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Syracuse Postgame Thread

JoePgh said:
It should be noted that the margin of victory in tonight's game exceeded either the Championship game in 2016 (with Stewie and company) or the 2017 victory in the same round of the NCAA tournament at Storrs. I re-watched the 2017 game last night and it looked like a complete beatdown, despite Syracuse having good players like Brittany Sykes and Alexis Peterson in that game. But tonight was an even bigger margin. (Of course, I don't think this year's Orange team is as good as its 2017 team.)

I was also REALLY impressed by how well the UConn offense ripped apart the Syracuse zone defense once they got the hang of it in the third quarter. Every point UConn scored in that quarter was in the paint, according to the announcers. Considering that Syracuse has played that zone all year against what should have been good ACC competition, whereas UConn was facing it for the first time in this game, that was and is a serious accomplishment.
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Tonight was another well-deserved beatdown for Q 😝 😝
 
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JoePgh said:
I checked, and unless I overlooked something, this is by far the biggest margin of loss for Syracuse all year. Louisville beat Syracuse twice by 13-point margins. NC State appears to have played Syracuse only once, at Syracuse, and beat the Orange by only 7 points. Syracuse's worst defeat before tonight was to North Carolina, on the road, by 24 points; later, at home, Syracuse won by 12. So the margin is truly impressive, especially considering that Stanford won its game tonight by only 12 or so.

It should be noted that the margin of victory in tonight's game exceeded either the Championship game in 2016 (with Stewie and company) or the 2017 victory in the same round of the NCAA tournament at Storrs. I re-watched the 2017 game last night and it looked like a complete beatdown, despite Syracuse having good players like Brittany Sykes and Alexis Peterson in that game. But tonight was an even bigger margin. (Of course, I don't think this year's Orange team is as good as its 2017 team.)

I was also REALLY impressed by how well the UConn offense ripped apart the Syracuse zone defense once they got the hang of it in the third quarter. Every point UConn scored in that quarter was in the paint, according to the announcers. Considering that Syracuse has played that zone all year against what should have been good ACC competition, whereas UConn was facing it for the first time in this game, that was and is a serious accomplishment.
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Our defense is very good. I wonder if UConn is the better defensive team or it is Baylor.
 
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jaydee602 said:
Syracuse was a one trick pony. Once UCONN broke the zone & exploited their weak inside defense, Syracuse had no answer. Their coach never changed defenses or tried to adjust their zone.
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His coaching Philosophy is to make opponents adjust. Not a winning formula.
 
the game changed when Aubrey entered the game in the 2nd quarter. Pressured the perimeter, forced turnovers into layups, and cut the passing lanes. built a comfortable lead at halftime.

Paige was Paige - in complete control. She is the Floor General out there!
 
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AE continues to impress. She was all over the court & not afraid to shoot. More importantly, she has cut down on the number of mistakes she made at the beginning of the season. I would say she is a Top 5 "Big" in the country right now, even as a freshman.

She adds another dimension that UConn hasnt had the past few years - 2 Bigs that can match up against Baylor, SC & Stanford's size & physical play.
 
Bills Fan said:
She lost a sure one when CW missed an easy lay up. I would bet she has lost 30 assists due to missed bunnies.
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Every good passer loses a lot of assists to players getting fouled and players missing bunnies - just part of the game. They also get extra assists from very ordinary passes to wide open jump shooters.
 
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mhshuskies said:
UCONN should dominate in the paint, start one player taller than 6’ and the other taller players are only used sparingly.
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I disagree, I have watched them a lot this year to see Clark. Yes they were easily beaten by Maryland, but they have learned from their losses and have gotten better as they go along. Their center is tough and competes HARD and she is actually good. Liv will have her hands full with her. They can get hot and give us a lot of problems. I think we beat them, but it will be anything but easy. Also as a side note, I’ve watched Maryland and they are good. Different from the typical Maryland teams, I’m surprised because everyone keeps transferring out so I thought they would be kinda rebuilding, but, I believe they can sneak up and win it all with some things falling their way. No one hates Maryland like me either so it’s tough to even say that. Basically these two teams will be no easy outs and don’t be surprised to see Maryland go deep...real deep.
 
JoePgh said:
I checked, and unless I overlooked something, this is by far the biggest margin of loss for Syracuse all year. Louisville beat Syracuse twice by 13-point margins. NC State appears to have played Syracuse only once, at Syracuse, and beat the Orange by only 7 points. Syracuse's worst defeat before tonight was to North Carolina, on the road, by 24 points; later, at home, Syracuse won by 12. So the margin is truly impressive, especially considering that Stanford won its game tonight by only 12 or so.

It should be noted that the margin of victory in tonight's game exceeded either the Championship game in 2016 (with Stewie and company) or the 2017 victory in the same round of the NCAA tournament at Storrs. I re-watched the 2017 game last night and it looked like a complete beatdown, despite Syracuse having good players like Brittany Sykes and Alexis Peterson in that game. But tonight was an even bigger margin. (Of course, I don't think this year's Orange team is as good as its 2017 team.)

I was also REALLY impressed by how well the UConn offense ripped apart the Syracuse zone defense once they got the hang of it in the third quarter. Every point UConn scored in that quarter was in the paint, according to the announcers. Considering that Syracuse has played that zone all year against what should have been good ACC competition, whereas UConn was facing it for the first time in this game, that was and is a serious accomplishment.
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Excellent offensive halftime adjustment by Big C and Big J.
 
UcMiami said:
It was the coaching. :cool:
(at least that is CD's story and she is keeping to it!)

I was actually tracking both games by box score, and Stanford and Uconn were tracking almost identically - slow first quarter and then a dominant second and leading by 15 at the half, and then a short spurt to take it to a 20 point lead at the beginning of the second half. At that moment, the games changed dramatically as Uconn continued a gradual expansion of the lead, whole OkSt suddenly woke up and started to score, and gradually cut into the lead - never got below 10 in the third, and only once did it drop to 9 in the fourth so Stanford was really sweating.
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Big C and Big J dominated Little Q.
 
uconnever said:
I disagree, I have watched them a lot this year to see Clark. Yes they were easily beaten by Maryland, but they have learned from their losses and have gotten better as they go along. Their center is tough and competes HARD and she is actually good. Liv will have her hands full with her. They can get hot and give us a lot of problems. I think we beat them, but it will be anything but easy. Also as a side note, I’ve watched Maryland and they are good. Different from the typical Maryland teams, I’m surprised because everyone keeps transferring out so I thought they would be kinda rebuilding, but, I believe they can sneak up and win it all with some things falling their way. No one hates Maryland like me either so it’s tough to even say that. Basically these two teams will be no easy outs and don’t be surprised to see Maryland go deep...real deep.
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If we were the same defensive team from earlier in the year, I think this would be a tough game. But the team we are now, we win this game by a minimum of 15 points.
 
jaydee602 said:
Mowins had a choice of doing play- by- play or giving erroneous information. She chose the latter!
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At one point I screamed "Shut up!" and scared the hell out of my family. I never do that. But it was an impossible stoppage of play to figure out, yet they just kept on prattling. I'm through criticizing these people though; they're just watching TV like we are and they don't know what's going on

It's the networks, and the producers: they just don't care.

How hard would it be to wire up someone to actually watch the game and the officials' signals, and feed info into their earphones when something happens?
 
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Kudos to CD and Jamelle.....let's give credit where it's due. These 2 great coaches kept the team together and followed the plan. Yes, they made nice adjustments when necessary. There was a lot on their respective plates and the kids did their wonderful job and showed them tremendous respect. The Maestro returns tomorrow along w/Shea... Hope Nika will be ok for Iowa.
The maturity shown by our very young girls comes from our great coaching staff. They always have their eyes on the prize..no jinxing!
 
cbraarj said:
Great game but the one thing I would have liked to see them do was attack the basket after breaking the press.
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You beat the 1-3-1 half court trap for a quick score by getting it in the middle and/or the corners. Same as if it was just a packed in zone. We don’t really have anyone to hit that 3 in the corner if Paige is bringing it up. (CW?) The long cross court pass to the corner is there but the pass is a long one. Baseball pass for women. We were content with just walking it up. The only possible purpose of that press was to slow the tempo. Other than that a total waste of time.
 
uconnever said:
I disagree, I have watched them a lot this year to see Clark. Yes they were easily beaten by Maryland, but they have learned from their losses and have gotten better as they go along. Their center is tough and competes HARD and she is actually good. Liv will have her hands full with her. They can get hot and give us a lot of problems. I think we beat them, but it will be anything but easy. Also as a side note, I’ve watched Maryland and they are good. Different from the typical Maryland teams, I’m surprised because everyone keeps transferring out so I thought they would be kinda rebuilding, but, I believe they can sneak up and win it all with some things falling their way. No one hates Maryland like me either so it’s tough to even say that. Basically these two teams will be no easy outs and don’t be surprised to see Maryland go deep...real deep.
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who guards clark? Better not be CW.
 
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