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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 4507318, member: 6911"] I'd been living overseas for several years, and returned to Connecticut in early 1997 with my young family. One day I turned on the TV and watched with jaw-dropping amazement the brilliant UConn women's basketball team perform. I had grown up watching the University of Maryland's very good men's basketball team lose game after game to Dean Smith's North Carolina. His teams just executed perfectly: seamless transition from defense to offense, perfect execution of basic basketball, including back door cuts, always finding the open man for just the right shot, and never, EVER, beating themselves. It was just so frustrating to watch. But it was the quintessence of team basketball. I saw in Coach Geno's teams that perfection that Dean Smith's teams achieved. For those who never got a chance to watch Dean Smith's North Carolina teams, he was the Geno Auriemma of the men's game. And for the record, men's college basketball today is unwatchable. It's as if grown men were playing like elementary school kids- no understanding of the team game whatsoever! In any event, I was hooked. Not long after, I believe UCLA's legendary coach John Wooden anointed UConn's women's team as "the best five-man team in America." Or something very close to that. He was right. And UConn still is. We don't have Aliyah Boston. But UConn, when healthy, play the team game better than anyone else in the world!! And that is something to behold! [/QUOTE]

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