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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 2797861, member: 5798"] [B]No one knows why she left? [/B]I disagree. Let me say this at the outset, I really don't care that she left, or why she left. I was not a UConn fan at the time. To me, this is water under the bridge. I'm simply responding to your comment. [B][U] She[/U] knows why she left[/B], [B]and her family knows why she left.[/B] She has said [U]many times[/U] verbally in media interviews and in her book why she left. Here are a few quotes from her, family members and references by the media: [LIST] [*]“[I]I knew [B]I wasn’t fully committed[/B]. It reminded me of my one day at [URL='http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/sports/college-sports/uconn-huskies-ORSPT000004-topic.html']UConn[/URL], when the Huskies captain had told us to play with passion, and I realized I’d had none of it.[/I]” [*]After two days of classes last June, though, Delle Donne acknowledged what few athletes of her visibility have ever acknowledged publicly — she was burned out on basketball at 18. Her parents also wondered if she was homesick. [*]We have a 17 year old who came to UCONN to win championships and [B]shortly after arriving realized that her sister and family were more important to her then basketball and championships. [/B] [*][B]Whatever she felt at the time it tore at her and she went home[/B]. That's enough to know. Homesickness, her sister, burnout, it doesn't matter. She reacted to her gut and [B]she decided that UCONN was not for her. [/B] [*]There was NO single reason why EDD bolted, though it became apparent much later that she was running away from basketball as much as running home. [*]She enrolled at UConn in June, but several days later, returned home to suburban Wilmington, crying, telling her parents, “[I][B]I can’t do this.[/B][/I]” She was confused, distraught. Everyone at UConn had treated her well, but [B]she had seen the level of commitment required to play basketball and had realized she did not possess the necessary dedication.[/B] [*][I]“It was tough and I was scared, but I had to do it,”[/I] Delle Donne said of giving up basketball. [I]“I couldn't keep lying to myself. That was the main thing; I was sick of being unhappy.”[/I] [*]Her relationship with Lizzie is huge. It's so close. [B]It's a big reason why she came home from from UConn, because she craves to be around Lizzie and to experience Lizzie grabbing her and sniffing her and just spend quality time with her.[/B] A week after leaving Connecticut, Delle Donne said by telephone from her home in Wilmington that she has "a lot of personal issues to fix. Only my family understands what's going on. Right now I am going to take a long personal break." [*]"Both UConn and I require a 100-percent dedication to the sport, and[I] [B]as of now I feel I cannot give that level of commitment,[/B]"[/I] she said in the release. "It therefore would be unfair to the excellent program, Coach Geno Auriemma, the team, and UConn fans for me to play."[B] "I have a lot of personal issues to fix," Delle Donne said at the time.[/B] [/LIST] [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkWHrjdn5PY']Elena Delle Donne sits down for an interview with Mark Schwarz on "Outside the Lines.[/URL]" - Delle Donne was a Connecticut Husky for all of 48 hours. She says it took her only that long to realize she lacked the passion to play the sport at the highest level. She says she could no longer pretend. Delle Donne does not expect Auriemma to understand. She wasn't sure anyone would. Perhaps that's why it took her so long, about five years, to come clean. "You can't understand it unless you're in my shoes," Delle Donne says. "And that's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for." vowelguy, if YOU have inside information that contradicts all of the above, I'd like for you to enlighten us. When someone says something, how can you dispute it. You're getting it first hand, not second or third hand. "Do you understand the words that are coming out of my (her) mouth?" ~[URL='http://She believes her winning ways from UConn and from the Lynx came with her to Atlanta. "That's one thing I can bring," Montgomery said. "I've seen what it takes on a day-to-day basis. You can't buy that experience unless you were there. "When you're younger you have so many goals and a lot of them are individual. Now I want to be sure that we make the playoffs. I want to get one of those bye spots. So just my approach to the game, controlling the team, is different. My goals are team oriented. I couldn't care less if I score two points. My thing is, 'Let's make sure we got this right.' I want to win."'] [/URL]Chris Tucker - Rush hour. [B]FACT[/B] - She left UConn!! She had reasons for doing so. [B]She has stated [U]many times[/U] why she left in several media interviews. [/B]How can YOU dispute the words that came out of HER mouth? [B]Nothing I've included in this narrative is MY opinion or recollection.[/B] I'm merely a conduit. It's excerpts I've pulled from various on-line media sources. So, to refute these statements, you're not challenging me, you're challenging Elena and the veracity and authenticity of these sources. Until we hear or read otherwise, we have to go with the reason(s) [B]she's given us[/B]. To say: [I]"To repeat, no one knows why EDD left",[/I] suggests you have a different viewpoint (knowledge or information). I realize that it's quite possible you do. If you do, please share it with the rest of us. I'm sure we'd all like to know, so we can put this matter to bed once and for all (where it belongs), because your statement contradicts everything stated above. The floor is yours.................................... [/QUOTE]

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