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Message: [QUOTE="Mister2, post: 2524063, member: 8504"] Execution, execution, execution. In a recent interview, Geno said (I paraphrase): "while winning is the obvious end result one hopes for--that's why we play this game--at UCONN we win a lot, so it's no big deal to win a game; the most important thing is, when you're walking out the door after a game, you don't want to say 'yes, we won, but I played lousy.'" While for most coaches winning is the ultimate and only objective, for UCONN and Geno they have entered into the rarefied realm that winning has become simply a BY-PRODUCT of striving for perfect execution--for each player in her individual role, and for the team as a unit. I think it is in the execution where much of the angst lies this season, compared to the last. For some reason I am not getting the vibe that the current team as a whole is executing as well as the last team, despite having played a less tough OOC scehdule. Much of this could be a teething problem when Geno has to integrate as talented a player as Z into the machinery, thus perhaps causing a temporary disruption to the dynamics of the whole team. Hopefully such a teething problem would be smoothed out come tournament time. [/QUOTE]