Nika out vs GA Tech

[Hayven]

well Caroline will definitely be logging more minutes. Mir will get to play more. Amari may get her first minutes as well.
May need to get Stewie to make another post for walk-ons

 

[CocoHusky]

Go find Saylor. I am sure she is still around campus going to class.

Why so we can add her to the list of injured players?

 

[GoUconn7961]

Feel bad for these players. We fans will survive. I'm sure 90% of us know what it's like to have nagging injuries. Better to heal properly now than to be plagued by them later in both the season, and in life.

 

[Vowelguy]

Why? Caroline can't play some SG?

Did I say CD wouldn’t play? Geez Louise.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Somebody wake me up next July.

 

[LoboDays]

I haven’t seen this many injuries since my sons convinced me to play roller hockey with them.

 

[hoopsdiva]

May need to get Stewie to make another post for walk-ons

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[genzhusk]

At what point do they start looking at how they are practicing? Or what they are doing? Is it just bad luck? Are they being pushed too hard leading to injuries? Is it the shoes they are wearing? Azzi had a lingering foot injury before she got to UCONN, but now we have 3 others out.

I have no idea, but yikes. Maybe I'm just venting and being frustrated, but it sure seems like we have more injuries than almost all other teams out there. Poor kids - dropping like flies... I know no one is more frustrated than the players themselves (and the coaches too).

I hope this doesn't mean 35 minutes for Evina, Christyn, Olivia, ONO, Dorka and Caroline (I realize those #'s don't work out but am just making a point - that could spell even more injuries as kids tire out).

Regardless of who is "UCONN ready", I think he needs to start using the bench more. Maybe focus on just a few things for each player to work on and do well instead of not playing them because they aren't ready to do EVERYTHING he wants.

There’s an epidemic of injuries amongst the entire basketball world. People are getting high injuries and more often recent years. At every level. That is because of prolonged fatigue. Kids are starting to play competitively younger and younger. And after all we are only human. You should look into research on that. It is definitely interesting.

 

[Dokey]

Yesterday I watched my Colorado team crush Southern Utah, grabbing 20 steals, putting NINE different players on the floor in first 2 1/2 minutes, having 10 score. That wasn’t unusual, that is how they have played every game, how they press hard on defense on every play, how you use the bench. The leading scorer for past two games comes off the bench, the team leader in steals on a team that is among the nation’s best in steals and total defense, is a freshman coming off the bench. Colorado is 9-0 and ranked 25th because it has nine, not five, starters. UConn has great depth, huh? Prove it. If they earn minutes in practice, what is wrong with the practices that sees so few players on the floor? Why are we playing our super star to exhaustion, inviting injury? Why? Why? Why? Time to pull our heads out of the sand.

 

[fireford]

Says it's a lingering injury suffered in last year's tournament.

The issue stems from the foot injury she suffered last season in the NCAA Tournament opener against High Point. It continued to bother Mühl throughout the summer and now, she’ll be sidelined for the next few weeks to prevent it from developing into a more serious problem

Nika Mühl out “probably three weeks” with foot injury

With Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd also out, the Huskies will have only three guards available for the foreseeable future.

www.theuconnblog.com

 

[CocoHusky]

Yesterday I watched my Colorado team crush Southern Utah, grabbing 20 steals, putting NINE different players on the floor in first 2 1/2 minutes, having 10 score. That wasn’t unusual, that is how they have played every game, how they press hard on defense on every play, how you use the bench. The leading scorer for past two games comes off the bench, the team leader in steals on a team that is among the nation’s best in steals and total defense, is a freshman coming off the bench. Colorado is 9-0 and ranked 25th because it has nine, not five, starters. UConn has great depth, huh? Prove it. If they earn minutes in practice, what is wrong with the practices that sees so few players on the floor? Why are we playing our super star to exhaustion, inviting injury? Why? Why? Why? Time to pull our heads out of the sand.

So you want UCONN to become like Colorado and crush Southern Utah?

 

[Plebe]

Yesterday I watched my Colorado team crush Southern Utah, grabbing 20 steals, putting NINE different players on the floor in first 2 1/2 minutes, having 10 score. That wasn’t unusual, that is how they have played every game, how they press hard on defense on every play, how you use the bench. The leading scorer for past two games comes off the bench, the team leader in steals on a team that is among the nation’s best in steals and total defense, is a freshman coming off the bench. Colorado is 9-0 and ranked 25th because it has nine, not five, starters. UConn has great depth, huh? Prove it. If they earn minutes in practice, what is wrong with the practices that sees so few players on the floor? Why are we playing our super star to exhaustion, inviting injury? Why? Why? Why? Time to pull our heads out of the sand.

God you never miss an opportunity to change the subject to Colorado. Nika's hurt, you say? Let's do a detailed game analysis of Colorado vs Cupcake Middle School. Super helpful and relevant.

 

[Rb335]

Is guess Westbrook plays PG and CD starts on the wing. We’re down to 6 bodies that have played any meaningful minutes this season. The active bench is looking like Dorka, Mir, Piath, and Amari. Suddenly we have all post players!

 

[pvdoggy]

Why so we can add her to the list of injured players?

We know she was injured. Maybe she is all healed up by now?

 

[Aluminny69]

Is Anna Makarat available?

 

[Husky fanatic]

Is KK eligible to graduate high school early?

 

[Watchdog]

There’s an epidemic of injuries amongst the entire basketball world. People are getting high injuries and more often recent years. At every level. That is because of prolonged fatigue. Kids are starting to play competitively younger and younger. And after all we are only human. You should look into research on that. It is definitely interesting.

Like the AAU marathons they play almost year 'round now?

It's getting to be like a job for the kids starting with youth programs and leading up to the big crescendo in their Junior and Senior years.

 

[Blakeon18]

I assume the other injured players go with the team to Georgia Tech. Will Paige go as well or is air travel not good this close to the injury?

3 weeks until Nika returns? Yikes!

Evina the primary point guard..considerable ball-handling help from Christyn and hopefully Caroline.
Mir on occasion as well. Lots of outlet passes to wide-open bigs who can move it up the court...I can see only short
breaks in PT [around the end of quarters?] for Evina/Christyn/Caroline...do we not need at least 2 of the three on the court at the same time?

 

[Charliebball]

Caroline still on the team?

yes............she's the last of the Mohicans...............uhhhh guards.............you asked if a fifteenth player would make a difference and I'm saying yes if they could competently handle the ball...........BTW I'm not saying UConn needs to carry 15 players every year...........you'd know better than me when the last time there were this many injuries at the same time........,......it's clearly an anomaly..............I'm just saying thank God there were 14 this season and what seemed like a playing time problem just turned into every woman on deck.......UConn may have to take a page out of the Oregon State play book with 3-4 starters 6'4" or taller.......

 

[TeamFirst!]

It seems the stars are aligned for Caroline to get plenty of PT. It is exactly what she needs but having essentially no subs at guard is not good. We have no choice really but to go with a 2 guard lineup. Against Georgia Tech that is not necessarily a bad thing. There is such a thing as a walk on player right? Maybe that is under consideration for a while.

 

[Mirmir]

My impression is that Georgia Tech does not play 'fast'. That type of game may be of some help to us.
Playing a half-court game is a better choice right now than our [occasionally] run amuk fast breaks.

Nika ready to go for UCLA on Saturday?

Geno said that Nika might be out for 3 weeks (maybe less). Thus, I would not count on Nika, Aubrey or Azzi until sometime after the New Year- This team is now a "Walking MASH Unit"

 

[topogigio]

UConn has been fortunate the last few years regarding the # of injuries sustained. Looks like the averages is catching up to them. I don't for a second think it has to do with training and/or practices, rather a big part of the women's game (please don't take that as a sexist comment - it just appears college women are more prone to certain injuries than college men). I think the Huskies will be ok without Nika - she really hasn't demonstrated much add on value this year to date.

 

[ME Husky Fan]

Management of time outs will be key. For those who lamented the lack of playing time for some of those 'down the bench' are now likely to get an early Christmas gift.

 

[Stymie]

At what point do they start looking at how they are practicing? Or what they are doing? Is it just bad luck? Are they being pushed too hard leading to injuries? Is it the shoes they are wearing? Azzi had a lingering foot injury before she got to UCONN, but now we have 3 others out.

I have no idea, but yikes. Maybe I'm just venting and being frustrated, but it sure seems like we have more injuries than almost all other teams out there. Poor kids - dropping like flies... I know no one is more frustrated than the players themselves (and the coaches too).

I hope this doesn't mean 35 minutes for Evina, Christyn, Olivia, ONO, Dorka and Caroline (I realize those #'s don't work out but am just making a point - that could spell even more injuries as kids tire out).

Regardless of who is "UCONN ready", I think he needs to start using the bench more. Maybe focus on just a few things for each player to work on and do well instead of not playing them because they aren't ready to do EVERYTHING he wants.

I previously stated elsewhere on this board that maybe Coach should “dumb it down a bit”.
Take the offense down to basic plays and just run them over and over and over...
I also blown away regarding the landslide of injuries.
Is Nika’s injury a reoccurrence of last years problem or is it something else?
Handful of games under their belts, and over a third of the roster is unavailable?
UCONN still has the talent in the remaining “ healthy?” players to win this week, but now I fully expect to see Piath and Amari get playing time.-NOW.
OR, Geno can grind up the remaining 7-8 players and we can watch the number of healthy bodies continue to shrink.
Play ‘em now, or be forced to play ‘em in a week.
Uneasy feeling about what’s going on here.
And it had nothing to do with wins and losses.

 

[FridaFriend]

Does anyone else think that stress related to covid is a contributing factor to all the injuries we are seeing in women's basketball?

 

[Urshurak]

This is unbelievable.

Wishing them all the best.

 

[CocoHusky]

It seems the stars are aligned for Caroline to get plenty of PT. It is exactly what she needs but having essentially no subs at guard is not good. We have no choice really but to go with a 2 guard lineup. Against Georgia Tech that is not necessarily a bad thing. There is such a thing as a walk on player right? Maybe that is under consideration for a while.

So glad the stars aligned for Caroline to get more playing time (SMH). The NCAA has this things called rules regarding a walk on player or additions to the roster. Earliest a players can be added to the roster is the start of spring semester which is January 18th. This is UCONN WBB we are talking about so the chances of there being a players able to help the team even in practice being available is very slim.

 

[eebmg]

Geez, we can't catch a break. Can we call a few players up from jr. varsity or the G league?

As I half joked on another thread, need to send a tweet blast fo some walk ons ala Stewie. If Autumn was more patient??

 

[iri10]

As topogigio said, while I don't have any numbers to back me up, I've felt like this team has actually been more fortunate than average over the last 5 years at least. We've had our injuries, but nothing on the scale that can derail or at least disrupt entire seasons. Every run of luck expires eventually. Let's hope the remaining players can learn things during this period. I don't even care about wins and losses so much, if they get better.

If this is the year when the "two losses in a row" streak ends...so be it.

 

[Stymie]

Yesterday I watched my Colorado team crush Southern Utah, grabbing 20 steals, putting NINE different players on the floor in first 2 1/2 minutes, having 10 score. That wasn’t unusual, that is how they have played every game, how they press hard on defense on every play, how you use the bench. The leading scorer for past two games comes off the bench, the team leader in steals on a team that is among the nation’s best in steals and total defense, is a freshman coming off the bench. Colorado is 9-0 and ranked 25th because it has nine, not five, starters. UConn has great depth, huh? Prove it. If they earn minutes in practice, what is wrong with the practices that sees so few players on the floor? Why are we playing our super star to exhaustion, inviting injury? Why? Why? Why? Time to pull our heads out of the sand.

Thank you.