Recent content by Alydar

She could take minutes from the other guards, specifically Popovic & Fisher. Development is very important but not as important than winning right now. If Dursus is a 50-40-80 volume shooter she fits. Ziebell is the only backcourt player who can be relied on as a volume shooter right now...

I see no interior vulnerability against anyone. Please explain.

I don't remember who but a coach once said that a fracture of a foot bone is prefered over either bone spurs or tendon/ligament tears. Quicker recovery and better prognosis. But then I didn't stay at Hol Inn last night.

3-5 are very fuzzy numbers right now at UConn. The only players I associate with just one position are El Alfy and Arnold. All last year, guards came in for centers, forwards came in for guards. Roles shifted throughout the game. UConn has played a lot without a center on the floor but...

A high school teammate of Bueckers. They didn't lose a game in 1019 or 2020.

Strong, Quinonez, Vukosa, Cheli. A 5th forward would be nice but who sits? Besides, I want Ayers.

Some good posts. I laughed when someone brought up Jefferson as a comparison. Going into her 2nd year Jefferson wasn't an AA yet. her outside shot wasn't developed and she still drove into double teams with her head down. (not unlike Big Fish) My memory isn't great but I think she became "Mo...

That's good evidence that the depth of elite talent in wcbb is still very shallow.

Muhl played with an attitude and UConn has missed that. I think Popovic was described somewhere as playing with a little chip on her shoulder. As for her defense, who knows. I'm no judge. But a lot of high school scorers were given easy defensive assignments to save their energy. Bueckers for...

I keep thinking up future UConn "rotation lists" that seem great until I realize I forgot about a couple of players who also need to be on the list. UConn's roster has gotten insanely deep lately.

She fills a box score a lot like another Eastern Euro, Ionescu.

It seems that those 4 SEC teams and maybe Tenn will be beating each other from now through the SEC tournament. Okl was about dead in the water 10 days ago and now they are back in the discussion. I don't see any clear leader in the SEC and it will go to the team that gets hot at the right time.

Good point. AI? Yeah, Artificial Ignorance. I'm reminded of the 1930's Frankenstein movies. The monster didn't even learn to talk until the sequel.

I think Quinonez played against Juhasz in Italy. I don't think any incoming US freshman had competition anywhere close to that. Her adjustments will be to the pace of play at UConn and the US rules.

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