- Joined
- Dec 8, 2014
- Messages
- 623
- Reaction Score
- 1,264
Agree. Either way not sounding so great. Her version of somebody trying to sing a musical scale: "Me me me me me me me me me."Oddly enough this article isn't getting such a warm reception on ND boards. Lloyd is either all about herself or is sucking up to Geno in public for an Olympics slot. Fancy that.
Exactly...as I said in an earlier discussion:Ho hum. Another article about an ex WCBB player who didn't go to UConn and how Geno was still able to teach her something. I wonder what A'ja Wilson, Chiney Ogwumike, Skylar Diggins, Taya Reimer, Azura Stevens, Asia Durr, Kristine Anigwe, and many many others are secretly thinking now.
When she made that decision, I couldn't help but consider what she saw coming the following year....another loss to UCONN. Why stay? She'd done all she could do when she left, and realized her goal of a NC probably wasn't in the cards with UCONN healthy. It was time to move on to other challenges. There are worse things than being the first pick in the WNBA draft.First of all, I want to say that I like and respect Jewell Loyd a lot, and she has been one of my favorite individual players to watch in recent memory. She's a superstar talent and, from everything I've seen, a fine person. She's at the start of a promising pro and international career.
But I can't help but wonder — especially now as I'm reading between the lines of this article — whether her decision to leave ND early has something to do with dissatisfaction over the state of her team in her junior year. Let's remember: that was when the ND players endured a significant backlash from their activist stance on the Trayvon Martin case, with reactionary members of the fan base publicly returning their season tickets and some (reportedly) issuing threats against the team. Then there was the whole Taya Reimer saga that followed. Could this be part of the subtext when she compliments UConn's players for "leaving their egos and concerns and off-the-court problems off the court, so when they come on the court, it's all about business"?
I sure hope Jewell got her ND diploma in the mail before this article came out, because she might never ever see it.
ND WBB team wore "I can't Breathe"! T-shirt in support of the death at the hands of Police of Eric Garner, it had nothing to do with Trayvon Martin.First of all, I want to say that I like and respect Jewell Loyd a lot, and she has been one of my favorite individual players to watch in recent memory. She's a superstar talent and, from everything I've seen, a fine person. She's at the start of a promising pro and international career.
But I can't help but wonder — especially now as I'm reading between the lines of this article — whether her decision to leave ND early has something to do with dissatisfaction over the state of the team in her junior year. Let's remember: that was when the ND players endured a significant backlash from their activist stance on the Trayvon Martin case, with reactionary members of the fan base publicly returning their season tickets and some (reportedly) issuing threats against the team. Then there was the whole Taya Reimer saga that followed. Could this be part of the subtext when she compliments UConn's players for "leaving their egos and concerns and off-the-court problems off the court, so when they come on the court, it's all about business"?
Are you trying to tell me ND has real standards for handing out diplomas?She has to earn it first!
You are 100% correct about motivations. You just can't fight history. All you can do is learn and move on. As for my previous post, I'm also wondering how Cox and co. feel about next year's coming logjam at the post. I'm not the first to note that perhaps someone over recruited at that position, and that Brown may start feeling she's the odd woman out.I believe there are several reasons that Lloyd made the decision to leave ND, they are her own and we as fans shouldn't speculate. There is some obvious animus toward Muffett McGraw, I don't blame Muffett because she seemed genuinely blindsided by Lloyd's decision. Players come and players go and it obviously hasn't hurt either party as Lloyd was WNBA ROY and ND is a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament again, recruiting like crazy and a prohibitive favorite to reach another Final Four. The lavish praise for Geno, while leaving out any mention of Muffett is a tad curious, but again we have no knowledge of the relationship dynamic there. Muffett, I'm sure is concerned with her own team this season and Jewel Lloyd should be concerned with her team not finishing in last place again in the WNBA West. She's so emulative of DT3, she'll get an opportunity to see her up close and personal very soon. I'm sure she won't be disappointed, I know I rarely am.
I agree with your "speculations" which were right after the sentence where you state that we shouldn't speculate and would like to point out there is no real harm in speculation.I believe there are several reasons that Lloyd made the decision to leave ND, they are her own and we as fans shouldn't speculate. There is some obvious animus toward Muffett McGraw, I don't blame Muffett because she seemed genuinely blindsided by Lloyd's decision. Players come and players go and it obviously hasn't hurt either party as Lloyd was WNBA ROY and ND is a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament again, recruiting like crazy and a prohibitive favorite to reach another Final Four. The lavish praise for Geno, while leaving out any mention of Muffett is a tad curious, but again we have no knowledge of the relationship dynamic there. Muffett, I'm sure is concerned with her own team this season and Jewel Lloyd should be concerned with her team not finishing in last place again in the WNBA West. She's so emulative of DT3, she'll get an opportunity to see her up close and personal very soon. I'm sure she won't be disappointed, I know I rarely am.
First of all, I want to say that I like and respect Jewell Loyd a lot, and she has been one of my favorite individual players to watch in recent memory. She's a superstar talent and, from everything I've seen, a fine person. She's at the start of a promising pro and international career.
But I can't help but wonder — especially now as I'm reading between the lines of this article — whether her decision to leave ND early has something to do with dissatisfaction over the state of the team in her junior year. Let's remember: that was when the ND players endured a significant backlash from their activist stance on the Trayvon Martin case, with reactionary members of the fan base publicly returning their season tickets and some (reportedly) issuing threats against the team. Then there was the whole Taya Reimer saga that followed. Could this be part of the subtext when she compliments UConn's players for "leaving their egos and concerns and off-the-court problems off the court, so when they come on the court, it's all about business"?
First of all, I want to say that I like and respect Jewell Loyd a lot, and she has been one of my favorite individual players to watch in recent memory. She's a superstar talent and, from everything I've seen, a fine person. She's at the start of a promising pro and international career.
But I can't help but wonder — especially now as I'm reading between the lines of this article — whether her decision to leave ND early has something to do with dissatisfaction over the state of the team in her junior year. Let's remember: that was when the ND players endured a significant backlash from their activist stance on the Trayvon Martin case, with reactionary members of the fan base publicly returning their season tickets and some (reportedly) issuing threats against the team. Then there was the whole Taya Reimer saga that followed. Could this be part of the subtext when she compliments UConn's players for "leaving their egos and concerns and off-the-court problems off the court, so when they come on the court, it's all about business"?