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Message: [QUOTE="Huskee11, post: 4683268, member: 7171"] To me, "remaining healthy" means being physically able to play at your highest level when the Big East and NCAA tournaments come around. It means not incurring a season ending injury, or an injury that causes a player to be less than 100% come tournament time, think Paige at the end of the 2022 season. A sprained ankle in December that keeps a player out for two weeks, or similar things like that, is not the end of the world. Villanova had the same starting lineup for all 37 games last season - check their website if you are skeptical. That is pretty remarkable. It would be nice to be able to do that, although UConn may utilize different starting lineups for reasons having nothing to do with injury - but "remaining healthy" does not require something as rare as that. You do hear comments about how "everyone is dealing with something" at the end of a long season of practices and games. That may largely be true, but UConn needs to have as a first priority managing the season so as to limit to the extent possible what players might be dealing with at the end of the year. That is risk management, and no one can guarantee that it will work, but that should be the goal. I would prioritize that in practice over running a drill for an hour until it is perfect. If the choice is health or chemistry, I would choose health. A roster of fourteen should help. [/QUOTE]