People like you make me laugh my a** off............"women actually play better defense and run a better offense" - you chi**ing me? They can't guard good players if they're quick, fast players........who guarded McBride last night - NO ONE could......she did what she wanted when she wanted until they went into the zone...........even then they couldn't find here when they needed to - and this coming from the 3rd or 4th best team in th country. And they "BEAUTIFIL" offense against teams they are 40-50 points better than with a bunch of stiffs out there in comparison to theirs.........please tell me you don't actually believe this crap??!?!?
No one was guarding McBride last night because Hartley fouled out, Banks is injured, and Faris was guarding Diggins. (who, despite always making the big shot, did miss 20 shots last night..so perhaps the defense wasn't that bad.) KML is not a good defender, but she was the best they could throw on her.
And how about, McBride is just a fantastic player. I watched numerous not even elite players absolutely destroy the UConn men. Every season.
It's a shot to the ego, I understand...to be just a Uconn men's fan and have to deal with the women having bigger success and playing, within their competition, an arguably better brand of basketball. Certainly not more athletic...but I thought Uconn men's fans learned the lesson that athletic was not necessarily better after the Sticks/Dyson season. Handle the ball better? Sure Bazz and Boat can handle it better than any of the girls on this team. Better than the quality of guards Geno usually has (Montgomery, Bird ) I don't think so.
This Uconn team struggles to handle the ball, and this Uconn team struggles in close games, and this Uconn team, quite frankly..is pretty dumb. All unusual for a Uconn women's team. And here's the thing, if you've watched the women throughout the years..you would have known that even against the weaker teams, this team wasn't running great offense. It's silly though. Someone says "look at all the turnovers and missed shots..the women's game is so ugly." Only to be answered with, "they scored more than the men usually do in close games." So obviously the reply is "no defense." Lol. So when the women's offense looks good/better against the elite team its because lack of defense, but when they struggle it's because they suck. And when the men struggle it's because of defense and when they don't it's because of their athletic and talent superiority. Sure, I buy it. It couldn't be because Boat and Bazz dribble the ball for 25 seconds and take a poor shot on half of our possessions. Sounds like fantastic offense to me.
And I hate getting into these arguments because I love both teams. But it's ridiculous. I've always thought the men's team's offense looks uglier. And here's the thing, it should. Women have to run a more complex and tighter offense because they don't have the athleticism and playground game men tend to have. (One of the reasons why, if Hartley is playing well..Uconn can get by without running a great offense. Because she's one of the few women that does play like that.) Not to mention, the Uconn women had 6 players on the Olympic team this season. Four of them were starters on the same team, including the starting Olympic backcourt. No it usually looks better. Sue Bird was probably the best female point guard in the world when she was playing at Uconn. Of course she's going to run an elite offense. I'm not even saying that WCBB runs a better offense. That I disagree with. I'm saying the UConn WCBB team usually does.
It's a different brand of basketball, completely, almost to the point of comparing it being silly. If people don't like it, people don't like it. But it's just inaccurate to make like women's basketball is inferior in every way. It's not. It's different. Some of it might be better, depending on what you like.
But it's just a shame that so many men's fans can't support the women because of an inferiority complex.
......these teams are so used to being so much better than 95% of their schedule that's an issue!
