Recent content by trisailin

The surprising (to me) team is Minnesota.

743,726.98 To some degree, this again shows how silly the quad idea is. Does it really make any difference between if a team is 29th or 31st? Are they really that different? Treating a win against #5 as the same as #29 (especially on the women's side) doesn't make lots of sense.

I find it astounding that people put a national championship solely on the shoulders (no pun intended) of a freshman and have little to no confidence in the rest of the players.

While Connolly accurately points out what happened, it's a very short sighted analysis. That exact same substitution pattern is what brought TN back from certain doom in the first half. That pattern had been working well up to that point in the game.

If you've watched her podcast, it has appeared she's been fighting a cold at a minimum for a couple of weeks.

I find this whole "quad" discussion to be rather silly. If you are a top 5 team, is there any functional difference between playing 25 or 100? The only difference might be how long you leave your top rotation players in vs lower bench to achieve whatever score you wanted.

I'm not sure messing with the DNA of the team is such a brilliant idea to make them better. It might just make them worse.

I could be wrong, but the way I heard it was Rebecca offered removing her shoes and Geno said that would be nice. She has done it since.

Actually I disagree completely. If the announcers would just CALL THE GAME. Who fouled and what the call was. Tell us what we can't see watching TV. There is plenty to talk about. Many enjoy watching the poetry in motion of UCONN. Much of the time - Beautiful Basketball regardless of the...

I think this is great analysis however, I think the starting point is not what Massey would recommend. I think he'd recommend using the "Power" rating instead. I've not studied greatly his math resulting in the power rating, but that is what he uses in his game "predictions". Of course...

However - if you look at Massey's "power ranking", he has them at 20.

The shortcoming of any "one on one" analysis is that basketball is a team game. If you look at the player combinations listed after each game show repeatedly the same thing. Ash is a vital part to the most effective combination. The starting 5 is the most effective group. Any player change...

Thank you for doing this. Really gives a sense of how cohesive that starting 5 is. As soon as ANY sub is put in, the effectiveness has gone down.

Not so very long ago, Geno employed the twin towers approach with Dolson and Stokes.

With that nice picture, we ought to be able to put to rest any dispute about Hartley units for each player.