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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 5286442, member: 3535"] +1 I am a big time believer in Geno. I’ve defended him for many years(from bench, to small-ball, to starters etc) because I believe in his style. And he has done some amazing things I never saw coming. Super-great. But he is not perfect. And with Tina he had a definite brain-freeze in her soph year. Tina in her frosh year FOY and Honorable Mention A/a. Soph year playing with Maya and Renee she started all or nearly all year and she was 3rd team A/A and All-Tourney Big East (but they lost). And what did Geno do after the loss? He benched his underclassman for the combo of Kaili McLaren and Brittany Hunter. Think about this. He took a 3rd team A/A that also was all Tourney that was his leading inside scorer and rebounder and just before the Tourney started, he changed her role to come off the bench, all-the-while he was a battering-ram upon her all year. And then when they lose he proclaims that they didn’t have an inside game? Yeah – that tends to happen when you pull your underclassman that you were pounding on all year and then force her to prepare differently when you go against another big-time frontline. This was indicative how he treated Tina that year. The thing is Tina wasn’t fictional Luke Skywalker being trained by Yoda. I’m pretty sure that as an example that year he was stating that Tina should be averaging a double-double at halftime. This was paper-reporting. So maybe he said as a joke but the way he was riding her all year – I doubt it. It's a joke/star wars fantasy to expect a double-double at halftime when you had Maya and Monty, and Tina wouldn't play a ton of minutes. Then these type of things the media picks up on even though it was absurd. With all this said Geno holds Tina in extreme greatness. We all should. Obviously he was huge in making Tina what she had become. [/QUOTE]

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