“Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you - make sure your players are more talented than anyone else’s.”I always wonder if Geno is like a great cook who shares his famous recipe for a scrumptious desert, but leaves out a key ingredient. "Oh, I forgot to tell you to add a teaspoon of cinnamon."
Yes, but at the core of Geno’s dealings with his players is a barely concealed affection and pride for each and every one of them.
IMO no. BOAT are great discussions but only for us fans. This team, like every UCONN team before it, is living in the here and now and is only consumed by what it takes to win this year. Despite the hysteria created by 3/4 of the ND game or even the carryover from Mississippi St. this team has enough tools and talent to win it all now. However, Geno and the UCONN staff are by nature insatiable perfectionist, for whom the current tool set is not and has never been good enough. Therefore, the UCONN staff will continue to tinker, improve, perfect (offensively & defensively) and are perfectly willing to leave behind those players and opponents that are not of like mind. Any player sitting on the UCONN bench thinking anything besides "I need to get better at A-Z" will not last. Any UCONN opponent ( past, present , or future) thinking "I just need to bring my A game" and hope UCONN brings a less than A game" is in for a rude awakening.
Think they meant Ogunbowale. She’s a chucker. She probably wouldn’t play for us if she took that many shots.
I'll reiterate what I said during the game last Sunday. Shepard is a changed player. Last year at Nebraska she was content to hang around the perimeter and chuck 3-pt shots, so Gabby absolutely shut her down. Credit MM's coaching, as well as Shepard's willingness for making a commitment to play in the paint, where she is far more effective as a scorer, rebounder and passer.
I did she handle the rock so much I assumed she was the point lol. No discipline. That’s not a system.
You are right---Muffet, isn't stupid, she takes, as Geno takes, from Geno and uses anything she can use with her existing players. There is something about---The greatest praise of another is ??? Seems Muffet is often praising Geno.
No doubt Geno and his staff bring out the best in their players, but it all starts with getting the right players to buy into the system and be able to make it work.
I thought your comments were fine. And true.
Of course you were right and now too are correct: As Geno has stated many times during his career---Top talent recruits/player make a coach look really good. You don't have his success without REAL top talent--that is a given. If I appeared to argue against that--I apologize, that would be an ignorant argument (not that I don't use ignorance)
Excellent point. Of course you can also recruit top talent and still not win consistently, like a certain program in TN.
There's an extreme sensitivity to weight comments regarding women, much more so than men, because of the unattainable ideal that a gal can't be too thin. Women have been tortured by this expectation and few guys can even begin to understand it. Women and women athletes have a variety of body types and thinking that they would be better if they lost weight is demeaning and just wrong. Mawbrey played most of the game at a fast pace and didn't appear to be winded or tired- and scored 21 points, so why would 20 pounds less make her better?
Wonderful post. I just watched Marty last night on TCM, one of my favorite all-time movies made in 1955, in which two lonely souls with self-image problems, played by Ernest Borgnine & Betsy Blair find each other. Marty, played by Borgnine, is badgered by his so-called friends to dump Clara, played by Blair, who they ridicule for her looks. In the end Marty rejects his friends cruel insensitivity and chooses to be with Clara.