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Regardless of who Notre Dame has, they all remember what happens when Stewie is inspired. Loyd will have nightmares of how many times Stewie appeared of no-where to block or alter her shots. Stewie remembers losses, just like Bill Russell, and doesn't like losing to the same people, when you add in the best Senior tandem in the country ( Stef-Bria ), and the jet ( Moriah ) you have a winner.
 
Imagine if UConn players were told they were the underdogs going into the game?
UConn blowout!!!

Who is this Mikey guy anyway and how do people let him write this garbage? I mean there must be an editor involved. A nefarious agenda for sure. It's a conspiracy. :cool:
 
HoopsFan21 said:
Let's not get too cocky here guys and gals. ND has beaten us what 7 of the last 8 meetings? From their perspective, it's doable. We all thought Baylor was Sims and the Four Nobodies that had no chance, and they were able to keep the game pretty tight until late in the 2nd half. In a one game playoff anything could happen. Right now the team is missing some personnel, and if Stewie has an off night, the team has a decent chance of being beat.
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So as we are well aware from many discussions here, no team has ever beaten another 4 times in a year. So tell us all again how ND has won 7 of the the last 8 times when they played 4 times during each of the last three years? Nope, it's 6 of the last 8, and then 7 of the last 12, and UConn's won 8 of the last 15.

Ultimately, UConn's got a streak going against ND right now, and it's the one that counted.
 
I'm worried. Over 60 replies to this thread and no sign of Mike's sock puppet. I hope nothing is wrong.
 
I just actually read the article. Throughout, it is poorly thought out and poorly written. But specifically; "The rhythms of mononucleosis are quite subjective". Rhythms? Subjective? I suppose that he is trying to say that recovery trajectories are variable and hard to predict for individual cases, and say it in a quaint and poetic way, but really!
 
DobbsRover2 said:
So as we are well aware from many discussions here, no team has ever beaten another 4 times in a year. So tell us all again how ND has won 7 of the the last 8 times when they played 4 times during each of the last three years? Nope, it's 6 of the last 8, and then 7 of the last 12, and UConn's won 8 of the last 15.

Ultimately, UConn's got a streak going against ND right now, and it's the one that counted.
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Believe me if that game is played we will hear endlessly about how ND has dominated us for two years. The title game last year will be deeply discounted as part of that. It's just media.
 
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I thought the OP was talking about msf Mike... wouldnt have surprised me one bit!
 
Bottom line is that ND/Uconn will be the best v the best and one helluva game. KML coming back from mono is going to be a major struggle and puts alot on the remaining healthy players. Can we do it? Yeah, I think so and hopefully our players believe in themselves. I belive both teams have the talent and good coaching to support them, but IMHO Uconn will come through with more HEART !
 
DaddyChoc said:
I thought the OP was talking about msf Mike... wouldnt have surprised me one bit!
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Took me a while to figure that out
since I am the OP.
But I never call myself Mike.
But of course, you wouldn't know that.
Anyway, though I appreciate the talent of ND,
It's UConn by 10-15.
 
IMHO if I had to choose which team - ND or UCONN - would be the most likely to be upset in the NCAA tournament, I would bet on ND. They have had too many close games that could have been a loss. It is possible that a
physical team, like SC, would give them trouble. Braker and Reimer are foul outs waiting to happen. Combined with a poor shooting night and there you have it. Now UCONN has five players who can score. More room to absorb a bad shooting night from one player. And of course better defense. Against SC, it wouldn't surprise me to see two or three of their bigs foul out.
 
DobbsRover2 said:
So as we are well aware from many discussions here, no team has ever beaten another 4 times in a year. So tell us all again how ND has won 7 of the the last 8 times when they played 4 times during each of the last three years? Nope, it's 6 of the last 8, and then 7 of the last 12, and UConn's won 8 of the last 15.
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And unless the NCAA drastically rewrites some rules, there will be no Skylar Diggins in the game. People have taken a lot of shots at her on this board, many gratuitously IMO, but the woman is a gamer. Stats will never show her effect on the ND wins over UConn.

That said, I agree that ND is the strongest candidate to upset the Huskies. We know there's great talent there, terrific coaching, and mental toughness, all necessary ingredients for a championship. But if POY candidate Stewie, All-American candidate Bria, and Best Center in the Country Stef all show up, I'm not sure ND's defense can get enough stops to beat the Huskies. Lotsa "ifs" but I like UConn's chances.
 
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HuskyNan said:
You missed it. It's on page 2 of the thread.
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Oh, c'mon, that can't be real. No one's that brain-addled to actually mean it. Obviously DrDog just forgot to use the sarco icons. Here's the ending he forgot. :eek::confused::D:oops:

In his Engeln piece, Mikey stated that winning at Uconn is "perpetual" (though he always seems to be predicting bad times ahead for the Huskies), but then quotes Engeln as saying it's not realistic to win every game, and she's now in reality and loves it. Cool, but Lauren there are players who are also fine with a reality that involves winning every game.

And Mikey as the BC amnesiac sycophant he is laughingly characterizes the Eagles as the peppy "starting over" team in no-cuss Erik Johnson's second year with everything looking up despite the fact that BC will almost certainly go 3-13 in the ACC, a little drop from Johnson's first year at 5-11 and also well down from the average 5-9.5 average of the undermined and now despised Sylvia Crawley (Mikey refers to her years as the SCAM era) who at least got the once proud BC program into the NIT one year, something Johnson's team won't be doing anytime soon.

But Mikey, he's the best, because he'll eat anything.
 
Geno-ista said:
many great points UC---- but a healthy KML was a monster rebounder. Her Scoring potential, and the way she would draw tough defenders, allowing other huskies a better opportunity on the offensive end. Obviously, our road to win the Final Four got much more difficult with the KML news, on the heels of the Tuck news. I still like our chances, but the refs really have all the power now to make anything they might want to happen- happen! Our offense really suffers without KML and/or Tuck on the floor. We are much much more vulnerable, and not just to Notre Dame.
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KML is great and I think Tuck will be great before she is done, but what everyone seems to be forgetting is that KML and Tuck 2013-14 has been a train wreck to date. Their stats in the 27 games Uconn has played are:
21 minutes a game, 9.9 ppg shooting .474 (Uconn is shooting as a team .509) with 3.6 rebounds per game, 1.8 assists and 1.0 TOs. Plus 5 total blocks and 16 steals
While everyone will be taking up the 'slack' from their continued absence the three players that will be most effected are Banks, Chong, and Stokes, and their stats to date (while already doing a lot of that) are:
53.4 minutes a game, 14.6 ppg shooting .507 with 10.5 rebounds per game, 4.0 assists and 2.3 TOs. Plus 79 blocks and 58 steals.
On a per minute basis KML/Tuck score a few more points less efficiently, a minor decrease in rebounds and ball handling, and significantly less on defense.
I am not saying Uconn is in any way better without either player - just that they have played so little when truly healthy this year that saying Kaleena is a monster rebounder or a great 3 point shooter based on this year is not really true - she had a couple of very good games in total as did Morgan - the rest of the year it has been left up to the healthy players.
 
DobbsRover2 said:
On a different matter, last year UConn and ND met in a semifinal game to decide everything between the two teams for the season. Both teams had 7 players who were in there to get the majority of the minutes.

But inevitably, the team needed to dig deeply into their depth to decide the contest, and unfortunately ND came out on top with 7 minutes for their 8th to 11th players while the Huskies only received 5 minutes from their 8th through 10th players.

This is worrisome, as UConn may only have one player to pick up the 5 minutes, and we must dwell on the sad outcome of last year's game in which UConn only won by 18 because their 8-10 players contributed 0 points versus ND's 8-11 players who poured a plumper goose egg of a 0.

We are dooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed!
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I generally favor using the like button instead of reply when you are simply expressing approval. I will make an exception for this fantastically awesome post.
 
I stopped reading Mike's article when he said

"Notre Dame has emerged as the favorite to win it all."

I don't understand this at all. The same with the posters wbbfan and tomcat for suggeesting this or similar as well. When it comes time to place bets- I'm with many of you - injuiries excluded form this point- give me the Huskies as a dog. I'm in on that. It's just mind-boggling to suggest otherwise.

Reading some of the posts here on this thread that Mike spoke of a Big 3 for each team - right there---- I cringed. How can anyone not beleive UCONN without KML still doesn't have a "Big 4?" I mena it's okay if you just didn't watch UCONN much. But Mike has I guess. So why did he say it? Agent Provacatuer or just doesn't understand what he is seeing?

And again from what I read from posters, Mike is using ppg as a definign stat from players he rates 4-7 or 4-8? Really? Really? Really? Really????? Is that what he is doing? So he exlcudes KML (and excludes Tuck) and then he is not taking into account that Stokes/Mo Jeff/Chong/Banks may pick up more of the slack?? Does this seem like someone that is being fair?

Also- what do the stats show when the top player in coming into the Finals - actually loses that Championship Game? Other than 1 year - for us- we always had at least the top player, right? So if the top player is playing her best game/naame, aren't odds in her team's favor to win? Which is why it's so puzzling that someone from UCONN such as Mike would ignore this, and UCONN fans such as wbbfan and tomcat - I'm puzzled why they would think otherwise.

It's okay if you think ND can win on your gut feeling and/or you think refs may play a big factor because of the way ND plays - or other gut feelings etc okay. But to say - "they will be favorite," or "have emerged as the favorite,"---- --- huh?
 
I gave up on Mickey D when he said a few years back that attendance was declining because fans did not see enough white faces on the court. Remember that folks?
 
There was a highway board recently that was promoting the US/Canada hockey games. It was labeled "Loser takes Bieber!" Sadly, we are now stuck with Bieber.

Can't we make some similar arrangement with Massachusetts for Mikey.
 
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I think another point to follow is ND is increasingly relying on Lloyd to do the brunt of the scoring, like Stanford relies on Chiney and Baylor relies on Sims. And Achonwa's scoring has seemed to decrease per game. Is this trend going to continue? If so, it could spell big trouble for ND. Their scoring is not as balanced lately as it was earlier in the season.
 
huskeynut said:
I think another point to follow is ND is increasingly relying on Lloyd to do the brunt of the scoring, like Stanford relies on Chiney and Baylor relies on Sims. And Achonwa's scoring has seemed to decrease per game. Is this trend going to continue? If so, it could spell big trouble for ND. Their scoring is not as balanced lately as it was earlier in the season.
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But they can shoot the three and that can make them dangerous. Of course, live by the sword, die by the sword.
 
Hey Mike,

Just answer one question........How many ND players will need to guard Stewart in the attempt to take her out?
 
Our best players have more experience than their best players and also have already won a national championship. Plus, our point guard is playing like an All American. They are trying to replace Diggins. We can talk all we want but time will tell.
 
Kevin G said:
Hey Mike,

Just answer one question...How many ND players will need to guard Stewart in the attempt to take her out?
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He'd have no problem with that one, since there would be 5 Irish players on the court, so the answer is 5. They can do a credible job if they band together to keep her from getting the ball once the no-depth UConn team somehow has 8 players foul out as many of the prognostications here seem to be suggesting.
 
DobbsRover2 said:
Back in the '60s as a Dodger fan it was frustrating to have Stratomatic baseball games with certain Red Sox fans who only wanted to use the batters' cards for games between the two teams, while I only wanted to use the pitchers' cards.

Indeed, the Huskies are built around their defense, and if you do not devote 50% of your analysis of a UConn match-up with another team, it has little worth. This year's team is just fractions of a point or percent behind the 2009-10 team for the all-time NCAA best in scoring and FG% defense, and they are far ahead of an Irish team that in its last eight games has given up 83 points to MD and 72 to Georgia Tech.

The teams have had three common opponents (PSU, MD, Duke), and interestingly all six games have been away games for the Huskies and Irish. ND scored more than UConn but also gave up far more points. UConn's average margin was 19.3 (75.3 - 56.0) while ND's was 11.3 (84.0 - 72.3).

The 8 point difference is also around the margin that Massey and Sagarin have UConn over ND. But the question is, are they more knowledgeable than Mikey D?
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I liked this post just for the Stratomatic reference.

For what it's worth, I see ND as the biggest potential obstacle to #9. I feel like we'd win against them not because of any inherent shortcoming they have. They are a very good team. I just think that we're better.
 
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