Comment about Aubrey and Ayanna standing around spot on. Tough for both to be in at same time. Aubrey can beat most on the drive if she gets the ball within the key but standing 25 feet from basketball not her best spot. Hoping Geno develops more plays for Aubrey that allow her to use her speed and quickness and opens the floor for 3 point shooters. Gutty win today.
Inconsitent performance by refs. Was happy that then FSU started to get chippy, refs started to call fouls but late in the 3rd and throughout the 4th, alot of touch fouls called, many on UConn. Suspect FSU unhappy as well. Huskies do have to do a better job of letting quick guards drive around picks and push into the UConn defender. While I would call an offensive foul, for most of the year the call has gone against UConn on these type of plays - we had this issue in the playoffs last year as well.
Dorka had 15 points to go along with 9 reb, 5 bl, 4a, and 2 st. Not exactly chopped liver!
One substitute at a time, please.
The "spots" on Dorka's arms: "Cupping for athletes has been reported to relieve the pain associated with various sports-related injuries including frozen shoulder, plantar fasciitis, shin splints and sciatica. These often have painful symptoms that can impede movement and worsen quality of life."
NIka not at her best still good and was impressed by her performance coming off a concusion, particularly since FSU mugged her most of the game. Compliments to FSU for slowing the game down and eliminating UConn's fast breaks and pick and rolls the second half. These are where Nika gets many of her assists so give more of the credit to FSU than taking anything away from Nika.Some thoughts on the FSU game:
- No Geno today. But with Nika & Dorka back in the starting lineup I felt reasonably good about the likelihood that CD would up her all-time record as UConn’s HC to 14-0.
- Against an aggressive FSU team there were still far too many Husky turnovers. Hopefully, with more healthy players practicing together, UConn will clean up the problem.
- FSU used multiple defenses to offset UConn’s advantage in the paint as the Huskies got the ball inside frequently for easy layups by Aaliyah in particular, along with Dorka, Aubrey & Caroline.
- Nika dished out a cool 12 assists but was not at her best coming out of the concussion protocol.
- We all know that Lou can score. But the more I watch her play, the clearer it is that she takes and makes BIG SHOTS. Whenever FSU looked like they might overtake UConn, Lou seemed to bury another shot.
- Aaliyah’s ability to establish consistently strong low-post position is in some ways reminiscent of Pheesa, although Aaliyah is bigger and stronger.
- UConn probably won this game at the foul line going 18/21.
- Bring on the Pirates!!!
Agreed. However, she would have done the team far better if she didn't have 3 of her shots blocked.
This team needs to play perimeter defense and stop giving up wide open 3 point shots all game. Another thing when they get back on defense after a made basket the whole team gets caught up under the basket and no one is defending the 3 point shot. Doesn't the coaching staff notice these things?? Most of Florida's 3 point shots where wide open.
the spots on her arms are from a procedure called cupping. my wife has it done by her massage therapist. Many athletes us it and it seems to have healing benefits.Some thoughts on the FSU game:
- No Geno today. But with Nika & Dorka back in the starting lineup I felt reasonably good about the likelihood that CD would up her all-time record as UConn’s HC to 14-0.
- Against an aggressive FSU team there were still far too many Husky turnovers. Hopefully, with more healthy players practicing together, UConn will clean up the problem.
- FSU used multiple defenses to offset UConn’s advantage in the paint as the Huskies got the ball inside frequently for easy layups by Aaliyah in particular, along with Dorka, Aubrey & Caroline.
- Nika dished out a cool 12 assists but was not at her best coming out of the concussion protocol.
- We all know that Lou can score. But the more I watch her play, the clearer it is that she takes and makes BIG SHOTS. Whenever FSU looked like they might overtake UConn, Lou seemed to bury another shot.
- Aaliyah’s ability to establish consistently strong low-post position is in some ways reminiscent of Pheesa, although Aaliyah is bigger and stronger.
- UConn probably won this game at the foul line going 18/21.
- Bring on the Pirates!!!
cupping, it is used in massage therapy.
Our defense looked gassed during much of the game, played well off the three-point shooters and they made us pay. Would have liked to see more substitutions given our starters brief rests especially for the two players that have been out for a while. Our defense around the top of the key needs to improve as we looked tired and didn't close on the shooters well.
Exactly. It's almost like FSU didn't have a scout on UConn. The book is that you can jam them up if you get up on them and don't allow them to run their offense like it's a walk thru practice. And it took them half the game to figure it out. This and UConn playing with only one shooter means a close game for any decent team.
The kid that hit the threes has made 29% all season. The Husky coaches chose to dare her to shoot, like UConn opponents dare Nika, and she made them pay, making 4-10.
Back to Nika—I can not say enough about her step up this year maturity-wise. She was getting mugged. Last year’s version of Nika would have fouled out early in the second half. Really impressed by how she’s retaliating with her game, not with elbows or just clocking offenders.
Nope I’m sure only you are capable of noticing and making these observations.
