OT: Insight on and closure for Elena Delle Donne

[BRS24]

Gift article -

For Elena Delle Donne, basketball was easy, but fame was hard

That point arrived during her senior year of high school, when she was the top women’s basketball recruit in the country. She had committed to U-Conn., but before signing her letter of intent, she summoned the courage to tell her parents she was finished with basketball.​

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Delle Donne said she arrived in Storrs, Connecticut, in the spring of 2008 amid a fog of depression, having not spoken a word on the drive from Delaware. She said during the following day’s pickup game with some U-Conn. greats — Maya Moore and Tina Charles — that she felt as though she was running through mud.​

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Caroline Doty, watching from the sideline with an injury, said, “Elena went on the baseline and just plopped down on the ground, and she just looked depleted … like she was dead, and just not interested.”​

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(note that the author wrote "U-Conn" and not "UConn" and I've kept the actual text)

 

[Bigboote]

U-Conn. is a Washington Post thing. They claim to follow AP guidlines, but they don’t in this case. I find it irritating, glad I’m not the only one.

 

[TWG236]

I admire her devotion to her family and the courage it took to make decisions about “her” life. She was a tremendous player with once in a generation talent. But, two days at UConn, doesn’t make a her a UConn player. She never contributed anything to the team, in fact, she hurt the team because Gino may have been able to recruit another player. I wish her the best in life, but please let’s end her relationship with UConn.

 

[Sifaka]

G …she hurt the team because Gino may have been able to recruit another player.

Pardon me for asking, but just who is this “Gino” person, and what is his rôle in the Delle Donne story?