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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3154217, member: 199"] When people talk about playing time at Uconn and especially associate it with transfers, it seems that they forget two important factors: the basic tenant of the team is 'playing time is earned in practice' and, this isn't some huge mystery to the players. Molly Bent isn't sitting on the bench talking to herself and going 'I can't believe I'm not starting. Why doesn't coach put me in?' She already has a very good idea of when she will get into games and a pretty good idea of how many minutes she is going to get. Some HS players have a fantasy view of their college career and how it will evolve from day one on campus to graduation. That usually lasts a day or two into the first practices. At Uconn the coaches do not blow smoke during the recruiting process, but that doesn't stop the fantasies for some of the recruits. Freshman year is a reality check and it is a rude awakening. Being on a championship caliber team is really really hard work and requires sacrifices. But the important aspect that we fans tend to ignore is the 95% of the court time and the off court time we are not seeing, when the coaches are constantly communicating with the players and the players are seeing what good and bad 'Uconn basketball' looks like. Hopefully most transfers off the Uconn team are based not on what is happening in the current games, but where the road is leading. So yeah it may be about playing time, but in reality it is about what is required to earn that playing time and the realization that either they do not have the intrinsic talent to reach that point, or they aren't willing to work quite that hard at this point in life. I think it is telling that none of the Uconn transfers out have actually had professional careers (I think.) Someone like Azure has not transferred out of the Uconn program. There have been some talented players who have, but for whatever reason they have not had what it takes to extend their career beyond the amateur level. (EDD is the exception, but that had nothing to do with Uconn basketball.) There was a thread where someone posted win #90 against South Florida yesterday (and then it was deleted) and it was really fun to watch - Uconn scored 65 points in the first half demolishing USF. Most of the second half the starters sat, and it was pure bench for the 4th quarter. The team scored 37 points in the second half and 20 points in the last 13 minutes when the starters were sitting. It was one of the best bench games in the last decade and still it did not look much like 'Uconn basketball' during that 4th quarter. And one of the bench players was Dangerfield so it wasn't all based on talent. [/QUOTE]

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