Can't argue with that. They get it. What's amazing is a group of high school scoring stars focusing so intently on defense. That's coaching. UConn's got it, others not so much.
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It matters to some degree, doesn't it? i don't mean to start a fight but do you and most people on here think that the reg season is "more-or-less who cares?" Then in my view that's wrong - at least for me. .Note I didn't say you said that. I used the "if." Anyhow, for example, who was the greatest freshman just between these 4; Diana, Maya, Breanna, and Paige?
We do compressions often on many things. Such as "Players on Mt Rushmore" "best teams ever, Best UCONN player ever. Best UCONN player vs other teams. player as to who is greatest. Even UCONN does it by choosing the criteria to put a player on the Wall. They "compare" by using specific criteria. After all, sports is competition.
Last year's team was definitely the best performance for any UCONN team ever going by points won, but then we can get into how was the competition vs the other teams etc. Lastyears South Car team asn't as good as the prior years past teams. For me, am I wrong to believe that teams that from UCONN went undefeated that didn't have even one letdown the entire season couldn't be considered greater than last year’s team? It's nto wrong to put perfection/no letdown as impotant, is it? Last year's team was great great great. They became great once they got healthy, they had a high floor on Defense, and their 3 number 1 H/s ranked players definitely overall as a core 3, played like their past number 1 status..
IMO there is no way to duplicate last year's FF dominance. But if they even lose the last game by 1 point and going through that point undefeated in which we saw Azzi a whole year play awesome, saw Sraah do things we're still amazed at, saw the many different beech players rise, and saw someone like Blanca grow into something sensational, but we just had that 1 bad game, would it be "who cares?"
Yes exactly. The point is that we all know that teams change, improve, or sometimes get worse in the course of a season due to getting healthy, getting injuries, being fatigued or getting better and for a myriad other reasons. I think it is very fair and instructive to compare apples to apples, that is comparing teams at the same time of year. The opposing coaches have talked about how we are now and using that comparison to last year. They have been very clear that they think this team is better. I do not agree that right now we are as good as last year in March since we had Paige. However, I do agree that the team defense now is better than it was last year at this time. The team is deeper, we added Blanca, K9 and Serah. We have an improved Allie, Kelis, a better defensive Azzi and Sarah and Ash. Will the team in March be better defensively than last March's team? Will it be better offensively? I actually think both but that is why I am a fan and flew down to Tampa and sat courtside so I could see for myself. I obviously liked what I saw...a lot.
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Fans tend to, since their primary occupation is to speculate on possibilities before they unfold. This isn’t a science experiment, after all.
Of course, the folks who want to shut down any speculation by claiming others mean a team in November is better than another team was in the final four are killjoys.
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“Who cares” wasn’t the best way to put it. What I was trying to get at is that pre-Tennessee is a lowish bar. Azzi hadn’t hit her stride yet. And I think that when people say this year’s team is even better than last year’s I don’t think they’re really thinking pre TN.
Which brings me back to the team that showed up for the F4. I don’t see how you can say this team is better than that. Tho they could get there.