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Message: [QUOTE="Majic Hands, post: 3021031, member: 8345"] Best description of the game I sat and watched last night while surrounded by excited cardinal fans. What can I say, I root for the Cards whenever they play anyone except our Uconn girls. Point of reference, Google says I live 15 miles form the KFC Yum Center. note: first half we sat behind Uconn's basket What I observed: Warm up drills were a lot of layups. During the game, not so much. Seemed like the whole team tried to see how long they could all stay outside the arc at the same time. Cards made a committed effort to have at least two players bumping Lou & Phee the whole time and none of the other three stepped up or were a threat. Seriously! Watching on TV is not like being there. Hell's Bells it was like every time either of the two players received the ball, their expression was OH ! Hot Potato! Lou, gotta love her. However, she is never going to beat two players by her lonesome. Never noticed this on TV but it takes Lou a little time to regain her balance after getting bumped. That little bit of time is enough for the defense to regroup/get position. No other players stepped up to be an offensive threat to enable Lou to get it going. Lou is trying to force her body to do stuff its just not capable of doing. Phee is a real scoring threat when within 10' of the basket. Especially when passed the ball while she is moving to the basket. Probably happened last night but I didn't see it. I could have sworn she was trying out for a guard position. Again, I gotta say it seemed like a concerted effort to bump and move her away from the basket whenever she got close and they succeeded. Danger, simply was not very dangerous. The shots I saw her miss were the ones where she left her feet while moving and missed the basket in the direction she was moving. Hey, I'm no guru/genius but unless it's a lay-up CD is not going to hit it, if she is not squared up. So why bother chucking it up? It's going to be a wasted possession if she isn't. Save time, just walk up and hand the ball to the other team. For me, the one bright spot (other than actually being there seeing the girls play) was Liv! Yes, [I]Olivia[/I] Nelson-Ododa. Wow, when this kid gets more minutes and they start passing her the ball! Oh Boy! I'm waiting to see that. Yep, she got blocked. One time I thought she was the ball in a pinball machine and the Cards were the paddles. Yep she missed the jump shot off a strong move in the second half. But her facial expression! her body language said I belong here, this is my space. hopefully before the season is over CW might start tossing the rock to the tall kid and let her miss instead of chucking up off balanced bombs. Wouldn't hurt if a couple other players were to toss it to the tall kid either. Thankful I had the opportunity to see the girls live! The folks around me really enjoyed having a Uconn fan amoungst them. I was kind of the icing on the cake for em. Looking forward to the kids figuring out they have to be a part of the game not just in the game. and what the difference is. [/QUOTE]

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