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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4011562, member: 1131"] Geno has had to tolerate quite a bit of fouling by his big players, especially in their freshman and sophomore years when they are learning techniques. Do you remember when Stef played in her second college game against Brittany Griner and fouled out in 8 minutes? Tina Charles was a foul machine in her early years, and even Stewie was foul prone in her early years. Aaliyah Edwards fouled a lot last year and it was tolerated -- because she was a freshman and because her play was needed. But she fouled out against Arkansas in minimal minutes, and missed the whole fourth quarter. Both Liv and Aaliyah had 4 fouls in the Baylor game, and either of them could easily have gotten a 5th foul on The Call at the end of the game. In that case, UConn might have had to play an overtime period without one of them. Even if the player is experienced, the nature of post play leads to fouls -- direct contact, jostling for position for passes and then for rebounding position, shot block attempts. UConn's post players have been no exception to that. So it will be an unaccustomed luxury this year if there are more than two post players with sufficient size and skill to cover the 4 and 5 positions. [/QUOTE]