Injury update for UConn vs Creighton

[huskeynut]

I'm not being critical here @huskeynut, just curious. There was a time when using lady in reference to UConn players was a sort of third rail. I don't know what sparked it, but it could have been our then top rival's fan insistence on calling their players ladies. Anybody have insight on this or is it just a phantom memory on my part?

The team is the UConn Huskies. That is a fact.

To refer to team members as ladies is perfectly acceptable IMO.

Simple.

 

[Bone Dog]

Geno says he doesn't coach female basketball players. He coaches basketball players.

It's sort of reminiscent of something Evina said about playing in a summer league game with a bunch of men. After dropping a fine dime to one of them he asked how she did that. She replied something to the effect, "It's called playing basketball."

 

[RockyMTblue2]

And on the other side of the coin, Geno refers to the players as guys...or at least he has used the term in the past. Not really sure if he still does.

He does. Long ago he gave a little speech about he didn't treat his players like girls, he treated them like ball players.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

I’ll jump in here. As I wrote in a post several weeks back. It is perfectly acceptable to refer to members of the UConn Women’s Basketball Team as “ladies.” It is never acceptable to refer to the UConn Women’s Basketball Team as “Lady Huskies.”

Slicing it too thin for me @oldude.

 

[Cornell Lt]

In theory you could rest them for the next six weeks. Is there a team on the schedule that UConn can't beat without them until the second weekend of the NCAA tournament?

To rest Sarah and Blanca is the smart thing to do for the both ladies and the team.

UConn can survive the remainder of the regular season without both. The team has the players to step up and fill in the void. It builds the depth needed for the torunaments - BE and NCAA.

Of course they will romp through the remaining league schedule. Missing Sarah and Blanca also raises the issue of over usage for the players that have to play more minutes than they normally would to cover for their absences

 

[oldude]

Slicing it too thin for me @oldude.

I don’t see it that way. “Lady” is a respectful reference that I would use to refer to any woman. “Lady Husky” is an inaccurate team nickname for the UConn Huskies.

 

[Stinger92860]

I had rotor cuff surgery last year. Six weeks in a sling and six months of rehab. Nasty painful rehab. In the end my shoulder ended up as good as new. Things would have to be pretty bad before I'd have that procedure done again.

Lightweight, I’ve had 3 shoulders surgeries 1 left, 2 right. I was taking my arm out of the sling on day 3. Now I play pain free tennis. But the surgeries were not fun, I won’t take pain pills and I could not lay down for 7-10 days. Rehab while painful, absolutely necessary.

 

[Skeets]

I'm not being critical here @huskeynut, just curious. There was a time when using lady in reference to UConn players was a sort of third rail. I don't know what sparked it, but it could have been our then top rival's fan insistence on calling their players ladies. Anybody have insight on this or is it just a phantom memory on my part?

I've been chastised for calling them "kids" in the past. But understand the avg age of the BY'ers and the fact that these kids are about the same age as my grandkids. Actually, IMO, "ladies" are a step up from "kids".

 

[RockyMTblue2]

I don’t see it that way. “Lady” is a respectful reference that I would use to refer to any woman. “Lady Husky” is an inaccurate team nickname for the UConn Huskies.

Lady Diana or Lady Paige doesn't roll off the tongue. A fair number of young women bridle when called Lady, especially when it's preceeded with "Listen". I'm just goofing on you @oldude.

 

[oldude]

Lady Diana or Lady Paige doesn't roll of the tongue. A fair number of young women bridle when called Lady, especially when it's preceeded with "Listen". I'm just goofing on you @oldude.

So are you suggesting that any member of the UConn WBB team is not worthy of being referred to as a lady???

 

[Centerstream]

Timeout while we momentarily return to the OP. Nothing unexpected in the official report.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

So are you suggesting that any member of the UConn WBB team is not worthy of being referred to as a lady???

Push come to shove I guess I'm suggesting no UConn Husky should play like a lady, more like a Helen Reddy woman, hear me roar.

 

[Suebird10fan]

Indeed.. legs can be stabilized in several ways, and physical therapy works well. But shoulders...by their very nature, they're unstable. They have to rotate in all sorts of ways, and when healing from a tear or pull, tend to freeze up, as with my now relatively useless right shoulder. It's surgery or to heck with it.

 

[Suebird10fan]

Frozen shoulders … tell me about it!