Milford---
What you are missing is the immense level of conditioning it takes to start basketball practice at UCONN. You are given a off season workout program. Even the very best HS players cannot even concieve of the level of conditioning required to play at UCONN. Lexi ( maybe it was Andi) was recently quoted as saying that you think is going to be hard but you have no idea until you actually get here- or something along those lines.
Doesn't Gordon deserve a pity party, others get one and some not so visible. What we are all alluding is apparently not FACT. So maybe she is may she isn't. As I posted with Milford Husky--Gordon has been running and running for years and years--how far out of conditioning can she be; look at her, no blimp, no weight issues--what then? Thyroid--could be that doesn't show. But still I go back to her AAU/HS schedules of running. Maybe Geno and Team are telling us ---hey fans this ain't your's to see/private.
I think I remember that thread. I'm not going to go back and research it, but IIRC the "conditioning test" was sort of a humorous figure of speech. In any case I remember posting (tongue only partially in cheek) that no freshman has ever passed it.
Anyone who has followed UConn WBB know the drill. A year or 3 the Marines ran that program. Raised many teens Girls--and still I doubt it is ALL conditioning.
Hurray! Finally--We had no fact on anything associated with Gordon. Finally--Great I doubted and think it's none of our business---but Geno would do us a favor and say that. What these kids do or don't--you know.
That's not what we are talking about. What we are talking about is a conditioning test that is given BEFORE the start of official practices. When the players depart UCONN they are given a very regimented conditioning program that they must complete at home. You can't pass that conditioning test without doing the workout program at home. BTW doing the at home program DOES NOT gurantee that you can pass the conditioning test. If you can't pass the test you don't get to practice until you pass and therefore you fall behind.
Exactly, and after that level of conditioning you are probably still two or so levels away from the conditioning that UCONN WBB requires TO START PRACTICEs.
True. Somewhere I read, however, that athletes respond to conditioning exercises at various rates depending on their DNA. Two athletes may undergo the same training and put forth the same effort, and one will drop fat and gain muscle much faster than the other. If Lexi is a slow respond-er, this will take time, and nothing can change that. Of course, this is all speculation. We do not even know that this is the problem. From the little I've seen of her, my guess is that Lexi will become a significant contributor to UConn BB.
We are not aware that Lexi has used DNA as an excuse. This was simply my wild speculation, as I said in my post. We don't even know that conditioning is in fact the problem.
Because Molly has been on a Division I (UCONN's) roster for two years now and was recruited by other division I schools. It was not only harsh but also insulting.
I was just using your speculation as a worst case and still think she should have been in proper condition.
Actually you have me by the local loops. I assumed what I read about failing multiple conditioning tests was accurate and it is not:
Gotta love facts!
) . Geno did the same thing years ago with Meghan Gardler. He has said on TV that he expects players to do things on the court in college that they were good at in h/s. Molly Bent was not recruited for her shooting scoring prowess. She'll defend, she'll pass and she'll dribble. The shooting will come last.
I recall the Huskies' work with the Marines, and I know that, in every year, the conditioning is rigorous. I'm just responding to the idea that there is some sort of quantifiable passing/failing score on conditioning tests, as suggested a few days ago.
I think a similar statement has been made by Andi, Lexi, Meg, Mikayla, Crystal, Lou, Pheesa, Brianna Banks, et al.