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Message: [QUOTE="itsasport, post: 5219527, member: 306"] UConn, due to a combination of players getting healthy and coaching, are a much better team than they were at the beginning of the season. and, it seems to me, the other top teams have not only not gotten better, they have retrogressed. They have all lost to each other and have often looked bad in doing so. Has there been any noticeable improvement in individual basketball skills or team offense or defense of the other top teams over the course of this season? The UConn coaching staff, on the other hand, has traditionally demonstrated that they can significantly improve individual basketball skills and also team offensive and defense. For instance, is anyone still saying that Notre Dame has the best backcourt- perhaps some are. But ND has probably regressed the most of all the top teams. By tournament time, UConn will have a seamless ten player rotation that will present huge problems and have answers for any team that they will play. The burden of success will not lay on any player, or even any two players. Offensively, all that has been needed is some points from everyone and a monster quarter or half from an individual player to blow a game open. Every UConn player has been able to score in critical moments throughout the course of a game. No single player has had to carry the team for a whole game. They know others will be able to take the baton. In the tournament, no UConn player will have to play 40 minutes in a game. There will be no UConn player playing on fumes at the end of a game, resulting in fewer balls hitting short off the rum and the ability for UConn to play intense team defense for 40 minutes. [/QUOTE]

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