I don't want to speak on why Muffet nor some other players made it over to Young when she went down, because I don't think I have enough information to speak on it. (After all... maybe that's something Muffet tells her players not to do. Maybe they don't care about each other and have no bond. Maybe MM's feet hurt and that walk across the wood was looking longer by the second. I don't know! It was strange - I don't think I've seen something like that before where the teammates, for the most part, look so disinterested. But I don't know the dynamics of the team nor the instructions Muffet gives her team on how to handle situations like that.)
From Carl Adamec:
On rewatching the game and checking those two events - on review, the Saniya was just an unfortunate collision of her face with Turner's arm. I have seen fouls called in those cases but always thought they shouldn't have been - Saniyas face was just occupying space where her in landing from a vertical jump for a rebound the arm came down on top of her.
I saw Chong make a ridiculous charge after UConn had a defensive rebound and had a chance to help open a really nice lead in the first half and that stopped any momentum UConn had at a critical time. It was an out of control play that would have been hardly tolerable from a new freshman playing in her first or second game but for it to be from a senior with the experience that she has is horrendous. I'm not suggesting that we throw her to the scrap heap but when I hear people talk her up as someone who is going to finally emerge as a significant asset to this team I find it extraordinarily hard to fathom. Obviously I wish I was wrong but I'm confident that I'm not. Again, will she have a moment or two or three where she will do something nice or beneficial? I'm sure she will but I'm just as sure there will be offsetting plays that continue to disappoint.
I think he knows this team is kind of young and has players who haven't had the experience of being the "go to guys" and yet have exceeded most if not all people's expectations. I'm sure he knows they have a lot of potential but probably expected them to have bumps in the road and falter a bit but they have shown remarkable composure and grit. I'm also quite sure that hammering them for mistakes would be exactly that, "a mistake"! I couldn't be more pleased with the way this team has played and the contributions we've gotten from just about everybody on the team at one point or another. They're continuing to get more and more cohesive game after game. Love it!
I actually rewatched that play because I was pretty sure the ND player was moving on that play - and yup, she was nicely set, Chong twisted to go around her and the ND player did a cute little hop to that side and flop which the ref bought. It was perhaps not the best play for Chong to make, but it was not egregious and she is very good on not creating charges with her body contortions. But it was certainly no worse than a few of Gabby's wildly inaccurate turnovers, or similar mistakes made by other players. For some reason you seem to take particular note (pleasure?) in criticizing and denigrating certain players. Kia I thought had a great game scoring 8 points on 6 shots with four assist and one TO while playing lock down defense. Chong had a really solid game as she has in most of the games to date playing solid defense and coming up with 27% of Uconn's offensive rebounds.
You are correct.
I think you mixing up two different things, a player being hurt, and a player being knocked down. The UCONN tradition when a player is know down is for all the other player to rush to her and provide assistance. Another UCONN tradition is to sprint off the court and to the locker room. Young was injured, the other ND player could tell she was injured because she was on the ground screaming. When a player is injured the other players are though to stay away. I used the wrong words the refs did not call a timeout they stopped the action so that the injured player could be attended to. During a stoppage the rules are also very specific-ALL players must physically remain on the court. That is why you see the UCONN players standing with Geno on the side of the court. The coach (MM) has the rest of the team and the remainder of the game to worry about. I don't think the injury would have been handled any differently if this was a UCONN player.
I agree about the foul on Gabby - no question in my mind. But watch the Saniya play again - there can be excessive contact that is not a foul but the natural result of multiple bodies in motion, which is what this was in my view - a case of 'sh_t happens.
Agree - Allen I think went to her immediately and signaled to the bench and the trainer came out as the players moved away to receive instruction from Muffet. Same thing has happened with Uconn players who were hurt. Give the trainer space to work and get your mind focused back on the game.
I agree with the bolded part of your post. Consider everything that follows the bolded part as evidence of the bolded part. Gabby was not injured-requiring medical attention on that play, Young was.
C'mon Coco. Southbendcane is such low hanging fruit. By calling him/her out, you're just encouraging more of his/her posting!
Agreed. I can't speak to the author, but I would expect that they were simply noting that UConn seems to handle these things in a different manner.
I agree with UcMiami on this.
