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Message: [QUOTE="ballerfan, post: 4257809, member: 11596"] Hi BBallF. On your suggestion, I went back to read Geno's quote about Nika. “She hates the refs, she hates the other team, she hates me, she hates everybody and she plays that way. She plays with a real chip on her shoulder. Every team needs somebody that you can plug into as your energy source and she’s it for us. … As soon as she went into the starting lineup, our team changed. I don’t know how she can stay there now because I gotta find something to do with the other kid, Paige, because if I leave her on the bench much longer, we’re gonna have a riot on our hands.” You said the passage was about "Paige wanting to start and him having a riot on his hands." I suspect every player on the team wants to start, but in this passage Geno does not say that Paige "insists" on starting, as you said in a post, nor does he say that Paige would riot if she didn't. What he said is that he has to find something to do with Paige and that, if he didn't, there would be a riot. Are you wrong to infer that Geno meant that Paige would riot if she didn't? I don't know. (As an aside, by definition a riot takes at least three people; Merriam-Webster). But I want to suggest that you are making assumptions and that there is a possibility that you are wrong. It could have just as easily been a throwaway line about fans who would riot. I also suspect that Geno does what he wants and doesn't get pushed around by a player, even Paige. [/QUOTE]

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