Boston University Postgame Thread

[RoadMaster]

Some newbie love.. Swipe

 

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[Bone Dog]

For those of us who mainly see games on SNY, these courtside videos are great. It's an angle you don't get to see plays from on the TV feed.

 

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[MilfordHusky]

If we look back, in Azzi's one opportunity against the best teams, on the biggest stage, she shot 15 of 39 vs. Baylor and Ohio State in the '23 NCAAs, including just 5 of 21 from three.

That's not to say she wouldn't do better now, but her track record and the expectations many of us hold for Azzi are quite disparate.

It may have been the regular season, but she killed N.C. State, Texas, and Iowa, all teams that beat us the following season.

 

[MilfordHusky]

A few thoughts on Sarah. She reminds me of:

Kaleena in that she has incredibly soft hands,

Maya in that she always seems to be in the right place at the right time and she seems way better than her age. She plays like a junior.

 

[hoophuskee]

It may have been the regular season, but she killed N.C. State, Texas, and Iowa, all teams that beat us the following season.

Azzi has played well in big games in her frosh year too. It’s just recency bias by anyone stating differently ignoring that she was injured/a shell of herself when/after she came back from innjury her soph year. There is also sometimes from some not saying any post on here recently thinks this but some hate/resent the hype top ranked recruits get and if they don't play like a superstar for an entire year they lash out. I seem to vaguely recall last year someone like that, and I think they got several likes.

Anyhow in Azzi's frosh year she had an EFG% of over 58% in which she shot 43% from 3. She shot 40% from 3 in NCAA Tourney that year as well while overall was UCONN's 3rd leading scorer in NCAA in which one game she scored over 30% of her teams points in a tight game vs UCF (only won by 5) in which she was the leading scorer. Her EFG% in that game was 46.15%. The rest of the team combined shot an EFG% of 31.43%. I'm pretty sure UCF cut that lead to 2/3 points very late. SO to say that she has hasn’t played "big" in big games is just not accurate.

Then let's look at her soph year: In her entire frosh year she shoots 43% from 3 in which she is a volume 3pt shooter. She starts the season her soph year as also shooting a lot of 3's in which she shoots at a 42.5% 3pt % clip before the injury. Yet when she comes back from injury she continues to shoot 3’s at a high volume but now her % drops to a 26.4% clip. So we're supposed to throw out her frosh year and ignore the huge difference between what she showed for that entire frosh year and the early part of her soph year in which the data is pretty much aligned, and use instead primarily the data after the injury as the basis of her evaluation to then say she doesn’t play well in big games without mention the statistical discrepancy between before and after injury?