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Call me crazy, if we haven’t seen this before. Uconn can get shutdown especially when you don’t make adjustments. When games get tight Uconn gets rattled and out hustled. Take bad shots, rebounding and awful execution. How do you not take advantage of lack of playing time and come out and play like that? Don’t you feel challenged? Second half all offensive plays run to the right. Can’t anyone dribble w there left hand? Game was on the line w less then a minute, down 8 press the inbounds and you give up a full court pass for a bucket, nobody at half court to protect that? Sorry but that’s coaching!! Or are the players not able to make adjustments?
 
EricLA said:
Not pretty at all. Neither will this post be. It's a bit of a rant so let me just get it out of my system...

I get the team is re-acclimating after losing Paige and Nika, but this is a team that starts 4 top 5 recruits and now 1 former Big 10 all star. 44 points in a game? 2 quarters where we scored single figures and one where we scored 11.

Are the coaches recruiting the wrong kids? Are they coaching them wrong? How many HS AA's does Ga Tech have? I have no words for the mess we just saw. At this moment, this team is not even a top 25 team, and to think that 1 player makes that much of a difference says a lot about the quality of the other players on the team and/or how they play together.

I'm not going to pick on specific players, but IMHO both the coaches AND the players need to look in the mirror and do some serious soul searching. This might be the worst game I've ever seen a UCONN team with this much talent play.

Not sure what Geno and Jamelle were barking at each other about. Would love to have been a fly on the bench at that moment.

Was nice to at least see Amari get some PT and do more in the stat sheet than Liya.

We lost Q4 18-5. Can't blame that on 3 games in 3 days.
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Agree.
Any time you state your opinion on this team, all boneyards think you are questioning the hall of game coach.
All great leaders take accountability and I believe this was the worst loss in the last 10 years. When you tell players that the offense does not work with out Paige, I guess that leads to 1 field goal in Q 4 and they believe you.
They have 5 top 10 recruits and Georgia Tech has no one in the top 100 - come on man !!!
We need an offense that fits the talent on the floor. How can Dorka avg 16 a game in the the big 10 and looks lost
Come on man
We need to wake up and coach to the players available now. This team has enough talent to win now
All great leaders learn to adapt to the times they are in. Let’s Go
 
Beachampion said:
Call me crazy, if we haven’t seen this before. Uconn can get shutdown especially when you don’t make adjustments. When games get tight Uconn gets rattled and out hustled. Take bad shots, rebounding and awful execution. How do you not take advantage of lack of playing time and come out and play like that? Don’t you feel challenged? Second half all offensive plays run to the right. Can’t anyone dribble w there left hand? Game was on the line w less then a minute, down 8 press the inbounds and you give up a full court pass for a bucket, nobody at half court to protect that? Sorry but that’s coaching!! Or are the players not able to make adjustments?
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OK
 
JordyG said:
Scored more points in the 4th than against SCar. I really want to see all of these teams (SCar and GT) again down the road. Imagine how bad this loss would have been if GT could shoot FT's?
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Just a horrible game!!!!! CD has regressed after her breakout game and Edwards certainly isn’t the player she was last year. Outside of Paige maybe all these players are greatly overrated.
 
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I'm going to keep things as neutral as possible, as I predict an onslaught of negative posts are going to follow.
  • Tonight was the proof that our second 5 are not a top ten team, heck our 2-5 and a bench player looked like they'd struggle through the big east schedule. A lesson to a lot of posters to be more realistic with expectations and to respect the student athletes that play DI basketball, top to bottom. There's a lot more talent today than 20 years ago.
  • I do think it is difficult to adjust to losing a NPOY, but to also simultaneously be without another 3 contributors is incredibly tough. It's going to take some time to figure things out, and we need to be patient.
  • That being said, we still on paper brought a lot more talent to this matchup. How is it that our talent looked so bad? I am hopeful that those who played tonight take this loss very personally.
  • I noticed we pretty much ran zero half court offense. This might be a scenario where we have to rely on sets to generate open looks. You can't play read and react when nobody is moving. Nothing to react to.
  • I thought the turning point was the stretch where AE missed the wide open transition bucket, and then ONO went out with 3 fouls. After that point, we looked really bad offensively.
  • The good news is that Amari looked pretty good to me. Caroline had a very up and down game. But I think we have to continue to give both minutes as they look like they can develop into reliable options.
  • As for CW becoming our go to scorer? Not who I'd choose! But I guess what other option do we have?!
 
The question has to be asked. Is Paige that special (answer is yes) that she covers up the team's deficiencies except against the premier teams or is the remaining cast overrated, the incoming class excepted?
Separately, Edwards is in the Twilight Zone. She clearly is playing with a lack of confidence. She has too much ability and ceiling to be playing this way.
 
That was an embarrassing debacle. I expected it to be tough, but it was perhaps our ugliest game against a non-elite opponent since 2005.

Except for Paige (who was great) and Liv (who's doing ok), every player has not met my expectations. Maybe my expectations were off-base, but seemingly we have multiple key players who have regressed from last year. Most of us thought this would be a great and exciting year. The next 2 months could be painful. After that, who knows?
 
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I think it's time for a serious discussion about just punting this season. Have Paige not comeback because she feels she needs to rush. If this is how the srs are going to play with no drive then what is the point. Not one sr ever steps up in the biggest moments.
 
MilfordHusky said:
That was an embarrassing debacle. I expected it to be tough, but it was perhaps our ugliest game against a non-elite opponent since 2005.

Except for Paige (who was great) and Liv (who's doing ok), every player has not met my expectations. Maybe my expectations were off-base, but seemingly we have multiple key players who have regressed from last year. Most of us thought this would be a great and exciting year. The next 2 months could be painful. After that, who knows?
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The worst game I’ve ever watched a UConn team play. I’m in shock.
 
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the starting line up is not the move. Dorka is not consistent with her outside shot. Aaliyah has only made one 3 (that I can remember) since she arrived. The way Aaliyah and Dorka are playing, they don't deserve to start either.
CD on wing needs to start. Amari was good today. I hate that she was pulled so quickly. She got lost on defense a few times but she was rebounding.
I made a comment last week that losing Shea may be bigger than expected. Some have even made the same claim too. Only for us to be mocked as if Shea was a player and could score from the bench. But after today's guard play, don't tell me these are typical UConn guards on the floor. Especially when our guards (E and C) are the most experienced on the team.

After today's play, i hope they don't try to rush anyone back. In spite of how badly the team looks. Depending on how they do the next few weeks, if it continues to be a total disaster, i think you rest Paige and Azzi until next year. So they can fully heal and recover. It's clearly South Carolina's year.
 
jchuskie said:
I think it's time for a serious discussion about just punting this season. Have Paige not comeback because she feels she needs to rush. If this is how the srs are going to play with no drive then what is the point. Not one sr ever steps up in the biggest moments.
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What does that even mean? Quit the season?
 
My thoughts:

1) Let’s be honest the only player not being able to play that has a big and irreplaceable impact is Paige. No disrespect to the others but none were really lighting it up offensively so I don’t view that as a reason for this really poor performance.

2) Christyn has got to learn she is not a shooter. She was so so marvelous in the 1st half driving and creating off the dribble, then the second half she started taking step back three’s and forcing jumpers. That has never been her game.

3) I hope Dorka is just going through a learning curve because she’s looks nothing like the player I was expecting as a double double player in the BIG.

4) AE, if this wasn’t rock bottom I am not sure what will be.

5) ONO, played with some fire and hit some nice shots. She’s going to be needed to do a lot more of that.

6) Amari, based on her not playing at all his year was surprised how good and confident she looked. Some times all you need is a chance. Agree with others she should have gotten a little more run.

7) I think the talk of our top 5 on the bench could be their own team can be put to bed for a while. We started 3 highly talented seniors, a highly regarded transfer and a rising sophomore and we got beat badly and didn’t look good losing either.

That leads to my last comment, and I know its blasphemy to question Geno and the coaches, but this game was a failure on their part too. The team did not look good at all, played very scattered ball and there is way too much talent to score as few points as they did. Hopefully they get things figured out as they move forward.
 
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Really tough game to watch ! I don't remember in the last 20yrs a Uconn team with that much talent to play as bad as they did tonight. Ducharme came back to earth and was horrible.and AE..she is hurting the team now..I don't know what went on this summer but she isn't half the player she was last year..I hope Geno starts Amari in her spot next game..in the few mins she played she was much better than AE..I was looking forward to seeing how they would play without Paige..I mean it really was tough to watch..well I don't know if I've ever criticized Geno in the past but he gets the accolades and the big bucks lets see if he can put 5 players out there that remotely resemble a team..I'm not going to make the excuse all the kids that are out..There is enough talent there that they can play a lot beter than what they showed tonight..it's up to Geno to figure it out.
 
After watching UConn lose to GT tonight and then noting that DePaul won at 14th ranked KY, I had a thought that I've never had before relative to UConn WBB. Thank God there's a conference tournament in March with an NCAA automatic qualifier to the winner.
 
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bayern7 said:
I know this is one game but for the last few years I’ve gotten more and more tired of seeing Geno’s lack of energy and effort coaching. It starts at the top, this is a team that clearly lacks confidence and I believe a lot of that is a symptom of Geno’s attitude and his obvious favoritism/reliance on Paige. At least we got to see Amari tonight, that and olivias game are my only positives.
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Interesting take - might have something there, and I'm a huge Geno fan!
 
jchuskie said:
soon as Amari got in the game the team flow changed... and then she got subbed out and Gtech went on a 10+ run. I don't understand that.
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post hoc ergo propter hoc = a logical fallacy. Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X. So you are right not to assert that Amari's departure was the reason GTech suddenly broke open a lead. I think the quality of UConn's play and loss was a team issue, not one person's poor play (or absence).
 
Counting Dorka UConn started four seniors and an Olympian. That is a lot of basketball experience. The disappearing act in the fourth quarter by seniors was unexplainable.

Check out CW's stat line. Why she played 40 minutes makes no sense. Probably the most jarring play by her (of the many) was the failure to box out her person as she followed her shot for a layup. Others would have gotten pulled immediately for that lack of hustle.

I wonder what happened that caused Aaliyah to completely lose confidence.

Caroliine was the only person in the fourth, until late to try and make a play. Unsuccessfully, but at least she tried.

Spare me the injuries excuse, again, these are experienced players that disappear when things get tough.

Mir must be hurt or just not performing in practice. Doesn't enter until the fourth?

GT did have more talent on the floor than UConn tonight. They played freer and with tons more confidence.
 
I think CW was better her freshman year …I was criticized for saying I cringe when she shoots…she dribbles too much and forces shots too much….this is constructive criticism not being ugly. Dorka needs to be more aggressive and shoot with confidence…Caroline will get better she drives aggressively to the basket and her outside shooting will come when she gets more playing time….I liked Amari…she looks smooth and very fundamental.
Regardless the team will find its way when it counts. UCONN is UCONN….and the Georgia tech fans did not get to see the phenomenal Paige Bueckers.
We miss you Paige.
 
Conndog said:
Biggest problem was offense. No creativity, few if any player screening, turnovers galore, even when open many shots didn't even hit iron. Where were offensive plays run by UConn? GT looked like a good team that knew what to do, and they could execute as well. Not sure Geno can create some basic offensive plays in short amount of time but that is what's needed.
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Paige was the Basketball IQ of the team on the floor. Without her UConn is a router less ship. You don’t want CW or EWwith the ball in their hands trying to make decision. That’s not their strength.
 
They have the talent, not the work ethic. Maybe these losses will give them some humility. They need to play hard like paige isn’t coming back. These seniors really just going to throw their season away?

Cristyn
last year she said they truly didn’t see arizona as a threat so didn’t bring the energy. she still hasn’t learned that lesson in poor mentality. she’s not gonna make it far in the WNBA like that. Mentally lacking the intention. She has the talent, she just seems to cling to excuses.

Aaliyah
Have you guys noticed the body language all year? Even when playing well/making shots, she looks so unenthused. I’ve noticed it since the first game.

Evina
Slow. Every time she runs the point (even when paige is here) she dribbles so slow. pases the ball so slow. Not just this game but all year. Did she never fully recover from her injuries?

ONO
Shoots too much mid range which she is not successful at. Going to give her the benefit of the doubt that she was trying to show boat for her
home game.

Dorka
if any post should be at the top of the key throwing up bricks it should be dorka (not ONO). dorka has the better shooting form. wish she would get back to her sophomore play in the B1G

Geno
Coach this team to play UConn basketball. That’s getting out fast in transition. Today the team was slow walking dribbling the ball up, slow pass, slow slow slow. Not looking ahead to score after rebounds. That is not UConn basketball. Regardless if Paige committed to UConn or not. Let them play UConn ball! Not liking Geno’s attitude just sitting down not coaching. Coach them through every play. It’s not just the players that need to work harder when 1/2 your team is down, the coaches have to work harder as well! Coach as if you’re not getting paige cause nothing is guaranteed. Don’t like the players dependence on paige but also don’t like the coach’s dependence on her too. this is such a bad look for high school recruits.
 
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