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Another reason to place Geno on your personal "key his car" list if you were ever on the fence over that decision.  Imagine being the league MVP and not making the Olympic team, at a position of need, with the character, leadership, and intangibles of Nneka.  It probably won't surprise you that five UConn players made both the 2016 and 2020 team.

To be fair, those two teams easily won gold and Geno wasn't the coach in 2020. However, the 2016 snub was egregious-Nneka was the WNBA MVP, led the LA Sparks to the WNBA championship, and set scoring and rebounding records in one of her best years. (She also had led the previous USA junior teams which fed players to the Olympic team, usually leading in scoring playing alongside all those UConn future Olympian peers).

Ok, I've never, ever, keyed someone's car but I would make a one-time exception when Geno parks his car near mine.

My better half reminded me that Candace Parker, easily a top-3 WNBA player in 2016, was also dumped from that Olympic team (though she did play for USA in 08 & 12).

[crackpot]

Another reason to place Geno on your personal "key his car" list if you were ever on the fence over that decision.  Imagine being the league MVP and not making the Olympic team, at a position of need, with the character, leadership, and intangibles of Nneka.  It probably won't surprise you that five UConn players made both the 2016 and 2020 team.

To be fair, those two teams easily won gold and Geno wasn't the coach in 2020. However, the 2016 snub was egregious-Nneka was the WNBA MVP, led the LA Sparks to the WNBA championship, and set scoring and rebounding records in one of her best years. (She also had led the previous USA junior teams which fed players to the Olympic team, usually leading in scoring playing alongside all those UConn future Olympian peers).

Ok, I've never, ever, keyed someone's car but I would make a one-time exception when Geno parks his car near mine.

My better half reminded me that Candace Parker, easily a top-3 WNBA player in 2016, was also dumped from that Olympic team (though she did play for USA in 08 & 12).