How soon they forget. As I pointed out in another thread, when Lou was injured just before the Big Dance last season, Christyn stepped up BIG! She scored in double figures in all 5 tournament games, shooting over 50% for the tourney. Christyn was UConn’s 2nd leading scorer and provided unexpected strength inside as the team’s 3rd leading rebounder.
As Bill Parcels said “you are what your record is says”. We are a very good team but good against the very best and that’s ok. I look forward to the rest of the season and if we don’t do well in the tournament, I look forward to getting back to the top one day.
Yep, if only Geno and his staff knew anything at all about developing players......
Some of SC freshmen would not be starting for UConn or getting as much playing time because they would struggle with UConn's complex offense. I believe that is one reason many teams have freshmen playing so well this season, their offenses are easier to learn and adjust to.
We don't actually know that it will be different. We'll have new bodies -- and we *hope* that the product on the court will enough improved to turn the tables on these teams who are now beating us -- but people also *hoped* that this year's team would be much better than it is.
I am guessing that the rest of the AAC schedule will not be a slumber party and the Tournament may not be so dull and uninteresting, this team is a question mark now and we still have a big bulls eye on our back for the rest of the AAC.
You don't know that and it's not true that Crystal is not a better player than Faris.
Yes. This is exactly what I was alluding to in my earlier post about how the program wears its past success like a ball and chain, starting with the head coach. To this day in interviews, Geno is often on his hobby-horse about how hard it is to do what we've done, etc, etc.
I think the idea of UConn winning the NC is totally ludicrous. In all three games they've lost, they shot the ball so terribly badly, played so out of control and made so many unforced errors that they never gave themselves a chance. I'm not overly awed by any of the teams that they've lost to, though I think I'd go with Oregon as the best of the lot. In these losses, UConn has committed such a ridiculous amount of unforced errors and thrown so many airballs, even on wide open shots while missing layup after layups that they virtually gave themselves zero chances to win. To give those teams all the credit for their "defensive prowess" is a big misrepresentation of what's transpired. UConn played very, very sloppily and was totally incapable of hitting a lot of blatantly open shots. Why they have tended to do that in these three losses is beyond explanation. They completely took themselves out of these games early on and I think some of the early teams in the Geno era (late 80's, early 90's) would have smoked this team if this team played against them the way they've done in their three losses. They've been totally self destructive and it's so foreign to the type teams we've come to expect in Storrs. I really didn't expect that this team would play at the level they've played in these losses. Next year I think you might see some incoming players getting a major amount of playing time and a lot of it has to do with the mindset that Paige and some of the others seem to have in spades. I think she has the air of confidence that made Diana everyone's big favorite over the years and she seems to make the players around her better. There's no one on this present team that seems to have that strength of will.
DePaul is our best win. They are currently a #4 seed, and hopefully they'll hold up down the stretch.
What does this mean?
Yep! We can kick sand in the face of every 96lb weakling on the beach
I’ll put the strength of our OOC schedule ahead of any other team in the country. Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do about our conference schedule.
The last sentence of yours. I don't think that happens in other programs and is one reason you will see freshmen on other teams performing better than UConn's freshmen early in their careers. In the long run UConn's players may end up better overall players but, sometimes that is not the case, especially with this team. I wonder if it is really necessary with today's players.
I wouldn't call making Final Four after Final Four being "in the wilderness". I"m bummed out on this year's team and their performance or lack thereof in significant games but to throw the last few years out the window as if it's nothing is pretty ignorant. Those teams only lost a handful of games and were never SMOKED but this team has gotten hammered on three occasions by teams that I don't consider "great teams". Focus on this team and don't besmirch those good Final Four teams that were in the hunt for a NC
Closr to the hotel and cheap most likely.
My guess would be Henderson with Cooke at the 2.
Thanks for taking some time to talk the BY off the ledge. Congratulations to the Gamecocks who have put together a really good team this season.
