Azzi Fudd made 9 of 16 shots from deep (56%) tonight and many of them look like she was shooting from the FT line. If you tell me that you were "expecting" Azzi to shoot like that I'd say you were expecting too much.
Geno mentioned her in his presser as doing her thing at in the minutes she had. I like the nickname "Nesh" the team has for her.
I guess I also fall into the same category of being very surprised when she misses a shot. Not just because her shot form is so pure but she is really good at finding space and using screens to get enough space. She does not take bad or overly contested 3's
Agree Coco. Azzi is such a great shooter that I think we may fall into always believing and unfairly expecting it will alwsys fall. She had an awesome game particularly in the second half. IMO once they settled in all five starters played as well as any of us could have expected or hoped for. Bonus from Aubrey, Ayanna and Ines. A grest first outing!
. she is supposed the best player and the team needs her to show scoring versatility (as lou DID). she cannot be satisfied grazing at the stripe. she should be hunting shots. in short, she was not nearly aggressive enough offensively (yeah, even though she contributed a lot of points). again this year, i'd swear she is too timid. does she lack confidence? is she still deferring?
From what I have read on the Boneyard about Azzi's 3-pointers is that most of the posters think she will be above the 50% rate. The quantity is negligible. It still was one factor and Nika had 5 factors. Badass is controll of the game and Nika was in the middle of the whole game , especially the 11 assists. GO HUSKIES!!!
Amen, Coco. That was baddest badass pass ever! And she was smooth and nonchalant about it too! ice water in her veins to try that so early in her UConn career. I think Ms. Ines is going to surprise a few people this year....
I’ll take 3’s over 2’s any day of the week, especially shooting at that high a percentage. It opens up the offense to me. Until they force her off the line, it should be bombs away! Nine 3 pointers, and your talking about drives to the basket.it was nice that azzi made 9 (?) triplets.
i would have much preferred that she had shown her vaunted pull-up jumper, which i know she has (and a good one) but i rarely see. i don't believe she event attempted one! this in a huge blowout against a d2 foe in an exhibition game.
we already know she is a great outside threat, and it's fun to see fire away, piling up 3s when she's cooking. she doesn't have to prove it, especially in an exhibition game when she could (and i think should) be working on and gaining confidence in the many other aspects of her game that geno has been raving about.
i certainly don't think azzi deserves a badass. she piled up points, sure -- which i realize enthralls many in the BY -- but that ain't all that matters. she did do a decent job on defense and distributed fine. it was encouraging to see her drives to the baseline. but i didn't see any drives elsewhere, which i was hoping for, and no mid-range pops
in contrast, i haven't see anyone talking about liya. she looked really good. my badasses would be nika, lou, liya, and i was impressed with aubry. ines was a revelation. and the disappointment and puzzle: amari, sad to say. i'd love to see her come around.
btw, kutztown did themselves proud in pool of piranhas. good job.
I will consider a 45 percent rate to be phenomenal for Azzi. Why? In future games against highy ranked teams, she's gonna be face guarded and double and triple teamed. She may end up being the very first D1 female player to be quadtruple teamed! Her two best friends will quickly become Lou and Caroline as they will be the two who make it possible to get Azzi the basketball.
Sure old dummy.
UCONN wants to run their stuff against someone who doesn't know it (i.e. the practice players see the sets every day) and defend someone they don't know. UCONN can't scrimmage D1 opponents publicly. So in order to get UCONN a simulated game before the season starts, they have to play a D2 opponent. As Geno talked about in his press conferences, they want the kids (especially the new ones) to go through a game day schedule (meals, shoot around, travel, warm-ups, intros, fans, etc. ). 
Ines’s name is pronounced Inesh
