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Message: [QUOTE="UConnCat, post: 2231859, member: 15"] It's probably worth remembering the words of Geno and Dawn Staley in February of 2016. They both addressed the point guard issues and they could not have been more direct that the young guards had not shown that they're ready for the job. "[I]Right now there is no clear cut person that you would say that’s the next one,’’ Auriemma said. "It was easy when (Bird) was coming out because whoever they had – [B]Teresa Edwards[/B], [B]Dawn Staley[/B], that group – and Sue was coming out. They brought her over there, her and ([B]Diana Taurasi[/B]), and said, 'OK, these are the next two.’ It’s not that easy right now to go, 'OK, here it is.’ Because if it was they’d be on the team this year. But in the next two years somebody’s going to have to emerge between now and the World Championship in 2018.’’[/I] Dawn, who was the point guard in 3 Olympics, also addressed the failure of the younger guards to step up and prove they belong on the team: "[I]There are players that have some of the attributes,’’ Staley said. "I haven’t seen a complete one yet. And I think that’s a big question mark because every point guard that has been the leader for our USA Basketball team had someone that was their understudy. "It’s a duty of service,’’ Staley said. "You’re serving other people. It’s selflessness. It’s all the intangibles it takes for a team to be successful. And that’s hard because some of the younger point guards they’re more scoring point guards. And because they think being aggressive and getting their shot off and to get in the flow, they miss a step when it comes to being the fourth or fifth option on a USA Basketball National Team level. So it takes adjusting. It takes an adjustment for some of the younger players.’’[/I] Geno and Dawn are just coaches whose role with USA Basketball was and is to coach the team to a championship every 2 years. There are others, Carol Callan and Selection Committee members, whose job it is to take care of USA Basketball in the long term. The fact that the Selection Committee has not yet identified the next point guard to lead USA Basketball says a lot. There will be a training camp in Sept/Oct of this year so maybe we'll get a sense of which direction USA BB might go in for its guard play. [I] [/I] [/QUOTE]

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