Paige's Availability Today

[Carnac]

My Croatian is a little rusty Steelerone but I think this translates as "Playing at UConn will be great but we must avoid those crazies who call themselves Boneyard people."

Sounds like good advise.

 

[JordyG]

Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you.

Shhh! The flies in my house are FBI lackeys.

 

[eebmg]

Nice article by Graham Hays on how Paige's is dealing with all the issues and expectations in taking on the Mantle of UConn's next great player and being at the front of social justice issues

UConn's Paige Bueckers: Expectations, pandemic don't dampen start of college career

Paige Bueckers might be a generational talent, but first she has to get through a year that will shape a generation -- and hopefully include a college hoops season.

www.espn.com

 

[Sky ball]

BostonBay, no one, and let me repeat that for the benefit of our boneyard audience, no one is the next Diana. God made one Grand Canyon and one Diana.

Unless you are a Mexican player then God made only one Copper Canyon

 

[Alydar]

Nice article by Graham Hays on how Paige's is dealing with all the issues and expectations in taking on the Mantle of UConn's next great player and being at the front of social justice issues

UConn's Paige Bueckers: Expectations, pandemic don't dampen start of college career

Paige Bueckers might be a generational talent, but first she has to get through a year that will shape a generation -- and hopefully include a college hoops season.

www.espn.com

Hays spends most of the article talking about BLM.

 

[and one]

There is an saying in the South - Don't put your mouth on it. It makes me nervous to hear too much on the inevitability of Paige's greatness. I'm guilty of having high expectations, but still it gives me pause.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Adamec's article about Paige and the beginning of her college career.

Journal Inquirer

Serving towns east of the Connecticut River

www.journalinquirer.com

 

[Steelerone]

My Croatian is a little rusty Steelerone but I think this translates as "Playing at UConn will be great but we must avoid those crazies who call themselves Boneyard people."

Right on everything but the crazy Boneyard people. Eccentric perhaps, maybe even "different", but hey, we all support our ladies.

 

[Steelerone]

Unless you are a Mexican player then God made only one Copper Canyon
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I think the movie starred Ray Milland and, believe it or not, the female lead was Hedy Lamarr (Not Hedley).

 

[Steelerone]

There is an saying in the South - Don't put your mouth on it. It makes me nervous to hear too much on the inevitability of Paige's greatness. I'm guilty of having high expectations, but still it gives me pause.

Andone, I think the other, which my Grandmother from Alabama loved to use, was "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched."

 

[and one]

Andone, I think the other, which my Grandmother from Alabama loved to use, was "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched."

I actually added in my post..."or said another way don't count your chickens etc" but deleted that on second thought. While the sayings are very similar, putting your mouth on something is sort of like putting a hex on it. If you say UConn will win the next national championship, you have doomed them to not win the next NC and it is your fault! I'm not sure if thinking something has the same effect.

 

[oldude]

I just got around to watching Paige’s video presser. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by her confidence and poise in answering questions from the press. She’s had reporters asking her questions since she was in the 7th grade. But I can’t help but be impressed that a young lady just out of HS has this level of comfort dealing with the media.

Specifically, I thought she handled a challenging question about George Floyd’s death exceptionally well. It’s not the type of question a freshman WBB player typically has to handle in her 1st interaction with reporters. There is much wisdom in this young lady.