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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 3355771, member: 1131"] Let me offer one distinctly negative assessment: Olivia committed some VERY dumb fouls. I haven't watched the replay yet, but I started watching live when it was 4-2 UConn (maybe 1 or 2 minutes into the game), and Olivia already had one foul. I didn't see it, but it can't be smart to get a foul that early in the game when there is no replacement for you. I did see her second and third fouls live. They were both valid calls; in fact, the referees would have been derelict NOT to call them. The second foul was while she was trying to defend a shot which (at that point in the first quarter) she should have just let go (the shot might have been missed anyway). The third foul (late in the third quarter) was an attempt to get a rebound that she had no chance at; again, better to just let it go. I will say that there were some plays where she DID appear to be letting shots be taken so as to avoid risking a foul, which was definitely smart if that is what she was doing. On another note, I have to think that Evelyn Adebayo is getting demoralized now, considering that this is her last season of college basketball. Being the only player that didn't get off the bench in this game has to hurt. And it will only get worse in January when (hopefully) Batouly Camara returns to the court. [/QUOTE]