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When the wheels came off early in the fourth quarter against Baylor, Geno should have been escorted to the locker room and CD should have assumed the head coaching responsibilities. Obviously, the game has evolved in ways he does not, or, can not, understand.

Is Muffet McGraw available?
 
Two Sheds said:
When the wheels came off early in the fourth quarter against Baylor, Geno should have been escorted to the locker room and CD should have assumed the head coaching responsibilities. Obviously, the game has evolved in ways he does not, or, can not, understand.

Is Muffet McGraw available?
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Muffet is a way better coach then Geno. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: :cool:
 
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Two Sheds said:
When the wheels came off early in the fourth quarter against Baylor, Geno should have been escorted to the locker room and CD should have assumed the head coaching responsibilities. Obviously, the game has evolved in ways he does not, or, can not, understand.

Is Muffet McGraw available?
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'I'll take it from here. Chris has a glass of red wine for you in the locker room.'
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OMG, I CAN NOT believe that supposed Uconn Women Basketball Fans can turn on Geno with one loss. You should ashamed of yourselves. He gave you a decade of enjoyment, has a young inexperience team, ranked #1, gets beat by a better team and you throw him under the bus. Shame, Shame, Shame...
 
Two Sheds said:
When the wheels came off early in the fourth quarter against Baylor, Geno should have been escorted to the locker room and CD should have assumed the head coaching responsibilities. Obviously, the game has evolved in ways he does not, or, can not, understand.

Is Muffet McGraw available?
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If lose one game Geno has to go, Muffet should be gone 2 months ago.
BTW I think you must not know Muffet has lost 10 games up to now.
 
LouS said:
OMG, I CAN NOT believe that supposed Uconn Women Basketball Fans can turn on Geno with one loss. You should ashamed of yourselves. He gave you a decade of enjoyment, has a young inexperience team, ranked #1, gets beat by a better team and you throw him under the bus. Shame, Shame, Shame...
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Young inexperienced team? They start two seniors, a junior, and two sophomores, one of which was a starter last season, who have extensive USA basketball experience.
 
hoopsfan22 said:
Young inexperienced team? They start two seniors, a junior, and two sophomores, one of which was a starter last season, who have extensive USA basketball experience.
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I thought this thread was a joke. It is, isn't it? The OP was being sarcastic, wasn't he or she?

Are you serious getting on a poster focusing the word "inexperienced?" So you took that hard-of-a-line approach in the word "inexperienced" and felt Kyla Irwin who rarely ever played in a big game in teh past - and felt to point out she was a senior? So you are putting her in the same boat with someone like Danger all because of age????????? And to further that you are counting "USA Basketball" that much to counter a poster saying the team is "inexperienced?"

Every player unless hurt plays during the summer. So USA Basketball counts and other players who don't play USA Basketball but worked on other parts of their game or other means -- doesn't count too?
 
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What I don't like is Geno calling the team dummies. There's no need for that. They played hard. Baylor is the better team.
 
The Courant with help from Geno gives it a last look:

www.courant.com

‘We’re taking it out on them’: UConn women look to rebound against Houston after Baylor ends Huskies’ 98-game home win streak

After falling to Baylor in a thrilling top 10 matchup, Geno Auriemma insisted that his team has a short memory, which isn’t the worst thing considering the UConn women will be back in action …
www.courant.com www.courant.com

"A huge factor in UConn’s loss, Auriemma said, was that UConn simply didn’t make enough threes to win the game. And when it mattered most in the fourth, UConn went 1-for-10 from deep.

“We knew they were going to get probably to 65, 67 and then we needed to get to 70, 75 and that we needed to make more threes than them,” Auriemma said. “We made eight. They made seven. We needed to make 10 or 11 and we didn’t. But I thought for 30 minutes, I thought we were pretty good.”

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hoophuskee said:
I thought this thread was a joke. It is, isn't it? The OP was being sarcastic, wasn't he or she?

Are you serious getting on a poster focusing the word "inexperienced?" So you took that hard-of-a-line approach in the word "inexperienced" and felt Kyla Irwin who rarely ever played in a big game in teh past - and felt to point out she was a senior? So you are putting her in the same boat with someone like Danger all because of age????????? And to further that you are counting "USA Basketball" that much to counter a poster saying the team is "inexperienced?"

Every player unless hurt plays during the summer. So USA Basketball counts and other players who don't play USA Basketball but worked on other parts of their game or other means -- doesn't count too?
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I thought (hoped???) so and treated it as such. :)
 
RockyMTblue2 said:
The Courant with help from Geno gives it a last look:

www.courant.com

‘We’re taking it out on them’: UConn women look to rebound against Houston after Baylor ends Huskies’ 98-game home win streak

After falling to Baylor in a thrilling top 10 matchup, Geno Auriemma insisted that his team has a short memory, which isn’t the worst thing considering the UConn women will be back in action …
www.courant.com www.courant.com

"A huge factor in UConn’s loss, Auriemma said, was that UConn simply didn’t make enough threes to win the game. And when it mattered most in the fourth, UConn went 1-for-10 from deep.

“We knew they were going to get probably to 65, 67 and then we needed to get to 70, 75 and that we needed to make more threes than them,” Auriemma said. “We made eight. They made seven. We needed to make 10 or 11 and we didn’t. But I thought for 30 minutes, I thought we were pretty good.”

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This is why I disagreed with the tone of that other thread created by "Mik" hammering Geno for playing Kyla. Geno is playing his shooters. We'll see if he changes at some point, but so far he has assessed that the best chance for his team to win is playing mostly a 4 shooter offense. He's not looking for his teams to play ugly grind basketball. So he wasn't about to pull Kyla who was showing a great shooter's eye unless others showed something more. I just don't think some posters understand that is how Geno sees this team. They see it the way they want the games to be played - which is more "grind-basketball." One thing we know from Geno throughout his career is that his style of grind he hates. And frankly, I'm glad he doesn't.
 
VaConnFan11 said:
Actually, during the game she is.

Geno is better at preparing a team for an opponent.
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Centerstream said:
Yeah, her 11 NCs certainly proves that. Oh, wait...
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This response in defense of any criticism to Geno is getting old. If memory serves me, the last 2 years, when the games actually mattered, she is 2-0. Even this year, with a bad team, she was running plays that got her players open shots.

If you knew anything about coaching types, you would know that Game Prep Coaching is a lot different than In Game Coaching.

You are playing one of the taller teams in the country and you are sitting your tallest starter in the 4th quarter of a close game. That doesn't sound like good In Game Coaching to me.
 
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VaConnFan11 said:
This response in defense of any criticism to Geno is getting old. If memory serves me, the last 2 years, when the games actually mattered, she is 2-0. Even this year, with a bad team, she was running plays that got her players open shots.

If you knew anything about coaching types, you would know that Game Prep Coaching is a lot different than In Game Coaching.

You are playing one of the taller teams in the country and you are sitting your tallest starter in the 4th quarter of a close game. That doesn't sound like good In Game Coaching to me.
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You have your OPINION and I have mine.
And for your "If you knew anything about coaching types", what ever I honestly reply would get my account suspended so I will leave it at that.

Don't bother to reply because I am going to select the I button, as I do when ever I encounter certain types of posters especially ones like you!!!
 
VaConnFan11 said:
This response in defense of any criticism to Geno is getting old. If memory serves me, the last 2 years, when the games actually mattered, she is 2-0. Even this year, with a bad team, she was running plays that got her players open shots.

If you knew anything about coaching types, you would know that Game Prep Coaching is a lot different than In Game Coaching.

You are playing one of the taller teams in the country and you are sitting your tallest starter in the 4th quarter of a close game. That doesn't sound like good In Game Coaching to me.
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I don't know "in-game vs prep." But c'mon-- giving credit for ND having open shots??? Seriously???

So what are we supposed to do?? Look back at the history of Geno vs Muffett and compare "who had the most open shots?"

So when Stewart or Tuck had great position because their 4 foot shot was contested - that is supposed to show Muffett/ good for ND because the 4 foot shot was contested?

I think you have a point about ONO in some manner. I'm not arguing this or agreeing. But did Geno say why he didn't play ONO? But you also have to concede that sometimes great coaches get disgusted with their players. As a fan we have different perspectives. We say "just play them." Yet I've seen Jim Calhoun pull Donyell Marshall in a close game and I read in the paper at the time he told Donyell to paraphrase, "You're embarrassing yourself and that's why you're going to sit." I remember he benched him and it was a big deal.

Anyways, Geno has done the same-- I think it was vs Pittsburgh when he pulled Charde and I believe Tina-- I know definitely Charde. They almost lost. He said he didn't care. These are coaching styles from all-time great coaches. I have to consider that in a January game. How is it that ONO is going 0-8 from the floor? Do you feel it is acceptable for a player of ONO's talent to go 0-8 from the floor while taking mostly inside shots? As a fan you could probably care less. But maybe all-time great coaches have a different way in dealing with a player whom they might feel is playing absolutely awful basketball in relation to their talent.

You might be right about ONO-- but regarding ND - you're bringing up "open shots" as any kind of excuse for ND I find way off-base.
 
hoophuskee said:
I don't know "in-game vs prep." But c'mon-- giving credit for ND having open shots??? Seriously???

So what are we supposed to do?? Look back at the history of Geno vs Muffett and compare "who had the most open shots?"

So when Stewart or Tuck had great position because their 4 foot shot was contested - that is supposed to show Muffett/ good for ND because the 4 foot shot was contested?

I think you have a point about ONO in some manner. I'm not arguing this or agreeing. But did Geno say why he didn't play ONO? But you also have to concede that sometimes great coaches get disgusted with their players. As a fan we have different perspectives. We say "just play them." Yet I've seen Jim Calhoun pull Donyell Marshall in a close game and I read in the paper at the time he told Donyell to paraphrase, "You're embarrassing yourself and that's why you're going to sit." I remember he benched him and it was a big deal.

Anyways, Geno has done the same-- I think it was vs Pittsburgh when he pulled Charde and I believe Tina-- I know definitely Charde. They almost lost. He said he didn't care. These are coaching styles from all-time great coaches. I have to consider that in a January game. How is it that ONO is going 0-8 from the floor? Do you feel it is acceptable for a player of ONO's talent to go 0-8 from the floor while taking mostly inside shots? As a fan you could probably care less. But maybe all-time great coaches have a different way in dealing with a player whom they might feel is playing absolutely awful basketball in relation to their talent.

You might be right about ONO-- but regarding ND - you're bringing up "open shots" as any kind of excuse for ND I find way off-base.
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Don't you know? Open shots is the new metric in this age of analytics. Of course the defense could be giving up open shots for a reason, e.g., crappy shooters, but let's not confuse matters. ND is top 5 in open shots this season.
 
LouS said:
OMG, I CAN NOT believe that supposed Uconn Women Basketball Fans can turn on Geno with one loss. You should ashamed of yourselves. He gave you a decade of enjoyment, has a young inexperience team, ranked #1, gets beat by a better team and you throw him under the bus. Shame, Shame, Shame...
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A decade? Umm it's been a couple/3 decades. :cool:
 
meyers7 said:
A decade? Umm it's been a couple/3 decades. :cool:
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As fans, we cant criticize?? Listen, no is taking away the fact that over the last 25 years, Geno has built the most dominant WCBB (and perhaps extended to other college programs) ever. But, let's face it. The last 4 years has been less than stellar in terms of recruiting and winning when it counts. Part of that is on Geno. Even, he'll admit to that. The AAC is an absolute joke. CD would be undefeated (or close to it) over the last 4 years coaching against the AAC teams. I wont rehash the last 3 FF exits, but those were not Geno's best coaching moments. And, this year's team is a following a similar pattern to failing in big games.
 
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