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Message: [QUOTE="sun, post: 4683051, member: 11664"] I found a 4 year study of WNBA injuries that lists all of the types of game related injuries that occurred but not during practices & in the off season. It's interesting that many injuries are not that severe but can involve ailments such as sprains & inflammation. It raises the question about the probability that some Huskies will likely miss games due to some ailment or injury. It's not that having injuries occur necessarily needs to be devastating, but rather that the timing of the injury can happen at a time when the player is thought to be really needed. In that respect Geno has planned for that eventuality by having a lot more depth on this year's team. However all of the depth in the world won't be helpful unless the substitute players are actually used, developed & given some PT. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666061X20300109[/URL] Another article describes how injuries affected the 2019 WNBA playoffs and discusses various possible reasons for some of the injuries. Some reasons also affect college players while others don't such as advanced age & playing year round. However wear & tear is believed to possibly be a factor and every UConn player has a known injury history. What it means is that by recognizing that some types of injuries are very likely to occur during the course of a long season with many practices, in order to help minimize the risk of injuries, more substitutions should be used whenever possible. It can help to limit exposure to the risk of injury. Some might believe that more substitutions increase the exposure risk. But then you can look at who is being exposed to injury vs. who is not when a substitution is made. With so much discussion about which players should or shouldn't be starters, we should all take note that by having more players that can be subbed into a game may help reduce some of the wear & tear and fatigue factors that can lead to injuries no matter how minor. In the final analysis, what is meant by "If UConn can remain healthy..." really only means "reasonably healthy for the most important games." And even then there's no guarantee that a UConn line up won't have a last minute scratch for any illness/ ailment. We should accept that some injuries will happen but that UConn can limit their consequences by welcoming more substitutions during games instead of less. More substitutions could very well mean less injuries to star players. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.swishappeal.com/wnba/2019/9/13/20863525/wnba-playoffs-injuries-impact-load-management-brittney-griner-breanna-stewart-sue-bird-diana-taurasi[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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