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JonathanXIV said:
Crystal is one of the best players in the country. Paige isn’t better than her. Yet.
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How do you know ???? She seems tougher now from what i have seen, she shows a little attitude.
 
WLT1717 said:
Check back with me next season.
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We don't have to. Your claim was that Bueckers is better than anyone currently in a UCONN uniform. Your words, not mine. You are simply wrong with no way to back up your assertion.
 
Now, about the pull-up jumper and teardrop floater . . . .

Crystal shoots somewhere at or above 50% of those, 15' and closer. That's that soft area around the foul line, and in and beside the lane.
SoCarolina scored well on pull-ups against us in that area
Who besides Crystal shoots those for us? Christyn has, on occasion, been effective there, but she's been spotty there this season.
Does Megan have a genuine pull-up with some lift off the floor? Or is it, like her 3-pointer, more like a set shot?
Are we missing an offensive weapon in that area?
 
bluedevil said:
Predicting next years starting line up is like predicting next years stock market..fools errand...will MW b back? Does she go pro? Does Anna come back or go pro? Does EW go pro? Too many variables....
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Walker and Westbrook will be back. Walker has much to work on to improve her ability to compete successfully in the WNBA. As does Westbrook. Both Walker and Westbrook can use next season to show WNBA coaches and advisors that they are proficient at shooting off the dribble and creating their own shots against quality defenders.
 
WestCoast said:
Walker and Westbrook will be back. Walker has much to work on to improve her ability to compete successfully in the WNBA. As does Westbrook. Both Walker and Westbrook can use next season to show WNBA coaches and advisors that they are proficient at shooting off the dribble and creating their own shots against quality defenders.
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If we’re really lucky...
 
BobbyJ said:
I mostly agree with your points on Williams. Two things I would add are about your 2020 lineup and ONO. On that lineup, it might be OK for offense but that team will be very much like this year's on D. Zero interior defense other than ONO. Edwards at some point may help some but asking ONO to handle two posts against good teams is too much. And I doubt Gabriel will be any factor at all. On ONO, I've supported and really like this kid. But I have no idea how she could be around BB year round and still hasn't learned how to turn both ways and go up and extend for shots at 6-5. For a kid as athletic as she is, it's not that hard but she needs someone who's played at a high level like Lobo or Stewart or a good skills coach to work with her as soon as possible.
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What about our elite coaching staff?
 
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CTisballers said:
Yes she is a lock to start lol just because she’s having a not so great year doesn’t mean Geno lost confidence in her. Maybe playing and traveling all summer is effecting her play. My biggest thing is with CW is her defense and lack of playing hard.
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I don't think CW is a lock to start...
 
Littlemin said:
Really? What improvement is that? Not knocking them, a good team, no question, but not significantly improved over the course of the season. A tease here and there or an outlier game like Memphis but they are what they are. Tonight showed it again; it is tough when your best players not only don’t impact a big game but actually play poorly. Now, again, certainly a good team and that is nothing to be ashamed of in the least.
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For one, Makurat can make an entry pass resulting in team improvement from both Ania & Liv...
 
Jingo said:
I don't think CW is a lock to start...
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I do. Williams takes a lot of criticism on this Board. However, her skill set is among the best in the country for all players under 6'0". UConn won't have three guards better than her next season. Williams gives UConn a chance to reach the Final Four this season if she can raise her game anywhete near her potential. Don't give up on her just yet...
 
WestCoast said:
I do. Williams takes a lot of criticism on this Board. However, her skill set is among the best in the country for all players under 6'0". UConn won't have three guards better than her next season. Williams gives UConn a chance to reach the Final Four this season if she can raise her game anywhete near her potential. Don't give up on her just yet...
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I see very little evidence of her skill set, other than superior rebounding for her height and above average speed. Scoring two points in the biggest game of the year (1-12) doesn’t give me a lot of confidence in her further development. I would not be at all surprised if the eventual starting guards next season are Bueckers and Westbrook.
 
It takes two some times. When we look at Charde Houston, or Williams here this season, can we also say that coach(es) failed to get them improved? #1 coming out of school can’t be talentless. Sometimes lack of progress in a student could also be the fault of the teacher(s). Maybe the teaching method does not fit the student?
 
Papa33 said:
Now, about the pull-up jumper and teardrop floater . . . .

Crystal shoots somewhere at or above 50% of those, 15' and closer. That's that soft area around the foul line, and in and beside the lane.
SoCarolina scored well on pull-ups against us in that area
Who besides Crystal shoots those for us? Christyn has, on occasion, been effective there, but she's been spotty there this season.
Does Megan have a genuine pull-up with some lift off the floor? Or is it, like her 3-pointer, more like a set shot?
Are we missing an offensive weapon in that area?
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Nobody really. They can't get separation and when they do they're afraid to shoot it and pass it backwards or to the wing.
No she doesn't because she has little vertical lift with the ball in her hands. Right now she's a spot up shooter.
And yes, that's the sweet spot for shots and nobody but CD hunts them.
 
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Jordy said:
I see very little evidence of her skill set, other than superior rebounding for her height and above average speed. Scoring two points in the biggest game of the year (1-12) doesn’t give me a lot of confidence in her further development. I would not be at all surprised if the eventual starting guards next season are Bueckers and Westbrook.
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Williams is averaging 14.9 points and 5 boards per game. She is shooting 46% from field. All solid numbers. UConn fans point to her subpar performances in the team's bigger games. She is better than a lot of people on this board give her credit for. If she delivers as hoped in the NCAA tourney, a lot of people on this board will owe her an apology for having given up on her as a sophomore.
 
WestCoast said:
Williams is averaging 14.9 points and 5 boards per game. She is shooting 46% from field. All solid numbers. UConn fans point to her subpar performances in the team's bigger games. She is better than a lot of people on this board give her credit for. If she delivers as hoped in the NCAA tourney, a lot of people on this board will owe her an apology for having given up on her as a sophomore.
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Among the four guards/wings (Walker, Dangerfield, Makurat), she has the worst 3/point and free throw percentages. Ideally, the “shooting” guard should have the best. Normally, players don’t suddenly become much better once the playoffs start. I hope she is much better next year, but thinking she will magically become a different player in March is a very remote possibility.
 
WestCoast said:
Williams is averaging 14.9 points and 5 boards per game. She is shooting 46% from field. All solid numbers. UConn fans point to her subpar performances in the team's bigger games. She is better than a lot of people on this board give her credit for. If she delivers as hoped in the NCAA tourney, a lot of people on this board will owe her an apology for having given up on her as a sophomore.
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Also, I would like to know what the scoring average of the person she principally guards is. I would speculate it is more than 14.9.
 
Jordy said:
Also, I would like to know what the scoring average of the person she principally guards is. I would speculate it is more than 14.9.
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yes .. CW&MW guard people as if they don't want to get into foul trouble .. not so with Liv whom I admire...
 
Jordy said:
Normally, players don’t suddenly become much better once the playoffs start. I hope she is much better next year, but thinking she will magically become a different player in March is a very remote possibility.
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Normally, you are absolutely correct. But I can think of two Huskies who significantly upped their level of play during the Big Dance. One was Stewie, who had this amazing ability, even as a freshman, to seemingly find the nearest phone booth and suddenly emerge as Supergirl in March.

The second player transformation was a more recent one, specifically last year. With Lou hobbled with an injury, the Huskies needed someone else to step up in the Big Dance. UConn’s freshman shooting guard did exactly that, scoring double figures in all 5 tournament games, shooting over 50%, knocking down critical shots from the arc while providing surprising and much needed support on the boards.

For the tournament, Christyn was UConn’s second leading scorer behind Pheesa as well as the team’s 3rd leading rebounder. While we don’t know if Christyn can do it again this year, we certainly know that she did it before.
 
I recall in the SC game after CW lost her man through a set of baseline screens leaving a good open 3pt shot by Harris, Geno was very animated with her on the sidelines. And CW was arguing back fairly animated (Like what am I supposed to do??). I think their is alot of frustration on both sides right now. She needs to finish the season as strong as possible against the weak schedule and get her confidence going and not just on the offensive end.
 
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Jordy said:
Also, I would like to know what the scoring average of the person she principally guards is. I would speculate it is more than 14.9.
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@Jordy,

Should Williams be coming off the bench now? Or, can you wait until next season when UConn gets its frosh class in? Is there any hope that Williams will show the overall game that enabled her to be one of the best 3v3 players in the country this past summer?
 
hoopsfan22 said:
No. There's a world of difference between playing point guard in high school and against collegiate competition. This is the same BS that people throw out about "a good high school team could beat this college team."
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I sat and talked to Evina's mom before the Tennessee game for an hour(we casually met while seated next to each other at a restaurant). I will not get into the specifics of our conversation, but the one thing I took from it is that Evina is in fact, an alpha, which is exactly what is missing from this team, IMO.

I think Evina will be an alpha like Sue is and Paige will be an alpha like Diana. Two very different types of alpha/leader types, but both are.
 
WestCoast said:
Should Williams be coming off the bench now? Or, can you wait until next season when UConn gets its frosh class in? Is there any hope that Williams will show the overall game that enabled her to be one of the best 3v3 players in the country this past summer?
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My 2 cents. You can't bring Williams off the bench now because there is no productive alternative to her starting. Next year is a different story because at a minimum Paige & Evina will be productive options at SG for UCONN. That large elephant in the room will shrink next year. Right now we have three players Megan, Christyn, Crystal all AVERAGING over 35 mins per game. So while starting or not starting Christyn next year is good BY fodder the real accomplishment will be getting her MPG under 30. She will benefit as will the team.
There are only certain aspects of 3 X 3 that translate well to the UCONN offense primarily the constant movement & the mandatory ball handling. While very productive and entertaining much of the stuff that Christyn was doing at 3 X 3 such as beating people off the bounce is not a natural fit for the UCONN offense. To be fair and to your point Christyn is not the same player we saw at 3 X3 this summer either. Geno has run some actions for Christyn to go one on one this year but Christyn has not been productive in many of those sets. When Geno has to have a bucket lately the action has been for Crystal or Megan to come off screen for short jumpers or hoping for a perimeter mismatch. That used to be Christyn coming off those screens or creating those perimeter mismatches.
People are going to hate me saying this as much as I hate writing it but Boston put more useful things into her tool kit from 3 X 3 play this summer than Christyn did.
 
CocoHusky said:
People are going to hate me saying this as much as I hate writing it but Boston put more useful things into her tool kit from 3 X 3 play this summer than Christyn did.
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I suspect you meant to say Liv?
 
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Charliebball said:
CW hasn't played well in a couple of big games but if averaging over 15 points and 5 rebounds a game is awful give me another three awful players please............. ;)
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Sure CW's numbers are good 15 and 5--but those numbers are fattened by playing against the inferior AAC teams. Last year, she had a good stretch during the NCAA tourney, but as several BY'ers have pointed out, this may have been largely due because we had alpha players such as Pheesa and KLS and CW and MW didn't draw primary attention and have opposing teams' best defenders on them. I'm sorry but it in the big games against highly-skilled opponents, CW has not shown up... Her stats are misleading.
 
WestCoast said:
Williams is averaging 14.9 points and 5 boards per game. She is shooting 46% from field. All solid numbers. UConn fans point to her subpar performances in the team's bigger games. She is better than a lot of people on this board give her credit for. If she delivers as hoped in the NCAA tourney, a lot of people on this board will owe her an apology for having given up on her as a sophomore.
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Yes, true, these are solid numbers but CW like MW unmistakably are different players in the AAC than against top 10 teams. I didn't see this type of the drop off in Pheesa, KLS or Gabby or Kia. Largely, I think CW's stats are driven by the level of competition... So, I think it's fair to asterisk these numbers....
 
eebmg said:
I recall in the SC game after CW lost her man through a set of baseline screens leaving a good open 3pt shot by Harris, Geno was very animated with her on the sidelines. And CW was arguing back fairly animated (Like what am I supposed to do??). I think their is alot of frustration on both sides right now. She needs to finish the season as strong as possible against the weak schedule and get her confidence going and not just on the offensive end.
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Yes, a very good descriptor of the mutual frustration on that play--however, you could see SC setting up that open 3-point shot from Mars--CW has to have enough foresight and basketball sense to recognize what's going on, and either ride Harrigan's hip or get ahead of her and force her back the other way, do something, but just don't "half way" it. CW does this a lot, she "half ways" things on D and that's why Geno chews on her at times...
 
CW may or may not be elite (jury is still out on that), but she is still a damn good basketball player with some flaws (who does not have them, even "generational talent" like Boston). It's crazy to hear the way some people trashing her like she is no good.
 
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