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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 3829192, member: 5798"] Thanks MooseJaw. We all know that basketball is a TEAM sport. One or two players can make a HUGE difference/contribution to a team's success or failure. When I compose a comment after a loss, I try not to highlight the obvious. We all know who did/didn't do what. If you read my two post game comments, you'll see that I refrained from mentioning any player by name. I merely focused on the[B] team's [/B]accomplishments/short comings. I do respect how other posters choose to craft their comments. I don't throw rocks at anyone's posts, and no way am I suggesting that anyone adopt my particular style. You are correct. If UConn had hit just two more lay ups, or put backs, or made just two more stops, we win. Again, I point to and was impressed by what it took to beat us. [B]One player[/B] played out of her mind, and had a field day. She said in her post game interview that she just took what the defense gave her. We can start there. There were 5 players on the court for us at all times. They failed as a unit to stop or contain her. We lost by three, not by double digits. We lost to a ranked team on the road. The game came down to the last shot. If Dungee scores her average of 21 ppg, we win going away. Arkansas has 3 graduate seniors on their team. We are a freshman heavy squad. That's ok. Everyone is a freshman when they begin college. The best thing about freshmen is they become sophomores. Hope springs eternal, but at no time have I ever thought that THIS team could win the national championship. It just does not have the necessary ingredients, i.e., a "lock down defender". Most teams don't. Right now, I'd say 3-4 teams ([B]Stanford, Louisville, Baylor, NC State, South Carolina, Maryland,[/B] and I'll throw in [B]Texas A&M[/B] and [B]UCLA[/B] as longshot possibilities) have a real chance of winning those last six games in March. If any one of these teams get hot during the tournament, and have the ball bounce their way once or twice, they can win it all. IMHO, next year's UConn team has a better than average chance of doing so. I'm very excited about the team Geno will put on the floor next year. As good as this team is, next year's will be that much better!! ;) Lastly, after the 20-21 schedule was released late this past summer, I don't think there were too many UConn fan's that "honestly" believed that THIS UConn team would run that gauntlet and come out undefeated. There had to be a loss in there somewhere. Geno scheduled some heavyweights this year. We may have defeated 2-3, but not all 4. We debated all summer who the starters would be, knowing that 1-2 freshmen would be counted on heavily if this team was going to have any measure of success because of its deficiency of returning veterans. I will be very interested to see how this team responds to this loss tomorrow when they take the floor at DePaul. The Blue Demons will give them everything they have. Especially since they lost the first meeting, and they just saw UConn get beat. Does UConn come out flat and listless, or like gangbusters and start the game on a double digit run? :rolleyes: We shall see. [/QUOTE]

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