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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2231227, member: 199"] I think Moriah might get slightly less consideration with Geno not being coach, but more because she will be less in sync with another coach than she would be with her former college coach. I understand what you are saying about 'the role a player is willing to accept' but I think that is still a very important consideration with building any team and especially a NT. The ability of a player who has started every game she has played since she was 10 through college and her professional career, to 'accept' and thrive as a bench player on the NT is not a given. A player who is used to taking 30% of her team's shots to recognize that her normal shots are not the best shots for the team and to pass when she normally would force a shot is not a given. Angel who appears to have been a difficult teammate on many of the teams she has played on while being the dominant scorer on every one of them, actually thrived on most of her USA teams when given a very different role as a change of pace bench player - she found/was given a defined niche that suited her strengths and that she was willing to accept and appeared to really enjoy. Other players might not be so happy or so willing. On a lot of under performing teams you can see at the end of a game the 'I am going to be the hero' mentality of certain players - who then more often than not lose the game for their team because they have forgotten their teammates. Not talking about the player willing to take the last shot, but the one who forces the last shot while ignoring their wide open teammate standing under the rim. [/QUOTE]

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