Maybe, but UConn will test Baylor inside with Liv & Aaliyah and outside with Paige, Evina, Christyn & hopefully Nika. The Baylor vs Arkansas game was basically about Arkansas’s guards just taking the ball to the basket all game long against the Lady Bears and either scoring or getting to the foul line.
Yes, certainly they go about scoring in different ways.
Questions for the Iowa coach and/or Caitlin...how many times did you have the lead?
Well stated!!!! And I agree with you ?%.
There was a play in the High Point game when Aaliyah buried her defender in the lane and received a pass with her back to the basket. She spun quickly to her left with the ball in her right hand, but the High Point defender cut her off. Without any hesitation, Aaliyah spun back to her right, shifted the ball to her left hand and hit a soft bank shot off the glass. When I watched that, I immediately had a Morgan Tuck flashback.On Tuck v. Edwards - very different players. Tuck's post up game was a magician at work, Edwards is more like a sledge hammer. Tuck came in as a freshman to a complete team and with two great fellow freshman, yet she had the most polished and consistent game and was the first to win Geno's complete faith. And her defense was incredible throughout her career. (Prior to her arrival, she had been the one HS kid to be able to stop Stewart - good choice by Stewart to go to the same college!)
Edwards is playing great, but there is enormous room for improvement - she has the physical presence to surpass Tuck if she develops, and she is in the right place to learn from really good teachers. Right now she is playing on physicality and instinct, when she builds craftsmanship into her game there is no limit to what she could become.
Clark’s a shooter, Paige is just a great all-around player. Very Taurasi like. Eight assists and nine rebounds. Westbrook also almost had a triple double. Anna made a big splash too, a lot of positives for UConn in this game going forward. Add to that, Nika is almost ready.
Clark was 2nd in the NCAA in assists per game this year. So no, she is not just a shooter.
I felt the same way!
I called it on Christyn’s game today. I feel so happy for her. She played like the All-American she should be. She could have had more points were it not for some questionable calls and non calls.
Just hope she doesn’t leave early
I don't think it's close.
The Tuck comparison is interesting, but Tuck’s biggest value to UCONN was she was the heart and leader of the team.
I agree that she may well be Tuck 3.0 but she isn't yet. She has those moments now, but she has a lot of moments that are a lot worse. Morgan in my memory had very few of those #@$%%#@$#$@ moments from her very first game. She had a very sophisticated understanding of the game as a freshman. Not unlike Kelly Faris of whom Geno once said, 'I doubt she will ever have a bad game' when Kelly was still a freshman.
She had five assists today, below her average. But first and foremost she is a shooter with incredible range. It’s her claim to fame. If you want to debate who is the better all around player, I say Paige hands down, with 8 assists, 9 rebounds, and 18 points. Maybe Clark had an off night in rebounding and assists.
You said she was (just) a shooter.
Do we know when and what time the next game is?
It will be Monday night during prime time, but we won’t know for sure until ESPN confirms the time with the NCAA.
I vote that you folks stop this inane comparison! The BY can't just enjoy that beautiful performance by the team! Aaliyah's playing as good as ANYONE in the USA right now. (Canada too) I think I may tune out the BY until the season's over, to everyone's delight.
7 or 9 pm