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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 2633494, member: 1131"] I’m not sure exactly what you think Geno should have done when confronted with the game plan that St. Francis was following. Should he have told his team NOT to exploit the openings that their style of play allowed? That’s exactly the opposite of what any good team should be doing. A team that has aspirations for a national championship should ALWAYS take advantage of any opportunities it finds against what ever style of play its opponent chooses to use. It seems to me that the ONLY thing he could have done (consistent with not fostering bad basketball habits in his team) would have been to play his starters less. But as he noted, Kia Nurse was the ONLY starter to play anywhere near 30 minutes. Azura and Napheesa played 15 and 16 minutes, and scored 23 and 24 points in that amount of playing time. Should he have instructed them to score less while they were on the floor? Or should they have only played 5 minutes (since you say 10 less minutes wouldn’t have any negative effect)? I think the reasons why Kia got so many minutes are (first of all) that she and Napheesa are the only starters with no injury issues; secondly that bench players need one experienced player to be a coach on the floor; and thirdly that her 3-point shot has been off-target in recent games, and he wanted to give her a chance to recover it. But he did play the entire 4th quarter with all 6 core players on the bench for that entire 10-minute period. Surprisingly, the bench players did very well, outscoring St. Francis (including Kovatch and other starters) by a margin of 20-4 (approximately; I’m working from memory). What should Geno have done about that? Put the student managers on the floor? [/QUOTE]

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