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Message: [QUOTE="Bronx23, post: 2634307, member: 8501"] I love this post and your sentiments. This coach and team worked all year to play a certain style and they did it in this game against what is probably the very best team in the country. They won their conference championship, so it worked pretty well to this point. For him to change the style or approach is absurd. Yes they wouldn't have lost by so many points, but so what. They surely played hard and shot poorly, but they never gave up. They stayed with their game plan. Some of you say they didn't make adjustments or call time outs. They did exactly, other than not having a good shooting game, exactly what they planned. That was their goal and they accomplished it. I am extremely impressed with the coach and his two seniors comments, maturity, focus and goals for themselves and their teammates as their program goes forward. When I watched the game I didn't think any of these things. I thought it was a ridiculous blowout and as others said they didn't adjust. Now, I see it quite differently. There's absolutely no way they have the athletes to compete with U Conn. Louisville a very good team with much better athletes got blown out. We always talk here about the striving for excellence and not playing to your competition. That's just what they did, but at the level they are capable of playing at. Kudos to the coach and team for giving it your all and never stop trying, EVEN when you know you have no SHOT! It's actually the same thing U Conn, teaches, play to your level and don't ever let up! Think about it fellow BY'ers, this #16 came, played their hearts out and will have the memory and experience of being on the same floor with a truly great team, playing at a level you never have experienced before. Their best player said that Geno now has to know her name. Imagine that - never being recruited by too many schools and now the greatest coach maybe in all of basketball history is planning how to guard you. In retrospect this was a special game for both teams! Bronx23 [/QUOTE]

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