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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4372742, member: 3535"] I don't agree. IMO what you are stating here is a bit misleading (It's "Individual Brilliance" when UCONN wins but it's The Offense and Geno when they lose?). But it's not one individual game. For example, it's 14 straight Final fours as an example. What do you think-- in none of those games in which games were relatively tight no one made a play on their own within the offense? The UCONN women are not pros. In tight games sometimes young college kids will freeze in a manner of speak. Just as they did several years ago vs ND (either a reg season game or in FF) I forget which- where UCONN had the ball late and Kelly Farris wound up dribbling the ball toward the opposite baseline away from the coaching staff sideline and the play completely blew up in which they ended up losing a very tight game. Geno said afterward that they didn't run the play from early on. But Geno does allow players to make plays. Heck even the loss to Miss State Saniya Chong broke toward the basket. She had the go-ahead to make a play. Heck even as far back as 20 years ago Barb Turner had talked to Chris D about wanting to shoot more from the outside and Chris responded by saying "Who said you can't shoot from the outside?" After Baylor / Griner got beat her senior year, at the end of the season Geno was on TV wrapping up the end of the season with Meg and she asked him about Baylor and Griner and Geno said he would have had Griner throughout the season also play on the perimeter and let other players work on the inside. That’s not what Kim did. Geno looks to open things up for all the players and gives them opportunities. It’s why he goes to 14 straight Final fours and wins 11 titles, right? The great players take it upon themselves within the offense. Just as Diana Taurasi took it upon herself to make the play vs Oklahoma in 01-02 Title game to ice the game in which Geno ran the offense to feed her the pass in the low post. [/QUOTE]

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