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Message: [QUOTE="tomcat, post: 2484383, member: 961"] I'd never try to rain on the unabashedly positive post that was started earlier. It's a fine idea. But I do have to say I am offended by the first responsive post, which was from someone who opined that those of us who from time to time appear critical of the team are doing so to prove our chops as serious students of basketball. Hogwash. I, for one, freely admit I know little of the technical side of the game. I watch UConn WCBB because ....wait for it...I actually enjoy seeing these really good players do well against all sorts of competition. Despite having done this since 1995, I still don't know enough of the Xs and Os to consider myself anything more than conversant with the basics. But like all of us, I do have opinions. Sometimes they are well thought out and sometimes (as fellow BYers point out), they are not. And because I'm a fan, I occasionally worry about various aspects of the team's play, as in, for example, early in the year when I wondered if the coaching staff would be able to get the chemistry right, particularly when it came to Azuras's integration into the team. And I was one of many who noticed that when the freshmen and sophomores got in the game, the level of play did not merely decline, it plummeted. I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks that such observations are an attempt to prove the speaker is a hoops expert is really off the rails, because those observations are nothing more than what any sighted person could see. Those of us who have commented in this way can perhaps be criticized for stating the obvious, but not for overreaching. [/QUOTE]

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