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So Geno Always Favors A Short Bench In The NCAA's?
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[QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2092887, member: 199"] Interesting stuff Joe - but that team was a walking mash unit as well. Brittany Hunter unfortunately was never a 'whole' player during her time at UConn and was physically unable to play a minute longer than however many minutes she played in pretty much any game - if she had been physically able Geno would have played her for all 40 minutes of regulation. And by that year Wolff was also walking wounded and never again the player who arrived as a freshman starter (ahead of Maria Conlon, by the way.) And Ann would also have played 40 minutes if she hadn't been in foul trouble as well. So those were two 'starters' that had to be replaced regardless of any standard rotational plan. But yeah, he had sort of a mix and match team that year. I do think he generally rides his starters longer in the tournament - they play two games in three days and then have five days off before repeating it two more times and they have had ten days off before the start, so he is likely to play starters longer even in the first round blow out to shake off rust and get their rhythm back, and he usually continues that. And as the games get more challenging, even in the regular season, the starters tend to be playing 33-35 minutes as long as fouls and match-ups are going well. The issue is maintaining rhythm, and it is really hard to do that if the too many people are rotating in and out - during the regular season a loss because you lost rhythm and things fell apart isn't a disaster, during the tournaments it is because there isn't another game. With the Olympics where he had an incredible bench, that was also incredibly experienced, he was able to do group substitutions sort of like line changes of defenders or the front line in hockey so specific pairs or threes of players could develop their own rhythm and consistency. But you saw the team struggle a bit more than usual when Sue missed the game. And in the final knock out games the starters got longer runs I think. [/QUOTE]
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