starts. So ignore any good and criticize the rare bad? So bottom-line is 1—Does Dt get any blame / or is it okay to make mention that she struggled in FF her frosh year? If she deserves some blame even if it is minimal then I'm not arguing with you on the DT subject. 2—Why is it every other coach in the history of the sport has fallen behind early and even some in that list can be considered a great preparation coach yet you seem to want to disqualify Geno and not the others? Unless you are going to disqualify every coach other than --say Wooden? 3—Why do you ignore overall all the games over the past 20+ years in which UCONN has started out well? 4—Why did you only mention Geno in the 2 losses and otherwise use words like “luck” or “bad refs” implying those as standard excuses for fans while completely absolving player performances? 5- If you aren't absolving player performances then why are you making such a big deal out of 2 games vs nearly a career of success when you can also watch the game again to se some players did not perform well overall? [/QUOTE]

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