2021 Caroline Ducharme to UConn

[hart2hart]

You can have more than one bestie. I bet Paige, Azzi, Saylor and Amari are all her besties! I’ve watched a lot of video snippets on Caroline Ducharme and she is really good!!
She works real hard and will be a GREAT fit for UCONN. Welcome Caroline! See you soon!

 

[Gus Mahler]

22-23 is when the starting lineups could become a problem but a nice problem if all pans out.
1. Ice, Deberry, Edwards and Paith should all be in the rotation at 4/5 spots.
2. Aubrey, Saylor, Caroline and Mir at the 3/4 spot.
3. Anna, Paige, Mir, 2 spot.
4.Paige, Anna and Nika Pg.

So many potential combos from this group. Should be a nice healthy competition for minutes.

Interesting you have Mir at the 2. Can't wait to see Mir blast into orbit, but can she launch?

 

[UconnMark]

Can't wait to see Mir blast into orbit, but can she launch?

You can bet your astronaut on that!

 

[jcoton56]

Over the years we have had several CDs beginning with our HOF Associate Head Coach. Honestly I have lost track. Doty and Danger spring to mind, so the question is this. Is Ms. Ducharme going to be known as Caroline Ducharme ?

 

[jabstep]

One of the most important skills an offensive player can have is putting the ball in the hoop. With today's offensive sets of screen and roll or slide to open spaces, 3 point shooters are critical. Caroline Ducharme seems to have that skill of 3 point shooting with a quick release. She has been compared to KLS for her frame and shooting skills. I will say something about KLS frame and getting knocked off her shot. Similar to Liv this year. She had trouble finishing against stronger opponents underneath or around the hoop. Caroline Ducharme should hit the weight room. She has time before she gets here to gain some strength.

 

[Steelerone]

I don't know whether I am more excited about the coming year or the two after that.

 

[DefenseBB]

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Over the years we have had several CDs beginning with our HOF Associate Head Coach. Honestly I have lost track. Doty and Danger spring to mind, so the question is this. Is Ms. Ducharme going to be known as Caroline Ducharme ?

Yes, it has to be because typing Caroline the Charm is simply too long to type every time so it must be implied within Caroline Ducharme!

 

[pacific 44]

I will bet my remaining inventory of tp that Caroline Ducharme will be a major contributor to Uconn's many future ncaa championships going forward. She is exactly the type of player that good teams seem to have.

 

[donalddoowop]

I don't know whether I am more excited about the coming year or the two after that.

I think the only two to be excited about are the two after this season. I doubt if there will be a season this coming year.

 

[Tonyc]

Well I gotta tell yah. CD is the real deal. Her ball handleing and passing at 6'2 are like a point guard. Oh I forget to mention her long long range. She can create her own shot and with the team mates coming in she along with her classmates will be very difficult to guard one on one. We've got 8 players who will be very hard to play one on one. Defenses will have their problems. This team reminds me of a team a few years ago that lost to ND in the FF when they had so many injuries to key players. IMO if healthy that was one of the all time great UConn teams. This team with the incoming classes over the next 3 years is similar. The Greatest Team in WCBB just got better and better and better.

 

[Husky fanatic]

I don't know whether I am more excited about the coming year or the two after that.

Most likely it will be the two after that as there may not be a this year.

 

[meyers7]

Why do you insist on insulting me? Do you harbor some insecurity issues?

Why do you insist on insulting players?

But don't take it personally, it wasn't about you. It's just...look at what you wrote. You claimed to have taken a college level course called "basketball", where to pass you had to make 10 layups??? If that were to be true, would be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. And yet you use this "story" to put down college level athletes, like this would somehow make you better than them???? And you think I have insecurities????

 

[Alydar]

Why do you insist on insulting players?

But don't take it personally, it wasn't about you. It's just...look at what you wrote. You claimed to have taken a college level course called "basketball", where to pass you had to make 10 layups??? If that were to be true, would be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. And yet you use this "story" to put down college level athletes, like this would somehow make you better than them???? And you think I have insecurities????

First, passing phys Ed was required at one of the schools I attended. And just for the record, when I attended UConn they had a Phys Ed course called basketball, one named football, and many others about various other sports. Where did you go to school and did they have a Phys Ed major? And no, it wasn't UNC I attended [ ]

 

[Alydar]

Why do you insist on insulting players?

Me? Insist? That's patently false. I don't insult players. Saying that a player lacks a skill isn't an insult.

But suggesting that I took basket weaving at UNC is an insult and if you don't see that I have nothing else to say to you. Unless of course we ever meet in person.

 

[DefenseBB]

Me? Insist? That's patently false. I don't insult players. Saying that a player lacks a skill isn't an insult.

But suggesting that I took basket weaving at UNC is an insult and if you don't see that I have nothing else to say to you. Unless of course we ever meet in person.

Alydar-hold on, you were insulting KLS and what your "memory" of her missing lay-ups that led to much consternation from you. Mind you that KLS was a 3 time WBCA All-American, a two time AAC Player of the Year and now is a pro and a regular at the USA basketball team camps. But yeah, you're right KLS was not good at making layup....SMH. So yes, you are being called out for not showing logic despite many pointing out her overall FG% and you still burying your head in the sand saying the world is flat without any evidence to support your claim. Am I mad at you? No. I usually enjoy your posts, however on this thread you've jumped the shark. Sorry my old horseracing comrade, but you might be better served doing a mea culpa.

 

[Alydar]

Alydar-hold on, you were insulting KLS and what your "memory" of her missing lay-ups that led to much consternation from you. Mind you that KLS was a 3 time WBCA All-American, a two time AAC Player of the Year and now is a pro and a regular at the USA basketball team camps. But yeah, you're right KLS was not good at making layup....SMH. So yes, you are being called out for not showing logic despite many pointing out her overall FG% and you still burying your head in the sand saying the world is flat without any evidence to support your claim. Am I mad at you know, I usually enjoy your posts, however on this thread you've jumped the shark. Sorry my old horseracing comrade, but you might be better served doing a mea culpa.

I never said she couldn't make layups, only that she missed too many of them. Easy ones. Obviously not enough to damage her shooting %. At the college level uncontested layups should be made at a 95%+ rate. So 70% is a poor number but will make you appear to be a great shooter. Her role was as a freshman, stand in the corner and shoot 3's. My point was that for a 6'3" player her inside game wasn't at the AA standards of her outside game. Is that an insult? It's certainly a criticism but hardly insulting to say that that part of her game wasn't AA stuff? Who did shoot well inside? KML for one. She could be doubled down low but always seemed to flip the ball off the glass with just the right spin.

Another poor inside shooter? Tina Charles. Until her senior year that is. I'd guess that maybe half her offensive rebounds were from her own misses during her first 2 years. Is that an insult or a critique?

 

[JonathanXIV]

Another poor inside shooter? Tina Charles. Until her senior year that is. I'd guess that maybe half her offensive rebounds were from her own misses during her first 2 years. Is that an insult or a critique?

Neither. It’s an exaggeration.

 

[Alydar]

Is this a joke?

BTW you know a player who shoots 40% from 3 has better efficiency that a player that shoots 2's at 55%, right?

KLS had a 62.4% efficiency field goal % rating in her frosh year. That isn't just "good." It's "outstanding." She averaged in double digits for arguably the greatest teams in NCAA History.

What did she do? Beat out a relative of yours for a position when they were younger? KLS started on arguably the greatest team ever while carrying an efficiency rating of 62.4% along with averaging double-digits scoring as a freshman, along with nearly a 2-1 assist to turnover ratio -- and you're seriously trying to knock her freshman year? Please - just stop it. How many players put up these stats as a frosh? Do you realize KLS beat out Collier and Gabby? So we're going to knock a player (a freshman to boot) for being incredibly efficient as a shooter, incredibly efficient as a passer, and good scorer averaging 11 ppg in 23.5 minutes?

Nuts.

You act like I dissed her career, which I didn't, just a small part of her game that wasn't any worse than a lot of other players who went on to long pro careers. Missing bunnies is a never-ending disease infecting wcbb.
As for her freshman stats, which were outstanding, amazing, etc., all she did on offense, for the most part, was stand in a corner or out on a wing and wait till her man left her open to help on the three seniors. For UConn's opponents that season it must have seemed like a special hell, to not only having to figure out how to guard the 3 AA's but now UConn got an almost automatic 3 that can shoot over any guard. And keep the defenses honest.

 

[HuskylnSC]

Memories, misty water color memories of the way things were....

What a nice old song. You know I've been proven wrong so many times in my recollections of games and players that I've begun fact checking myself. I was going to enter the layup fray to talk about Tamika Williams missed layup in 1999, but i fact checked and found that she was fouled with 7 seconds and made both free throws to win the game. Memories, I guess I was so upset to see the highest percentage shot maker in the history of wcbb, and the wnba, missed that the miss was all i remembered.

Memories do get misty don't they

 

[Alydar]

Neither. It’s an exaggeration.

Like saying a player couldn't guard a chair?

 

[Deuce]

I never said she couldn't make layups, only that she missed too many of them. Easy ones. Obviously not enough to damage her shooting %. At the college level uncontested layups should be made at a 95%+ rate. So 70% is a poor number but will make you appear to be a great shooter. Her role was as a freshman, stand in the corner and shoot 3's. My point was that for a 6'3" player her inside game wasn't at the AA standards of her outside game. Is that an insult? It's certainly a criticism but hardly insulting to say that that part of her game wasn't AA stuff? Who did shoot well inside? KML for one. She could be doubled down low but always seemed to flip the ball off the glass with just the right spin.

Another poor inside shooter? Tina Charles. Until her senior year that is. I'd guess that maybe half her offensive rebounds were from her own misses during her first 2 years. Is that an insult or a critique?

So in your opinion you honestly think Tina Charles was a poor interior finisher and KML was a good interior finisher? could be the most bizarre take I’ve ever heard on here

 

[victor64]

Can a mod please put this once celebratory thread out of its misery? It has wandered far off topic to the point of no return.

 

[cbraarj]

NEPSAC is taking over. Especially on the boys side. The best girls CT player (verballed to BC) last year left Trumbull for a Fairchester school. Sad to say, but these private schools, most of them boarding schools, have alot more to offer. Kids are leaving the public/Catholic schools to attend the NEPSAC institutions.

Connecticut schools overall been weak in high school girls basketball for years.

 

[Alydar]

So in your opinion you honestly think Tina Charles was a poor interior finisher and KML was a good interior finisher? could be the most bizarre take I’ve ever heard on here

I never said that. I said that KML made most of her inside shots, including the tough ones. But she didn't attempt many. As for Charles, it is commonly accepted that her game awoke in January of her junior year. Up till then she spent quite a lot of minutes sitting on the bench. Her "efficiency" was pretty good. When she got position down low she scored at a high rate, it's just that it would take 2 or 3 chances before the shot fell. She also likely had 12-15 chances to score while KML was lucky to have 2 low post chances in a game. So yeah, KML hit at a higher rate but no, she was not a better interior scorer.

 

[cbraarj]

First, passing phys Ed was required at one of the schools I attended. And just for the record, when I attended UConn they had a Phys Ed course called basketball, one named football, and many others about various other sports. Where did you go to school and did they have a Phys Ed major? And no, it wasn't UNC I attended and I took that comment as a personal attack and insult. This is the second time you have attacked me for one of my posts. You must be either an imposing physical presense or else you keep your thoughts quiet when you are in the presense of others where you can spew your smart-alec insults hiding behind a screen-name.
It wasn't about me? How can you say that? It was most definitely about me and I have had it with you and your obnoxious posts. Why you haven't been banned for your insulting comments is beyond me.

Learned left and right handed layups in second grade. Shot foul shots both hands before Jr. High School. Taught 10 and under layups when I was a freshman in HS. Good Memories!

 

[cbraarj]

So in your opinion you honestly think Tina Charles was a poor interior finisher and KML was a good interior finisher? could be the most bizarre take I’ve ever heard on here

If Hunter was healthy Tina would have sat alot her first 2 years.

 

[Biff]

Can a mod please put this once celebratory thread out of its misery? It has wandered far off topic to the point of no return.

I kinda agree. This is supposed to be a thread discussing/celebrating/analyzing Caroline Ducharme's commitment tu UConn and it certainly took a left turn. Would seem a shame however to close down a thread to discuss a new commitment. Rather I'd ask those involved in the side discussion to take it elsewhere please. Thanks in advance.

 

[chrissaran]

You spent a lot of effort to explain the advantage of 3 pt shooting. I understand & agree. But I was talking about KLS's layup efficiency, which wasn't anywhere near as efficient as her outside shooting. She missed a lot of easy layups. Most of her problem was the same as many players, she was too strong off the backboard.
She wasn't the first UConn player to miss a lot of layups. Another was Tina Charles who spent 2.5 seasons taking 3 shots to make one layup. As even Geno stated, her rebounding stats were inflated by her rebounding her own misses.
Players who didn't miss layups? Moore, Collier & KML are three.

All 3 of the players you mentioned missed layups. Go back and watch the tape.

 

[the Q]

You spent a lot of effort to explain the advantage of 3 pt shooting. I understand & agree. But I was talking about KLS's layup efficiency, which wasn't anywhere near as efficient as her outside shooting. She missed a lot of easy layups. Most of her problem was the same as many players, she was too strong off the backboard.
She wasn't the first UConn player to miss a lot of layups. Another was Tina Charles who spent 2.5 seasons taking 3 shots to make one layup. As even Geno stated, her rebounding stats were inflated by her rebounding her own misses.
Players who didn't miss layups? Moore, Collier & KML are three.

If collier didn’t miss layups uconn would have at least one more title. Probably 2.