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Late to the discussion....
Show me a school that can find 2-3 strong and fast 6'5"-6'6" women who are not already on the basketball team that are willing to show up for practices and provide strong competition for the teams' best players. Does anyone really think that the 5'7" women that would be the 13th, 14th and 15th on the squad would provide any reasonable competion for the starting center.
If you practice agaist someone who is somewhat bigger, faster and stronger than your opponents in real games, it can only cause you to be better.
Does it make sense to slow down the development of the better players to boost the development of the lessor players? Which one has the best benefit in the long run. In most things, the better participants pull the lessor participants up with them when allowed to excel while the opposite rarely holds true.
As a perfect example, look at our public schools. One tactic used around here to make the district look better is to not test the advanced students to determine their actual ability so that the delayed students don't appear so far behind. Does that really help? Or does it just make things look good on paper?
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