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Message: [QUOTE="Jimbo, post: 2036554, member: 6751"] I have no idea what will happen tomorrow, but I don't buy for one second this revisionist "extra rest" explanation about the 2015 Memphis game. For one thing, not everybody got extra rest; benching Stewie and Morgan (and Kiah) meant that KML, Moriah, and Kia each played 30+ minutes, which was more than they'd have ordinarily played in a typical AAC blowout. I suppose it's theoretically possible that only those first three players needed the added rest, for some unknown reason, but then I doubt that Geno would have played them at all (just as Stewie and Moriah each sat out a game last year for precautionary/nagging injury reasons). I honestly don't see the point of having a healthy starter go through all the pregame warmups only to bench her after 4 or 5 minutes, unless the coach is unhappy with how she's playing. Now, if someone wants to say that Geno chose that particular game to send that particular message because South Carolina was up next, THAT is something I can absolutely believe. But IMO it's implausible that Geno sat those three players just to give them extra rest and then proceeded to embarrass them needlessly after the game by concocting a fake story about how he was dissatisfied with their play. [/QUOTE]