Next Season the TTP

[Husky WBB Fan]

Amazing how the speculation (what fun!!) is already ramping up about how all of our talented players are going to develop and be used next year.

Can you imagine how intense the BY scrutiny/interpretation/speculation of individual players and game situations is going to be next year with all this talent and the various player combinations starting to emerge once the games actually start to be played?!?! We may need to issue flak jackets as standard equipment for BY participation.

 

[Bestiarius]

It's all academic. Regardless of who starts, the team will not suffer. If Geno wants to favor the seniors, whether it's for loyalty reasons or any other, no problem, because most games will be blowouts. These blowouts will give the tail end of the bench minutes. Rest assured, the best players will be in the game when the game is on the line.

 

[sarals24]

After watching that Diamond Deshields video, the thought of her on the floor as a freshman with Bria and Stef as seniors, KML and Kiah as juniors, Breanna Stewart, Tuck and Jefferson as sophomores is just...well, unfair to the rest of the coutnry.

 

[Wonkster]

... Will Breanna with her 6'10 wing span block Griners shot? Will our height cause problems for Griner? ...

I thought Breanna's wingspan was updated to 7' from a reliable source. Really.

Tony is lagging behind the rest of the universe on this one - it's been 7'0" for a long time, but it was updated by the reliable source you're thinking of to 7'1" - not joking!

I hope I don't have to produce a deposition to verify this claim.
.

 

[Icebear]

Tony is lagging behind the rest of the universe on this one - it's been 7'0" for a long time, but it was updated by the reliable source you're thinking of to 7'1" - not joking!

I hope I don't have to produce a deposition to verify this claim.
.

I chose the safe answer of 7'+.

 

[ju6381]

I think people are missing the point that Bria Hartley is not a pg. Geno has said himself that she is not at her best when put in that spot.

 

[Wonkster]

Amazing how the speculation (what fun!!) is already ramping up about how all of our talented players are going to develop and be used next year.

Can you imagine how intense the BY scrutiny/interpretation/speculation of individual players and game situations is going to be next year with all this talent and the various player combinations starting to emerge once the games actually start to be played?!?! We may need to issue flak jackets as standard equipment for BY participation.

Chew on this: assuming that on a given night only ten players are physically fit/practice-tested to play, Geno could field 252 different combinations during the 40 minutes. Of course, some of the combinations might be less than optimal. He could have Mo out there and the other four positions filled by Stef, Kiah, Heather, and Breanna, just as one example. By combinations, I mean just looking at who's on the floor at a given time, paying no attention to position.

If you insist on assigning players to a particular role, like point guard or center, then the number of unique lineups tops 30,000. Yes, this would include lineups where Stef is playing point, or where Bria is assigned to play center.

Pick your preferred lineup, and let the arguments begin!
.

 

[John Fryer]

Maybe I missed it but I don't think you even attempted to answer my question. So you continue to ignore history, and that means your opinions carry no weight.

Speedoo wrote: "So you continue to ignore history...,"

To which my reply is: No. I am very conscious of history and its effects on how we perceive and interpret reality.

The problem between you and I might be summarized as being, IMHO, that I choose to interpret history as a description of what was.

History is not a prescription of what is or what will be. JMHO, of course.

Lastly, at least for me on this history thing, it is a fact that different individuals can look back at the history of an event/thing and reach very different conclusions about its meaning. More importantly, they might even differs about its relevency to the issue being debated.

If that is true, and I believe that it is, then attempts to project past behavior onto current situations is at best speculative. At worse it can be a waste of time. Today is tomorrow's history.

Coach A is not the same man/coach today that he was at this same point last season. Or any season in the past.

He, like each one of us, will evolve and grow or he, like all of us, will be left behind.

Finally, that Speedo also wrote: "that means your opinions carry no weight" saddens me very much.

Afterall, it is when we take the time to listen to another person's point of view, and discover that they might see the same event very differently/interpret it very differently than we do - that we are able to realize as an objective fact that each one of us exists in a self-contained universe.

From this it follows that when you wrote: "that means your opinions carry no weight" it would have been polite for you qualify such a broad assertion in some way. You could have written: "Given that you continue to ignore history, your opinions carry no weight with me!" I would have happily clicked the "Like" option and all of this would have been unnecessary.(Oh, history was a core requirement when I was at UConn!)

Peace,

John Fryer