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Message: [QUOTE="jazz, post: 4133419, member: 10942"] Not sure why GA is so ‘realistic’ about what this team can’t do. After watching the game, Uconn missed a lot of open shots and had some opps where we could have scored but fumbled the ball or had a shuffle of the feet, or had some miscommunication, etc. CD statistically didn’t have a good game, but she is playing with confidence and is showing some good things. Defense is better and backside rebounding is good. Her shots will fall and she has a little quickness to her game. AE just keeps fumbling her opps. I am very puzzled by this, but she has too much skill not to get out of her funk. GA could help by giving her multiple post ups and staying with her. He keeps pulling her out like a damn yo-yo. Just live with the mistakes until she gets herself out of it. She still plays hard and generally does the right things. It is not due to lack of effort. DJ knows how to play and although she is a little less explosive than you want, she has some nice skills and will get more out of them as the season goes along. Not a great player but a contributor. I already see DJ getting a bit more comfortable with her role. Maybe it is not manifesting itself with great play yet, but it will certainly get better. Some miscommunication here and there is costing us several possession….well that happens when you are playing without a point guard! AD looked really good to me. Also, is CD and AD not going to get better as the season goes on?? I already see big improvement in CD and very encouraged by what I saw in AD. To be honest, I thought AD will be awful considering GA has her glued to the bench all year. Will AE stay in a funk all year?? Will DJ get more acclimated? Are we not going to get , NM and AG back?? I guess GA doesn’t think this will ‘realistically’ matter… Will we get PB back? Will CW continue to shoot 1-8 from 3? I believe we will be a much better team as the season goes along as one would expect considering this was only 7th game of the year, some young and new players playing bigger roles and some big time injuries. How could it not get better??? GA’s comments were just out of bounds and ‘unrealistic’. Now if you don’t like what I said, then I guess you believe GA and that things aren’t going to get any better. Not only do I completely disagree with GA, I think his words were foolish. Now I understand that on this board, you just aren’t allowed to disagree with GA. Those are the rules. Well, I’m breaking these silly rules and GA knows what he can do with his silly comments and anybody who agrees that ‘realistically’ we will not get any better, can do the same. Quick game thoughts: I actually enjoyed watching this game for 3 quarters. Keep in mind, my expectations were a lot lower as well. It wasn’t anywhere near perfect..too many TOs and miscommunication on offense and defense and we missed a lot of shots. But at least we got shots in the offense until the 4th, just missed too many of them. We had some poor rotation on defense…shouldn’t the great GA have coached our players how to rotate on defense by now??? Last 15-20 possessions: 6 TOs, 3 bricks, 2 airballs, gave up 3 offensive rebounds. This again is where the game was lost and in a tight game until the end. We called several timeouts to set up plays by the coaches but yet this still made no difference in our ability to pull out the win in a close game. On the bright side, we hustled, battled, ran and dived for loose balls, communicated some on defense, and we did it without our best player, and possible 3 more out of our top 8-9 players sitting this one out. We fell epically apart in the 4th again (coaches have to take some criticism for this), otherwise we probably gut out a tough win on the road. [/QUOTE]

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