Certainly, some players overthink. But I don't believe it correlates with intellectual classroom skills. Certainly there is no evidence of that, and that is why I believe it's just a lazy and sloppy excuse. Why can't we also then argue the opposite: that athletes who go to the academically worst-ranked schools are "too stupid" to be good athletes? The University of Alabama is frankly not ranked highly among public universities (I hate these rankings, but this is for the sake of discussion); therefore its football players much be too stupid to comprehend the vast complexities of the game and can't possibly compete, right?
That's a tatoo. Geno gave his permission as a reward for the season she is going to have.From photos of the Baylor game--is that a major bruise on the side of Natalie's knee, or something on the photog's lens?
Natalie has played 15 and 16 minutes in the first halves of the 2 games and in both instances she did not get a break - she came in after 4:__ minutes after Gabby picked up her second/third fouls, and played to half time. In both games she then played about 5 minutes in the second half - once after Napheesa picked up her 4th foul. She is a 'bench' player at this point on this team - giving breathers or covering for starters. 15/16 minutes of continuous play for a post player with her size is a long time, and I think it was Meghan that commented that she was sucking wind toward the end of the first half against Baylor. She is busting butt running the floor very well so being a little winded is not surprising.
Yup - a tattoo, but the source and permission attributes you give are wrong! It is one that she received from her opponents in the low post and is an honor bestowed on brave and fearless warriors after particularly successful campaigns.
Hiding?
Those are the thing--both Kia and Natalie do that are over looked except for posters like you. Big reason Kia is in the games!!!
Think Tamika Williams and Geno!
To add-on to the Pats theme, I think Butler is embodying the motto "Do Your Job". She's doing a nice job on defense. I like the way she looks to help while not losing sight of her own man.
Mickey Mantle said every year at the All Star game Ted Williams would sit next to him in the dugout and try to explain the science of hitting to him. Mick said he never got a hit for 2 weeks after the All Star game because he was thinking about it ("I just go up there and hit.").I'm reminded of something I believe Tara Vanderveer said about her players: as far as basketball goes, they are sometimes too smart for their own good. The Stanford players tend to have some powerful brains (in the analytical or computational sense), and it perhaps gets in the way on the basketball court. Too much thinking about how they're playing instead of actually playing.
Could it be that Natalie is the same way? She sometimes hesitates in that sort of way, like Geew said. I think that if she had gotten the attention of the college recruiters earlier on, she might have ended up going to a school like Stanford. But oh well. Their loss was Georgetown's gain...and then UConn's gain.
Bull Durham (the movie) was full of those lines - between Kevin's monologues while in the batters box to Meat's 'Don't think, just pitch'.
Yogi: How can you hit and think at the same time?
Good one.
Thanks--and very funny. I know they get bruised quite a bit, especially players who spend a lot of time in the post, but this seems to be a particularly large one.