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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4513144, member: 3535"] I don’t agree with the backlash with Morrow. I thought the battle between her and Edwards was fantastic to watch, - yet I prefer perimeter play but I thought their battle was awesome which made this game extremely fun to watch. For those that have played basketball, what Morrow was doing would happen to me when I was a guard trying to get inside rebounds at times. They give you a quick chuck in the back whether it be elbow or forearm just while the ball is hitting the rim. The chuck causes you to have to reset your body/legs before you could leap. By that time you reset and jump, you're too late going for the rebound. You could see Morrow doing something similar with arms and body constantly when going for contested rebounds when she is behind or lateral to the other player. So what- she gets yelled at? Geno yells at everyone. And so what- she throws elbows. What's the expression? "Fight, scratch, and claw" for rebounds? That's the beauty of watching great competitive rebounders. And how often do we hear that we want to see a deep bench? Well, with DePaul she is averaging 34.5 minutes vs 30.5 minutes last year with her team being a shell of past DePaul teams. What happens when you are a combination of worn down mentally and you’re a low post in which your team is overmatched all over the floor? A guard has it so much easier to look like they are "hustling" than a physical but smaller post competing against larger and very athletic players while she is the number 1 option, and also the number 1 defensive target in a hopeless situation. Instead of any backlash on the terrific Morrow; how about an extra appreciation for UCONN? Because isn't this part of the reason why super players come to a powerhouse like UCONN? They come to UCONN so when they do play other teams that the opposing team will have a much, much harder time limiting your game vs what happened to a player like Morrow in this case. [/QUOTE]

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