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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 3594063, member: 3535"] I hope you are right!! I don't agree with some of this but I hope you are right!!!! I just want to add 4 things. 1-- I think UCONN should play a style that they think will work vs anyone. Thus playing players 9 and 10 imo isn't worth it unless they are near as good as players 4,5 and 6. 2--- I think the following 5 players have at least Honorable Mention All-American possibilities. OFC not all will be but - Liv, Evina, CWill, AM, and PB all have the capability. Add in a certain certainty with Griff’s defense - she gets minutes too. Are the idea vs the elite teams to bench our potential Honorable Mention Al-American for a 9th or 10th player on the bench when every possession counts vs these elite teams? 3-- Paige and Evina are brand new to the team and both are potential All-Americans. They don't get better sitting on the bench. And the top players won’t get as much better if they aren’t learning to play with them. Liv, Cwill, AM and Griff have to be given minutes to play with tem vs the 9th and 10th player. More than likely those extra minutes they play together is more important than the 9th or 10th player or both. 4--- IMO when you are already up 80-40 in the 4th quarter - what good is it going to do in preparing for the elite teams to keep forcing play and ram down the other team far less talented team's throats fast break basketball? You have already established that you are an elite fats-breaking team. Eventually when you run into the elite teams they aren’t going to let you run on them as much. IMO it would be better to work on your half-court offense. And I believe Geno does this all the time and will continue to do it. Sure they will make steals but after the steal they won't run all the time for a fastbreak unless it's a breakaway. Heck, Geno might even play zone to keep the score down. While also practicing it vs the eventual encounter against the bigger elite teams. [B]IMO you can’t put all your eggs in one basket with defensive pressure leading to easy fastbreaks, You also have to work on if the pace of the game vs the elite team is slowed down and you can't get very many steals- halfcourt game will be required. They have to work on that eventuality. [/B] [/QUOTE]

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