KLS has a french heritage
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Frawnch, English, who cares? Lou taking the bit and running with it, answering oui, yes, I WILL get that offensive rebound, and I WILL get my shooting touch turned around, bodes well for this bunch of overachievers.
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I missed that comment last night. What is her French heritage?
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Maybe a riff on Geno's famous distinction between male players and female players responding to criticism: male players look around at their teammates and think that the coach means someone else, and female players all think the coach means themselves.
Maybe Geno's playing with Lou, suggesting that the California kid is impervious to internalizing criticism, by socializing it onto the entire team as "we"= "oui" rather than "I".
Geno was in a trickster mood last night, joking with Justine Ward after the game (admittedly, he barely hides his impatience with her generally) that during the 2nd half of the game "he had followed her advice at halftime".
check out his impatience with both Lou and Justine at the beginning of this:
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And all the time I thought he was being sarcastically witty! She should have said ---SEE SEE !!
We = oui
Geno's humor
One thing KLS deserves more praise for is her inbound passing on offense under the basket and her passing to Phees in general. She gets the ball to Phees in very good spots. Her passing on fast breaks is excellent. She could have had 10 assists last night save for missed shots. This is really an amazing team to watch. Every night someone else hurts you.
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Just a quip from the presser.
I also enjoyed his description of Gabby's failed high-five. "If it was Pheesa, she would have gotten me right in the palm of my hand."
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At UConn both are better than ME ME.
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What makes the ME ME negativism interesting is--when ME ME is needed to provide the defense or scoring the oui oui need si si !! Many times over the years--Geno relied upon the ME ME starting with Stewie and working back through Rene, Maya then to Diana and beyond. I agree the Team concept is a great protective mechanism and defensive method. Without the singularly talented and aggressive players Geno would not have been so successful. Still i say no player wins games alone good to better supporting casts are needed.
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to celebrate KLS's French heritage I had breakfast at La Madeleine
...and had an omelette?
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That actually came from Anson Dorrance.
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Thanks so much! I've forever misattributed it. Makes sense, since Dorrance coached both men and women also and so knows the difference. Sort of like Tiresias....more or less.
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Dorrance, Tiresias? I'd probably go with less.
Hey Meyers7,Dorrance, Tiresias? I'd probably go with less.
You've been around a bit (2011, 15k posts). I bet you have been following for much longer, like me (mid 80s).
Perhaps you could help me with a quick question:
Geno has always emphasized "Team (Oui)," Ie: no names on Jerseys, five together = many more than that, one for all all for one, etc...
Don't you find it interesting that Geno is encouraging KLS to think as an "I," instead of a We? Hence her (seemingly) confusion over his instructions.
It appears that he's just trying to get her to shoot a little bit more, but,
Has there ever been another time, that you can remember him doing this (at least where we could hear/see it?
Just Curious.
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facetious. One of two words with all vowels (a-e-i-o-u) in sequence.
The other is abstemious.
(Add -ly to either if you wish.)
Anybody know of any others?
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I'm not Meyers, but I'll take a shot at it. Late in the 2002 NC game vs Oklahoma Geno called a timeout and instructed that year's #1, 2, 4, and 6 WNBA draft choices to run a clearout play for their sophomore teammate to go 1 on 1 with Dionnah Jackson. I think it took Geno the whole timeout to talk this timid sophomore into engaging in that selfish behavior, but he insisted. Apparently not confused by the instructions, the sophomore guard took the ball and backed Jackson into the post, spun, drove, and scored, fouling out the helping Stacy Dales for an and-one, and icing the game and the NC.
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Yea, I've been around the boards for a long time. Back to the Courant forums in the mid 90's. They kept moving the forums, probably to try and lose me, but they were unable to shake me.
I think he was talking about her defense with the I/Oui thing. In that Geno said "she" needs to work on her defense. And Samuelson said Oui (the team) need to work on our defense. Granted probably both need work in Geno's eyes, but I think his intent was to get Samuelson to take responsibility for herself and her defensive work.
I don't think it had anything to do with her shooting though. Least from what I heard.