Three awesomely amazing things I learned from just one post this summer

[DobbsRover2]

It's maybe a little unfair to pick on the stuff posted by some folks who maybe just imbibed a few too many jager bombs before deciding to share their thoughts about WCBB, but since they will likely be repeated on the BY many times in the months ahead, it's good to know about what's being cooked up by fans of rivals. All three from one poll post out in one of those somewhat oddish places that a few here hang out at.

"Breanna Stewart & Morgan Tuck will only play about 5 games with some competition." This from a "Lady Vols" fan whose team starts out with Sagarins' #280 ranked team and whose main claim to a tough schedule is that it plays two teams rated in last year's Sags Top 10. Of course UConn plays four of those T10 teams (ND, USCar, MD, FSU), plus has four more against teams in the top 25, and three more against teams in the top 50, plus two more against another AAC team Tulane that made the NCAA tourney, plus two against a Temple team that got to the WNIT semifinals, which is a lot more than the SEC reps Mississippi and Missouri did.

So it's not like Vol fans should be throwing crap at UConn's schedule just because some other SEC team finally broke the conference's long FF drought. Again, Massey had UConn's schedule rated #2 behind only ND last year and well ahead of UTenn, and this year's schedule will certainly have the toughest OOC any team has ever faced, along with a fast rising AAC crowd. Clue up, LV fans, you don't need to be stuck back in 1998 anymore, even if you want to be.

UConn plays a more up-tempo offense than USC which is more defensively oriented. From a Gamec-ock fan and okay there is a half-coherent thought here, but it can't be that USCar's offense is "defensively" oriented, and how can you be more defensively oriented than the top defensive team in the country, 48.6 ppg to USCar's 54.1? Were the Gc'ocks more defensively oriented when they gave up 74 points to FSU and then 65 to ND in its last two games while UConn was allowing 58 to MD and 53 to ND?

I guess the point that the C'ocks fan wants to make is that his team is not as explosive as UConn and they like to run 31 second plays at critical times of FF games, and that I would accept.

Aja Wilson and Alaina Coates are a more powerful front court duo than Breanna Stewart and Morgan Tuck - by 51% to 45% in poll. Hard to know where to begin with such a wrong-headed ("fluffy" was the way it was described by one poster) question by one of our old friends. It's all opinion of course in a poll, but don't let Stewie and Morgan's domination in one of the OP's three categories (points), edge in another (blocks), and slight deficit in rebounds deter anyone from going silly. And of course you have to ignore something like assists where the UConn duo had a 226-65 edge or steals at 91-51 for UConn because those are just not anything that "power post players" should have to concern themselves with since they're just supposed to make powerful baskets and grab powerful rebounds and swat powerful blocks. Just wonderful.

But of course the whole poll question is insane because Natalie Butler will be UConn's power center this year, so the the poll's query is like comparing kaboodles to numchuks. How can you begin even talking about UConn's paint power next year and leave out that biggggg tall woman in yesterday's White House pix?

To give a general overview of the post presence of these two top teams in 2014-15 plus UTenn (because two years ago Cierra Burdick said the Vols had the best frontcourt in the country, and the same group was there last season), I toss in the stats below. I would have included ND and MD but both were really more of two to three guards and wings, and it's really hard to divide the Irish and Terps into a three-post group that does their stats justice.

UConn: ppg: 57.6, rpg: 29.7, bpg: 7.5, apg: 10.9, spg: 5.1
UScar: ppg. 44.6, rpg: 26.9, bpg: 5.5, apg: 6.0, spg: 2.9
UTenn: ppg: 40.7, rpg: 27.3, bpg: 3.2, apg: 6.6, spg: 3.8

Obviously UConn's front court was far ahead, and though they lose KML and Stokes, USCar lost Welch and Ibiam, and UTenn lost Harrison and Burdick. Natalie Butler's stats at Georgetown were 13.9 ppg, 13.3 rpg, 1.8 bpg, 1.9 apg and 0.4 spg. The points and rebounds will likely go down, and the blocks, assists, and steals should go up. The Huskies will also have Samuelson, Collier, and Boykin fitting into the stats in many ways behind last year's returners of Stewart, Tuck, and Williams. Sounds like a nice deal.

So just hoping there's no shout outs about "We've got the best front court in women's basketball" unless it's coming from Storrs.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Clue up, LV fans, you don't need to be stuck back in 1998 anymore,

Oh, yes they do and are.

Great post BTW Dobbs ... humor with a surgical blade.

 

[Bonpland]

Dobbs, good post but I would avoid criticizing the comments of players. They're young, enthusiastic and their vision is clouded by "the fog of war."

 

[DobbsRover2]

Dobbs, good post but I would avoid criticizing the comments of players. They're young, enthusiastic and their vision is clouded by "the fog of war."

Who's criticizing Burdick for being maybe overly enthusiastc? She stated her POV and I'm sure she would be happy to have UTenn included in any factual comparison with UConn and USCar, even if her team came out on the short end on most stats. Any attention and news outside of the type Rutgers seems to be in to recently is for the good, and it's better to be seen than ignored. Plus, she can always say it would have been different if Izzy hadn't gone down, though in reality the stats wouldn't have changed much. And as noted, I would have included ND and MD but they were just a different beast last year.

 

[huskyd]

It's maybe a little unfair to pick on the stuff posted by some folks who maybe just imbibed a few too many jager bombs before deciding to share their thoughts about WCBB, but since they will likely be repeated on the BY many times in the months ahead, it's good to know about what's being cooked up by fans of rivals. All three from one poll post out in one of those somewhat oddish places that a few here hang out at.

"Breanna Stewart & Morgan Tuck will only play about 5 games with some competition." This from a "Lady Vols" fan whose team starts out with Sagarins' #280 ranked team and whose main claim to a tough schedule is that it plays two teams rated in last year's Sags Top 10. Of course UConn plays four of those T10 teams (ND, USCar, MD, FSU), plus has four more against teams in the top 25, and three more against teams in the top 50, plus two more against another AAC team Tulane that made the NCAA tourney, plus two against a Temple team that got to the WNIT semifinals, which is a lot more than the SEC reps Mississippi and Missouri did.

So it's not like Vol fans should be throwing crap at UConn's schedule just because some other SEC team finally broke the conference's long FF drought. Again, Massey had UConn's schedule rated #2 behind only ND last year and well ahead of UTenn, and this year's schedule will certainly have the toughest OOC any team has ever faced, along with a fast rising AAC crowd. Clue up, LV fans, you don't need to be stuck back in 1998 anymore, even if you want to be.

UConn plays a more up-tempo offense than USC which is more defensively oriented. From a Gamec-ock fan and okay there is a half-coherent thought here, but it can't be that USCar's offense is "defensively" oriented, and how can you be more defensively oriented than the top defensive team in the country, 48.6 ppg to USCar's 54.1? Were the Gc'ocks more defensively oriented when they gave up 74 points to FSU and then 65 to ND in its last two games while UConn was allowing 58 to MD and 53 to ND?

I guess the point that the C'ocks fan wants to make is that his team is not as explosive as UConn and they like to run 31 second plays at critical times of FF games, and that I would accept.

Aja Wilson and Alaina Coates are a more powerful front court duo than Breanna Stewart and Morgan Tuck - by 51% to 45% in poll. Hard to know where to begin with such a wrong-headed ("fluffy" was the way it was described by one poster) question by one of our old friends. It's all opinion of course in a poll, but don't let Stewie and Morgan's domination in one of the OP's three categories (points), edge in another (blocks), and slight deficit in rebounds deter anyone from going silly. And of course you have to ignore something like assists where the UConn duo had a 226-65 edge or steals at 91-51 for UConn because those are just not anything that "power post players" should have to concern themselves with since they're just supposed to make powerful baskets and grab powerful rebounds and swat powerful blocks. Just wonderful.

But of course the whole poll question is insane because Natalie Butler will be UConn's power center this year, so the the poll's query is like comparing kaboodles to numchuks. How can you begin even talking about UConn's paint power next year and leave out that biggggg tall woman in yesterday's White House pix?

To give a general overview of the post presence of these two top teams in 2014-15 plus UTenn (because two years ago Cierra Burdick said the Vols had the best frontcourt in the country, and the same group was there last season), I toss in the stats below. I would have included ND and MD but both were really more of two to three guards and wings, and it's really hard to divide the Irish and Terps into a three-post group that does their stats justice.

UConn: ppg: 57.6, rpg: 29.7, bpg: 7.5, apg: 10.9, spg: 5.1
UScar: ppg. 44.6, rpg: 26.9, bpg: 5.5, apg: 6.0, spg: 2.9
UTenn: ppg: 40.7, rpg: 27.3, bpg: 3.2, apg: 6.6, spg: 3.8

Obviously UConn's front court was far ahead, and though they lose KML and Stokes, USCar lost Welch and Ibiam, and UTenn lost Harrison and Burdick. Natalie Butler's stats at Georgetown were 13.9 ppg, 13.3 rpg, 1.8 bpg, 1.9 apg and 0.4 spg. The points and rebounds will likely go down, and the blocks, assists, and steals should go up. The Huskies will also have Samuelson, Collier, and Boykin fitting into the stats in many ways behind last year's returners of Stewart, Tuck, and Williams. Sounds like a nice deal.

So just hoping there's no shout outs about "We've got the best front court in women's basketball" unless it's coming from Storrs.

Time to call out Coates for sleep-walking through the sad WNT experience in Canada this summer. As for the UConn front court: Tuck, Stewart, Lou, and Butler. Add a guard, and that's a team to win it all.

 

[DobbsRover2]

Time to call out Coates for sleep-walking through the sad WNT experience in Canada this summer. As for the UConn front court: Tuck, Stewart, Lou, and Butler. Add a guard, and that's a team to win it all.

Ah, but there's the rub. The Huskies only have that undersized Moriah kid, and the Canadian hockey player, and the player who's listed as a guard but has only been used to imitate Dennis Rodman at forward, and the Westschester girl who poured in the points against Stanford in the one loss and has never been forgiven by anyone on the BY since, plus a few other newbies that could play there if needed. Where Geno's going to find even one guard in such a motley crew is beyond me.

 

[meyers7]

Ah, but there's the rub. The Huskies only have that undersized Moriah kid, and the Canadian hockey player, and the player who's listed as a guard but has only been used to imitate Dennis Rodman at forward, and the Westschester girl who poured in the points against Stanford in the one loss and has never been forgiven by anyone on the BY since, plus a few other newbies that could play there if needed. Where Geno's going to find even one guard in such a motley crew is beyond me.

Does their hair count when figuring out their height?

 

[reno tony]

Time to call out Coates for sleep-walking through the sad WNT experience in Canada this summer. As for the UConn front court: Tuck, Stewart, Lou, and Butler. Add a guard, and that's a team to win it all.

Not that it doesn't sound like an excellent team, but I am just curious which guard are you going to sit on the bench in place of Lou. Nancy Lieberman winner Moriah Jefferson or Kia Nurse(the guard who led her Canadian team to two gold medals this summer).

 

[DobbsRover2]

Does their hair count when figuring out their height?

Oh wow, I want that short blond guy on MC playing defense on my team. With a killer stare like that, he'll instantly deep-six any ball handler.

 

[meyers7]

Oh wow, I want that short blond guy on MC playing defense on my team. With a killer stare like that, he'll instantly deep-six any ball handler.

Unfortunately, he hasn't really aged all that well.

 

[DobbsRover2]

Oh yow, that Maya Moore "I'll eat you for Kemba's midnight snack and spit you at your mother's feet" look seems to have been replaced by a "Let me give you a leg up to dunk on me" look. But I'd be glad to have him playing on the other side.