To me Morgan is not elevating on her outside shot. Inside I'm accustomed to seeing her take that long step and extended to the basket for her layups. She's been shortening that step. To me, clear signs that her knee is an issue. And yeah, her footwork in the post is suffering.
I don't want to see ECU put in the same category as RU. The Recidivists were continually overstepping the lines of acceptable play (although I don't recall any of them chasing down a player and punching her in the nose, BG). ECU played hard and never gave up, and while some of their play was on the edge, we've seen as bad from ND often, and I don't think anyone REALLY thinks they play dirty. Heck, Taurasi has done worse to opponents than anything the ECU players did; she was just skilled enough at it not to get caught.
Give credit where it is do; ECU played a great game, given the task at hand and the weapons at their disposal.
Pretty much inadvertent...
Yes, but I would expect her shooting percentage to be higher vs the smaller players. She is missing almost all of the shots in the post that she usually made about 80% of the time. I am another one worried about her. I think she has lost her shot at making an AA team.
The ECU post player had been physical and chippy all day and was actually planning on hitting Nat with a forearm shiver. As she wound up to deliver it Nat instinctively turned into the blow with a full body bump, shortening the distance and catching Ms. Chippy in mid range-of-motion. Ms. Chippy folded like a lawn chair from the ensuing collision...partly acting, partly because that's the only direction she was headed anyways. I dug Nat's aggression on the play and the fact that she didn't walk away from the scene - looked like she was ready to handle any unfinished business in case Ms. Chippy needed another look at the plates on the truck that ran her over!
Think I'll start calling Nat "The Punisher"!
Or we could just recycle 'Bam Bam' from the early 1990s.Think I'll start calling Nat "The Punisher"!
The ECU post player had been physical and chippy all day and was actually planning on hitting Nat with a forearm shiver. As she wound up to deliver it Nat instinctively turned into the blow with a full body bump, shortening the distance and catching Ms. Chippy in mid range-of-motion. Ms. Chippy folded like a lawn chair from the ensuing collision...partly acting, partly because that's the only direction she was headed anyways. I dug Nat's aggression on the play and the fact that she didn't walk away from the scene - looked like she was ready to handle any unfinished business in case Ms. Chippy needed another look at the plates on the truck that ran her over!
Breanna was the first on the scene to come and corral Nat.
I guess as a Baylor/Griner fan you'd know something about that.
Don't bother if you're expecting anything resembling the ECU player getting "Barncastled." This was very mild - just enough to send a well-deserved message, but certainly not enough for a flagrant 2 or anything close.
Probably have to watch the whole game to see it, really wasn't worth a 'highlight'. It happened after a Uconn basket and both players were still in the lane - the ECU player approached Butler as she turned to head back on defense with the intention of giving her a little shoulder bump and Butler saw it coming and gave her own shoulder bump with significantly more force. the ECU player appeared to be 'de-cleated' to borrow a football term and ended up on her backside. I suspect there was a little bit of dramatization in the action of the ECU player, but Butler had definitely put some force into her shoulder.
Maybe that is what she said, but during the time when the refs were looking at the monitor to evaluate the play, I saw Big Nat smile, SMILE
and that is what was needed. The girls need to be more nasty and mean when teams figure they can do what they want to and not play by the rules and expect OUR Huskies to do NOTHING about it - i.e. Kia getting her head ...; Gabby having her leg taken from under her; Mojo getting knocked around a few times; Stewie getting pounded on, etc. Show other teams that if you want to play that way then get a role player to do the same to their star player and send a message that two can play that game, but hopefully no one gets hurt because of it.
Good for Big Nat!!!
Of course they can keep doing the same moves until someone stops them. No one in WCBB has been able to stop Morgan so far because she has moves and counter moves for days. This is a case of her stopping herself or more likely her knee limiting her.
I think the last couple of games that wasn't the case. Would agree that if something works milk it until something tells you it's no longer working but I see the moves they made in the Cincy game and the ECU game and the defense was onto them. Kia need to pull up and hit that medium range jumper. Gabby, once she's determined to go to the bucket and is shut-off by a quick defender she rarely has a second option. Would concur to a degree on Tuck perhaps stopping herself but again I think she needs to mix it up some.
My "understanding" is that it was a technical foul because it involved player contact during a dead ball situation. The ball was not in play and I guess that if illegal contact occurs during a dead ball it must be called a technical.
In the last what 2 or 3 years we have played them I am pretty sure there has been atleast 1 Tech called in every game except maybe 2. Granted most went against Heather Macy... Let's just say I was expecting a Tech at some point.
Ah, yes. Dead ball after the basket. That clears it up. Thanks.
