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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4082240, member: 1131"] If you are right (and you might well be), then they will replace Liv and (???) in the starting lineup after enough games to demonstrate the fact, but not in Game 1. Geno is not going to pull seniors out of the starting lineup until younger players demonstrate in games (not just practices) that they will play consistently better. But the difficulty is that (I think) Geno will go with a 3-guard, 2-big lineup. If he does that, I have trouble seeing him benching any of [Paige, Christyn, Evina] unless they clearly play badly over the course of several games, which I do not foresee. I think all of them have shown enough productivity that they will not lose their starting job to a freshman even if she is really good. But if Azzi is that good, she will get 20-25 minutes off the bench, as Bria Hartley did in her freshman year. But Geno will be quick to pull the trigger if he sees any lapse in effort or defensive performance. He demonstrated that when an overtime loss to Stanford was enough to make him pull Kiah Stokes and Saniya Chong out of the starting lineup, and replace them with Morgan Tuck and freshman Kia Nurse. That was after only 2 games in that season. Morgan and Kia held their starting jobs for the rest of that season, and indeed for subsequent seasons. [/QUOTE]