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Someone please post the pressers. I’m making my popcorn right now.
Our bigs were not good today ! Too many missed layups and too many fowls ! Geno all these years of coaching and our guards still can't bring the ball up court. Why do they keep picking up dribble ??? Not a very good game . Thank you Azzi !UCF exposed our offense....defense was mostly good, and thank you Azzi Fudd and Christyn Williams. Paige's time away showed. We missed way too many bunnies.
Ahhh, gotcha.I’m talking about our young women; not the UCF team. Their lack of sportsmanship was quite apparent.
Agree, very similar to last year Arizona game, but thankfully with a different ending!Have never seen a UConn team play that scared. Scared to dribble, shoot, pass. Don’t even get me started on making layups. Hope they figure it out by tomorrow.
Then you must have missed some of their earlier games. This was problem the first half of the season.I’ve never seen so many missed layups in one game . Dorka and Caroline missed all of their layups! Quick teams like ucf are not a good match up for UConn.
Nika only played 6 minutes; this seems like the sort of game she should excel in. But she was the only Connecticut player who shot at least 50% from the field.Nika was a pest...
I almost put that in my OP. They had just called a questionable illegal screen on Liv for her 5th foul and then with the UCF player spreading her legs wide out to trip Christyn, unbelievably they called a foul on Christyn. Fortunately it did not affect the outcome of the game.That foul call on what should have been an illegal screen was god-awful.
Did anyone on UCF stay to shake hands? Did the coaches talk to each other? hard to tell on TV....Some thoughts on the UCF game:
- WOW!!! I'm completely exhausted and I didn't play a minute.
- I was really worried about UCF ahead of tonight's game. Unlike past UCF teams, this year’s version is longer, more athletic, and more experienced than any Black Knight team UConn ever faced back in the AAC days.
- UConn clearly felt the pressure from the start of the game, getting sped up, turning the ball over, and missing an extraordinary number of layups.
- This game was always going to be won on defense, and from the second quarter on UConn dug down deep and really stepped up their defensive effort, holding UCF to 47 points. The Huskies blocked 9 shots, forced numerous charging calls and turned the Black Knights over 20 times.
- While UCF is a very good team, they still employ their infamous “HACK A HUSKY” defense. UConn benefitted to the tune of 8 more made FT’s.
- Some really big shots in the 4th qtr from Azzi, Christyn & Paige helped the Huskies hold on to this one by their fingernails, with Christyn & Azzi icing it with 4 clutch FT's.
- For those who keep track of these things, with the win tonight, UConn has qualified for the Sweet 16 for the 28th straight time….Ho hum…..
- NOTE TO BONEYARD: I’ll be at the games in Bridgeport next weekend, so thanks in advance for someone else initiating the postgame thread. If UConn makes it to the FF, I’ll be back on the job in 2 weeks.
I avoid the chat room altogether.Another night of an ugly chat room. What a disgrace some of the comments were.
These are young women playing a GAME. I see so many people saying they’re like daughters to them. Doesn’t seem that way in close games.
That being said it was a game dictated by defense, poor shooting and bad officiating.
A win is a win. NEXT!
It appears not.Did anyone on UCF stay to shake hands? Did the coaches talk to each other? hard to tell on TV....
Cheap shot. They did indeed call the fouling out on both players. With all the action going on, they weren’t obligated to repeat that information.Again, the announcers were dreadful. I had to rewind to find out that Liv and Aaliya had fouled out.