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Lexi Gordon

irwin & bent know what to expect. They obviously weren't ranked higher coming out of HS. But Geno is showing Lexi & Coombs that hard work will get you PT
 
pvdoggy said:
For all the folks who said Lexi is going to be the surprise of this year freshman group, are you surprised that she has been getting only 1 min a game even in a big blow out like today. I wonder what she is telling her sister about the reality that is Uconn.
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Clearly, Lexi is in the dog house. [mod edit] [Ekmark] never got up to UCONN speed or quality. Maybe it was never there. We all read how well she is doing at Arizona ( both on the court and in the court ..to become a lawyer?), and are happy for her. But she , in my view, never had the goods to be a meaningful player here. As the dog house assignee, I always rooted for her. I keep looking for that diamond in the pile of coal. Maybe Lexi will be such. Hope so. But it is going to take fight. On the other hand, having more talent than either Molly or Kyla should be easy. But she may not have the will to do it. Molly and Kyla are working hard. But they turn the ball over for everything they do well. Sometimes I wonder if Molly is even looking when she makes some of her turnover passes.
 
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Who exactly do you want to sit so Lexi can get playing time? Azura? Gabby? Napheesa? Megan? Heck soon Camara will be in the mix. It's just a reality. Too many players. We are still building chemistry among our core 7-8 players, working in Azura and Megan to a group that already played together. Made even more difficult with KLS getting injured. That's the core we need to develop to win the title. I think a redshirt for Lexi would have been the way to go but that's up to her and the coaches.
 
A player can only do what is in their control and that is to be in top shape, learn the system and be a great teammate. Then when you get the opportunity you show the couches you deserve more time on the court. Farris was not a great or willing shooter but she's got a lot of minutes because she was one of the hardest working kids ever. Lexi needs to be patient and work hard and hopefully she'll prove herself when the time comes.
 
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pvdoggy said:
For all the folks who said Lexi is going to be the surprise of this year freshman group, are you surprised that she has been getting only 1 min a game even in a big blow out like today. I wonder what she is telling her sister about the reality that is Uconn.
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I think it's just Geno playing his games.
 
ASweet3781 said:
Who exactly do you want to sit so Lexi can get playing time? Azura? Gabby? Napheesa? Megan? Heck soon Camara will be in the mix. It's just a reality. Too many players. We are still building chemistry among our core 7-8 players, working in Azura and Megan to a group that already played together. Made even more difficult with KLS getting injured. That's the core we need to develop to win the title. I think a redshirt for Lexi would have been the way to go but that's up to her and the coaches.
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If you watch clean up time, you name the game, 34 get seconds not minutes. It would be nice to see what she can do by; say, 3 minutes. Not a big deal out of 200. Camara, is still a maybe, I'll think about her minutes when I see per playing. You are most likely correct in suggesting R.S. it would be 3 ways good: Team, Geno, Alexi. I don't like anyone using the --T word, unless it's a useless player--and I see none top to bottom here.
I wouldn't worry about the 7 member CORE, Geno is working them well, and (thankfully) teaching as they go.
 
UCONN does not have too many players. When you see two players have injuries that are keeping them from playing, one of which is yet to learn the system to Geno's standards, another an injury that is affecting her effectiveness, UCONN needs all the players they have. I just hope some of the non starters learn the system well enough to get some meaningful playing time.
 
pvdoggy said:
For all the folks who said Lexi is going to be the surprise of this year freshman group, are you surprised that she has been getting only 1 min a game even in a big blow out like today. I wonder what she is telling her sister about the reality that is Uconn.
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We don't see practice everyday and she's obviously not cutting it there or she'd be playing more. She seems like she still has a positive attitude at least from what can be seen on TV during games. The transition from HS to College for athletes is difficult for any frosh and at an elite program like Connecticut, playing for a HOF Coach like Geno it's brutal. Lexi will be fine, you only have to look back last year to Crystal to see how difficult it can be.
 
This shouldn't come as a surprise to me, yet it always does. HCGA recruits great players to UCONN. Unlike many other places, being on scholarship doesn't get you on the court. This is the best women's college basketball team in the country. Is it crazy to think that its second team would win a game (or two) in the tourney? Probably not. At the present, HCGA is clearly unhappy with Ms. Gordon, whether it be for her conditioning, her commitment to getting better every day in practice...or any of a million other things. With Lou ready to come back and Batlouly Camara ready to debut, it could get worse for Lexi before it gets better.
 
TitleTown said:
Gordon had to re-take her conditioning test multiple times before she passed. Failing to be in "good shape", something that takes just hard work and ZERO talent, is not something that Coach Auriemma is going to be too happy about.
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Could you post a link to any info about this. Thanks.
 
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Bent and Irwin are a two person class where they will need to decide, as others have before them, what they want to get out of their college bb experience going forward. Kyla has worked hard to improve her conditioning and it shows. Bent gets everything she has out of her talent and abilities. The new freshman guards are going to slowly move ahead of her, just the same. Stevens has already moved ahead of Kyla. We will see how Camara progresses.

I like both kids. They will be established players in the program, but I am unsure how many regular minutes they will ever get.
 
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BdVa pointed us to one of our Great "lags"-to-riches stories...
<<...a few ...Ct Bigs that lagged behind.... Dolson>>
Mama Stef transformed herself from a powderpuff (that Geno had a glimmer about!) into a hard-headed lean-team machine.
By force of will, she (literally) molded her body & being into the highest ranks of accomplishment. Kudos!!

Geno (fore)saw it within her; Stef lagged for a while, recognized the gap, refused to back off & accepted the challenge!
Let's see if Il Maestro will get to pull another Lexi out of the hat.
 
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Blaneylover said:
Bent and Irwin are a two person class where they will need to decide, as others have before them, what they want to get out of their college bb experience going forward. Kyla has worked.hard to improve her conditioning and it shows. Bent gets everything she has out of her talent and abilities. The new freshman guards are going to slowly move ahead of her, just the same. Stevens has already moved ahead of Kyla. We will see how Camera progresses.

I like both kids. They will be established players in the program, but I am unsure how many regular minutes they will ever get.
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Everything your saying is true.
 
TitleTown said:
The only info I could find about this now is a thread which refers to Gordon finally passing her test.

GORDON updates
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TitleTown said:
The only info I could find about this now is a thread which refers to Gordon finally passing her test.

GORDON updates
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Yes, I had seen that. But it says nothing about "finally" passing her test - just that she passed it. And it says nothing about her ever failing it, or about Geno being upset with her conditioning.

It seems like there has been a lot of comment on her conditioning on this thread, with no evidence that I have seen.
 
ASweet3781 said:
Who exactly do you want to sit so Lexi can get playing time? Azura? Gabby? Napheesa? Megan? Heck soon Camara will be in the mix. It's just a reality. Too many players. We are still building chemistry among our core 7-8 players, working in Azura and Megan to a group that already played together. Made even more difficult with KLS getting injured. That's the core we need to develop to win the title. I think a redshirt for Lexi would have been the way to go but that's up to her and the coaches.
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This argument of "who do you sit--to give X playing time" is an argument to argue. 200 minutes, all do not need and some do not want, and the staff does not want--those top 6 or 7 or 8 to have exhausted legs and minds--ala Ms ST--at the end of the year. Uconn will not be unique in using 6 to 8 or more players per game, nor is that unique for Geno.
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We can discuss/argue/lament/comment/ insult/nitpick in the end Geno will use his 13 or so players in the exact way he must depending on any factors he may deem needed.

I agree, if she goes to the game limit at that time discuss R.S.--but, Red shirting her now won't work. Maybe before then --she'll slide into the starting line up--(not even close to probable) l You are also correct in the need to continue to build chemistry with the addition of Walker, Danger, Azura---the 3 newbies (actually 2) need to know how when where who gets the pass or gives it and where they or you want it. Learning in game time.
I may be kidding myself--but from past injured players--getting up to speed takes months not days
 
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TitleTown said:
The only info I could find about this now is a thread which refers to Gordon finally passing her test.

GORDON updates
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Coach Bill didn’t provide much detail. Maybe I’m confusing this with something else, but I think all the players have to run a mile in a certain time, maybe 6:00, 6:30, or so. I’m not sure if there are other pass/fail tests.
 
Charliebball said:
I do feel badly for Lexi......I remember how excited we all were when UConn snared another Texas recruit away from the local powers and how proud she was to take on the challenge that is UConn basketball.....hang in there kid!!
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I don't understand why you feel badly. She placed herself in this position. Yeah, I know she is just a kid. There has to be scores of articles discussing how hard UCONN program is. How tough the conditioning demands are. Etc. If she flunked the conditioning test once did she think it would get easier for 2nd, 3rd times? A pity party is not what she needs.
 
MilfordHusky said:
Coach Bill didn’t provide much detail. Maybe I’m confusing this with something else, but I think all the players have to run a mile in a certain time, maybe 6:00, 6:30, or so. I’m not sure if there are other pass/fail tests.
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Milford---

A year or 3 ago--Geno worked with Marines from R.I. who "trained/conditioned" his team, is he still doing that?? I still have a suspicion that Gordon's only issues are not Conditioning--it boggle my minicule mind that a kid who has run run run basketball for upteen years is out of condition--did she eat too many McD's between HS and college?? Not likely.
 
BroadwayVa said:
Milford---
A year or 3 ago--Geno worked with Marines from R.I. who "trained/conditioned" his team, is he still doing that?? I still have a suspicion that Gordon's only issues are not Conditioning--it boggle my minicule mind that a kid who has run run run basketball for upteen years is out of condition--did she eat too many McD's between HS and college?? Not likely.
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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.
 
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SVCBeercats said:
I don't understand why you feel badly. She placed herself in this position. Yeah, I know she is just a kid. There has to be scores of articles discussing how hard UCONN program is. How tough the conditioning demands are. Etc. If she flunked the conditioning test once did she think it would get easier for 2nd, 3rd times? A pity party is not what she needs.
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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.
 
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Can we all support the sentiment in @stamfordhusky post and stop repeating this notion of a failed conditioning test. This has not been established and yet it has been repeated in 3 separate post in this thread as if were fact.
 
stamfordhusky said:
Yes, I had seen that. But it says nothing about "finally" passing her test - just that she passed it. And it says nothing about her ever failing it, or about Geno being upset with her conditioning.

It seems like there has been a lot of comment on her conditioning on this thread, with no evidence that I have seen.
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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.
 
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CocoHusky said:
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 alomng those lines.
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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.
I know a guy and a girl (mine) that was run through a military program run by the 82nd, the Guy went thru another military program ----they got conditioned. My daughter was not athletic she was a book worm. Each made it through. I had some of that 82 nd training for 2 weeks, I called them perverted in the intensity of training. Is Geno harder, longer, more sleepless ? some kids can do it without being Jocks--and Gordon is a Jock
I still have my doubts.
 
CocoHusky said:
Can we all support the sentiment in @stamfordhusky post and stop repeating this notion of a failed conditioning test. This has not been established and yet it has been repeated in 3 separate post in this thread as if were fact.
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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.
 
BroadwayVa said:
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.
I know a guy and a girl (mine) that was run through a military program run by the 82nd, the Guy went thru another military program ----they got conditioned. My daughter was not athletic she was a book worm. Each made it through. I had some of that 82 nd training for 2 weeks, I called them perverted in the intensity of training. Is Geno harder, longer, more sleepless ? some kids can do it without being Jocks--and Gordon is a Jock
I still have my doubts.
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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.
What you are talking about is the conditioning program that the team goes through as a team once they get back to campus which involved the Marines two years ago.
 
BroadwayVa said:
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.
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Maybe she only thought she was running. I experienced what is conditioning and what is CONDITIONING. In high school I played basketball, baseball, and football. Every school day I jogged 2.5 miles down from the ridge we lived on. I alternated sprinting and jogging after sports practice back uphill to our house. Uphill in Pennsylvania is seriously uphill. I played baseball in college and participated in intramural softball, basketball, football, and wrestling. I also lifted weights. I considered myself to be in exception condition. In my sophomore year after I won my weight class in intramural wrestling for the second time; the wresting coach asked me to join the wrestling team. After my first practice I literally crawled to the locker room. I crawled into the showers, pushed myself up the wall to turn on the water. Slid back down and remained there for 20 or so minutes before I could wash. About 4 weeks later the wrestling coach said since I could not keep up in practice I should just leave the team. And I thought I was making progress. There is another level of conditioning.
 
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