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Message: [QUOTE="MD#12Fan, post: 2568176, member: 8636"] I like reading your posts. Very intelligent. You're not bathing in the KoolAid, so to speak. I'm new here, so I'm trying to find my own little niche. I think all this injury talk is overblown. These are twenty year old athletes at their absolute physical primes. I played D3 hoops and if you weren't in the training room, you weren't playing. I also did a dozen marathons and your best day ever was right around the corner from being outstretched on a table. We're not talking about 30-35 year olds playing an 82 game schedule. The winter olympics start tomorrow and we'll be rooting for our American darling, Lindsay Vonn, who at 33 years old will be tearing down the downhill slope at 60+ mph with multiple (?) reconstructed knee surgeries. This team is only a week away from blowing out USC. Everybody in CBB is hurt and tired. I think Geno is playing with us a little bit. Regarding the subs, he's throwing spaghetti against the wall, seeing if any sticks, trying to see if there is anyone he can count on in a pinch. Personally, (I said in another post) I think they can play with 6. Everything isn't about being tired. They made those mistakes last night because they made the wrong play. Dribbling into pressure, not protecting the ball, not faking the ball, not making aggressive moves, playing tentatively, etc. UConn doesn't respond well always to physical contact. Not enough and-ones inside, not enough offensive rebounds, etc. Gabby's my favorite player, but she's not POY or 1st team AA until she learns when to be aggressively looking for her own shot and when to be looking to pass. She's a senior. It's time to figure this out! As an ex-gunner, I'll tell you, you can't shoot well if you are thinking you should be passing and vice versa really. She needs to pull her J with authority. A player with her fundamental soundness should be bottom from that key area. I'm thinking of Chris Paul as a good example. When he pulls, he commits to it and his shots are always soft and on-balance. To me that is the absolute key to getting #12. Points aren't everything (duh) but in this case I want to see scoring from that high post. The team should be getting points from that position on the floor period! If our opponents have to guard her there it will look like "the parting of the Red Sea" for UConn. Some musings from the peanut gallery..... [/QUOTE]

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