I mentioned a couple things, not just points. I just don’t find her to be as dominant as made out to be IMO. Not that she isn’t a dominant player, I’m more so saying she gets too much hype at times. And I stand by it, when you have Maddy, Reese and Clark doing what they’re doing I think they’re far and above better fits for NPOY than Boston. I’m not talking about old players, I’m talking about current players and what I’ve seen.
Finally, someone mentions the impact of Zia Cooke(24 pts, 8 rebounds). Without her they lose by 20. She can really play.
Classic DT.
It’s true.
If they get better perimeter shooting/play, no correction if Dawn lets her perimeter players play to their strength Cardoso would be unstoppable.
Nice try. But we know better.
What we're really comparing here is a healthy junior Clarke to a half-healthy sophomore Bueckers. Not a fair comparison.
Paige, Azzi and Edwards will be ahead of them on 2028. Just my opinion.
Glad someone said it. It's a astute observation and I hope that it does not get blown out of proportion.
DT is not the only one it has happened to. I’m just reacting to the claim that the easier of a great player is being able to put yr team on yr back and win this type of game.
I don’t view the others on Iowa as deadly shooters. It’s Clark and her big who score must of their points, game in and game out. The key is that the Iowa stars came through as they consistently have—the two Iowa needed to play great—and SC’s did not. SC’s bench has been huge all year with scoring contributions. Wondering if they were down average-wise last night as well.
"THANKS FOR THE MEMORY"!
Definitely some recency bias. Understandable. As DT said last night, "You haven't seen Paige play in so long, you forget how great she is." That is so true.
Maybe offensively, but not defensively
Uhm. Cardosa may be on the Brazilian national team
With the exception of the two players we knew were out for the season, UConn had all the players Husky fans hoped they would have for the OSU game, as evidenced by the BY game score predictions where the majority of fans predicted UConn would win with many expecting an easy win. Most of the team failed to show and UConn got badly outplayed on that day. Not sure why fans keep making reasons for not advancing, other than the team got outplayed
Not exactly. Two players who played very well in November against Iowa -- Azzi and Caroline -- were clearly not the same players at the end of the season. I think that is what Blake meant.
Cardoso is not American, she can play for Brazil however. I think Boston and Brink will be the future bigs of the national team and eventually take the reins from Stewie and Wilson
Edwards isn’t even American and Azzi has a lot of work to do defensively to get to that level imo
Yes, Edwards is a Canadian not an American ....
There are 7 seniors/grads on USC, and only two can't come back, i.e., have no more eligibility remaining.
Fair. I simply meant that of this exact time obviously CC is looking better. When we have a 100% healthy Paige things might very likely change.
Aubrey as in a back brace, Nika was in tears dealing with ankle injuries and Lou collapsed on the court with her knee. No, UConn was not healthy for the OSU game.
Yet we did it with essentially one player! I still think they could have denied her the ball more than they did. As I said, they still might have lost but at least they wouldn’t get beat by one player putting up 41 points!
I’m sure every team has their injuries this time of year that you’ll never know about
Hopefully, we’ll see next year!