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Message: [QUOTE="hjoerring, post: 4810881, member: 3630"] I thought the piece was well written. And am in agreement w/ LwrcasefaN. No competitive team today are playing five against as many players as the other team carries. The days when Geno can use 5 players to beat every other team are gone/over. And so are the days when freshmen sit and wait. Play them or lose them might be the appropriate motto. There are too many freshmen out there who are playing key roles for winning teams. However, this is not an argument for benching/discing Upperclassmen, especially seniors. Most of the latter will accept that to play in the post-season they may have to sit longer than they had to date. Its about game development of younger players so that they get better, and have goods reasons to return next year. If GA and others around him are a-missed then I'm nervous. I got 3-things from his interview: 1) accepting that he needed to find playing time for the youngsters, 2) telling Paige that she cannot be frustrated w/ herself and teammates (I thought for the first time in watching her that it slipped out for a minute that she had it with Ice's turnovers. (AE was the calming effect) And 3), he might want to get rid of the apologies about the Freshmen not coming here to play big roles-- see #1 above (all freshmen today cherished such opportunities. And having watched a number of games I do not, any longer, buy into Uconn's offense and defense are too complicated. Most of the top teams are running some versions of the so-called Princeton style. All good and successful programs have myths and tell stories about themselves. These myths and story-tellings have to be re-motivated from-time-to-time. We are in such a motion. I think this current Freshmen are the class that will keep the wind at our back, or it will be hard sailing ahead. And threads about Mary Poppins-- which of 3 Freshmen are the pretties (should get more time over the others, is just silly. And too the idea of putting players on the bench to teach them a lesson. I never thought it was the Benching that worked for Stewart and Co. They were so talented, period. [/QUOTE]

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