It was misposted by one poster to the incorrect forum, hence the weird "host" comments, before presumably the mods relocated it properly. Plenty was commented on the exhibition in the SC-specific thread.
) chose to be critical of other posters' reactions to a player's performance, as if those posters were overly "enthusiastic" than they had a right to be. And that choice confused me.
I would much prefer a Liv double double vs Arkansas when it means something than Ft Hays when it really doesn’t.
That might be the “glass half full” view, which I certainly respect. The “glass half empty” view might point out that 8 of those pts came in Syracuse’s first 5 possessions. In the 2nd half, Cardoso contributed 2 and 2.
Just for clarification he’s from New York City so not as clean as CTWhy would you be critical of Liv?? Even if she scores a double-double, as you say? So, if Liv scores 45 pts and 33 rebounds - a double-double - you'll be critical of her performance? Say, she goes 15-16, and you'll criticize that one single missed shot?
Hmm. That's interesting. Mind you, no one here is talking about being critical of a player's performance. SOMEONE (
There were quite a bit to be critical of the Gamecock's game against Benedict, no doubt. No one was thinking that Benedict was some great opponent. But that wasn't what the other poster was contending about, about not being "critical" enough of the Gamecocks - or in this case, of Cardoso's - performance. It was about being overly "enthusiastic", when it was a false narrative to begin with. He was attempting to "clarify" his position, by basing it on a false narrative. Do you understand?
And now YOU come to "be clear". Is the air in Connecticut like Los Angeles: full of smog and dust?? Such masters of clarifications.....
Again, let’s not mischaracterize what I said by inferring something you think I meant. I never disparaged Cardoso. I simply pointed out that Cardoso’s performance was against a significantly undermanned opponent. You won’t see me praising any UConn players for their performance against Ft Hays St either, unless Piath Gabriel goes 4/5 from the arc.
Q’s offense was to try to jam it inside to Cardoso in the first half. When UConn responded by bodying up to her to move her away from the basket there really was no plan B.
Dawn was unrelenting in that there is no player of Boston’s size more skilled and accomplished in the game right now (from a recent interview). If anything, they’ll start together, but I suspect KC comes off the bench (and probably horrifies the opposing team’s starters the first minutes she does so). I’m as big a Boston fan as there is and do believe she’s the best 5 in the nation although E. Cunane is no slouch so I’m not sure I’d even echo all Dawn’s praises.
I’ll spot you the first two.
If she does, she had better get them in a hurry. I don't expect her to get more than 18 minutes against FHS.
And I thought this was a post about Dave Benedict! Who knew???
I actually read your comments carefully to try to understand the point of your objection, but all I see is a lot of inference and conjecture. You continue to claim a “false narrative” or “false atmosphere” by piecing together your broad interpretation of my comments. I am respectfully asking you to cite one or more specific comments that I made that are inaccurate in any way?Well, as I stated above, we get it. This thread was started by a CT fan over on the CT forum, and it's NOT about any CT WBB-specific topic, so that means it's open season of a sort for certain portions of the member-base to come in and start slinging slights all around that favor their CT program. Again, we get it.
But then the thread got moved to THIS forum. You certainly disparaged Cardoso's performance, and based it on some false narrative. That doesn't change by you saying "I did not". No one stated that you "quoted" anyone, so not sure how to debate this. It was YOU that was the first to reference some newspaper article in this thread - if you have issues with that article, go write a letter to its editor. They often will even publish those letters in the next edition.
But by bringing it up, it sounds like you have an issue with the newspaper describing Cardoso as "a force to be reckoned with" REGARDLESS of who the opponent is. She was 2nd on Syracuse in both ppg and rpg, and led the team in bpg. Syracuse had a winning record in a P5 conference and reached the NCAAT.
So your position is that Cardoso will NOT be a "force" for opponents - even P5 opponents - to reckon with this season? We will see how that plays out for you soon enough.
But you keep implying that there was "praise" in this thread regarding Cordoso's performance. Here was what was stated by the OP, a CT fan:
Again, creating a false atmosphere/environment, so you can then come in and criticize that environment, is a bit obvious.....
Watched all of her games last year, and with all the bad shooters on Syracuse last year, it must have been frustrating. Syracuse was one of the worst 3 point shooting teams yet shot many.
Which I think was the point of several Gamecock fans earlier in the thread.
So now we’re bashing the conference UConn played in? Not sure what that has to do with anything. Although it’s worth noting that UConn’s OOC schedule is always among the toughest in the nation, including the annual matchup with SC, which UConn has faired reasonably well in through the years.That's just too thin.
So since we're "clarifying" around here. CT played in the AAC for 7-8 seasons. Didn't lose a single conference game. Beat the conference by an average of better than 40 points in MOV. Half of the games were by 50+ MOV. For the entire time.
Better than HALF of CT's season EVERY SINGLE SEASON was essentially a schedule of exhibition games.
But that never stopped CT fans from exclaiming exuberantly about the efforts and performances of Huskie players during those games, over the years. Quite a number of posts like those can be found in YOUR collection of 13,000 or so.
But the truth still stands that NO ONE was doing that for South Carolina here, against Benedict.
So lets please dispense with the subterfuge. It's not as clever as some would like to believe.....
My memory must really be getting bad because just a few weeks ago I could have sworn there was this whole thread theorizing that lack of out of conference competition in the latter half of the season was going to leave UCONN WBB ill prepared for the tournament and that was such a "dilemma".
I don’t recall anyone using the term “Ill prepared” so that must be your characterization, and furthermore it has no relevance to a discussion over the importance of exhibition games.
