No Wolters, but Jamelle first off the bench
From AE's tweet and 7 second video, she appears to be in a good place. The mental part of the game at her stage of development is key, and I believe she will improve continually because of her positive mental approach.
You yourself said that UConn was 1 or 2 in the country until you heard about Aaliyah being with Team Canada for part of this summer. (See Post #47 quoted above.) So, even though no one got injured or transferred or will miss actual games during the season, and it's just a matter of Aaliyah being away for part of the summer, you feel that is enough to drop UConn by 9 to 14 slots in the rankings?
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Yea I can see that. My belief in us dropping was I had hoped players would make a big leap between last season and this season. Even just one player not going to summer session really takes away my home from big leaps between season for not just Aaliyah but everyone. Now I assume they'll be at same level as last year, hence the much lower ceiling and ranking. I hope that makes sense. Just a bummer for me.
I actually think the players that were healthy DID improve leaps and bounds with perfect attendance. It is my belief that mixed attendance will result in lack of improvement across the board. I hope you are right that they still might improve my expectations for the team are now borderline top 10 with the chance at an elite eight if things fall our way. Just my opinion though, I understand if others disagree.
I get the loops, are we up to 32 yet
It’s an IG story, so you’ll need an account to view. But she’s looking more comfortable behind the arc… and we should love that.
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We have wayyyyyyy different views on this! If all our players are fully healthy (there’s no reason they shouldn’t all be healthy by Nov-Dec at the very latest) there is no team in the country with more or even as much, talent as UConn. We have, at the very least, one of the top three coaching staffs in the country, top facilities, top fan base, and a tradition of being the best or one of the best teams in the country! Can you point out how many weeks in the last say…20 years, we have been out of the top 10? This team has more talent than all but a select few UConn teams of the past twenty five to thirty years and yet you believe we will be the thirteenth best team in the country?
I’m just saying based, on last year, they have a lot to prove. LSU? Not a lot to prove and they’ve gotten better where as we lost Lou, who was arguably our best player most of the year.
Remind me, did she end up being an All-American last season?
Lou? Yes she was, an honorable mention. I’m also not sure what a popularity contest has to do with the importance she played on to the team though.
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I said she was arguably the most important/best player for the team. Is that so crazy to say of the second leading scorer (by less than a point)? It’s perfectly valid to hold a different opinionYou seriously have be trolling at this point. Aaliyah was a third team selection, earning more votes from the press than Lou did.
Boston, Clark headline women's AP All-America team
Aliyah Boston of South Carolina is just the 10th player to be named a first-team AP All-American for a third time.
You're arguing that Lou was the most important player for UConn where voters saw it otherwise is my point. She was a major contributor to UConn this year but it doesn't take away from what players like Aaliyah and Nika, etc. contributed which was just as important.
How is saying the team is going to be 10-15 range, same as they were last year, sky is falling panic? I’m not paniced- that’s quite good! I’m excited to watch them I just don’t think there is enough there to warrant jumping them so much higher without having seen them play. Not being a top five team isn’t the end of the world, they’ll still be fun to watch.
