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I think in many ways the moment got a little too big for the UConn players today. Interestingly, during the final 3 minutes UConn had only 2 three point attempts, the last a desperation shot at the end. But, c'est la vie. Wonderful year by a young team full of wonderful people. Some say you learn more from your losses than your wins. That is of course not the complete truth. You learn a lot from both. You learn from ties and even when you're not involved. It's just that you remember the hard loses more than the wins. They'll learn a lot from this, and hopefully this will burn a hole in their hearts that will never heal until they're vindicated with a championship. 2022 baby. See you there.
 
I think the pressure got to the whole team, after all, only 2 players had been here before and one of them seemed to have the deer in the headlights look for most of the game. We just never recovered from AZ's seemingly effortless start to the game by just shooting the lights out. We will be a completely different team next year, bank on it!!!!!
 
If the bigs would have done better, I think it would have opened it up for Paige, CW and Evina. Paige with 18 on that tough defense wasn't a bad effort. Two of the fouls on CW were bogus. The last call on her especially, but she drew the charge and was but was called for a block.
 
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Congrats AZ. Well deserved the team playing in champion game. Good luck for them.
Give credit to CW. Take up in the offense end.
Paige should be more agressive in the first half. Not doing well. She is the reason I follow UConn this season. Hope she can become better and bette.
Disappointed with ONO. No show for her.
Evina should enter WNBA. Such a great great teammate.
 
ochoopsfan said:
Congrats to UConn on a fabulous season. I think you win a few Championships in the next few years. Congrats to Arizona on a fabulous game.

Congrats to the Pac 12 on assuring another Championship.
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Best conference in WCBB 3 years running.
 
ONO just isn’t an offensive player, we should all just accept it. She also plays super nervous under pressure. If I were Geno and I’m not, next year she wouldn’t get a pass to start just because of her history here. If she needs to come off of the bench... oh well. I wouldn’t wait for her anymore, tonight proved it. I always was thinking things were gonna come around for her, but no, realistically, she is a role player. It’s just we have no one better at the moment. Aaliyah is better, but she isn’t a center. But props to CW, she proved everyone wrong, girl is a balla even under pressure. She in my opinion has lived up to expectations. Wait til next year, I predict a huuuuuige year from CW and an undefeated season.
 
More offense coming next year- Arizona smothered them. Not sure how the offensive plan was flawed but 2nd half didn’t look any different from first half.
 
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Congrats to Arizona! Played great defense, played smarter and hit some shots for the win.

My take on why UCONN lost:
1) little to no poise and composure
2) ONO -frustrating to watch all those missed layups; tam did not get the ball enough to AE
 
And I just have to say, this stat line by ONO should and will go down as one of the most aggressive no shows in a big game in UConn history.

She was the tallest player by like 4-5 inches, the entire game plan from the outset was to feed the post, and instead she goes 0-7 from the field, 1-4 from the stripe, AND picks up two quick fouls to get the team entirely out of gameplan.

I feel bad for her but it's just the truth. Both qualitatively and quantitatively an epic bad performance.
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An ugly game, for sure. Credit to Macdonald, who was hitting from everywhere. And the refs sucked, as usual, especially Christyn's phantom 5th foul. BUT... ONO was horrible.. missed layup after missed layup. Paige was only ordinary, not a POY performance. The rest were little more than okay. I said way back when that missed layups might haunt us, and they did tonight. Missed free throws didn't help, either. BUT, we got beat by a team that played better, and seemed to want it more. I don't know if we were looking ahead, or what. This loss hurts... and I'm sure it hurts the team more than it hurts me. On to next year....
 
I think it’s fair to say that the fast start by
Arizona was the key to the game
UConn felt the pressures for it showed in their play
Easy to say it was great defense by
Arizona but think it was just as much
Poor offense
 
Proud of them, really.

Williams showed a lot of growth this season, that’s so important.

But our two best players are Freshmen, and expecting them to be able to keep their composure in the final four and carry the team. That’s a lot to ask.

Diana Taurasi and Kemba Walker could struggle in a final four game their freshman year..that shows the pressure of the Final Four game.
 
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Geno said they were the 2nd best team in the nation on defense and they showed it.Ari outplayed Paige .Liv was terrible and AE not much better.To have that big a height advantage and even on the boards was not good.Kudos to CW she showed up.All in all it was a great year and a lot of fun.They weren't going to beat Stanford anyways.My hope was they make the final 4 again and they did.Could be worse..look at ABoston..3 bunny's to beat Uconn and couldn't and a bunny to beat Standford on the last shot and couldn't get it done.Lobo said it right when Ryan was talking about this being the first Uconn team since 2003 to be in the final 4 with no seniors and she said..yes but they had DT.
 
Great year. Arizona deserved to win. Looking forward to some three point shooters next year. We need more of a presence inside. You cannot win a game missing so many easy shots.
 
Congratulations to the team for the wonderful season they had. Yes, we all wished it had ended differently but that is life. Thank you for the many memorable moments this year. The future is bright and I look forward to following UCONN WBB next year.
 
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Congrats on a great season ladies! Your season made the covid winter much easier. I think this team truly enjoyed playing together and I saw lots of smiles all season. I had fun watching them, and I was happy they made it to the final four. Thanks for the fun ladies!
 
Team is 0 for 4 in last 4 FF games. Main reason is lack of post , size & physical play. It got a little better this year with AE, but not good enough. Geno is finally starting to recruit these types of players, but it takes time. As for tonight, just a horrible game from the opening tip. No cadence on either side of the ball. Team seemed very unprepared for the team speed & toughness of AZ & that's what ultimately dictated the game. As for ONO, I'm sorry but you you cant go 0 for 7 in the area of the game we were supposed to have an advantage. She is who she is at this point I guess. As for Geno, he needs to take a lot of blame. You dont be 14 point favorites & let tempo & scheme dictate the ENTIRE game. Team was just not ready. Paige, AE had great years & CW took a step up. But, just not good enough to win #12.
 
Olivia doesn't deserve the playing time she receives. If Amari is as good as advertised then Liv needs to sit just like Paige did in 2000. Everyone talks about height so what do you think now. Gabby as a Jr. would have tore her up! They shot like 15 percent on layups. They got beat by the things that hurt them all year. No real post game by your center. Brink would have made Liv look like the freshman.
 
In a pregame Geno said with a pressing defensive team you either hit shots or you have a long night. They had a long night.

I think they got enough stops to win on defense, they just shot godawful!

I had memories of the last FF in San Antonio - at least we scored more points in the first half this time!
 
Geat Job by Arizona tonight, they deserved the W...

Our team will hopefully watch the next game and learn how to effectively dominate smaller post defenses, this has been an issue for us all year if we are being honest..

Secondly, in the 2nd half, they were times when we forced the ball out of AM hands early in the shot clock and then just let her catch it back. What's the point in using all that energy to then just let her get it back to break our defense down? Have to be able to deny a p[layer like that touches, though a very difficult task due to her quickness

Bottom line They had more success doing to Paige, what we failed to do to her... and that's pretty much the difference in the outcome of this game.. Better luck next year.. I hope we are angry enough to change our post presence in the offseason, I'm not sure that the addition of Amari will be any different but we'll see..
 
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