Paige Bueckers we miss you

[gold2323]

I love this picture -
And nothing is the same now or ever will be
the same without her presence at UCONN. There are not enough adjectives to describe her.

 

[Cecil9]

I love this picture -
And nothing is the same now or ever will be
the same without her presence at UCONN. There are not enough adjectives to describe her.

Could that be evidence of a crush?

 

[gold2323]

As a player, yes ….she is all that and more

 

[eebmg]

As a player, yes ….she is all that and more

and not too shabby as a person.

 

[jchusky]

As a player, yes ….she is all that and more

I assume you never saw Maya Moore or Stewart play.

 

[JonathanXIV]

God, wasn’t Maya something to see in a UConn uniform.

 

[Childhood]

She was practising 3pt shoot with Nika in the court yesterday. I expect to see her play in Feb soon.

 

[BostonBay]

We need her back for the Tennessee game. Work it Paige!!

 

[dtbtbtb]

DT, Maya and Stewie were all amazing. When you see the current team playing without Paige, you can see how special she is. One player who makes a group of talented players a NC contender who without her are maybe a top 10 team...

 

[gold2323]

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I assume you never saw Maya Moore or Stewart play.

I have seen Stewie and she is a favorite and so is Maya….and Paige is Paige if you missed the element of my post I have no issue with your position. Thanks

 

[HuskyNan]

I assume you never saw Maya Moore or Stewart play.

Or that other guard, what’s her name….

 

[gold2323]

Yes DT too….got it

 

[Ouremblem]

How did her X-ray turn out?

 

[JonathanXIV]

Or that other guard, what’s her name….

Maria Conlon

 

[Jc718]

It’s weird. I started watching basketball because of Paige. If I hadn’t become interested in the UConn program through her I probably wouldn’t be watching these games while she’s out.

 

[eebmg]

It’s weird. I started watching basketball because of Paige. If I hadn’t become interested in the UConn program through her I probably wouldn’t be watching these games while she’s out.

Interesting. Did you know Paige through her HS highlight tapes?

 

[Jc718]

Interesting. Did you know Paige through her HS highlight tapes?

My discovering UConn story: Last summer a Caitlin Clark highlight video popped up on my YouTube feed where she hit a bunch of threes. I was like woah that’s cool. I had never watched a basketball game before.

I watched a couple more scoring highlight videos and in the comments I would see people mention Paige. So I saw the highlight video of Iowa vs UConn. I thought hmm why do people say Paige is better (I knew NOTHING about basketball). Watched some of Paiges highlight videos and then all of her full high school games. I saw people in the comments talking about “UConn”. I guessed that was the college she was going to?

Then I watched all of Paiges freshman year games, but on my first time watching them I really only paid attention when she did something like a pass or scored. I thought the coach was funny. I saw videos of players I had never heard of, Sue and Diana, talking about Paige so then I went and watched some of the games from 2000-2002 but I only wanted to watch the games where Sue and Diana both scored a lot.

I grew out of that and just started watching all the games in order from 1998-2004. I wanted to feel as if I was really following along back then, so anytime the commentators or other would hint to something but wouldnt really expand upon it I would Google archived Hartford Courant articles lol. I learned about the dominance of UConn over the years.

I also kept seeing the name Stewart when people kept talking about the best players to ever play at UConn so then I switched to watching those years. Then I just started hopping all over the timeline. I read the UConn books including Genos, Bird at the Buzzer, the Same River Twice, etc. I started following along with the UConn players that were in the WNBA and learning about that history. There’s still some years I haven’t seen a lot of the games from.

I’ve since rewatched Paiges freshman year games countless times now that I actually pay attention to the whole game and can understand what’s going on. It’s kind of funny how I had never even heard of a shot clock and couldn’t have even told you what a double dribble meant, but now I say things like I love watching Kelly Faris play defense. My favorite players to watch are Svetlana Abrosimova, DT, Sue, Kelly Faris, Moriah Jefferson, and Paige.