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Message: [QUOTE="hjoerring, post: 3118958, member: 3630"] Finally, someone doing more than talking. When you only see replays, you cannot help feeling humbled in the cacophony of chatter that may just know/see more than what might have been edited out of a tape. But assuming the games I saw this year (and including the F4) were real, we really played well. All those games were winnable at critical junctures. We lost the games-- we didn't get beaten. As superior as Baylor (is) suppose to be, any other team could have triumphed over us that night. We were offensively bad with and without their doings. And we could have won the F4 against ND. And that is not wishful thinking. Interestingly, Baylor didn't blow-out Oregon. Here is what we all know and what came back to do us in: extremely poor rebounding (basically putting it in the hands of one player and occasionally a fr. guard) and, players (though well conditioned) being forced to play full minutes in highly competitive situations against players who might be equally talented, but bigger and stronger. As for Arike at ND, it seems to me that it might have been a strategy of the coaches or herself to start slow and finish strong. That is, ND can score enough to have her conserve herself until the 4th quarter. At this jucture there are few defenders who can contend with her-- given her aggressive playing style. Aggressive here is not intended to be or seen as negative, just punishing. Uconn does not have such a luxury. All 5-players must go full-out from start to finish. [/QUOTE]

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