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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 3829416, member: 3535"] I agree. I was just arguing with the point the other poster made of work with "Collier, Tuck or McHale because Geno/staff isn't getting it done." I'm still shocked at the defense. As for Liv-- the stats overall I thought she'd have great chance this year to be highly successful in Big East thus making her stats look good. Then I thought of the 5 OOC games she would just need to do well in some of them and if Paige and/or the others weren't going to be so elite then at least she'd have good overall stats. I always thought the defense would be good enough and ofc with her being the anchor - if the guards weren't amazing-- but just very good- she would get sufficient recognition. The A/A awards aren't always given to the best individually talented players. Most of the awards - absolutely it goes to the individual's awesome offensive individual stats taking competition and team success into account. Some players however get them because of their team. IMO Liv's trademark should be her defense. I never expected UCONN to get so obliterated on defense other than if it were SC. Liv's offense ofc she needs to score some -but I'm even shocked by the last two big games as a junior she seems to have a complete lack of awareness of offense. The many 3's vs Tenn. and especially the last one I thought horrid. To further that, she can't shoot ft's-- so why is she is hoisting 3's? It is extremely rare to be a bad ft shooter yet a good 3pt shooter. Maybe 1 out of every 500 shooters who take sufficient shots from 3? Then early vs Ark she must know through prior scouting Ark a quick, small team. SO, early in the game she is about 15 feet from the basket and she tries to bust her defender like she's a guard and then once stopped going to her right --- she figures she could spin left toward the center? That's where nearly all double-teams on bigs come from. After over 2 years and to start a game she doesn't account for this? That is the LAST MOVE she should EVER consider vs a small, quick team. Yet she did it right from the start. [/QUOTE]

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