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Message: [QUOTE="EricLA, post: 4857886, member: 26"] I've actually had a chance to watch some of the top teams play now. Overall impressed with all of them, but they also have their weaknesses. [LIST] [*]Several teams (USC especially) seem to run an offense of "give the ball to 1 person and let her go 1 on 5". [*]Other teams (Baylor specifically) pass the ball crisply around the perimeter and the announcers are like "wow look at that ball movement", but the reality is only the ball is moving. the players are all standing in 1 spot which makes it easy to defend. [*]Some of the teams seem to run a LOT of offense (UCLA (Rice), ND (Hidalgo) and LSU (Reese) specifically) where they pass the ball a bit, then give it to 1 player to try to drive into traffic and draw a foul. [/LIST] Having said that, several other top teams seem to really try to run some high motion offense (SC, Stanford, NC State) and I'm sure some others who I haven't seen enough of yet (Colorado). Was impressed with K-State as well as Iowa (as much as it's the Clark show, the fact that she routinely gets double digit assists shows she's ball dominant, but very willing to pass for an assist). A LOT of the defense I've seen has been really good. I watched USC and UCLA and wondered how the guards got any passes off at all. Also, I think if you watch just one game and say "this is how they are", you might be missing the point. Against a team like SC or UCLA who has a giant in the post, the defense and offense will look different than it will against a smaller team. Our loss to NC State had nothing to do with players being out unless you count Ducharme's 2 points in 14 minutes due to injury. Sure I think UConn is playing much more cohesively now in spite of the incredibly shortened rotation, and I don't think there is much separating most of the top 10 or 15 teams. We could be in the top 2, we could be just out of the top 10. I'm sometimes surprised at the tendency for UConn fans to say "we look great - everyone else looks like crap", or "we have 'X' player and everyone else kinda sucks". There's a ton of talent out there and a lot of very good coaches. But if you watched our game against Seton Hall and ONLY watched Q1 or Q3, you could easily say "UConn sucks". Sure we won by 24, but lost those Q's by a total of 10. Bottom line I like where our team is now. I think we could beat anyone out there. But we also could lose to anyone in the top 10 or so. Just ask Mississippi State. I think there are a lot of really good teams out there as well. [/QUOTE]

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