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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2135430, member: 199"] ASweet - I like almost everything you said in the OP, except for the point about our Sophomore and the coaching. On Lou and Napheesa - in Uconn history we have a number of Mt Rushmore candidates - DT, Maya, Tina, Lobo, Jen all were called on to contribute significantly as freshman and failed to deliver a NC - Tina took two years of seasoning until she was ready, Jen took three years, Maya and DT took one year of failure before they were ready. Of those caliber players only Stewart as a freshman succeeded and she had help from two two year AA starters and a three year starter and a one year starter. Lou and Napheesa really were along for the ride last year, and so while they are sophomores this year they are less experienced sophomores than the others in this list. That they came up short is not that surprising. Tina after [B]two[/B] years of starting got owned by Sylvia in similar circumstances. The process is the process and there are no shortcuts around experience. On the coaching - you can only compensate so much as a coach for the experience and shortcomings of your team. None of the players on this team had ever needed to own the team's destiny before this year - that they seemed to do so throughout the year was a positive, but the regular season and even conference tournaments are very different from the FF. The team failed to execute a ton of things throughout the game that the coaches had coached them to do. To single out the last minutes and assign that to coaching or players is to ignore the whole game. [/QUOTE]

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