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Caroline Still Not Her Old Self

Maybe unrelated/for different reasons, but we saw that Aaliyah hit a sophomore slump last year too. She hadn't practiced during the summer much before that season is my understanding due to national team commitments. But she started to become her old self towards the end of the season again, so hopefully we can expect the same from Caroline.
 
Caroline is coming back. She played 20 some minutes in the FSU game and was moving around as she usually did when healthy.She is too good a player not to get back to her freshman year. Be patient and when crunch time comes, my guess , she will be there, the Caroline of old. GO CAROLINE!!! GO HUSKIES!!!
 
LCConnFan said:
A good article from today's Rep-Am, by Roger Cleaveland

Huskies' Ducharme still searching for answers on court
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I can't access the article without a subscription, LCConnFan, but thanks very much. I'll look forward to Caroline showing again today signs that she's getting it together. As Next12 just said, she's too good to be less than what she feels she will be...

Go, Huskies!
 
Millenial23 said:
Maybe unrelated/for different reasons, but we saw that Aaliyah hit a sophomore slump last year too. She hadn't practiced during the summer much before that season is my understanding due to national team commitments. But she started to become her old self towards the end of the season again, so hopefully we can expect the same from Caroline.
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I think that is a great analogy except that there is a physical component to this as well with Caroline. She is improving slightly every game. We just need it to come together all at once. Maybe it will or maybe it won't. Like I said before, even if this is as good as it gets with her, she's still at times one of the best 3s off the bench anywhere.
 
I have noticed that both this year and last, almost all of Caroline`s misses from three point range are long.

In golf, if your tendency is to miss in one direction, it is much easier to correct than if you are missing left and right.

Similarly with Caroline, this seems like something that should be correctible. If she didn`t "have her legs" due to injury and lack of workouts/practice, you would think she would be front-rimming everything. Not the case, exact opposite.
 
The deacon said:
I can't access the article without a subscription, LCConnFan, but thanks very much. I'll look forward to Caroline showing again today signs that she's getting it together. As Next12 just said, she's too good to be less than what she feels she will be...

Go, Huskies!
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Just register, it's easy, it's free, I just did it, then you log in and you can read entire article
 
Caroline seems to be moving slightly better,no way near like last year when she was constant motion ,hopefully she'll continue to get better.As fas as her 3 point shooting goes I had read how good she was in high school.Since coming to Storr's this hasn't been the case.Last year before and after she was injured she shot about 28%,this year around 30%..I'm wondering if she's one of those kids that moving the 3 point line back 16" last year has really affected her shooting ability,after all not everyone can have the range of Caitlin Clarke or Lou for that matter..maybe she'll never become a good outside shooter,thats ok as long as she keeps getting better movement.She brings so much just with her BB IQ
 
:cool: 30+ years as a practicing Massage Therapist I've not expected anything from Caroline until "Maybe", MAYBE, the end of the season. Don't know the scope of the surgery, not my business.

Think about it. . . Surgery, somewhere in the hip. Stationary for a long period of time. No basketball practice until the season starts. Being expected to execute moves at the highest level of D1 basketball. Really? Her muscle coordination is out of whack. Her Ballance is off. What she expects to happen whenever she does X doesn't happen. Hells bells her stiff neck issues could simply be that she is standing in a different position since hip surgery.

In the last game "I" saw what appeared to be a full stride going up court for the first time this year. Actually, I can't pull up a memory of Caroline running at full stride. My memories are more of a smooth shuffle. But I'm dyslected, so what do I really remember?

I will be ecstatic if Caroline comes in next year like Aubrey came in this year. You know, a year of recovery and then putting their game together without "pain".

Personally I will be dancing if Caroline comes anywhere near what she did last year. :)
 
Millenial23 said:
You can sign up for an account for 5 FREE articles per week. No subscription or payment required. That's what I did.
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I did too. Since I'm only likely to use it for UConn coverage, the 5 free articles a week should be more than enough.
 
From what Ive seen, Caroline is a lot like Aubrey. She comes thru when theres no one else to play for her. Aubrey's best games and Caroline's too is when we are short handed but if we have leaders on the court they tend to fade into the background. I dont think they believe its their place to take charge if someone else can do it. Thats not a strike against them, its just the way things are. Its a mental thing not a physical thing.
 
Majic Hands said:
In the last game "I" saw what appeared to be a full stride going up court for the first time this year. Actually, I can't pull up a memory of Caroline running at full stride. My memories are more of a smooth shuffle. But I'm dyslected, so what do I really remember?
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"I" saw it too. Or at least indications of it.

I hope she finds "her stride" sooner than next year. But I've noticed the same things you have. She never had a full on sprinter's stride at UConn, which maybe a consequence of her surgery in high school. But at the beginning of last year her stride running the court was longer than now. It seemed gradually to contract (from hip pain, I suspect) as the season wore on until her minutes had to be severely limited. The concussion added on top this didn't help her.

Let me reiterate: I thought I saw hopeful signs of a lengthening stride in the FSU game. I'll be looking for this today.

Hope springs eternal... especially with me.
 
Blond D. said:
From what Ive seen, Caroline is a lot like Aubrey. She comes thru when theres no one else to play for her. Aubrey's best games and Caroline's too is when we are short handed but if we have leaders on the court they tend to fade into the background. I dont think they believe its their place to take charge if someone else can do it. Thats not a strike against them, its just the way things are. Its a mental thing not a physical thing.
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Throughout high school, I think, she was the go-to player on her team. But she was the shooting guard/wing/pf, not the point guard. There's still a few videos of her final hs year, and you can really see how all her teammates look to her. I wondered at the time how she would fit in on the bench behind Paige Nika and Azzi. But she figured it out and became exactly who you describe -- the ultimate 6th woman who fixes a problem, blocks a few shots, gets a few defensive stops, sinks a few 3s, etc. I remember how reliable she was during the bizarre stretch where nobody could make a layup. Caroline, at least, could always be counted on to make her layups... or, when it really mattered, to salvage a floundering game. A lot like Aubrey!
 
Some of her 3 point attempts have been shot from her chest with her elbows sticking out as if she were heaving a medicine ball.
I don't know if the shot clock was an issue or not but it seemed out of character compared to her normal 3 point shooting style.
At times it seems like she forgets how to shoot from distance.
And then when she makes one it shows her good form.
A missed shot is just a miss like any other but it's a shock to see such bad long range shooting form from her at times.
Her 3 point misses wouldn't so bad if we had some rebounders in position to make a put back.
 
Next 12 said:
Caroline is coming back. She played 20 some minutes in the FSU game and was moving around as she usually did when healthy.She is too good a player not to get back to her freshman year. Be patient and when crunch time comes, my guess , she will be there, the Caroline of old. GO CAROLINE!!! GO HUSKIES!!!
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I’m very positive about Caroline’s progress. Her minutes per game have gone way up recently compared to early in the season when Geno stated she needed to come back slowly because of a variety of physical issues. Seems like she’s over that now.
 
Huskee11 said:
I have noticed that both this year and last, almost all of Caroline`s misses from three point range are long.

In golf, if your tendency is to miss in one direction, it is much easier to correct than if you are missing left and right.

Similarly with Caroline, this seems like something that should be correctible. If she didn`t "have her legs" due to injury and lack of workouts/practice, you would think she would be front-rimming everything. Not the case, exact opposite.
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Ducharme seems to have lost some confidence in her outside shooting stroke since her injury last season............her ball trajectory seems way too flat thus the ball hits off of the back rim and out..........she's too good a shooter to not be able to correct this if she is healthy.........I'm predicting she will have a far more productive season going forward as she works on that shooting form.........
 
Of the past 5 games, 2 were good, 1 average, 1 below average, and today's performance outstanding. In each game, Caroline played solid defense, rebounded well, and was one of the few Huskies moving without the ball. Her ability each game to cut opens the middle up for Edwards and others. If you watch the little things she does, you will have a better understanding of the value she brings even when not scoring (which she is beginning to do very well).
 

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