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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4276603, member: 3535"] Hello - hey thank you for the post and it is absolutely fine we disagree on some points. Agree on others. Please don't take offense to any disagreement. Can I ask some questions about DeBerry and your comment of playing her more along with a question on injuries? 1-- How certain are you that if you gave DeBerry minutes that it wouldn't have hampered performance from other players such as Edwards, Liv and Evina who all played the frontcourt position this year? Because we saw UCONN beat the bigger team while Evina was tremendous. Playing her more would have limited Evina as an example. 2-- And if you value experience, how confident would you have been with DeBerry getting "bench" minutes (not "starter" minutes of near 25 per game but "bench" as a frosh) going against the experience of UCF, NC State, and Stanford? There is no assurance our frosh was going to do well vs them in the Tourney its why experience is so valued. So wouldn't you agree that there is also a possibility that DeBerry in just even 1 minute could have cost UCONN the game vs Nc State or Stanford regardless how many minutes she picked up as a bench player? I’m asking you to re-look at the Stanford game as a case in point. Early in the 4th quarter, Stanford put in Kiki Iriafen and she proceeded to get an OReb then turned it over, then didn't help quick enough vs Liv in which Liv got a low post basket while Kiki fouled her.). In the span of her 1 minute she allowed UCONN to get 3 valued points in which UCONN lead went from 2 to 5. That move was extremely costly. And right after that Tara V pulled Kiki. SO summing up everything, are you that sure a player who is let's be honest is "soft," probably would be that during the NCAA Tourney (regardless of the minutes you give her) vs highly experienced teams, and as a result , could have cost UCONN the game? 3-- We saw Evina play well vs big teams. UCONN got to FF last year and she was the 4. This year the game vs Stanford she was an enormous difference maker, and Geno had 3 other post players and as we know Ducharme also played PF. So, through it all, Geno was supposed to realize that it be possible vs an eventual SC matchup (the one team that beat UCONN) that Dorka would be out, Liv and Evina would be banged up, and CD would play worse (not awful but worse)) than she previously showed, and play Amari instead while “hoping for the best” vs experienced and very good teams of UCF, NC State, and Stanford? [/QUOTE]

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