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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4828368, member: 3535"] Did Iowa have enough bodies down low vs South Carolina? This game can't be ignored and as a result shows it's okay to play your best rather than being so fixated on height. So, yes you can have enough big bodies as Iowa has shown. You were the one that said 'Geno showed he was best all-time" just now. We agree. :) And by him not playing Amari right now, isn't he tel;ling you that he probbaly is not going to play her much going forward as well, unless she improves in Practices? So, you would agree with Geno that if he continues to not play her much other than an occasional blowout, that Geno is more likely correct in not playing her? I beleive we can agree on that? Look at the 55 second mark from below and see how easily Amari loses the player she is guarding. If she is showing this also in Practices, then Geno can't play her other than in blowouts or team injury and/or team fatigue. Just look at between 54 and 53 seconds see how she just bascially "gives up" as if expecting the ball to go in. Bottomline is that you can have enough big bodies if you are continually hustling. Even despite the outcome if you are playing all out-- that's 1,000 times better than playing someone just because they are tall. IMO that's not the UCONN way, Lombardi once was miquoted/his coment about wining being the only thing was taken way out of context. He meant effort and or a will to win. Amari just never seems to show this. The great coaches frrom UCONN (Geno, Jim Calhoun, and Hurley) build thier teams a large part on effort. Are they to throw that all this way just because a player is taller than the others just because they cna block an occassional shot (which isn'the object of the game anyway.)? Part of the puzzle is effort - and it should also be in Practices. She just has to show it instead of it be handed to her. She has the chance every day to beat out Ice in Practices. - Show it. :) [MEDIA=youtube]jNO4q2epXRk[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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