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She's right UCONN is beatable by her team. The team she joins in the WNBA - that team - will be able to beat UCONN.
 
Plebe said:
I don't know why people are taking issue with this. Everybody is beatable. If UConn has a bad game and the other team plays out of its mind, they are beatable. That's how Baylor lost to Louisville in Griner's senior year. That's also how Tennessee lost to Duke in Holdsclaw's senior year. We have every reason to feel confident, but let us not fall into the trap of thinking it's a foregone conclusion.

And even if it UConn were unbeatable, the opponent can't believe it anyway. Anyone who believes they can't win has no business taking the floor.
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You're right. No problem with her thinking and it's fun to banter a bit too, isn't it? And I agree in the later rounds UCONN can get beat. Not in the earlier ones though. And at best USF is a S16 team. S16 team this year isn't getting it done vs UCONN. Especially in Ct.
 
We have every reason to feel confident, but let us not fall into the trap of thinking it's a foregone conclusion.[/QUOTE]

I don't have a problem with it. I think Geno loves to see opponents say that kind of stuff. It only makes UConn better. The bolded is exactly why you do keep your mouth shut and just play. You don't think UConn uses bulletin board material? 'Hey we just whipped them by 20 but I guess it wasn't enough so let's really put it to them.'

You would think nothing else has worked so let's just keep it to ourselves and maybe they will get overconfident and we can surprise them.
 
johnnyc said:
We have every reason to feel confident, but let us not fall into the trap of thinking it's a foregone conclusion.

tI think Geno loves to see opponents say that kind of stuff. It only makes UConn better. The bolded is exactly why you do keep your mouth shut and just play. You don't think UConn uses bulletin board material? 'Hey we just whipped them by 20 but I guess it wasn't enough so let's really put it to them.'

You would think nothing else has worked so let's just keep it to ourselves and maybe they will get overconfident and we can surprise them.
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These players are being asked point-blank by reporters if they think they can beat UConn. What else are they supposed to say? "Oh no, I know we can't win so I'm just going to go out there and have fun." Again, if that was USF's attitude, they would have never held a lead at halftime in the previous game.
 
Plebe said:
These players are being asked point-blank by reporters if they think they can beat UConn. What else are they supposed to say? "Oh no, I know we can't win so I'm just going to go out there and have fun." Again, if that was USF's attitude, they would have never held a lead at halftime in the previous game.
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Give respect to the other team and say you are going out there to win the game. Cliches are a player's best friend. You and reporters may not like them because they are boring and boring puts people to sleep.....hopefully your opponent too.
 
Courtney Williams is a good player. But with only 1 or 2 good players is not enough to beat UConn...
 
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johnnyc said:
Give respect to the other team and say you are going out there to win the game. Cliches are a player's best friend. You and reporters may not like them because they are boring and boring puts people to sleep.....hopefully your opponent too.
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There's nothing disrespectful about saying that you think you can win. They wouldn't even be asking the question, "Do you think you can beat them?" if they weren't already a heavy underdog. They know it, everybody knows it. They're not asking the UConn players if they think they can beat USF. If Williams pulled a Makayla Epps and guaranteed a victory, that would be different.
 
MJL243 said:
"I think our mindset is that, they're beatable," Bulls guard Courney Williams said, following her team's 64-46 semifinal win over Temple. "We beat them in the first half, we let up in the third, and they made shots. They're going to do that. We just have to answer. If we could have went bucket for bucket (with them in the second half), we could have won the game. So I think that showed us this team is beatable, and we have the potential to beat them."
http://www.swishappeal.com/2016/3/7/11171454/usf-uconn-aac-tournament-championship-preview
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Courtney,,,NOT!!!
 
This was Stewie's take in the postgame presser: "We saw her comments that she made last night. And you know, any confident player's gonna make those type of comments, but you know, on our end, we don't want to hear that. And you know, it just adds more fuel to the fire…"
 
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RSHERMVIKES said:
UCONN had Williams so frustrated she was bickering with her team mates in the 2nd 1/2.
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In 32 games 662 shot attempts, next most 312, she had 86 assists, and 84 turnovers, a volume shooter who doesn't make her team better. Geno has said Stewie can get a shot any time she wants to, but she understands others need to shoot for the team to succeed. MJ became great when he became not only a shooter, but a passer.
 
MJL243 said:
"I think our mindset is that, they're beatable," Bulls guard Courney Williams said, following her team's 64-46 semifinal win over Temple. "We beat them in the first half, we let up in the third, and they made shots. They're going to do that. We just have to answer. If we could have went bucket for bucket (with them in the second half), we could have won the game. So I think that showed us this team is beatable, and we have the potential to beat them."
http://www.swishappeal.com/2016/3/7/11171454/usf-uconn-aac-tournament-championship-preview
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I'd have recommended that she speak to Makayla Epps before uttering that statement publicly. It didn't work out too well for Kentucky.
 
I have no problem with Williams saying that..... you have to have some degree of confidence..... and she is indeed quite a player....

Didn't work out for her tonight though
 
It doesn't matter a damn what we fans think about beatable/unbeatable, or whether we're super optimists like tonyc who believes that every game is going to be a 50 point, stone cold blowout. That's why we're called fans- Forever Abnormally Nutty Supporters. And damn proud of it. A fan's 'reality' is permitted to take hyperbolic flight now and again.

The only thing that matters is that the UConn kids, the ones playing the game, don't get over-confident, take nothing for granted, and understand that each opponent has a chance to win- if UConn plays its C-game and the other team plays out of their skulls.
 
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baggerbob said:
MJ became great when he became not only a shooter, but a passer.
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MJ was always a great passer (best ever) then he became a good shooter, especially in that All-Star game when he made that long 3 with Isiah Thomas guarding him.

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old but interesting article about Courtney LINK

Geno speaks...
 
Plebe said:
These players are being asked point-blank by reporters if they think they can beat UConn. What else are they supposed to say? "Oh no, I know we can't win so I'm just going to go out there and have fun." Again, if that was USF's attitude, they would have never held a lead at halftime in the previous game.
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Given my propensity for sarcasm, that's EXACTLY what I would have said! Followed by, "Actually, my hair dryer broke, so I'm just going out on the court to stand near Moriah while she streams by me a few times."

I have no problem with what she said. It wasn't disrespectful at all.
 
Plebe said:
I don't know why people are taking issue with this. Everybody is beatable. If UConn has a bad game and the other team plays out of its mind, they are beatable. That's how Baylor lost to Louisville in Griner's senior year. That's also how Tennessee lost to Duke in Holdsclaw's senior year. We have every reason to feel confident, but let us not fall into the trap of thinking it's a foregone conclusion.

And even if it UConn were unbeatable, the opponent can't believe it anyway. Anyone who believes they can't win has no business taking the floor.
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I have no problem with her comment that "they're beatable". Of course UConn is beatable, ever team is beatable. What I found amusing was some of the follow-up comments. Stuff like "we let up in the third". It's a little disrespectful to UConn to suggest you had them beat and then let up. Or "if we could have went bucket for bucket". And if pigs could fly...
Williams should have just stopped at something like "we think we can beat UConn".
 
I don't have a problem with it either, although it may not have been smart. FWIW USF worries me a bit. I don't look forward to playing them a 4th time.
 
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CL82 said:
I don't have a problem with it either, although it may not have been smart. FWIW USF worries me a bit. I don't look forward to playing them a 4th time.
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Reasonable to be uneasy. You would be if you remember Baylor-A&M 2011, Uconn-ND 2011, or ND-UConn 2013. The difference is that Uconn has beaten USF by 15+ each time already, ,whereas the first three contests were much closer in several of the games of the example series I mentioned above. As such, we have a greater margin for error, even in a hypothetical fourth meeting. But yes, I'd still be uneasy too.
 
baggerbob said:
In 32 games 662 shot attempts, next most 312, she had 86 assists, and 84 turnovers, a volume shooter who doesn't make her team better. Geno has said Stewie can get a shot any time she wants to, but she understands others need to shoot for the team to succeed. MJ became great when he became not only a shooter, but a passer.
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She plays between five and ten more minutes per game than her teammates so her 'shots per minute played' isn't as disproportional as the raw number suggests, and only one player on the team getting significant minutes per game is shooting a significant percentage higher than her - their 'center' Jenkins who has been injured/playing injured for at least a third of the year. Her three point shooting (.395) is good and second only to the freshman Laksa. She leads the team in blocks, is second in steals, assists, and rebounds and is one of only three players with a greater than 1.0 A/TO ratio. And she scores more than one point per shot.

Yes she is a volume shooter, but she is not an inefficient volume shooter. And she is clearly the most talented player on her team, so the offense runs through her. We really see players like her in their worst possible light because we see them going against the best defense in WCBB that is very good at taking individual players out of their comfort zone. She definitely makes her team better, and as Geno has said, she is one of the hardest players to defense that Uconn has ever faced. She is a very good player making a decent team into a ranked team.
 
Danny O'Shea: Well, wait a second, guys. Who said you had to be good to play football? You play football because you want to. You play football because it's fun. You play football so you could pretend you're Joe Montana throwing a touchdown pass, or Emmitt Smith going for a long run. And even if those Cowboys are better than you guys, even if they beat you 99 times out of 100, that still leaves.
Tad: One time.
Rudy Zolteck: One time.
Junior Floyd: [Smiles] Yeah one time!

If Danny O'Shea can beat Kevin O'Shea down Cherry Hill (one time), anything possible.

In all seriousness, this is much ado about nothing. Do you really think Stewart, Tuck, Jefferson, et al needed bulletin board material to get motivated for a conference championship game? I don't think her statement had any effect one way or another.
 
Did anyone catch the broadcast commentary during the game last night? The announcers referred to an interview with Geno. He apparently follows the NBA a lot more closely than most of us (definitely including me), and he noted that the Golden State Warriors (with a historic win percentage this year) had recently lost a game in which they went 4-30 from the 3-point line. Obviously his point was that such a thing could happen to UConn, and with "win or go home" being the rule in the remainder of this season, it could be fatal if it happens.

No one is unbeatable (particularly in a one-game series). Remember Louisville vs. Baylor a few years ago, or the Miracle On Ice in 1981. (Or the Pirates in 1960, I might add. Or the Immaculate Reception in 1971.)

And no respectable player or team should view their opponent as unbeatable.
 
In all seriousness, this is much ado about nothing. Do you really think Stewart, Tuck, Jefferson, et al needed bulletin board material to get motivated for a conference championship game? I don't think her statement had any effect one way or another.
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The post game comments say otherwise. I think some are forgetting or not understanding that these are highly competitive people. Understandable, I guess, being so removed from the playing fields and where the only competition is whether they make it to the bathroom on time.
 
johnnyc said:
The post game comments say otherwise. I think some are forgetting or not understanding that these are highly competitive people. Understandable, I guess, being so removed from the playing fields and where the only competition is whether they make it to the bathroom on time.
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Yeah, I don't really put much stock in those comments. What do people think Stewart's (or any other UConn player's) thought process was - "Well, I wasn't going to play hard in the conference championship game but now this girl on the other team said we're beatable, so I guess I ought to play hard. Can't mail it like I had planned *now*."

I mean, maybe UConn wanted to beat them more to prove the point. But they were already going to play hard. That extra bit of wanting to win wasn't going to make a difference in how they played because they already wanted to win.
 
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