Not to rain on anyone's parade or anything, and congrats to all our awardees, but if CW's play this year warrants first-team all-AAC honors, then it is surely a woefully inept conference and certainly time to get the heck out. Truthfully, this is embarrassing....
Don't kid yourself, it'll be more of the same next year despite the new conference.
Anna Makurat | Elena Ttsineke |
| 25.6 mpg | 26.6 mpg |
| 7.8 ppg | 12.4 ppg |
| 3.9 rpg | 2.0 rpg |
| 2.9 apg | 1.2 apg |
| 53 TO | 71 TO |
| 44 STL | 16 STL |
| 9 BLK | 7 BLK |
| 40.6% 3PT - 54/133 | 32% 3PT - 39/122 |
| 42.9% FG - 82/191 | 39% FG - 108/277 |
| 81.8% FT - 9/11 | 87.5% FT - 56/64 |
I disagree. The honor is for AAC play, not OOC play. Christyn had some of her very best games in conference. In addition, Christyn has had a great season on the defensive side and she is probably the best rebounding guard in the AAC.
That’s not actually correct. The honors are for in-conference play, not OOC play. UConn player only 1 conference game in Nov/Dec vs Temple. The rest of the AAC schedule was played after Jan 1.
Yes youre right. But I shouldve included January. In Jan she had 2 outstanding games vs AAC opponents Tulsa and ECU. Aside from those 2, she played another 6 AAC games that month. Here are her averages in those 6: 6.5ppg, 2apg, 4rpg in 26.1mpg.
My understanding is that only in conference games are considered. She had only 4 games in single figures in conference play and had 20 or more 5 times including 26 against ECU and Cincinnati. She averaged 15 points and 4.5 boards. It didn't seem that way because of "the slump" and she had only 5 and 3 against UCF but she averaged 19.2 ppg in her first 5 conference games. She had a very unrepresentative year that required a lot of adjustment on her part that we all discussed in depth but she has one of the best pull up jumpers in the country. Hoping for big things this weekend and beyond for her. She will also be All Big East next year barring injury I am sure.
It's interesting and somewhat surprising that the USF player had 50% more 2-point field goal attempts than Anna, and took six times as many free throws. That suggests that her offensive game is closer to the basket than Anna's, i.e., not built around her 3-point shot to the degree that Anna's is. Since (according to Megan Culmo) USF gets 40% of its points from beyond the arc, Elena must be responsible for a huge portion of the other 60% of her team's scoring.
I can't in any way dispute your factual data, but I guess my critique goes more to the eye test of this season: when CW's coaches countless times are saying that she's under-performing, in a tailspin, in an abysmal shooting slump, and by her own admission in the worse stretch of her career, and the continual question is posed: how do we get CW out of her slump, and yet still she makes first team All-AAC, how can you possibly put these two things together and feel alright about it? Wow, it's no wonder that this league gets no respect...
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