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Message: [QUOTE="Tonyc, post: 4477508, member: 73"] First Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all and God bless. Well we've gone through alot the past season and a half and we are still really good and even better when we get healthy. I think we all know how bright the future looks. We saw signs of Caroline and Nika breaking out scoring and Aaliyah Dorka and Lou look like AA's. Folks for me it only looks like it gonna get better as the season moves forward. We never know why things happen and our devastating injuries have depleted our team. Still we found a way to win. It required changes in our lineup, our thought process and our execution. It seem like now its coming together. Yeah there will still be ups and downs which is only part of the growing process we go through to reach our final goal but we have seen how our players step up. For me its pretty amazing what we've overcome. When I look at some of the teams ranked in the top 25 especially in the top 10 and look at their SOS and who they play and see where theyre ranked it baffles me. What criterial do the pollsters use to rank these teams? Then I look at our depleted team and our SOS and all the top teams we've played and we have only 2 losses. We have two losses with 50+ point that is or was sitting on the bench. Thats incredible. It also shows how good we really are. To be able to accomplish what we have with so many players out of the lineup then back in the lineup well I call that incredible. Then I think about some of these other teams at full strength that struggle against teams who's SOS (strength of schedule) is very low (cupcakes). So be it. After watching the Seaton Hall game it appears we are starting to click as a team. The team flow is looking much better, not where we may wanna see it yet, but improving. Our team balance on both sides of the ball is looking much better too. Ines and Amari are getting minutes and just watching them talk to their team mates on the floor shows me confidence that they know what theyre doing out there. There playtime most likely wouldnt have happened without the injuries we've had. Moving forward the playing experience theyre getting breeds confidence not only to them but to our coaching staff who will have less fear of putting them in the game. It will also be able to give our starters a rest during the game without worries of how they will perform. So later today our team heads back to UConn to get ready for the second half of the season. It should be a good one. The biggest question is when will Azzi be back? We can only hope sooner then later. She will be back when shes ready. I anticipate the doctors will say when she can begin to practice, then go 100% in practice, then she will tell the coaches when she feels shes ready to play in a real game. You cant put a date on that, we can only wait. Azzi gives us one more ball handler and one more scorer. Add in what Lou Caroline and Nika are doing from the outside and we've got a great ariel attack. Lets not forget either that Dorka is a threat from the outside as is Amari and Ines. Couple that with Aaliyah Dorka and our inside game and yeah we're pretty good. I gotta believe a healthy UConn team is gonna be very hard to beat. [/QUOTE]

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