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Message: [QUOTE="Littlemin, post: 4301655, member: 10363"] Except Muhl‘s greatest impact was at the start of games where she was key in establishing that Uconn was there to play their game, that Uconn was the aggressor dictating the tempo, not having the game dictated to them. They ran roughshod from jump street over some teams in the BE tournament that proved much better nationally than anyone gave them credit for and Auriemma foolishly chose to give away that advantage for no positive reason IMO. We will obviously never know what would have happened had he left the team that rolled through the BE tournament intact. One last point, I disagree big time about your description of Bueckers coming up big last year. She had a great year but her reluctance to play as Auriemma asked is well documented. The fact is she played passively against Arizona in the biggest game of the year and Uconn lost with her having a lot of bullets left in her gun; she should have hunted shots and taken twice as many as she did, again, my opinion. And no player “earns the right” to figure anything out on the court, it is a team game and a coaches job is to play the team he thinks will win, period. Now there is no question in my mind Auriemma did that but I don’t understand his reasoning to do what he did and I think he was dead wrong. [/QUOTE]