Per Geno This Team "Duds"

[UConnNick]

"Geno and the Duds" - a new rock group coming to a basketball arena near you soon!

 

[Gus Mahler]

Gus, always like what you bring to the table so no spitting match here. My slight disagreement would be with the pressure being less on this team than last years or those in the past. A monster has been created in the form of a juggernaut and what team under this scrutiny wants to be the one that does not meet expectations?
There is always pressure here.

These girls read and hear they are the team that can't possibly keep the streak going day in and day out. They hear UConn lost the first three draft picks in the WNBA.
One could be sure they still talk to the teammates that have gone on and most likely hear don't let it go! It takes a lot of pride and moxie to sustain as a player here as witnessed by very good recruits that have quickly moved to locations of much less pressure. This also in the classroom....

This team has obviously grouped and vowed to not let the deal go down even as the coaching staff the fans and any of us concerned would be forgiving. So far our sympathy has not been needed. They have exceeded expectations and then some but one can rest assured they feel the pressure of the program. In the end that's why they came here.

Quick edit: "I can't help if the team last year..." should be "I can't help thinking if the team last year".

 

[Intpseeker]

I believe, in part, that Geno has two extraverts and three introverts on his starting five.

Extraverted energy goes outward into the world of people and things, while for the most part, an introvert's energy is turned inward towards the world of ideas, abstracts, and concepts. It is said you can read an extravert like a book, as they manifest what they are thinking/feeling to the world, i.e., KLS and Kia.

Gabby, Pheese, and Saniya may be feeling the exact same things as their extraverted sisters, but are not as easily read, as the introvert's energy is directed inwards.

These are tendencies, not absolutes. Does the extravert always telegraph what they feel. No, just as the introvert does not always direct their energy inward. Think of Pheese's smile.

We have lots of samples of their behaviors, and I wonder if this isn't what Geno (E) is referencing, because in an organization, the right tendency is always the Alpha's tendency, so for UConn, being extraverted is the right way to express yourself.

Last year you had Stewie, Tuck and Mo who all were pretty introverted, but who cared about regular displays of emotion when you can play as they did.

The most striking dichotomy between UConn superstars is DT and Maya. With DT you knew what her next feeling would be, never mind her current one, while Maya was the stone-faced warrior.

Or I've had one too many cups of coffee

 

[BigBird]

"Geno and the Duds" - a new rock group coming to a basketball arena near you soon!

Opening song: "We Will Rock You."
Then: "Highway to the Danger Zone / This is it"
Closer: "We Are The Champions!"

 

[HoopsFan21]

LOL at Gabby being an introvert.

 

[Intpseeker]

I'm convinced of it. Watching after the games when they do the Kia and Gabby give-aways, Kia is in her element, and Gabby is enjoying, but working at it.
Introversion isn't shyness, and it doesn't mean you might not wear the occasional lampshade around people you know and trust, but if you watch Geno and the starters and play 'which one of these is not like the other ones', I'll stick with Geno, KLS and Kia as E's, and Saniya, Gabby, and Pheese as the I's.

And the real point of this is that often E's see I's as 'duds', because the I doesn't react in the same way the E does. In this case, the King E.

 

[j66kicker]

I'm convinced of it. Watching after the games when they do the Kia and Gabby give-aways, Kia is in her element, and Gabby is enjoying, but working at it.
Introversion isn't shyness, and it doesn't mean you might not wear the occasional lampshade around people you know and trust, but if you watch Geno and the starters and play 'which one of these is not like the other ones', I'll stick with Geno, KLS and Kia as E's, and Saniya, Gabby, and Pheese as the I's.

And the real point of this is that often E's see I's as 'duds', because the I doesn't react in the same way the E does. In this case, the King E.

Interviewer: "Who would play you in the movie?"
Gabby: [immediately, without hesitation, enormous smile/laugh] "Beyoncé!"