I guess I’m just saying that I expect something from her but it’s not to be a top 3 contributor for us. If we get it, great, if not, no biggie because wasn’t expected to begin with. As Geno says, it will come down to our Big 3.
Just feeding the MoJO God a little more subtly thanDoomed, do you hear, doomed. Might as well be the Donner Party!
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Considering how UConn trailed Oklahoma by double digits in the 2nd half, and struggled to put away Cal and St. John's ... this is one year I might hesitate to badmouth other conferences.
No where else to post this, but this is Kara Lawson's tweet from last night at OSU:
I see the coaches poll has 4 x ACC, 4 x PAC-12, 2 x SEC, 2 x BIG10, 1 x BIG12, + UCONN/Marquette/Gonzaga in the top 16. This is the 1st TOP16 I have seen anywhere that makes sense during the course of this season. I realize change will happen as the remainder of the season plays out, but coaches got it right this week.
There’s nothing like the energy of a packed house on campus vs a traditional rival. It’s one of the reasons why I really like UConn to play their biggest games on campus at Storrs rather than at the XL Center in Hartford. But alas, UConn gets a better payout in Hartford.
And all the other teams have lost and can make the same comment. Didn't #1 Baylor lose to a Stanford team that was blown out by Oregon recently? Louisville lost to a ND we beat and now lost to non-top 10 ranked team? Oregon just lost to Oregon St.... Lots of holes and concerns by all teams.
Could not agree more. In the real world, I see Baylor as top gun and ND as the second threat to UConn. I don;'t see them losing to Louisville again. I don't think the players will let that happen, as a matter of pride. Against Oregon, it will depend on which Oregon and which UConn show up, but I'd take UConn 7 out of 10 times.
Tweet from Kelsey Plum after the OSU vs UO Game:
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Oregon St, always hardest team for me to score against personally.... run you off the 3 pt line, protect the Rim, no transition and don’t foul, make you beat them with mid range 2s... very tough to beat. COACH SCOTT is an OG, congrats on the Dub
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To counter this, Walker is primarily the player left open this year. Baylor dated her to beat them, and she hit shots at the beginning. What is she going to do when she becomes the focus on defense? She doesn't have the length, moves, or fundamentals that Pheesa has to dominate in the of paint. I think she'll have a good career, but not an AA oneWhen Collier leaves after this year, she's going to leave a pair of "her best game shoes" behind that Walker will be expected to wear (fill). This year, Collier and Samuelson are doing most of the heavy lifting. Next year, that task falls to Megan and possibly Williams.
Right now, most of the plays go to Collier and Samuelson. It would be interesting to find out exactly how much latitude Walker has during a game with respect to taking shots. For the next two years, she will have a "bright" green light from Geno, like Pheesa, Chrystal and Samuelson do now.
I am really not bad mouthing any of the P5, I am just pointing out that teams vying for number 1 and number two seeds should not be losing to flawed teams outside the top 10. People say the AAC is a cake walk, and it has proven to be for Uconn since its inception, but even recognizing that most P5 teams are better than most AAC teams does not mean that MsSt, Baylor, Maryland/Iowa or whoever in the Big10 and Oregon in the Pac12 if they are claiming to be a #1 seed, should be losing games to teams in or out of conference that are outside the top ten.
Finally someone agrees with me on her. I just think she’s better than what she’s playing like. That’s not an insult, I just know talent when I see it. The drive the length of the court to pull up mid-range, the Euro-move, the alley oop, the turn jump shot before the double team; she just hasn’t done these things at UConn yet. Everything she does is within the offense. She wasn’t rated the #1 player for no reason, the girl is talented. I still have a lot of hope and faith that she will turn around almost every #1 recruit has been really good other than Mercedez Russell as far I can remember. And Gabby Williams didn’t get many minutes her first two years and was an all-American her third year so I’m confident she will eventually come out of it.
