Minnesota @ Notre Dame - 12/04/19

[donalddoowop]

I believe Brunelle will play better when ND gets better players, including Vaughn and some of the high ranked players coming in next season. She needs not to be the focal point of a team.

 

[Shades]

And here is the full game.

 

[Reypl21]

And yet this coach who is learning on the job just beat one of the most experienced coaches who always gets to choose from the best pool of recruits.

BY default I suppose Brunelle could have been UCONN's starting 4 this year but she would have been far from a perfect fit. She is shooting 22% from deep and has more TO (22) than Assist (14). These things would have crippled the UCONN offense. Defensively she would not help ONO very much in the post defense and as a perimeter defender she would have been severely exploited even more than she is being exploited now.

Really? Do you not take into account who the other players on the floor are? She would have be the 5th option on the floor at UConn, which means wide open shots. She's a good passer, and her teammates would be more talented and probably finish more shots. The defense part sure, I can agree with that.

 

[CocoHusky]

Really? Do you not take into account who the other players on the floor are? She would have be the 5th option on the floor at UConn, which means wide open shots. She's a good passer, and her teammates would be more talented and probably finish more shots. The defense part sure, I can agree with that.

Yes really. I did take into account the other UCONN players that would be playing with her, my conclusion remains unchanged. She would not be helping the offense. As a passer for example Brunelle is light years behind Kyla and Anna. As a defender/rebounder she is an order of magnitude behind Aubrey. Those 3 (Anna, Kyla & Aubrey would be her primary competition for minutes at UCONN not to mention Batouly if she were healthy. BTW Brunelle is getting wide open shots now and not making many- that is by design of the ND opponents. This concept that Brunelle can be used to spread the floor is pure fantasy. At UCONN Brunelle would have ensured that ONO get doubled consistently.

 

[CocoHusky]

I believe Brunelle will play better when ND gets better players, including Vaughn and some of the high ranked players coming in next season. She needs not to be the focal point of a team.

Maybe, but three times (2016, 2017, & 2018) at USA basketball Brunelle was surrounded by some of the most talented US players in the 2019-21 classes & she did not play well.

 

[Reypl21]

Yes really. I did take into account the other UCONN players that would be playing with her, my conclusion remains unchanged. She would not be helping the offense. As a passer for example Brunelle is light years behind Kyla and Anna. As a defender/rebounder she is an order of magnitude behind Aubrey. Those 3 (Anna, Kyla & Aubrey would be her primary competition for minutes at UCONN not to mention Batouly if she were healthy. BTW Brunelle is getting wide open shots now and not making many- that is by design of the ND opponents. This concept that Brunelle can be used to spread the floor is pure fantasy. At UCONN Brunelle would have ensured that ONO get doubled consistently.

She's already light years ahead of Kyla. And she's been playing better than Aubrey and Anna, who are also freshman. So I'll give them that, none of them are even close to figuring it out yet.

Anna is a very good passer. Kyla just knows the system. She knows what to do, who to look for, and her teammates know what to do as well. ND has two returning players of their six healthy players. One was injured, and the other hardly played.

 

[Geew1992]

I believe Brunelle will play better when ND gets better players, including Vaughn and some of the high ranked players coming in next season. She needs not to be the focal point of a team.

Is Vaughn that kind of impact player?

 

[CocoHusky]

Is Vaughn that kind of impact player?

 

[Alydar]

"Aaarrrrggghhh!" is right! "Drivel" sums it up quite succinctly! Rampant throughout sportscasting, but IMO especially so in WBB. Not one of the usual suspects is skilled in play-by-play so all they do is talk, and talk, and talk some more about everything but. And then if they run out of superlatives for their current blather, their booth-mate will ask them an inane question that they can then pontificate drivel upon on for the next 5 minutes. Save the drivel for timeouts and other breaks if you must. All I want hear during the action is what's happening on the floor! I can ignore the rest at my leisure. It's come to my listening to music in lieu of the commentary most of the time. Incidentally, the "word play" you reference was beyond dreadful!

Agree, totally. The problem is that the drivel used to come during timeouts but today every timeout is a 3 minute ad. There is no dead time. I also find myself muting the audio. I'd like to play the radio call along with the video but there is usually too much of a time gap to make it useful. I have found that the running box score on my laptop gives me the vital information of who the foul was on and who is coming in and out of the game, things that the chatty Kathy's feel is less important than knowing some player's hobbies.

 

[donalddoowop]

Is Vaughn that kind of impact player?

I don't know. I heard she was. I've heard some announcers say wait until Vaughn returns, they will be better.