@boontonbomber .... try to keep up.
I don't think it has to be 1 player. We have gotten a few times this year, besides Fudd and Strong, 2-3 double digit scorers. But they tend to be different players, game to game. As long as we can get 2-3 in double digits after Fudd and Strong...we should be fine.
The teams immediately behind UConn are. UCLA, SC, Texas, and Vanderbilt are playing really well offensively. They all look good and will be hard to beat.
?? I was making a dry joke about Allie, not Sarah. I'm not quite that dumb, though that has been a point of debate in a number of circles.
Give it your best shot.
It is such a long season.
Against teams with very big front lines in the NCAA Tournament (ex: UCLA) Geno is going to need to go BIG at times (Sarah, Serah, & Jana) with Azzi and Blanca in the backcourt, to effectively deal with size matchups (Better to work out the kinks against teams like Georgetown and early in the Big East Tournament than far into the NCAA Tournament)
The only time you will see Sarah, Serah, Jana, Azzi & Blanca on the court together is during warmups. Last season was very much a precursor for this season. UConn destroyed UCLA by going small, forcing Betts and other UCLA forwards to defend Sarah, Paige, Azzi and others out on the court, which effectively neutralized their size and emphasized their lack of athleticism.
Read formlahaut's post to you. Also, Sarah and Azzi were out of the game too. Sarah, the Nat'l probable POY, played just 23 minutes. Also, other players have to practice pressing too. As Geno said in regard to Blanca which applies then to all players including "team pressure" when for example a team presses, he stated in the postgame, around 1:40 of the presser that no matter how many drills you do it isn't the same ass doing it in the game. While he was talking about Blanca specifically, that comment he made was also in general. If you are only going to use pressure when the game is decided then all the bench players lose out on working on this because they will only play it so little. The team and bench players and the starters who don't/won't play big minutes need the minutes. It shouldn't all and/or mostly be about the other team's feelings. the coaching staff should be more worried about the other team? The team wants to press. Now because they are too good the whole team should suffer? Geno took out his two superstars that are head-and-shoulders above the others. He needs to be even more sympathetic along with not having his bench players and 3rd/4th/5th starters a chance to work on their game in the style UCONN wants to play which is press, press, press? How much better is the team getting then? They won’t reach their potential, right?
No he doesn;'t. The other teams aren't pros. He'll do just like he did last year. Listen to his postagme when someone brought up Serah and Jana in-- he wasn't impressed into talking much about it other that say his other players needed rest. UCONN wants other teams to react to them. Not them to react to others.
I don’t want to like Candace, but I’m really growing to.
Jana is still too slow to react once she receives the ball. Often, this results in stopped ball movement and a tie-up. She needs to either go to the basket or pass it to an outlet. But she needs to know much quicker, what her options are.
She is not better than Harmond,Miles or for that matter Hildago..All three of them are not only great defensive players but score at a high level and have 6.7,6.7 and 5.4 assists per game while KK has 4.8 per game.I think KK is really good but not in their class
I wish for this "grind" every year. No losses. No games under 5 or 10.
Other than the statistics saying the exact opposite, sure, makes sense.
TBH, they both do that. Jana seems to be a better rebounder but she is also slower and far less athletic. On Jana's best day and Serah's worst, they are even. On most days, Serah is better. I would say our best 5 had Blanca in for Serah but not now. Blanca's game has suffered a lot from the long layoff.
Because most, if not all of the starters on the bench. Does that give you a clue?
They certainly all are quite impressive and will present formidable foes. Me thinks going forward the minutes will be very sparce for some on the bench. Expect Azzi, Sarah, and Ashlyn, Blanca getting 30 plus, KK and K9 splitting the 40, and Allie, Serah, and Jana filling in the rest - depending upon matchups and defense.
I think we have two that are pretty reliable for getting double digits. Between Blanca and Ash I think 25, or close to it, is a reasonable expectation. While Allie and K9 are streaky and therefore can't be counted on every game, I do think that pair can produce 10-12 / game with KK , SW and JEA chipping in with 6-10