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Message: [QUOTE="nastynatty, post: 4301839, member: 11900"] It takes time and practice to get someone re-integrated into the team’s offense and it takes a coordinated team effort to get Paige open (something the team hadn’t had to do for 3 months). Everyone knows that the starters get the most minutes so it was necessary to re-insert Paige to give her and the team the reps they needed to re-acclimate her with the offense. Do I think Paige is capable of taking over a game coming off the bench? Yes. Do I think it helped Paige’s confidence and comfort level being in the starting lineup? Also yes. Why add another challenge of forcing her to adapt to a reserve role when she’s already facing the mental challenge of coming back from injury? When you come off the bench, you’re expected to maintain or elevate a level that has already been established. When you start, there may be expectations about how you come out but you ultimately are given the time to figure it out and adjust. I just don’t comprehend how you can see inserting the best player on the team into the starting lineup as a net negative. Also, consider the level of competition in the games where it seemed like the team was clicking on all cylinders with Paige coming off the bench. With the exception of maybe Mercer, every team they played in the tournament was a step above. So you can’t directly compare what the team looked like then to how that same team would’ve looked against the likes of competition like NC State or Stanford. [/QUOTE]

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