2024-2025 Opening practice availability from Storrs Central

[Skeets]

Favorite sound in the basketball court?

When you can’t hear the sound from the court because the crowd is so loud. Even true on the road but I like silence the last four minutes of away games.

I like to hear the shuffling of feet heading to the doors the last 4 minutes of away games.

 

[RoadMaster]

 

[Bone Dog]

Such great images of Caroline’s shooting form. In the first one, you can really see how her perimeter shooting stroke pulls her up onto her toes as she straightens her knees. It’s also good to see that her release point is above her head. As a freshman it seemed to be a bit lower.

In one of the later pics it looks like she is wearing some sort of ear plugs.

 

[RoadMaster]

Swipe..

 

[RoadMaster]

Here's to hoping that 35 can get back to this.. and sustain it...

 

[MilfordHusky]

Here's to hoping that 35 can get back to this.. and sustain it...

My local girl still holds the arena scoring record where the Mystics play. She had 38 in the D.C. City Championship game as a 10th grader.

 

[Cuango]

I’ll be happy with the Azzi from the Texas game that made Vic say he’d never been dominated like that by a guard! (Paraphrase) If that Azzi shows up consistently this season, we are in for a real treat!

 

[oldhusky]

I’ll be happy with the Azzi from the Texas game that made Vic say he’d never been dominated like that by a guard! (Paraphrase) If that Azzi shows up consistently this season, we are in for a real treat!

That Texas game was part of a great 6 game start to her sophomore season. I remember her PER (player efficiency ratio) was around 30 which drew some All American comments early in the season. Then the knee injury where Aaliyah fell back into her ruined the rest of the season. Her PER fell all the way down to low 20's by year end, which means she was probably only around 15 the rest of the season (about average).

The glass half full interpretation would be those were the only 6 games she has been healthy during her entire Uconn career, and that is the level she could achieve if healthy again. Remember she was bothered by her foot pretty much her whole freshmen season. With that view Azzi has never played with Paige when both were healthy. Azzi only healthy at the start of the season Paige missed entirely.

We thought we would see that combination of two back to back number 1 recruits together for three glorious years, and here we are still waiting for both to be healthy at the same time for the first time. Maybe later this year!