Somehow you got scrapping our offense from my comment. I Said no such thing. Using the post by no means says scrap the perimeter orientated offense. However attracting top post players will be difficult to get if we can't showcase them within our perimeter orientated offense.
But you said "highlight" the post offense, didn't you? That would be scrapping our current offense, wouldn’t it? I;m aksing - don't take offense to my question please. You are a great poster. If i'm wrong here in interpretation let me know. UCON is not going to highlight post play with the guards they have.
I'm with you 100%. I focused on your word "highlight." Yes 100% I'm with you !!!
As coco and you I htink both are sayign and I have said many times as well BALANCE is needed.
Can't argue when your right.
Agree in principle but:
Thank you and I appreciate your insight on topics too. Never arguing but simple pleasures of debate.
It is not entirely about shot making. The biggest hallmarks of a UCONN post is consistency, playing to your strengths, and growth.
There are certainly many options in Auriemma’s read and react motion offense for using the low post and he would love to be able to take advantage of a skilled, inside player or two. If he had one. The problem is that since Napheesa Collier, he hasn’t had an inside offensive threat with the hands, footwork, and variety of shots to make an impact and be able to attack the defense with any kind of consistency. There are very few of them out there to recruit who are ready made so you have to take a kid with size and some athleticism and hope for a fairly quick development. And the motivation for that development has to come mainly from the kid and recently that just hasn’t been there. You can lead a horse to water etc. etc. We’ll see if any of the current roster or incoming freshmen have that motivation in them during the offseason.
Injuries actually. She unfortunately suffered two over the course of her final two HS seasons. The second ACL occurred in December of 2018. It prompted her early enrolment as they wanted to get her on campus and working with their training staff on the recovery process.
couple comments:
I believe there was confirmation from a different poster- not the anonymous- a few days later.
I believe that Brady is a legit 6-3, she was nose to nose height wise to Barker at the McD's AA game. And Patterson is maybe just under that but her hair adds a couple inches. In terms of post play, they both COULD play it but I think Patterson could be more useful as more of a wing. She's very quick, mobile, and athletic but will need to learn a lot about playing in the open floor, passing and getting her shot since she was mostly stuck inside with her back to the hoop because of playing with a small HS team. Brady OTOH can give a tutorial on post footwork, angles, passing, and using both hands for shots. Where she needs work is conditioning, quickness, and learning to play faster. Not necessarily up and down the court faster, although that would be nice, but just her reaction time to the faster college pace of the game. But I do believe that she is perfect for the offensive position that ONO played this year. She will not pass up those 17 footers out to the 3 ball line.
I could always be wrong but I tend to think that Toomey's view of UConn is pretty similar to Shade's. But as with Boston, you never know what happens in these kid's heads from one month to another.
Thank you- we'll see. From what I recall in McD game Patterson didn't have as much of the hair and when she stood next to Brady she looked more than an inch taller than Brady. I guess I'm looking at it wrong.
Curious what you think the lack of growth might be attributable to. Would add that it wasn't just that statistically, there wasn't a ton of improvement but the consistency from game to game was still not quite there either. All three had their moments and stretches where they played great but on the flip side, all three also had games where they would just disappear.
I honestly don't know. If I had to venture a guess I would say this is personality driven- meaning that true improvement only comes with hard work once you internalize the need for improvement . CW and ONO are definitely hard workers but that internalization may not have kicked in. The flip side of that explanation is that Geno who is a master button pusher and may simply never have found the right buttons to push to drive the required growth and consistent play. God knows Geno has tried, both privately& publicly.
The Fro adds inches.
Bad judgement on her part to post that kind of comment. Clearly, she does not possess the quality of character that Geno considers a prerequisite for UConn.
