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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2517066, member: 199"] Like the OP but especially like oldude's response. None of the five returning starters are dealing with anything that they haven's seen for at least the last year and a half - not sure if Z dealt with the same level during her Duke years, but think when it got physical she probably just drifted further from the basket during those years. What I saw in the first half was more a team sleep walking through the game - the number of times a Uconn player allowed a ball to slip through their hands or dribbled one off their foot was not 'standard' - passes were lazy and slow, open players were ignored in favor of contested shots or stupid drives, and of course the shots didn't fall. It was a mess and I thought it had little to do with UCF or the refs. I thought Danger had one of her worst halves of basketball specifically because she did nothing as the PG to right the ship and was as out of sync as everyone else. And I didn't think Uconn played a more physical brand of basketball in the second half, they just played much smarter and in a much more coordinated way. These games happen occasionally for Uconn, like once or twice a year (Tulane, anyone?) We are spoiled that they are so infrequent and that usually the rot is only evident for part of a game, and that Uconn is so much better than most of their competition that even if it is present for most of a game they still win.Only rarely does Uconn have a 'St John's' game or a 'Stanford' game. [/QUOTE]

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